When the sun goes red it won't destry the Earth. The death of humankind won't be the end of the Earth. "Revelation" is not a prediction of the end of time, but a message of hope for Christians persecuted by Domitian, an emperor so crazy evil he was widely considered the reincarnation of Nero, hence the "beast that had died and was reborn." The city on seven hills, the whore of Babylon, is Rome, but Classical Rome, not the Catholic Church or any dipshit contemporary idea.
The world is not going to end. We will be gone one day and the thing is just going to continue to float around in space. Small planetoids may hit it from time to time, but space is just too big to call it inevitable that there will be a collision with a body large enough to obliterate it.
Vive l'Earth!
edit: some spelling. Left "Earth" as it is, you anglophobes, you.
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 28 October 2005 - 11:25 AM
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).