So that's all life and the majority of the environment torn apart thanks to various natural disasters which, to be honest, seem pretty unavoidable, so we don't know what Al Gore was wasting his breath over. Everything's boned, no matter what we do, and we'll all be long dead to even see any of it and compare it to how it looked in Volcano. Or This Is The End. Or Deep Impact. Boy, we sure do like making movies about the end of the world, don't we? Guess that's something to do with the arrogant assumption that the world would wend whilst we're still on it. 10 million years from now and that is far from the case, and besides maybe some of those single-celled organisms we find on the surface of Mars and bacteria and the like, life as a whole would have ceased to exist. What more can the universe possibly do to our poor, battered, lonely planet at this point? Well, the tectonic plates of the East African Rift will have continued to extend that whole time (presuming they didn't get frozen), like the expansion and collapse of the Grand Canyon on a more epic scale. The two plates, the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate, will eventually completely tear off from each other, causing a new ocean basin to divide the continent of Africa. So yeah, as if all that wasn't enough, now the Earth is literally ripping itself apart, creating new continents and oceans, because it's in the "screw it, who cares, can't get any worse" cycle of its development. The terrible teens of the apocalypse. Or maybe the mid-life crisis. Because the end is very much in sight right now.
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/
