Apocalypse!
Yes, my old friend. Scruffy-looking ball of love.
When I decide that society's ills have finally caved-in the goodness of life I remember that they are nothing compared to my old, good friend. All it takes is an article like this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html#article_continue
to remind me that we are way 'overdue' (in geological time) for an asteroid as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Some people have noted that this simple fact is strangely relieving. It is also relieving that human time is on a completely different scale than geological time and 'overdue' may mean that it still takes 10,000 years to happen. Phew. That's enough time for a new religion to bud (Christianity only took a little over 2,000 years if you don't count its pre-cursors) and for bunches of civilizations to rise and fall.
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