Saturday, May 7, 2011

What's The Point ? World Ending

What will happen to us?

Forecasters tackle the extremely deep future

The Royal Institution of Great Britain has stood on the same site since 1799, and on most days it would seem one of the older and fustier buildings in central London. But on April 6, time did a funny thing: The institution’s 212 years of existence suddenly contracted, and went from seeming unimaginably long to unimaginably short.

From (Timothy Goodman for the Boston Globe)