Thinking that the combustion of the Vice President (U) was caused by Osama bin Laden (V), the President (W) orders that all the earth's hydrogen be put onto a rocket (X) and sent into the sun (Y).
Buh-bye!
Five billion years later, the sun becomes a red giant, swallowing up all the inner planets in the solar system, including Earth.
Artist's conception. Not drawn to scale.
Yum!
But not now, I'm about to turn on the light, thereby preventing the sun from exhausting its hydrogen supply in five billion years and turning into a planet killer!