First, my apologies to John Milton for my self-indulgent bastardization of a line of his prose.
Gaussling’s TOE (theory of everything) suggests that the universe will continue to exist until every strange occurrence that can happen, will happen. Perhaps the Hindu’s thought of this first … I don’t know. Anyway, we are one bit of strangeness closer to doom now that Snoop Dogg and Buzz Aldrin have cut a hip hop song. If I weren’t too cheap to pay for a download, I’d comment further on it.
Roger Ebert has captured the words I have been searching for to describe Bill O’Reilly and his ilk. My hat is off to Mr. Ebert for getting it right. I think it is time to thin out the herd.
Eruption of Sarychev Volcano as seen from ISS
The photo above is from Nasa’s Earth Observatory web site and was taken by an ISS astronaut. Note the whitish pyroclastic flow radiating to the 5 o’clock direction. The Sarychev volcano is located on the Kuril Islands north of Japan.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Earth is Paradise Lost. Intelligence was a terrible mistake, farms to cities to vacuuming the oceans, and even gods could not nullify its conquest. We ourselves are diligently pursuing every possible path to get shut of it.
We’re doomed.
“Gaussling’s TOE (theory of everything) suggests that the universe will continue to exist until every strange occurrence that can happen, will happen.”
In a multiverse of infinite time everything has happened, will happen, never has happened. If you recall the double slit experiment from modern physics 101, a single photon shot through the grating will reproduce alternating bands of constructive and destructive interference.
This light/dark repetition is obvious when dealing with moles of photons. In the case of the single photon the theory is that the single photons is interfering with other photons in alternate universes.
Thus it is likely that everything, everywhere is a branching cauldron. of
divergent possibilities.
P.S -Congratulations on winning the power-ball lottery in Universe #6 Gauss!
Dammit!