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Yup --- Miller had his Y2K as well.
So did Manson with Helter Skelter.
But science always manages to top the list.
Let's follow the train!
Mayan Calendar --> Y2K --> Thalidomide
I'm having a tough time predicting what the next stop will be...
Followed by a suggestion that somebody or something take a hike. (Which I will be doing this weekend, in the White Mountains, incidentally.)Probably Pluto, followed shortly by an unconvincing "scientists are a gift from God."
Followed by a suggestion that somebody or something take a hike. (Which I will be doing this weekend, in the White Mountains, incidentally.)
I just got back from the Alps. Although I was there for an ultracold atoms school. Got some hiking in during the afternoons and weekend though.
So ironically, it was somewhat representative of science taking a hike.
Aren't we going to be killed by space debris before that?Of course this will not prevent various groups from jumping on any diaster and shouting about how it is a sign that we are all doomed.
Aren't we going to be killed by space debris before that?
Isn't some communication satellite suppose to hit another one and the resulting debris field supposed to create a domino effect that will have us zig-zagging to work?
I think that's the latest technoscare --- unless it's H1N1.
I need to go get some tee shirts that say:
- I survived the Harmonic Convergence.
- I survived Y2K.
In spite of God's timetable, or in respect to it?Technology has a long way to go when compared with the number of times the end has been predicted by mystics and religious folks!
In spite of God's timetable, or in respect to it?
Present God's timetable for us to look at and I'll let you know.
Present God's timetable for us to look at and I'll let you know.
Alright... so over the past year I have heard pretty much every 2012 theory under the sun, from the Annunaki and Nibiru (lolzor) to the crossing of our galactic equator into intense GCR's.
Does anybody think 2012 is actually going down? If you do, which theory sounds the most viable to you? Even if you don't which theory sounds the most realistic to you?
Ze end of ze vurld.
Now, there are a few things that are happening in that year that give the theory some merit to me.
The first is the Maxima of our sun. Our sun is going to be the brightest and hottest it has been in 11 years in 2012.
Couple this with global warming, ozone holes, the depreciation of pretty much all our resources and over-population.
Another (though I'm not sure this is happening,) is our solar system passing through the galactic equator, where the most harmful GCR's in the galaxy are stabilized. If our earth crosses through the galactic center, and is caught between the sun (which is at it's maxima,) and the black hole of our galaxy (which stabilizes many harmful rays at its equator,) I daresay something bad has the potential to happen.
But whaddya think?
A.D. 2012 represents a number of true scientific problems which we have no answer to them, and will not have answer even 100 years after 2012. This date is certainly different from any of the previous false alarms in terms of scientific content. This date will not be a concern just two decades ago. But it is a scientifically legitimate concern today. To dismiss this "prophecy" based on science simply shows your ignorance to science.
A.D. 2012 represents a number of true scientific problems which we have no answer to them, and will not have answer even 100 years after 2012. This date is certainly different from any of the previous false alarms in terms of scientific content. This date will not be a concern just two decades ago. But it is a scientifically legitimate concern today. To dismiss this "prophecy" based on science simply shows your ignorance to science.
Enlighten us, what exactly makes it any different from 2011, or 2013?
It's the end of the Mayan calendar cycle. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. After that, the Mayan calendar restarts itself. Just as on Sunday the week restarts itself. Science has never concluded, or even predicted that 2012 will be any different.
What true scientific problems does 2012 represent, which shouldn't be ignored based on science?
What true scientific problems does 2012 represent, which shouldn't be ignored based on science?
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