A glib Matt Lauer announced the inevitable end of the world on Sci-Fi channel’s Countdown to Doomsday, predicting alarmist non-profit groups, hackneyed movie scripts and piss poor special effects would hurdle us to extinction.

Lauer, still glib, takes us through a tour of 10 doomsday scenarios with the help of “experts” who were cast as they passed out their books at Chiller Theatre. Daniel H. Wilson, author of the humorous “How To Survive a Robot Uprising : Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion“ was one of Lauer’s lab coats. The joke was of course lost on Matt, who seemed to think our coming enslavement to our robot masters was as inevitable as our mass extinction by a coming Global Warming/Super Volcanic Eruption/Bird Flu/Asteroid Collision apocalypse.

Then again, there’s the Alien Invasion.

Yeah, that’s coming too. God-like, unstoppable Stalinist invaders whose superior technology makes resistance futile. It’s odd how no one envisions an Alien world like ours, made up of many nations and creeds competing for resources. I guess that one world/one race theory Nazis love so much has its benefits in that it helps a society advance into space faring conquerers. At least according to Lauer’s “experts”.

Former P.M.R.C. front man Al Gore’s new project, Destroying America to save the World (tentative title), received some glowing reviews from fallacious Lauer and his Misfits of Science.

Truly, this was speculative fiction at its best.