RIP: The Human Scientific Age, b. 1543 d. 100,000,002,007

When Copernicus published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, he gave birth to the human scientific age, one that has slowly pushed prophesy and superstition to the fringes our relationship with the cosmos (not counting Bush's NASA appointees, of course). However, according to this mind-blowing New York Times article, the human species (nay, the Milky Way) has been lucky enough to evolve in a sweet spot of space-time that will end 100 billion years from now, dooming future civilizations to a much bleaker age of ignorance than even we have witnessed. The universe is about to go dark in a really big way.