Thursday, November 17, 2016

Dry Mouth....

Originally published in 2010. The cartoonist's previous

The End..

 apocalypse

There is a one in 500 chance there is a global catastrophe on the horizon which will spell the end of humanity, according to a leading statistician.

University of Barcelona mathematician Fergus Simpson says that as the population continues to increase, the chance of humanity being wiped out increases. The theory of the Doomsday Argument states that as humans are born in the random order, one person is born roughly in the middle.

We pay attention to bad news, because on the whole, we think the world is rosier than it actually is. When it comes to our own lives, most of us believe we're better than average, and that, like the clichés, we expect things to be all right in the end. This pleasant view of the world makes bad news all the more surprising and salient. It is only against a light background that the dark spots are highlighted.

The News Media all focused on the transition team for Trump. I'm not delighted with it and I don't believe it. Accordingly, the end of the world will be January 20th.