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It's the end of the world as we know it...
46 durable postsStarted 2012-12-07Latest 2012-12-22
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And I feel fine.
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T-minus 2 weeks to go...
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[B]From: telegraph.co.uk[/B]
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[QUOTE]Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.
The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm. In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.
"We've gone from one a month to one a day," he said. "I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right."
In the French Pyrenees the mayor of Bugarach, population 179, has attempted to prevent pandemonium by banning UFO watchers and light aircraft from the flat topped mount Pic de Bugarach.
According to New Age lore it as an "alien garage" where extraterrestrials are waiting to abandon Earth, taking a lucky few humans with them.
Russia saw people in Omutninsk, in Kirov region, rushing to buy kerosene and supplies after a newspaper article, supposedly written by a Tibetan monk, confirmed the end of the world. The city of Novokuznetsk faced a run on salt. In Barnaul, close to the Altai Mountains, panic-buyers snapped up all the torches and Thermos flasks.
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, even addressed the situation. "I don't believe in the end of the world," before adding somewhat disconcertingly: "At least, not this year."
In China, which has no history of preoccupation with the end of the world, a wave of paranoia about the apocalypse can be traced to the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster "2012". The film, starring John Cusack, was a smash hit in China, as viewers were seduced by a plot that saw the Chinese military building arks to save humanity.
Some in China are taking the prospect of Armageddon seriously with panic buying of candles reported in Sichuan province.
The source of the panic was traced to a post on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, predicting that there will be three days of darkness when the apocalypse arrives.
One grocery store owner said: "At first, we had no idea why. But then we heard someone muttering about the continuous darkness."
Shanghai police said scam artists had been convincing pensioners to hand over savings in a last act of charity.
Meanwhile in Mexico, where the ancient Mayan civilisation flourished, the end time has been seen as an opportunity. The country has organised hundreds of Maya-themed events, and tourism is expected to have doubled this year.
Nasa has been aggressively seeking to dispel doomsday fears. It says there is no evidence Nibiru exists, and rumours it could be hiding behind the sun are unfounded.
"It can't hide behind the sun forever, and we would've seen it years ago," a Nasa scientist said. The space agency also rejected apocalyptic theories about unusual alignments of the planets, or that the Earth's magnetic poles could suddenly "flip."
Conspiracy theorists contend that the space agency is involved in an elaborate cover up to prevent panic.
But David Morrison, an astronomer at Nasa, said: "At least once a week I get a message from a young person, as young as 11, who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday. I think it's evil for people to propagate rumours on the internet to frighten children." Mayans themselves reject any notion that the world will end. Pedro Celestino Yac Noj, a Mayan sage, burned seeds and fruits to mark the end of the old calender at a ceremony in Cuba. He said: "The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn."[/QUOTE]
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If the world is going to end, I'm pretty darn sure a storm shelter isn't going to help. :I surren:
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wow, not sure what to say about that article....true or not, it wouldn't surprise me that people are reacting this way. I am not sure how people think they would survive any of the above mentioned theories by stocking up on water and candles...
If its going to happen there is nothing we can do about it unfortunately
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New date for the apocalypse, new "believers" waiting to be fleeced.
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I'm gonna watch it buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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great news! nothing more to worry about. No more illness. No more Hot or cold. No more getting old. No more gravity. No more selfishness. No more nothing... just float around. Count me in!
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is incredible that people believe in these things. secondly, If one day the world comes to an end. We will not even notice. It will be so terrible, that we will not have time even to look out the window. But, I dont fucking care, im just saying.
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For some reason this makes sense to me.. he is probably off on the timing, but.. ya [video=youtube;NCaK35DQ4uk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCaK35DQ4uk[/video]
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[QUOTE=clintlove;1072004]If the world is going to end, I'm pretty darn sure a storm shelter isn't going to help. :I surren:[/QUOTE]
:lol:
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^ hah, i always think of that cartoon when someone mentions end of cvilization...
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Shit's popping up everywhere
[url="http://science.time.com/2012/12/12/nasa-versus-the-mayan-madness/"]The Mayan Insanity: NASA sets the record straight | TIME.com[/url]
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[QUOTE]If you want to see a roomful of people roll their eyes, just walk into a gathering of astronomers — or experts on ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, for that matter — and shout out the words “Mayan Apocalypse!” For years now, the idea that the Earth will be destroyed in a terrible cataclysm on December 21, 2012 has been bouncing around the Internet and showing up in articles, books and even movies. It’s been the inspiration for get-rich-quick schemes. It’s like Y2K all over again, but at least that episode of end-of-the-world hysteria was reality-based.
The 2012 Apocalypse, by contrast, is just plain nutty. An asteroid is not about to hit the Earth. Neither is an imaginary planet called Nibiru. Our world isn’t going to be abruptly flipped upside down like a burger on a griddle. The Earth won’t be plunged into a three-day blackout. And contrary to what you’ve been hearing, Mayan astrologers never said any of that stuff would actually happen. The idea is so preposterous that a Web search for “Mayan Apocalypse” turns up as many spoofs as it does serious discussions.
The truth is a lot more prosaic than the tin-foil hat crowd would have you believe. Yes, the Mayans had what’s known as a long-count calendar, and yes, that calendar ends on Dec. 21 2012. But the delightful thing about calendars — including the Mayans’ — is that they always start over again from zero. Just because we have a record of the Mayan’s long-count equivalent of last year doesn’t mean they weren’t busy working on next year’s. As for Nibiru, well never mind. That one was borrowed from the ancient Sumerians, and the original prediction was that we’d get clobbered by the free-range planet in 2003. You might have noticed that that didn’t happen, so the date of arrival was moved up to 2012 to coincide with the Mayan silliness. An apocalyptic twofer!
