Wild Bunch

Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems

01The last stars will burn out in approximately 100 trillion years; after that, only stellar corpses remain for quadrillions more.
02Black hole evaporation via Hawking radiation means a stellar-mass black hole takes 10^67 years to vanish — the longest countdown in physics.
03In heat death, entropy is maximized: no information can be processed, meaning no thought, computation, or memory is physically possible anywhere.

The Wild Bunch sat for a formal studio portrait in Fort Worth in 1900 — bowler hats, watch chains, polished boots. The Pinkertons had the photo copied and mailed it to every bank and rail office in the West.