Wait a minute... Firestone and Goodyear?
Thanks for posting it, and thanks again to Blam for the ping. It's unusually coherent and lucid, and while I'd disagree with Firestone's suggestion of the cause (supernova), as said before, I enjoy a good catastrophe.
I liked it because of it's fit with the end of the Ice Age.
Let me see...I have an article around her somewhere by Michelin, he says that...