So Whats This 2012 Shit Anyway?

Originally Posted by Dekoa

I think it would be interesting if the poles were reversed in the next few years. I mean Haley's comet comes once every lifetime so every generation sees it, however a pole flip? That is once in a million or so years so that is really rare.

Interesting from a technical standpoint, sure! But I somehow doubt that deadly cancer-rays and tons of beached whales, turtles and shit would be that ineresting up close.


The thing about the whole 2012 thing is, I would very much like to know the odds of them being right. I won't take my education that seriously, if the end of the Earth was actually near.
Well, first we have to survive the whole They are waiting for you in the test chamber, Gordon Large Hadron Collider thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Gechmir

The Large Hadron Collider destroying the world is a bunch of fearmongering bullshit by people who have no clue how quantum physics operates (99.9% of people). It could result in tiny black holes, yes, but said holes dissipate until they reach a proper size. The smaller the black hole, the faster it dissipates.

Ah, you're one of THEM!

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.

Originally Posted by Shin

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.

From what I've read in some danish popular science thing, the lack of a magnetic field around the Earth should also lead to everything being soaked in cosmic and solar waves. Which would be like Fallout, without the humour.

There's nowhere I can't reach.