So Whats This 2012 Shit Anyway?

Earth's polar axis flips every few million years or so. From what I've read, the technological effects will be the worst of the lot, there. Something about the moon having a beneficial gyroscopic effect on the planet keeping us from having "drifting poles" so on so forth. I am sure Gech would know A LOT MORE about that shit than I would.

The Mayan calendar abruptly ends in 2012, but I doubt that's a reason to be alarmed. I read somewhere (I wish I could cite it) that while the calendar stops in 2012, they do record things they "forsee" well ahead of 2012, into 4000+.

The Jews (or some sects of Judaism), I hear, also subscribe to the notion that the world will end in 2012. Something about a comet impacting Earth.

If you ask me, it's all a bunch of harbety-garble and nothing to consider seriously.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by LeHah

You mean that giant atom smasher thats being used to create particles from the beginning of the universe? The chances of that thing going wrong in the spectacular fashion people suspect is infinitesimal; even if it did go wrong the result would be so sudden and so violent, it wouldn't even register to us. We'd be gone in the blink of an eye.

The court injunctions against it are a joke - if anything, they were filed to people's worries at ease, as the scientists had to avow what the machine was doing and what the chances were at malfunction.

You know, the more I think of it, the more I wish that the atom smasher wasn't infinitesimally unlikely to rip open a black hole - it would be the most benign, quickest, and most ideal way for humanity (and everything else in the immediate areas in space) to disappear.

The alternatives are rather bleak.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.