A peek inside the "Hollywood Science Fiction or Grim Glimpse At Our Own, Apocalyptic Future?" file today reveals two exciting, end-of-the- world-hastening news items seemingly plucked from the stack of scripts on Michael Bay's nightstand:
· Scientists have finally nailed how and when the world will end: "The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough." The good news is that that is almost 8 billion years away. The bad news is that all life on Earth will have been extinguished long before that, as "the slowly expanding sun boils off the oceans and reduces our planet to an uninhabitable cinder." [Fox News]