*looks around*

Well.. I think we're still here.

Seems as though that whole "end o the world" thing was a bit premature.. yet again.

Either that or it was the Rapture... and I just haven't noticed all the true believers not being around anymore.. for what I have already described as obvs reasons.

And of course, there is also the possibility that the world really did end all those times it's been predicted, but someone, somewhere outside of our known universe, had all the data backed up on disc, and was able to upload the new, identical version of the world after it's destruction.. and we just carry on as we were, with nary a clue what's going on.. except for those who did the predicting, and still insist that the world ended... that is if the operator.. or whatever you wanted to call them, kept the copy updated, and the version we have was saved in the last nanosecond of the last earth's existence...

but of course, if it was only backed up 5 minutes, 5 hours.. or even 5 years before, we would just go back to where we were at that time.. losing a bit of data of course, but with nary a clue that...

well it might be.