Friday, December 21, 2012

The world ends today

Well, not this one. Don't be daft. But please keep in mind that there are up to 500 billion galaxies out there, each of which is host to billions of stars. That makes for a high number of potential civilizations that have to roll against sudden existence failure each and every day. Somebody should crunch some numbers to find out the odds, but I have a feeling that on this day, at least one inhabited planet in this universe faces a catastrophic meteoric impact, catastrophic solar flares, polar shift, reversed polar shift, sudden onset ice age, zombie pandemic, rise of the machines, roving black hole, grey goo, green goo, red goo, red matter, super volcanoes, terminal ennui, doomsday device demonstration, nuclear slugfest or the irritation of the local godlike entities.
If you had this planet's demise in mind, it might be necessary to become a bit more proactive. Thank God there's an introductory primer.

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