Re: What To Do?

You are headed toward a grabitational singularity, and someone offers you a ton of gold.  What good is that?  Feathers and cannonballs all fall the same, I’m told.  If you have a way to convert the mass to energy and fire it in the right direction — Does feeding the beast make it worse for you?  Then maybe a bit tangentially, I dunno — you might have a ghost of a chance of saving your ectoplasm for another day.  Meanwhile aliens — they might as well be aliens for all they understand of humanity — are terraforming your planet into something only an alien could love.  What to do?  What to do?  Indeed …