“How intense is more intense?” I asked her. “Somewhere more than noteworthy, getting close to a cause for concern, but not yet worrisome.” “Okay, and how much closer to worrisome are they likely to get?” I asked. “If the current rate of increase keeps up, we’ll definitely be past worrisome and probably somewhere around uh-oh by the time we reach the debris field.” “That’s what I like—good, hard, quantifiable values on the trusty old holy shit scale,” Perry noted wryly.
