The Ripture

Australian astronomers have found that dark energy is real, which means this scenario could be correct:

"Dark Energy will keep growing; first stars and then planets will flatten like spinning pancakes and begin to throw off layer after layer of material. In the final year, the earth unravels in a high speed version of its original formation from space rocks, dust, and gas. Then the rocks, the individual dust grains, the larger molecules of gas, are sheared by the relentless, growing force. In the last few seconds, the very atoms are ripped asunder, the nuclei cut and cut again, reduced to lighter and lighter elements. Individual protons and neutrons are rendered into their constituent quarks and gluons. Perhaps the strings theorized to form the basis of all particles are then stretched and broken, photons, electrons, even theoretical gravitons, are destroyed."

Is it a sign of my madness that, to me, this sounds incredibly cool?!

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Ben Cook quips: "Tomorrow is the Rapture – the fundamentalist Christian equivalent of Top Gear's 'Cool Wall'."

Jon adds: What, you mean it pops up every few years?

(Click on the above link for the least likely photograph you can imagine.)

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Damn, that was weird. We were just sitting there watching "The Mutants" when I took a slurp of Pepsi Max and, instead of swallowing normally, somehow managed to get a lump of air caught in my oesphagus. I actually started to black out - I couldn't swallow, so I couldn't take a breath, but it happened too quickly to be just a lack of air. Must be something to do with nerves and pressure and things. Anyway, I just opened my mouth and Pepsi-ed myself and the sofa, then burped, and was immediately fine - we didn't even have to pause the DVD. I'm jotting this down here because I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience - and because I want to find out what the heck that was all about!

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*looks at clock*

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
- Mark 13:32