Given the numerous crazy possible pasts, presents, futures and conspiracies spoken of in this conversation alone, should any one of the potential outcomes vented here (they do seem to be ventings, indeed of a gaseous nature) should come true I will be amazed. Reminds me of an old joke...

Q. What is time for? "Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once".

Attributed to John Archibald Wheeler.

Yet reading here, one might conclude that all things bad are occurring as we speak!