Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 24, 2019

I think he meant “evidence” rather than “evident”

We’ve been taking pictures. Will there be any humans around then?

Their furnace conk out?

Hey, the hat is back! Reminds me a bit of the one worn by Doctor Zhivago, although it looked better on Omar Sharif.

There are lots of pictures of old stars. I know they are stars because I have heard of them. I know they are old because, if I’ve heard of them, they probably already dead.

Don’t worry, Arlo, no Humans will be around to care.

Is he going out with binoculars?

if you’re hungry, you want food. if you’re cold, you want to be warm; every day life has a way of keeping folks grounded

There is nothing to slow them down.

Empty nesters. Project much?

But it’s still expanding slower than the speed of light. So if we point a powerful telescope away from the center, we should be able to see beyond the current edge and settle the question of what’s beyond everything.

Reality is, by the time the last star beyond ours winks out, mankind (person kind) will long be gone from this rock.

if the mass of the universe is sufficient enough the curve of space will be close in on itself. so all you would see is the other side of the universe. in other words " the other side of the mountain.

Janice is forever the optimist.

I am a skeptic. The only clue we have is doppler shift in stars with (presumed) increasing distance, and from that we infer the stars are moving away at some particular speed. However, since we have no idea what relativistic forces apply across such extreme distances I think it is a premature assumption. It s entirely possible the universe is collapsing and without an understanding of grand scale relativistic effects we would not have a clue.

bummer

This explains my expanding waistline.

Current research indicates the universe will stop expanding at some point, then collapse back on itself

The thing is if we are all moving at the same rate nothing will change.

No apparent heat death crunch now.

GETCHER PITURES NOW, WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME

A fine selling point for photography possibilities.

(And, yes, I intended that spelling of pictures, same as my version of “get your”. …and the placement of the periods here.)