The gargantuan amounts of money that are vanishing into the mysterious black hole of private equity (which is now collapsing because all that money has indeed vanished…somewhere) and AI (which is also vanishing…somewhere, because the data centers it was supposed to have been spent on don’t actually exist) cannot be explained. The disappearance of trillions of global dollars in private equity is likely a theft perpetrated by tricking greedy elites into stupidly handing over all their money. And the disappearance of trillions of global dollars spent on AI (earning back only in the low billions, and even that is then immediately spent back into the black hole of the AI mystery circle) is likely a con siphoning money off of the rest of the public, by conning them into thinking it would orgasmically ejaculate into a world-changing megabusiness—rather than deflate into a dead end tech (with minor benefits at best).
But why?
My theory has long been robber-barony and stupidity. As the 1995 and 2008 crashes prove, amidst a great deal more evidence, the wealthy elite are in fact this stupid. And deliberate, blood-sucking, billion dollar scams—full-on pump-and-dump golden-parachute parasitism—are routine at that level of play. But something’s just not adding up. It’s going too long, happening too widely, and the scams have all been thoroughly exposed, and still the engine keeps running. Governments are saying nothing, just pumping the scam. Billionaires are saying nothing, just pumping the scam. Even Warren Buffett is disappearing his money…somewhere.
It occurs to me that there is only one possible explanation. You won’t believe me. So I’ll get to that last. First, I have to sell you on something you might believe, before you can understand the real threat.
What Might Be Happening
It all came to me in a shower a few weeks back, and I’ve been researching it ever since. Recently, as part of that detailed research, I rewatched the movie Deep Impact. Prepare for spoilers.
The science in that is a bit dodgy (up to and including jeeps that spontaneously explode like fuel-air ordinance when falling off cliffs), but, you know, close enough for government work. What really matters is that, in terms of its unfolding politics, this is the most realistic depiction of an ELE scenario ever put to film. And for those who don’t know what ELE means, it’s an Extinction Level Event. In the movie, that’s a giant comet that will essentially wipe all life off the surface of the Earth (like, way worse than hit the dinosaurs). Yadayada, and it ends up heroically mitigated down to just a Really Bad Day for islands and regions bordering the Atlantic. Whatever. But the point here is this:
The U.S. (and only the U.S.) knew for a year that this was going to happen (for, reasons; watch the movie, it’s an okay popcorn thriller). They told no one. Instead they “hid in the budget” trillions of spending to construct a massive subterranean civilization that could house a million people and a quasi-infinite zoo. Yeah, yeah, I know. In reality, that would take two years, not one; but, Hollywood. Anyway. A snappy reporter was going to accidentally uncover this, so the U.S. had to go public early, and take measures. Etc. But the Big Reveal included two things: that secret underground civilization (at which I’m sure fiscal conservatives shit in their chair upon hearing) and a secret gigantic rocket they had also been building in orbit (somehow unnoticed) that would “nuke” the comet (you know the drill—pun intended, for those who know the films).
It occurred to me that we might actually be in this scenario. But because underground civilizations and secret orbital megarockets take two years to make instead of one, the U.S. couldn’t hide it in a federal budget, which gets inspected every year (and disappearing spending gets noticed by then anyway). So what they did is, in 2022, pick some industries they could hype and trick all the stupid people to spend endlessly on for years even when seeing literally no significant returns. The best bets? Private Equity and AI. Obviously.
AI is just the right kind of “almost seems amazing but really isn’t” product that technodoofs can be sold on, fleecing all the Techbro and Singularity morons; and it came with the perfect “kick the can down the road” excuse for why they should invest trillions for a low billions return: “we just need more data centers, we just need bigger models, it’s just around the corner, look at the latest new shiny version of the widget!” So, bam! The Pentagon sucks all the money out of countless fools. Of course, they will have read in all the tech billionaires to get them on board to pump and dump the scam and funnel the money in exchange for an underground penthouse (and maybe each their own private Epstein cavern of sex slaves).
And PE can just as easily vanish into any black hole. No one really knows where the money is going (as in, apart from what they are told). No one is regulating it to notice or compel disclosures. And any greedy fucknozzle will spend endlessly on it as long as it’s ponzing them groovy returns. And above all, it was perfectly primed by the banking clampdown after 2008: so fucknozzle millionaires were hot to find some investment loophole back into the same clowntown their forebears enjoyed in the early oughts. And this was exactly what the doctor ordered. So the Pentagon set up a false-front op to absorb all that money, too. And presto, there you go: trillions of dollars to spend across about three years building your Hidden Civilization and Secret Megarocket.
