I think you're missing that this columnist may in fact be a sensationalist hack. As far as I can tell, nowhere in Gott's paper does he imply that we will end in

I think you're missing that this columnist may in fact be a sensationalist hack. As far as I can tell, nowhere in Gott's paper does he imply that we will end in less than a thousand years. From a quick scan of the paper, Gott's most incendiary statement is that there is a 95% confidence interval that our remaining species lifetime is in the range of 12 to 7.8e6 years. If anyone wants to check for themselves, hopefully it's not against HN rules to link the paper: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/363315a0 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/363315a0