>>>At least Emily's graduation ceremony is at 10 tomorrow morning. There's a good chance that will be before the Rapture hits ;-)
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>>For sure. Apparently, the story is that it will occur at 6 PM local time _everywhere_!
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>>Tamar
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>One day one of these forecasts will be correct (at some point our sun will expand and we will all be toast). The ones saved will probably be the really rich who will depart in their starships. That will be people like Donald Trump.

Starship Trump. That would be in line with his customary degree of self assurance.

Not long ago I read an article about meteorites, which I didn't know much about. If one of those babies nails us we could be in serious trouble. We have pretty good monitoring for them now but there is a big difference between recognizing a big one and stopping it. Everything up to and including nukes has been discussed.