[Quix]

I assume you are not joking.

That is roughly what a number of folks believe is no the near horizon.

[Finny]

No I'm not joking. It was the scariest dream I can remember having. What struck me in the dream was the odd realization, as I stood there looking up at these huge ships parked above the city, that in mere seconds, our "normal" template was wiped out, all its most pressing concerns up to those seconds, suddenly reduced to irrelevance; we could wish we only had such paltry problems as Obama or a late notice on the electric bill.