We are all doomed

MuThink

The energy emitted from stars is powering this expansion of space. Dark matter, may also be emitting dark energy and adding to this expansion. We don't understand gravity. The assumption is that it attracts on the universal scale, but this may be a misconception.

Charles Programmer

Boycott those Oreos. The CEO of Nabisco is moving the Oreos plant south of the border, axing all the jobs in Chicago due to her own greed.

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Executives at Mondelēz, the parent company of Nabisco, are planning to fire 600 people in Chicago who make Oreos and other beloved snack food products as Mondelēz moves production to a factory out of the country. There’s no reason this has to happen. Even though Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld made more than $21 million in 2014, she still demanded the people who work at its factory in Chicago take a 60 percent pay and benefit cut. But when they didn’t agree, she decided to cut their jobs.

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To add insult to injury, CEO Irene Rosenfeld received a $6 million raise in 2014 but is asking the men and women who make her company run to take life-altering pay and benefits cuts! In fact, she’s been paid over $170 million in compensation over the last eight years. And still, the dedicated employees at the Chicago plant are being told that it’s up to them to save the company money or lose their jobs

Somehow, I think she could save the company a lot more money than the employees would. I hate sociopaths like her.

Munchies_Matt

Good point, I didn't know it was accelerating! That pretty much rules out space travel then. :( As for why? God knows.... ;P

Basildane

The thing is, the entire observable universe is accelerating away... FROM US. Maybe they know something.

Lost User

Hear! Hear!

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

rguilmette

Damn, and I was thinking this thread was about the DOOM game ReBoot from ID. :(

DerekT P

I'm serious too, and don't call me surely.

DerekT P

I thought space was curved? If so then everything probably is speeding up, since it'll all be round the other side by now and actually getting closer to itself again (we're just looking the wrong way). Eventually it'll all meet up again in a 2nd big bang. Hopefully not just quite yet.

Munchies_Matt

Who can blame them when we are incapable of stopping the power hungry taking power?

Munchies_Matt

Could be!

Basildane

The whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent.