“We are each going to do die in some specific, unknown place. You may pass it every day. It may be home — the safest place you know. It may be a gas station. It may be somewhere you have absolutely no knowledge of, surrounded by people you don’t now know. But no matter what, that place is out there right now, just waiting for you to show up.”
#2 No. We're seeing it the way it used to look, sure, but... no, the universe absolutely could not have "disappeared."
Also lots of poop left up there.
Ah, but CNN has Anderson Cooper, who bestows legitimacy on their bullsh/t.
Here's a picture of the size of their hearth though ;
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2010/a-whale-of-an-exhibition