[Askel5]

Is that noose widening or tightening?

I think it's more like a game of "Go" ... we're getting sucked bodily into Empty Spaces along with our billions.

[Carry_Okie]

LOl! Some people think we don't have the stones to make the Go.
(Warning: Carry_Okie feels the temptation to flog a metaphor into n-dimensional entendre.)