This explains everything perfectly. And one could have predicted the whole charade would collapse by 2027 (when the margin call is due for the AI overspend and the mirage of PE returns starts drying up). So it seems likely the comet is known to be on track to hit Earth sometime in 2027 or 2028. Because 2027 is when everyone predicted the music would stop on both scams, and that fate is already showing signs of brewing in 2026. And even once their projects are finished, it will still take months to implement them—getting the rocket to the comet to try and do something, and moving a million select persons into the secret underground city. By then none of this will be concealable. And yes, I expect the Pentagon has been running this op without telling Trump or anyone in his cabinet, knowing they are all sieve-leaking idiots, mere placeholders to hide behind while the projects unfold.
What Is Definitely Happening
Okay. Maybe that’s what’s happening. And in all seriousness, I give it 10% odds. So when it happens I get to say I told you so. But here’s what’s really happening, which I have calculated to an 800% probability:
Did you know a moon-sized void suddenly appeared under the crust of Mars, speeding up its rotation? That was the clue. Because I read about a thing just like that in a game I played as a child, which I now know was a secret government experiment to test how people would react. It was called Amoeba Wars. I also then read a false-front MK-Ultra image-based publication about a monster growing inside what was really a cosmic “egg,” on which was encrusted space debris, making it what we know as the Earth. Of course we would have found that out by now if the Earth were that egg. But in truth, it has always been Mars. Scientists have known this since 1938. It was relegated to a secret blackbox initiative in the Pentagon to monitor. The egg was believed dormant, but now it is known that a giant space amoeba is growing rapidly inside and will soon burst free, destroying Mars, and it will float through the solar system acidically digesting the entire biosphere of any planet within, before drifting off to another solar system. So the surface of the Earth is doomed.

This unlocks another hidden mystery: why we are actually desperately trying to launch so many rockets. Artemis II is a secret mission to kill the Amoeba. You just wait and see. It’s launching today (yes, on April Fools Day—the government has a sense of humor) ostensibly to just fly around the moon, but (wink wink) farther into deep space than humans have ever gone before. Likely they will stage a fake emergency and the ship will be claimed inexplicably lost, while in fact it goes on to rendezvous with supply depots fixed in points along the way to Mars, disguised as previous satellite launches and thus hidden in the noise of regular commerce. With these the crew of four will assemble a gargantuan megaweapon with which to kill the amoeba.
The odds of success are low, and survival is unlikely. So praise be to those brave heroes. If they should fail, all the rich and famous asshats on the planet will disappear, into the deep Earth. Then you’ll know.
By that point the surviving amoeba and its hungry trajectory toward the delicious meat and vegetables of Earth will become visible to amateur astronomers and our doom will be clear. Another bit to this story… Why Artemis? Because, just as predicted in the Netflix documentary Don’t Look Up, the guy the Pentagon originally pegged to save Earth, Elon Musk, is so idiotic that all his rockets of any relevant size kept exploding, and he utterly failed to accomplish even a single part of his side of the mission. Fortunately, since Einsenhower suggested it, the Pentagon has always believed in Hadden’s Law: “Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price.” Hence as a backup they cross-funded NASA to do it right. So far, they are. Probably the secret orbital megarocket is NASA as well.
What to Do
In either case, you should dig an underground shelter right now, and stock it with a year of supplies; and, don’t forget, a means of disposing a year of sewage. But this won’t save you from the amoeba. So I recommend an additional step. It is a scientific fact tin kills amoebas. You should therefore cover yourself and your shelter in tinfoil. To be safe, I recommend 9,450 square feet of it. That will cause the amoeba’s cell surface to shy away and not dissolve you and your loved ones with its digestive acids. In fact, if you wear a tinfoil hat all the time, then you’ll be able to get to shelter, because the amoeba’s cell surface will strike your head first, causing it to be repulsed, so you can cut a path to your shelter before the amoeba oozes down and comes at you from the sides. Good luck. And may the Lovecraftian gods meddle not in your schemes.





