Settling the question

[baxil]

Blame baronlaw, who posted an entry cut-tagged with "Fire and Ice Meme", which really should have been something like the below:

Poll "Ice and Fire Meme"

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* If you don't get the reference.

Comments

[deirdremoon]

An odd poem compared to the rest of his, but I do love it. :)

[panzerwalt]

Our Sun will "burn out" in about 4.5- to 5.0-billion takeing the earth with it.

I mind me of three ways the world ended...

[soreth]

"Fire and/or Ice"
"A Very Good Year"
"Exeunt Omnes"

[mithent]

If the world is Earth specifically, then fire, because of the whole Sun-expanding thing. If the universe, considering that current data shows an increase in expansion, then ice, because of the prospect of a Big Freeze (heat death) - though that's far from certain.

[xiphias]

Back in summer camp when I was a kid, one of the counselors had an arrangement of that poem set to music. I don't know if he wrote it himself, or what, but in my mind, that poem has a tune, and I've always loved it.