Scientists have calculated the year when the human race will cease to exist. It will be October 31, otherwise known as Halloween. But there is no need to worry yet as the year is 2,252,006 - more than two-and-a-quarter million years from now.
The date was announced by a team of European geologists and palaeontologists after millions of fossils from central Spain were analysed. It confirms suspicions that mammal species have an average lifespan of 2.5 million years and modern man has already been around for 250,000 years. The reason for the life cycle is thought to be a blip in the Earth's orbit which means it does not get as close to the sun as usual, triggering rapid cooling.
So there you go, not enough time for Maureen to lose gracefully to Barcelona or for the people of Great Britain to elect a Conservative Prime Minister but possibly just long enough for Musical Youth to release their long awaited follow-up to 1982's The Youth Of Today.
Time for another remix lads.
4 comments:
Brilliant I've got time to read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire then.
Yes and you don't have to skimp the boring bits!
Hmmm, is it long enough for Newcastle United to win a trophy? Perhaps not, but at least the government should have sorted out the pensions crisis by then!
Possibly Shy, by then we'll be a suburb of Warsaw and Alex Ferguson will still be manager of Man.U
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