Thank you *so* much. I will go start digging now! Oh wait, the ground is still frozen. I will get around to it soon though. In the meantime, more doom-scrolling.
As predicted, you have at least six months to maybe a year. So, there’s time.
I prefer to look on the bright side of things so maybe the amoeba will uncover some new evidence in the historicity of Jesus debate in the wreckage it leaves behind.
Or somehow accidentally cause the actual release of the Epstein files.
The actual release of the Epstein files would be the Easter miracle I could look forward to.
HaHa…April Fools!
April Fools? Hehe (looks around nervously)
April Fools
Have you pitched this idea to Andy Weir?
I’m not sure he needs to top PHM.
Happy April Fools Day 🤣👍
Appreciate the heads up! No one else would tell me this. And you even low-key included the link to the tin foil. Amazing.
END TIMES COMET–EXPOSE.
Jesus and His Father return on Mothership devilishly disguised as a comet,…until it was too late!
Richard Carrier sent to re -education camp on the Moon.
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April Fools…………..????
I recommend Hail Mary movie, subject related
A wild but entertaining read. May the Great Forgiving Eagle shield us from the all consuming amoeba!
Too creative, too clever, and too hysterical! Thanks Richard!
Happy Fools day to you too!
I thought you’d gone nuts – until I looked at my calendar.
I’m going to go with the April Fools explanation for this post … problem is … sarcasm is lost these days. It just sounds like other fools’ actually real rants. I do appreciate the Contact reference however, one of my favorite films thanks to Carl Sagan, and in this ‘holy’ week of Easter I can look up to the stars and keep awe at the possibilities … “The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us… seems like an awful waste of space”
Poes are the best satire.
800%! An octolikelihood? At best I can only delikelify it by 3/4!!
~Reaches for the tin smelter, orders the Next Level of hatch-gaskets~
So good! An April Fool masterpiece. Thanks.
Wtf this shook me dude. 🤘
So … is the Rapture happening or not?
Not.
cool! I almost believed it… typo: dpctor
This plan needs a business model. I sincerely hope the aluminum foil is an affiliate link.
Edit: the entire story is obviously false. The essential problem is that the cited foil is 18 inches by 525 feet, which does not multiply out to 9450 square feet.
Lol.
And the link to amoebas hating tin isn’t about tin but something that just by chance has the word “tin” in it.
Basically, everything after the midline of the article is a joke.
But well done catching one.
Two years ago, I wanted to prank my mom. But it didn’t work. My cat got rabies and bit me so hard I was covered in blood. At the hospital on April 1st, they didn’t believe me that a cat could do that. My mom, whom I called, also didn’t believe me. She didn’t believe that the cat was gone, and maybe I wouldn’t be around either. So, I’m taking this article seriously. But when I first started reading it, I thought, “That’s weird, Richard was a smart guy. Maybe he was overtired.” And only toward the end did I realize it was a joke. You nailed it!
My favourite extinction level event survival description is from Dr Strangelove.
WTF did I just read? I woke up in the middle of the night to find out that your math shows 8:1 odds that the world is coming to an end, and that the solution is to create a tin-lined underground shelter??
I think you’ve lost it, man.
I mean, first of all, Hegspeth and Trump are intentionally attempting to bring about the return of Christ by triggering Armageddon. Numerous numerologists have determined that Christ will return in September of *this year*, and so we don’t need to worry about Amoebas.
Even so, digging holes won’t help unless you have completely shielded your tin with at least 5cm thick sheets. Anything thinner will be overcome by the natural frequency these space-born amoebas are known to vibrate at — at least according to the unnamed sources ChatGPT indicates are verified secret leaks.
Instead, do what I did: move to Europe. Why? Because Europe has something that very few governance systems on the planet: the ultimate testament to human evolution, a bureaucracy so dense and opaque, that even light cannot escape it. An Amoeba or anything else will be shredded to bits by its event-horizon.
Good luck to you all.
LOL you almost had me the first few sentences in. I started thinking of the white house ballroom conspiracy. I was reading this on April 2nd thinking wtf, has he lost his mind with this Dr Who stuff (remember the spider episode inside the earth). I had a good laugh when it clicked
For some reason I can’t quite fathom–maybe some giant laser is influencing my brain waves, or something–this makes less sense today than it did yesterday! Weird.
