Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb and my name is Joe McCormick and hey, Robert, I've got a question

for you.

Hit me.

Anytime in your life, have you ever had the feeling that things are about to come to a very

serious conclusion?

And I don't mean like the meeting you're in right now.

I mean the world.

Do you ever get that feeling like you're living in the end times?

This has got to be the last of days.

No.

Sometimes I feel, I sometimes I wonder what if the next moment is going to be the last

moment.

But there's always going to be some sort of harbinger of destruction, right?

So I look up into the sky and think, hey, what would it be like to see the, you know,

civilization, busting near Earth object entering the atmosphere?

I think about things like that.

But even then, I'll have like a few more minutes to process it.

It all does have to come to an end at some point.

So it makes you wonder if that end is near.

And in fact, I think some people have made statistical arguments that if you assume,

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