Sudden Future Singularities (SFS) have been a lively area in cosmology the last few years, hitting the mainstream media as “the Big Rip”, which even featured in a story by Stephen Baxter. Now it seems a pressure-driven SFS might occur in a mere 8.7 million years…
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.6661v1.pdf
…Fermi Paradox answer? The ETIs are gathering at the Great Attractor to build a gigantic escape hatch via a naked singularity?
Adam
I think if human beings are still around in 8.7 million years and this does happen, if we’re not a Type III civilization by then that’s long since left Earth, it will have practically been a failure anyway.