Come on. Every person who’s paying attention to the tinfoil reflectors and to Deep Thought knows it’s the Vogons for their new hyperspace bypass.
As always, I love your mastery of the verse! Few years ago I read on this blog shortest and most apt definition of Trump administration- rolling shit-show. I think about it daily. Now I hope this title The Earth Will Be Destroyed Very Soon gonna stay with me at least as long! 😀
Is this for the Oxford Capacity Analysis Journal?
I had to look up what that even was.
Creative scenario, sort of laughable, too much profanity, couldn’t listen to the whole thing. Try the shower thing again for something better.
Is the shower thing a monster that lives under the grate and feeds on hopes and dreams?
Cue Brad Pitt saying, “Naw, it was dumber ‘n that”.
Big banks get to just print money, by lending out the same deposit often a hundred times over. (There used to be a concept of holding a “reserve” lent out no more than, say, five times. Ancient history.) That made-up money is inflationary and needs to be torched plausibly. Staging a bubble collapse has long been the favored method. We are running a bit behind schedule.
Somebody I respect explained he uses an AI to generate reproductions of bugs reported, easily the most time-consuming part of his job. Usually the fix itself is easy, but you have to prove you fixed it. There is little scope for slop. Somebody else I know (with bitcoin holdings) just publishes what it writes. It explains how what it wrote was brilliant, and he doesn’t notice it just made that up too.
Indeed. The bank thing is even worse than that now. It will inevitably crash the system. Again. (We never learn.)
Only 1 year of food storage? Why here in Mormonland everyone knows to store up two! And water! Don’t forget the water. The polygamists already built lots of tunnels & bunkers, so I hear, so I hope we all fit.
And no need for tinfoil, we have the Book of Mormon & magic priesthood power & special protective garment underwear to repel any satanic or amoebic forces! And also collective fasting & prayer! The church & state leaders told us to do that to stop Covid & well it eventually worked! (plus the president prophet Nelson was a doctor before he got called to tell us all what Heavenly Father wants us to do – so he told everyone to get vaccinated, luckily HF likes science!). And now we are doing that prayer thing again to save the Great Salt Lake! But if the amoeba can bring space water & land right in it….double problem solved! Utah is truly the promised land – er also Missouri where the Garden of Eden was…just don’t think too hard about how that works! 😉 (and you can’t make all this stuff up – a lot of that is not April Fool’s joking – I will let you discern fact from fiction).
Is this a joke?
Yes.
Weird Al tried to let us know. (Naturally he couldn’t have said “tin” since the government would have banned his song.)
I am so gullible. You had me completely half way through. We used to say “close enough for government work” in the army,
Well, to be fair, the first half is actually plausible; and the linked claims true. It all could well turn out to be true.
The second half, by contrast, is full bonkers and intentionally ridiculous.
Yes, there are plenty of groundless claims of imminent destruction. Many are of the tinfoil hat variety.
But that does not negate the many serious scientists who have issued urgent warnings to humanity based on their research. (see World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – Wikipedia ) There is a big difference between Chicken Little’s warnings of the sky falling and serious scientific research.
Sure, one could argue these scientists have overstated their case. There is room for informed debate on all of this. But at least most of these scientists are not in the tinfoil hat category.
As I write elsewhere,
Except none of that is doom. It’s just harm. It’s bad but it’s not going to resemble a comet impact. And exaggerating this actually makes things worse because then people will assume it’s all a lie if some of it is. Lying to try and scare people actually causes people to disregard real threats. So it is always counterproductive. And yes, exaggerating is lying. Overshooting an estimate is lying. Selling an unevidenced opinion as fact is lying. Selling the limits of an error margin instead of the actual margin is lying.
I cover this point, and document what is real vs. exaggerated, in:
Is Society Going to Collapse in 20 Years?
Yes, AI Is Going to Ruin Your Life
We Do Need to Do Something about Global Warming
Are We Doomed?
“These systems will never ever get any better; period.”
FYI.
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf
“A new ability to come up with novel puns.
Although Claude Opus models largely recycle puns which can be found online, Claude Mythos Preview comes up with decent and seemingly novel ones, often relating to its
preferred technical and philosophical topics:
Trivial tweaks. Not a substantive escape from any of the problems I listed and was referring to. Nor even useful or a surprising ability for a stochastic parrot. So it’s kind of lame to have even mentioned it here.