This is Bob Beatty,
successful Australian mining engineer
inventor of the The
Overburden Slusher system of stripping
The TOP NET adaption to
dragline buckets
Truck-Jig method for truck ramping
and
The Co-Axial Pipe conveyor transport system
Free-thinking amateur astronomer
and author of the FIRST
Geological Timescale that defines not only the past but the FUTURE:
the Universal Dynamic Stage Development Sequence
But this is not just another apocalyptic vision by some hack
evangelist... 
Through the application of the concept of a STEADY-STATE UNIVERSE,
Bob
has recognised that our present geological age is the DRIFT
stage
to be followed by a SEDATE
stage
and then
a stage of HIBERNATION
until the next universal cycle comes
to pass...
