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The End Of The World…Again…

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8:51 am
September 25, 2009


Angelayo1970

Sysematically breaking all my new year's resolutions

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I don't drink…does that mean I can't have a martini buddy and go to the end of the world party? sniff…

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei

1:28 pm
September 25, 2009


BrendaLee

Thousand Oaks, CA

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posts 85

Let's all meet at Milliways.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." – Dr. Seuss

9:02 pm
September 25, 2009


Revenant

Hopelessly Locked In A "Fear Cage"

Lead Investigator

posts 1393

BrendaLee said:

Let's all meet at Milliways.


And don't forget to bring a towel…

"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer

11:04 pm
September 25, 2009


ghostgirl74

Investigator in Training

posts 17

I, for one, cannot wait until December, 2012…Looks like I'll be able to retire early after all! LOL!

6:31 am
September 26, 2009


Drache Frau

Investigator

posts 74

Yes, the ultimate relief to our financial problems. All along, the perfect solution to the economy is the end of the world!  Laughing

Oh, and Angelayo1970, I don't drink either so you and I can be non-martini buddies!

Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

4:50 pm
September 26, 2009


TasCat

TasCat

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posts 74

 Yup,

 Non-Drinker here, even if I did, I wouldn't during 2012 just so I could see the fireworks!  I tell you what, I will hold onto everyone's keys until they melt or vaporize, errm, the keys that is!  (Or some ghost with a bumper-sticker that reads: "You Can Have My Keys When They Pry Them Out of My Cold Dead Hands", prys them out of  mine!

"If the sheet doesn't fit, buy a new one!"

5:31 pm
September 26, 2009


Angelayo1970

Sysematically breaking all my new year's resolutions

Investigator

posts 162

Here is how much of a football fanatic I am…

When I first saw a documentary regarding the Mayan calendar and the world ending in December 2012, the first thing I thought was "Damn! There won't even be a Super Bowl in 2013 if that happens!"

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei

1:59 pm
September 27, 2009


Drache Frau

Investigator

posts 74

Wow! That's passion for the game.

So, is the world going down in fire, flood, or asteroid?

Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

7:36 pm
September 27, 2009


TasCat

TasCat

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posts 74

 And earthquakies and HurryCanes and Tomatoes!!

"If the sheet doesn't fit, buy a new one!"

9:42 am
September 28, 2009


Leslie

Investigator

posts 157

We're that bad, huh? That we're going to get "tomatoed" off of the (stage) galaxy?Frown

2:05 pm
September 28, 2009


TasCat

TasCat

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posts 74

 If you want to be serious about it….technically, other than Andromeda colliding with our galaxy in the far future and making a new galaxy, should The Big Crunch happen (gravity causes our universe to contract upon itself) or current Membrane Theory as well as other Theories, should our universe  comes in  contact with another or parallel universe, our galaxy will be here when the sun expands, cooks the Earth  to a crisp or fully melts and detroys it (depending on how large our Sun gets when it goes Red Giant) as well as the probability that as the Sun throws off it's outer layers after the Red Giant stage and flings the Earth (if it hasn't melted), what's left of it with the outer shell of gases and shrinks to a white dwarf.  But that's billions of years in the future, who knows if any spirits will still be hanging around.Cry

 But look at the bright side, the matter that made up our bodies will probably be hurled off with the outer shell of the sun, drift into a dust cloud of remnants of supernovae or other planentary nebulae (do a search on the Ring nebula, it looks like a human eye with a couple of close rings around it for an example of a white dwarf/planetary nebula example, which our Sun will become as it lacks the mass to go supernova), get caught up, compacted by gravity and burst into a new star with plenty of heavy elements in the mix to form planets again, and life may pop up!  But at this time, our galaxy may have gotten real close to Andromeda and instead of the Sun giving out, the intelligent life that may appear, a big may, will be worried that their new star system, grateful for the death of ours/ as we should be for the couple of supernovae that happened in our vicinity, for the birth of our solar system.  Had these not happened, we wouldn't have the heavy elements to form planets or even the iron in our blood cells.  These heavier elements are formed during supernovae as the massive red giant, that once was probably blue burning only Hydrogent and later Helium, collapses upon itself, forms the heavier elements and goes BOOM!  Well, maybe not, we can't hear sound in a vacuum, no matter what Star Trek says.UndecidedFoot in mouth

 If you are still reading this, by the two  previous entries, it was a purposely sarcastic version of tornadoes, which as a kid, remember another kid asking my Mom, when she told me I needed to get home because a tornado was coming, said, "A TOMATO is coming?"  but maybe in his young innocence he was right, we will be hit by a massive tomato or Killer Tomatoes may Attack.  It's a pretty scary scenario. Tongue outEmbarassed

"If the sheet doesn't fit, buy a new one!"

2:20 pm
September 29, 2009


Angelayo1970

Sysematically breaking all my new year's resolutions

Investigator

posts 162

There was a really great show on History Channel called "The End of the World" and it gave several different scenarios, one of which was pretty much what you were just talking about, Tas. One other was, of course, nuclear winter. There was also the whole global warming/climate changes hooha. My personal favorite was how the machines and robots we've created to be super intelligent end up taking over the world, a la "Maximum Overdrive" (but without the scary soda machine that killed the softball coach with a can right to the grape…you know that had to hurt!)

Anyhoo, it's a pretty cool program that's definitely worth checking out if you ever notice it's on.

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei

6:01 pm
September 29, 2009


Drache Frau

Investigator

posts 74

Maybe we should just start mutating tomatoes now and get it over with. …Maybe in a desperate search to end world hunger, some fool scientist mutates tomatoes to make them bigger, and then they start growing and they don't stop, so we continue to mutate them to get them to stop and they turn carnivorous and start eating all other life on earth!  Surprised 

Okay, I think I've eaten too much birthday cake now.

Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

7:28 am
November 22, 2009


CrowTRobot

Investigator

posts 228

My concern is not with the end-of-the-world predictions, but people's behaviors as we approach them. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly we got through the Y2K bug prediction; although, I'm sure there were a lot of people sitting at home with loaded rifles and stacks of vienna sausages and bottled water trying to figure out how they were going to explain all this to their friends and co-workers the next day.

I….I'm thinking.

2:38 am
May 22, 2011


Revenant

Hopelessly Locked In A "Fear Cage"

Lead Investigator

posts 1393

*Looks around*

*Yawns*

Another Judgement Day come and gone…

Starting to get good at this.  I guess my glass if half full…as opposed to half apocalyptic.

(Be sure to check out the first post in this thread for the link to the grand list of "end of days" days…all 220 of them.  I guess 221 now.) Confused

"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer

2:09 pm
May 22, 2011


Axel Olrik

Investigator

posts 184

Revenant, you're still there?

The rest of us have been gone for hours…

Not a good sign for you.Laugh

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