To help keep things in perspective.

The news is: Humanity is whistling past the cosmic graveyard.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24917/

And if that doesn't get us the sun burns out, expands and roasts the planet, in another five billion years plus or minus a million or two.

And we are, in the really long term, we are going to collide with another galaxy, and might be heading for a giant black hole. You might want to pencil all this in on your calendar. Pays to plan ahead.

HT:
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/we_are_totally_doomed.php