Sun eventually goes supernova.

Thermonuclear reactions are very bright

Historians of the medieval era hate the term "dark ages", even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.

I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....

You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\

P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

keep using 'photoshop' as a generic term and verb until it becomes 'generic enough' for adobe to lose its trademark. same with 'google' ftm.

Richard, is that you?

Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things

We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as "antibiotics" again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too...

It's a good thing that people aren't anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

Ok, added some bars to the left

It's posadism time