Friday, September 25, 2009

Well I never

Cole Porter was right. It is in the stars. Or rather, it is in a computer simulation of chaos theory & planetary motion.

He was wrong about which planets though – the possibility is that Mercury could collide with its closest neighbour, Venus. The Earth is not, after all, destined to collide with Mars.

And the catastrophe is a lot further off than next July – it will be several billion years before it happens.