While most of us struggle to get our heads around the many ways the credit crunch or more correctly the collapse of capitalism will affect our lives others, people lucky enough to exist in that bubble of unreality called the academic community, continue on their way oblivious to what is happening here on planet reality.
If only we could all forget immediate problems like the recession, unemployment, house repossessions, and the governments’ attempts in Britain and the USA to reinflate the financial bubble by getting us all spending money we do not have life would seem so much more hopeful and promising.
Well forget the economic apocalypse, a more terrible, more final apocalypse is on the way and it is nearer than we think. A frightening study by a team of scientists suggests that our galaxy, The Milky Way, will collide with the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy much earlier than was previously thought.
Oh no!” we hear you cry, “oh shit, so little time, so much to do.”
Very likely you will start thinking of all the things you should have done in your life, that you would have done had you not been so busy working to pay your mortgage, service your credit card debts, the things that you swore you would get to one day……..one day. You were so sure things were under control, you were on top of your debts, earning well and your house was increasing in value so rapidly you were close to escape velocity.
And now you are told the end of the world is imminent. You are about to be cheated out of your life. They are saying we are all about to die.
DON’T PANIC!
The scientists are getting excited because someone has done some equations and reckons that instead of the great collision, which we don’t want to refer to as the Big Crash as people will be confused with the economic crisis, is not eight and a half billion years away but only seven billion years in the future.
What kind of arseholes would spread fear and panic by releasing a story like that just to get themselves in the news? Only one kind that we know of.

It has been said in the past Boggart Blog is unnecessarily hard on scientists and people have hinted it may be because in the past Boggarts have been used as guinea pigs in unspeakably cruel experiments and are seeking revenge on our tormentors. We are not at all, well not all the time, only on Tuesday afternoons in fact. No, what pisses us off is the sheer pointlessness of so much that is done (at great expense) in the name of science. So the world is going to end in seven billion years.

That is long after our sun has exhausted its hydrogen fuel and become a barren lump of cinder floating pointlessly in space. And we and all our descendants will have gone before that so really who gives a flying fuck. We have an economic crisis to worry about. Wonder if the scientists have any ideas about that? Probably not, it’s too much like reality.

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