For the doom sayers...

NASA dissects your pet theories.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45834574/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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Chanced upon this article on MSNBC (not the leading Science site, but it will do): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45834574/ns/technology_and_science-space/

I've been getting the questions and have been listening to this foolishness for years. Seems like someone's always out there with a placard or some such warning "The End is Nigh!", urging us to "Repent!".

I'm always confronted with the Mayan calendar thing. As if it meant anything except the ending of one of their 144.000 day cycles. "A planet (Nibutu or Tatooine - some such) will crash into us. You can't see it because it's on the other side of the sun. Nope. If any body were going to bump into us, we would have seen it coming already. Some natural disaster will happen. There are always disasters. None of planetary scope is expected, nor explicable without a big collision of some kind, and those asteroids are being tracked.

So, short of the Arachnids launching them through hyperspace from Klendathu, no worries.

Read the article.... it's worth it. There is only one possibility I am concerned with. Nothing to do with Mayans, though. It's the possibility some nutter will precipitate a nuclear war somehow. Just please don't tell me it'll happen beause the Mayan rock hackers said so. The future is not preordained, nor is it inevitable.

No, if anything bad happens, it'll be of human sourced, somehow: Based on the idiocy, "I can win."

You can't. No one ever has and no one ever will. The only way to win is not to play the game.

Not that simple evidence (or lack of it) ever convinced one of that ilk.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45834574/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So, short of the Arachnids launching them through hyperspace from Klendathu, no worries.
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Seems like someone's always out there with a placard or some such warning "The End is Nigh!", urging us to "Repent!".
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Yeah, these people really get me, especially when they're taking up the same street corner year after year after year, saying the same rubbish over and over.  And when you ask them how come they got it wrong last year and the year before, they tell you that only God knows when the end is nigh... which is when I say: "Well then, WTF are you doing here cluttering up the pavement?"

The thing Is, while NASA is quite correct, I didn't need it to know the end is not imminent..... yet!!!!  I mean, if sheep numbers increase dramatically because the Kiwis stop eating lamb/mutton, the methane build up could be something to worry about, cataclysmic, even, so let's all hope they continue with their dietary habits and that it isn't passed into law that sheep become a protected species in NZ.

:-"

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 2
Yeah, these people really get me, especially when they're taking up the same street corner year after year after year, saying the same rubbish over and over.
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Eventually....they'll be right.

 

 

 

 

 

Eventually.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Eventually .... hmmm, sounds like my retirement plan. Putting every cent into tatts tickets, have more chance than Nibutu comes a knocking, buckley's or none.

We all get it in the end, get the insurance program going and start praying ... just in case  :-"

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

lol, taz. If the world's gonna end, why buy insurance? i mean, who's gonna collect?... and i'll be buggered if i'll give my kids a reason to 'off' me. ;)

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Quoting DrJBHL, reply 5
and i'll be buggered if i'll give my kids a reason to 'off' me.
End of DrJBHL's quote

You mean.....ANOTHER reason..... JAFOCHECK ...;)

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I know the world isn't going to end in 2012 because The Governator [Arnie] traveled back from even further on than that in The Terminator flicks.

;P

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I know the world isn't gonna end in 2012 cause Katherine Janeway came all the way back to 1985 from 2480 something to beat up on the bad guys then went back again.

That and my book doesn't start until 2875

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Quoting Uvah, reply 10
That and my book doesn't start until 2875
End of Uvah's quote

Not only that, I intend to be around in 2053 so's I get a telegram from the queen. :-" :w00t:

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Quoting starkers, reply 11
I intend to be around in 2053 so's I get a telegram from the queen
End of starkers's quote

(telling him that it's time he finally changes his stinky underthings..) LOL

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Quoting Phoon, reply 12

Quoting starkers, reply 11I intend to be around in 2053 so's I get a telegram from the queen

(telling him that it's time he finally changes his stinky underthings..) LOL
End of Phoon's quote

Yep, it'll be due just about then... and by then I may have saved enough for a pair to change into. :-"

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods.

A bit ponderous in places but a decent read with an interesting theory.

Sorry, no link, but there's a free PDF version you should be able to Google your way to.

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