- [one year after the event]
- Dr. M. Picciotto: Gentlemen, how's that report coming along?
- Noah Smith: [sighs] There's so much data from that day, We're still collating.
- Dr. M. Picciotto: Well, what can you tell me about dark matter that we didn't know a year ago?
- Rajesh Vasquez: Uh, ah, it's really bad.
- Dr. M. Picciotto: [starts walking away] Keep up the good work.
- [Dark matter object on a collision course with the Earth]
- Rajesh Vasquez: It's accelerating towards us.
- Noah Smith: How can that be?
- Rajesh Vasquez: Gravity's a bitch. Less than eight hours now.
- Dr. M. Picciotto: [sighs] Well, the Secretary of Defence, the President's Science Advisor, the NASA Administrator, the Director of Astrophysical Research at JPL, dozens of top scientists from around the world and I all agree. There's nothing we can do to stop it.
- Noah Smith: Nothing?
- Dr. M. Picciotto: They've put the military on alert, recalled all active duty personnel and initiated continuity of government plans. But there's no way to stop what's going to happen.
- Noah Smith: What about warning the public? Uh, evacuations?
- Dr. M. Picciotto: It would just cause panic.
- Noah Smith: What's going to happen?
- Dr. M. Picciotto: I'm still not certain. But I suspect we're all going to get a pretty good idea of how the dinosaurs felt.