*jangling chord*

Ming's minions burst in and abduct you to the planet Ming. "So!" smiles Ming the Merciless in his merciless way, "My astronomers and physicists, who have had thousands of years to improve their sciences beyond your primitive level, assure me that all this will pass, yes, even I myself! One day it will be as if none had ever lived! Just rocks and dead stars, and insufficient complexity to ever again assemble creatures such as us, though it last a Graham number of years!"

"Tell me, knowing this -- and I am as known for my honesty as for my evil, for see! I have not executed my scientists for telling me an unwelcome truth -- are you truly indifferent as to whether I let you go, or hand you over to my torturers? Does this touch of the branding iron mean nothing?"

*sizzle*