Scientists have discovered a new planet 11 light years away that is similar to Earth and could well support life. This means that as they view us through their super-scanners we are still in 2006. They may chuckle at inflated share prices but, all in all, we weren’t doing too bad back then.
In 11 years time, they will see Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Then they’ll assess global warming, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and China building coal power stations at a rate of knots. They might see half the world starving while one man pays $450 million for a bit of daubed canvas. They will shake their heads in despair and know that the human race is toast. We won’t get to Mars, never mind them.
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