Unlike many, Monday was a relatively calm deadline day in the newsroom at the Great Bend Tribune. Things went exceptionally smooth considering we are currently down a reporter and the person tasked with putting our pages together is on vacation this week. As always, those around me stepped up and got things done.

I was feeling pretty good once all the pages had been checked so I was hoping to decompress by looking at the headlines on MSN.com. And just that quick, my cool, calm demeanor quickly turned to fright. The very first headline I read was “Earth is running out of oxygen sooner than expected as NASA sets date for ‘end of life.’”

What the...? The piece was written by someone named Sinead Butler. To say the headline grabbed my attention was an understatement.

The article started wit

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