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Isn't it always "closer than ever", by definition?

• lifty 11y ago
  When time is the dimension, yes.
• gtrubetskoy 11y ago
  and "closer than ever" could mean 1000 years, and still be true
• elektromekatron 11y ago
  Not after the last one.
• Nicholas_C 11y ago
  I think the author meant "closer than ever" in terms of the probability of the event of space war. As in, the probability is closer to 1 than it has ever been.
• aggie 11y ago
  Usually when someone uses the phrase 'closer than ever', they are implying that an uncertain outcome is more likely to occur than it has been in the past, not that a possible future event is temporally closer (which, as you suggest, would be a trivial statement). We are not 'closer than ever' to nuclear war, for example.