All the same, some folks at NASA are seriously worried — not about the Apocalypse itself, but about the real harm the talk of it may be doing to some peoples’ mental health. “I get a tremendous number of emails about it,” says David Morrison, a space scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California who hosts the agency’s “Ask an Astrobiologist” website. “A large fraction are from people asking if the world will end, saying they’re scared and don’t know what to do. A few even talk about suicide.”
It might seem implausible that people would actually kill themselves over an imaginary cosmic event, but it happened back in 1997, when 39 members of the “Heaven’s Gate” cult in Southern California committed mass suicide under the delusion that the approach of Comet Hale-Bopp meant it was time to leave their physical bodies. Fearing that too many people were taking the 2012 scaremongering far too seriously, NASA convened an online Google+ hangout on Nov. 28 during which people could interact with six astronomers who were prepared to debunk any myth the public could throw at them. For nearly an hour, they did just that, patiently explaining, for example that any asteroid en route to obliterating Earth in just a few short weeks would have been spotted by telescopes long ago, and that Nibiru, one of whose leading proponents is a woman who insists she’s in touch with aliens from the Zeta Reticuli star system, would be the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon.
But NASA has been debunking the Apocalypse for years now, in the same patient and rational manner, and it hasn’t really helped a whole lot. “I’m told that about ten percent of the public believes this stuff,” says Seth Shostak, a scientist with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, who wasn’t part of the online hangout. “That’s about the same percentage that believes in Santa Claus and thinks we never went to the Moon.”
Trying to reduce that percentage simply by providing facts isn’t necessarily going to work, however, since the proponents of nonsense are providing plenty of their own “facts” too. “I have to admit,” says Morrison, “that there’s something of an inherent contradiction when we scientists tell people not to trust things they read on the Internet, and then put information on the Internet.”
The real problem, said Andrew Fraknoi, an astronomer at Foothill College in Los Altos, California during the NASA webcast, “is that our schools have not taught skeptical thinking, have not taught children to distinguish between fantasy and reality. The real threat in 2012 is the public’s low level of science understanding.”
Whether that could lead to panic or suicides this time around is unclear. Only a tiny handful of the thousands of worried e-mails Morrison has gotten raise the disturbing possibility of people taking their own lives and those have all been from adults.
But even if kids are not suicidal, plenty of them are very frightened, and have been for a long time. “Two years ago, I met with a group of middle school science teachers,” Morrison says, “and I asked them how many of them were dealing seeing kids who were worried about 2012. Nearly every hand shot up.” When December 21 comes and goes without incident, those fears should finally evaporate — that is, until the next Doomsday pronouncement comes along. [/QUOTE]
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as I said earlier in another thread
[QUOTE=Kamal;1040521]One of the sources of the 2012 Doomsday event arrives from a lesser known scientific fact. The "Solar Maximus". A violent solar eruption (call it a burp if you would) that occurs once every 11 years. It's expected to occur sometime this year any day between Aug - Dec. If it is as violent as the last one back in early 2000 (which took out power grids etc.), all of the people living in snow-prone areas, be sure to buy at least 2 jerry cans and fill them with gasoline. Worst case scenario, you drive down and pitch tent just south of the freeze line.
I call dibs on gate-crashing Florida's house until power is restored.[/QUOTE]
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Next Friday folks, hope Nbiru or the Solar Burp wears a fancy skirt when she makes an appearance. 7 days and counting, tick tock tick tock tick....
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[QUOTE=diegoff;1072035]great news! nothing more to worry about. No more illness. No more Hot or cold. No more getting old. No more gravity. No more selfishness. No more nothing... just float around. Count me in![/QUOTE]
This....[B] No more selfishness[/B]!
Really would be nice.
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Only a few more days....everyone ready for the alien invasion/zombie apocalypse/collision with an out of control comet/solar flare that will obliterate the world as we know it?
Have they asked Bruce Willis yet if he's available to send to outer space so he can save us all?
Anyone have any particular plans for their final day? I get to spend it at my sons dr appointment (depending on what time it's going to occur)
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[QUOTE=DancingQueen;1073463]Have they asked Bruce Willis yet if he's available to send to outer space so he can save us all?[/QUOTE]
Classic, but I think he's too busy making crappy movies to worry about a doomsday calamity right now.
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[QUOTE=DancingQueen;1073463]Only a few more days....everyone ready for the alien invasion/zombie apocalypse/collision with an out of control comet/solar flare that will obliterate the world as we know it? [/QUOTE]
I'd love a zombie apocalypse, really :)
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Hope you have a really good shelter or a really big gun with tons of ammo.............or both.
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I like the "knife in the eye" style :)
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its Friday in New Zealand - so your gonna make it
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Crap, forgot about this. I've got a lot of shit I've still got to accomplish today.
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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;1073757]its Friday in New Zealand - so your gonna make it[/QUOTE]
But they aren't in the same time zone as Mexico....it could still happen ;)
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me thinks DQ's worried.
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A culture that couldn't foresee it's own demise is telling us that the world ends tomorrow.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say I can PVR Archer this weekend and will find time to watch it.
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All of the threads on all of the message boards about this are lame :lol: humbug
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[video=youtube;QY_Gc1bF8ds]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QY_Gc1bF8ds[/video]
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sh*t... the world stands still... I have to keep working
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i'm still here!
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[video=youtube_share;afVBVLhm84k]http://youtu.be/afVBVLhm84k[/video]
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oh, it was supposed to end today? I missed it :Blush:
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it was raining here, so it was close
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go to work , pay the bills ,
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WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL '13 yeeeessssss