Why is this not the dumbest argument ever made? Rome’s Ponte Fabricio was built in 62BCE, and it’s still in use — so, according to this theory, its ‘future duration’ will be between 694 years and 6,243 years. So humanity may die out, but the denizens of central Rome will live until somewhere between 2,713 and 8,262CE. The denizens of Hudson Yards, on the other hand, are doomed — doomed! — because it opened a few months ago. I haven’t sci-hubbed the original article in Nature yet, but note the Vox author’s bizarre reliance on visualization: I mean, hey, if you can draw it on the back of a napkin, it’s gotta be true.