The earth is probably going to end in about 3 billion years, or sooner, if you think a rather large piece of rock will land on us. Evidently we'll get quite close to the sun and all water will evaporate, but I think there will be probably be other signs first. I don't think we'll wake up and think 'Hmm, not much water here is there?'. I'd actually like to be here as the 3 billion years gets closer - should liven up the day's discussions.
The thing is, we never know the future, and we can't predict the weather more than 3 days at a time (and then it's often wrong), so why do we bother with this 3 billion years stuff? They probably only report it to scare us into buying a solar blanket or something the following day. Still, I suppose we need to have one eye on the future.
Talking of the future, I see Ed Balls is doubting the wisdom of investing in HS2 - the high speed rail line that's going to cost us a small fortune. About time someone spoke up about it - what a waste of money. I've probably ranted on about this before, so here goes again.. Why not spend it on upgrading the existing, elderly, network? Raise a few bridges and put double decker trains on the tracks like on the continent thereby raising capacity and bringing more people onto the trains. Time does not allow me to do a proper rant, but I really hope they see sense by dropping the HS2 project.
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