Bertrand Russell and Stephen Weinberg's reactions.
Gravity competes with rate of expansion.
Speculation on survival strategies. The Dragon's Egg by Robert Foreword - life on a neutron star. Freeman Dyson - spend more and more time in hibernation. Universe may be in a 'false vacuum state', a metastable excited state, and, at any time, may tunnel through the barrier to its ground state. Life will provide for its own continuance.