How would YOU spend the last day of everything?
It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in a meme, let alone started one—but today, I’m asking a selection of fellow bloggers a very simple question, assuming we’re all still around today and over the next week at least, in order to provide answers. The question is this: how would you spend your last day on Earth, not only your last day but the last day for everything?
It’s the day some people have feared, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on in an expensive quest to find the so-called ‘God particle’ otherwise known less sensationally as the Higgs boson. It is said to be crucial to gaining a greater understanding of the universe—assuming it exists, and can be found—and is thought to give everything its mass.
tags: apocalypse, end of the world, end times, faith, fear, Large Hadron Collider, particles, scienceThe end being nigh was to be announced by email
Last week American scientists were poised to tell the entire planet a giant asteroid was approaching fast which had the potential to wipe out all life on this precious sphere. And they only realised in the nick of time that they were wrong.
It took a Russian scientist to realise that the threat was no threat at all, but the European space probe Rosetta.
Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but this one would have been disastrous—it would have eclipsed every other mistake America, and indeed humanity as a whole, has ever made. Iraq would have looked like a tea party conducted with cordiality and civility. Global warming would have been merely the appetiser to the main course of absolute annihilation for which we would have had only ourselves to blame.
tags: apocalypse, asteroids, email, meteors, science, space
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