So, let's say that somehow humanity still exists 50,000 years in the future. We've not died out due to lack of resources, or global thermonuclear war, or because there's a new TV talent show in the vein of The Hunger Games. Regardless of how many of us that are left, we're not gonna survive much longer than that. Doesn't matter if there's a plucky bunch of survivors wandering around in an irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland or a utopian civilisation where brainbox scientists have managed to solve every ill of the world, we're gonna get screwed over in the end. That's just the way the cookie crumbles. Or the way that the cookie gets perfectly preserved beneath sheets of ice and thawed out centuries later by visiting aliens. Yep, we've got a new ice age on our hands, and there won't be any charmingly goofy sloths or Bill Hicks-pinching saber tooth tigers to lighten things up. Assuming we've not done enough more global warming by this point, we'll slowly slip back into the glacial period, the part of an ice age that marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. The last one ended about 15,000 years ago, so yeah, it's gonna get hella chilly. So wrap up warm, remaining survivors! Also, don't bother heading to see Niagara Falls, because it would have eroded into Lake Erie and ceased to exist. Why are you sight-seeing in the ice age anyway? Priorities, people!
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
