Now extrapolate that relatively short period of time a thousandfold into the far future. I shut my eyes and waited.
A bright white light suddenly appeared above me and hung there humming softly. Beeg Where the hell was I? That I was screwed big time. “Yeah. I was going to die here in this wilderness alone and afraid as the snow began to lightly fall all around me. The great technological strides we’ve taken as a species. I was dead. I eased back in my chair and looked up at the projected heavens above me. “C’mon, asshole,” I muttered to myself, “Just do the damned job and go home.”
In the distance, there was the first rumble of thunder. “We all know the three
