Not that I am feeling depressed or anything, but here is a very interesting site about the various ways in which the world can end. These sort of doomsday scenarios do have the positive effect of making the mundane troubles of an average working day seem somewhat less significant. Well, the client may want us to start “running with” these issues by 9 am tomorrow, but has he considered that the universe could be destroyed by Q-collapse before then? Reminds me of the lottery statistic — it is more likely that the world will be destroyed by a catastrophic meteor strike than any one person will win the lottery. Another one: if you buy your ticket for the Saturday draw on the Monday before, you are more likely to die before the numbers get drawn than you are to win.