Over on the Scientific American website they have a cool little application that allows you to use a slider bar to zoom into the future, from 2 days, to 1 billion years, to show what will happen in New York City (and to a greater extent the Earth), simulating what would happen if people disapeared, from, well it doesn’t say, maybe disease, aliens, or the rapture      who knows. 

It reminds me a bit of the movie AI when it’s a hundred or so years in the future, and you see the city flooded by rising seas, and then a few thousand years later, it’s encased in ice,  which, given enough time, will happen again.

It’s all a reminder that nothing lasts forever, and change is the only constant.