The end is nigh, people. I had it explained to me. The Doomsday Algorithm. The mathematical prophecy that will see itself fulfilled with the end of our beloved species. I won't bore you with any details (my brain switched off a little bit when the equations joined the party). What I do remember was that they sounded like the kind of equations you could really trust. There were lots of n's and x's and it turned out we're all doomed. My flatmate Daniel was telling me about it. He works at the Uni as a lab tech. Or to be specific, a lab tech that has the tools and the know how to manipulate the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Now that seems to me like a pretty significant responsibility. When I was his age, I was still manipulating the fundamental building blocks of my Harry Potter Lego set... He then went on to tell me that the machines down at the lab could rip the universe a new W hole and propel us all into another time. The theory was sound. He explained it with more equations and got lost in a time of De Loreans and flying skateboards. But even though I looked blankly at him, I believed it. Which makes me wonder why I felt compelled to tell him to get down there and crank that puppy up. "Theoretical science be damned!" I said, "It's time to either make history or erase it altogether!" I don't know what came over me. I guess it was a thrill to think that me, insignificant me could become a major player in the downfall of the human race. What an honour! But even without my cajoling, the human race is done for. We're lucky if we get to see the sunrise on any given morning. The planet Earth is like a toddler with the keys to the medicine cabinet, the gun rack and the broken glass and asbestos case. So given that, why do we continue to risk our existence with scientific chicanery? Thanks to some poorly orchestrated nuclear testing back in the 1960's, everybody on the planet now has traces of plutonium surging through their veins and we keep giving them nobel prizes and wonder why everybody's wearing bandanas. So what are our options? Renounce science and wait for the rapture? My sources say yes; but that's what I've come to expect from having Amish sources. In the meantime, let's keep a watchful eye on the scientists. Perhaps it is true that we fear what we don't understand, but let's spend a little more time fearing what the scientists don't understand, because they will investigate and they will destroy us all. Yours sincerely, Dave