[RightWhale]

Hurry!

Only 50 billion years left!

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

. If we can protect ourselves against destructive forces within our society, I can imagine us doing lots of very unusual things.

uh, okay

[Hodar]

their appearance will freeze in time

That assumes that they are moving away from us at the speed of light (or close to it). We may see what happened millions of years ago ... but it won't be frozen. Who knows how many stars we see today, have actually exploded millions or thousands of years ago, it's just that the light of their demise hasn't reached us yet.

[green team 1999]

i doubt it that will humans make to the year 3000

[Pining_4_TX]

Darn, and I was hoping my stock would be worth something by then!

[Dog Gone]

News you can't use.

However, it is nice to realize that some galaxies are already beyond the event horizon. I'm hoping those are the ones containing the man-eaters.

[shadowman99]

Helen Thomas' appearance will be frozen in time.

[TADSLOS]

The Energizer Bunny will save us.

[Dan Day]

"What will people see, looking at the sky billions of years from now?", he wondered.

They'll see 3D holographic sky-projected news flashes about the latest attempts at a Middle East peace plan.

[Don Corleone]

And this is important because....?

[gcruse]

"50 to 100 billion years from now the universe will be a dark and lonely place," surmises Avi Loeb.

Since, with the naked eye, we can't see much beyond our galaxy, this scenario is untrue.  The
local group and our galaxy itself are gravitationally bound and are not flying apart.  Except for
heading  into the Great Attractor, which may gobble us up by then anyway.

...distant galaxies will
be travelling away from us faster than the speed of light -
a rare exception to the rule that nothing can go faster than light.

They aren't travelling at the speed of light.  They are sitting there.
What is happening is that space is expanding between us.  And
space expansion is not limited to the speed of light.

I don't think I know more than a professor of astronomy,
so put this down to dumb reportage. :)

[steve-b]

You'd better take a good look while you can, because the Universe is going to disappear!

The FOOLS!! They LAUGHED at my theories!!! They CALLED ME MAD!!!! But when I DESTROY THE UNIVERSE, THEY WON'T BE LAUGHING THEN!!!!

[TopQuark]

Oh, G-d: I've lost so much time already!

[TopQuark]

Oh, G-d: I've lost so much time already!

[onedoug]

Hawking Lecture, Caltech

[azhenfud]

"As a matter of fact, if we sent out a signal now, it would not be able to reach some sources that are already outside our reach. So if there are extraterrestrial communities out there, some of them will already be out of contact with us."

He must have thought this one up after flushing. No wonder he's a professor....
Az