The thing that threw me about the ending was that it immediately reminded me of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, wherein we discover that an ancient civilization decided to get rid of all of the useless people they had around by telling them the world was about to end, putting them on intergalactic ships and sending them off to who knows where - who knows where ultimately being Earth, where said ship of fools crash-landed and depressingly, eventually became the human race.
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