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Joe Rogan is the solution to this problem, actually.
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I, personally like the supervolcano way. I wouldn't want everything to die, I like the idea of a 'New Era'.
Or alternatively, I want to evolve into a being of light/energy like in Galactic Civilizations. |
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2012 will mark the first Olympic games to be contested in an un-finished stadium. You know us Brits can't organise building projects for shit. Also, according to the Ghost Recon timeline 2012 is when America gets invaded by a bunch of Mexicans and I'm pretty sure Frontlines cites 2012 as the beginning of World War 3 so the signs are definitely all there.
As I understand it, the shift in Earth's magnetic axis will most likely confuse a load of migrating birds and fish more than anything else but I do tend to only ever read the first paragraph of New Scientist articles. |
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No, I'm well aware of the fact that the Large Hardon Collider is completely harmless. I just thought it fitted along with unfounded 2012 talk. Quote:
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And then had the world's biggest jewellery heist. |
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Isn't it curious that Nostrodamus was (debatably) born on the 21st of December. |
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The stupid part of it is that you have nothing to do with it NOW. |
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The Millenium Dome got bought by O2 and is now the O2 arena. They have concerts there that nobody can get home from because the public transport infrastructure never got finished properly and there's only about 20 parking spaces on site. |
It was done on time because it was rushed to hell.
And while it was still known as the dome, it fucking sucked. |
:rolleyes:according to a panel I read at the vancouver planetarium, a meteorite will come as close as 40000 Km (the moon is 380 000 KM far) to the planet around 2012. Who knows if it will come closer...
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With hope though, maybe a few hundred or thousand people will take this seriously and commit ritualistic suicides in the same fashion as Heaven's Gate, and all the other cult organizations. Maybe the Scientologists will follow suit too (thats hoping for a lot though), and so, we may just solve the problem with overpopulation. Clearly though, this is nothing but another y2k scare. |
Um. A few hundred thousand people isn't going to do jack squat about overpopulation.
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Well, I can't argue with that.
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Nehmi, that entire article is about how incredibly unlikely it is for an asteroid to hit Earth. Did you even read it before linking to it?
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What's going to happen is that Nemesis, which has never ever been documented and is pure speculation, will get within a short distance of its highly irregular orbit with a great amount of gravitational influence, this object will have to be super huge to even influence the Earth, and destroy the solar system. Or what a bunch of nutjobs think.
Personally I think that 2012 will happen like any other year and the most likely cause of our demise will be by our own hands. |
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2012 is a numerologically ugly number. Why can't people say prophetic things about 2016 instead. Think of the possibilities one could have with the numbers it produces!
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Would you two stop acting like Elixir for the rest of this thread?
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Not to play devil's advocate, but taking in to account the amount of space debris and potential meteorites/asteroids, it's impossible to keep tabs on every single one. I actually saw a figure pertaining to this some time back, but it's quite staggering; it's like being able to count the number of (and keep tabs on) water droplets that make up an long burst of a fire-hose :V
Despite this, very very few make it toward the Earth. The Van Allen belts tend to sway most bodies away, and the few that remain typically disintegrate upon entry in to the atmosphere. To see the Van Allen belt working its magic, simply compare the Earth's topography to the moon's. Sure, the Earth has weathering and what-have-you to smooth out impacts over time, but the moon (which has a magnetic field less than a hundredth the power of Earth's, courtesy of its "dead" interior) is *covered* with impacts from meteors. In conjunction, the moon lacks an atmosphere and doesn't have a burn-up effect that we see upon re-entry in to Earth. |
I'm no expert, but I read somewhere that in the event that something like a meteor comes HURDLING TOWARDS EARTH (and I believe there is one on it's way, but will pass without incident), they have a technique using gravity to lure the meteor away from it's collision course with Earth.
I forgot how they'd do it, exactly. But it involves no explosions or ARMAGEDDON-like blowing-up of huge flying debris. All done with mass and gravity in space. Ah. Here we go. |
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