NASA: THE TRUTH about the END OF THE WORLD on 21 Dec
Five NASA scientists took time out yesterday to assure the public that the world will not end on 21 December. The astroboffins dismissed claims that a rogue planet called Nibiru will smash into Earth in three weeks, killing us all. The planetary smash-up just before Christmas 2012 was allegedly predicted by the Mayans. A wave …
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Not a Moon - it's a Death Star...
"That's no moon. It's a space station..."
Re: @NomNomNom
> And that's different from Linux/Android zealots how?
0/10 and downvote for trying to start a fanboi shitstorm.
Re: @NomNomNom
"And that's different from Linux/Android zealots how?"
Truth be told, it's not very different to any sub-culture segment. All have lexicons and rituals that separate them from 'outsiders' and distinguish membership of the group.
It's just that this particular group is full of bat-sh1t crazy irrational people with heightened desires for attention and a need to be 'special', probably caused by an isolated life and abandonment issues caused by the fact that everyone has always considered them to be bat-sh1t crazy and irrational...
Re: @NomNomNom
"It's just sad fantasy, built on desire for a sense of superiority. We are 'sheeple' for not believing it, and their egos are fed by being privy to the secret knowledge."
And much good it will do them in three weeks' time, as in "Oh, boy! I'm so superior that I am soon going to be annihilated!"
"Some of them have said they are contemplating suicide."
Maybe they should, it would certainly rid us of some of the ignorant chaff that believe any old crap they see in a youtube video.
"Maybe they should, it would certainly rid us of some of the ignorant chaff that believe any old crap "ç
Yep, we need to make space for the kind of people that think that the make of a smartphone matters.
"Yep, we need to make space for the kind of people that think that the make of a smartphone matters."
Ahhh, But at least a smartphone is a real, tangible, non made up thing though, unlike this invisible planet thats going to vomit out demons/aliens/the welsh or whatever.
I think civilisation needs these gullible idiots who will believe anything they are sold. Well, it keeps the money flowing around anyway.
"Maybe they should"
If they're so sodding sure of themselves, why don't they just wait three weeks!
Seriously: What kind of moron finds out he has three weeks to live and then decides that's too long?
Maybe they should
I don't know. How many different kinds of morons do you have on offer?
Re: Maybe they should
>How many different kinds of morons do you have on offer?
I reckon there is roughly one per IP address, all different.
Re: Maybe they should
"How many different kinds of morons do you have on offer?"
I can get my hands on an entire Lidl-full.
not the end
Even the Mayans used dates after Dec 21st 2012!
If people are too stupid to realise that we can add digits to a date then they are too stupid to be taken seriously.
Frankly if people want to find a reason to worry themselves to death, suicide or otherwise, then they should be left too it and not have NASA waste their time wet-nursing them. Good riddance to their stupidity!
Re: not the end
i thought the whole point was that the Mayans took digits away from a date, and thereby the 21st Dec 2012 is actually day 0. it's a mathematical exercise to get to day -1, but is such a thing possible in physics?
re: Possible in physics?
Ever looked at the concept of imaginary numbers? *shudder*
Re: not the end
No, I think this date is just the end of that counter and just rolls onto the next one, in the same way we did at the first millenium (i.e., going from 999 to 1000), not counting down to 'day 0'.
Also, (according to wikipedia at any rate), other Mayan inscriptions do refer to dates further in the future, one in the year 4772 for example, so they clearly don't expect the world to end next month. Then again as their dates seem to resemble IP addresses (albeit with more sets of digits), perhaps they were predicting when we'd be ready to move to IPv6?
Re: re: Possible in physics?
Imaginary numbers? Is this a bit like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, so if we all believe in tomorrow very, very much then it really will happen?
Re: re: Possible in physics?
If you think imaginary numbers by themselves are bad.... you should try using them in set theory... that really does make the mind explode.
Re: re: Possible in physics?
Isn't that what government budgets run on?
Re: re: Possible in physics?
I dialed an imaginary phone number once.
Re: not the end
'Frankly if people want to find a reason to worry themselves to death, suicide or otherwise, then they should be left too it and not have NASA waste their time wet-nursing them. Good riddance to their stupidity!'
What if they're kids?
Re: Re: not the end
".....What if they're kids?" Then take comfort in the thought that in this highly competitive, dog-eat-dog World, your offspring will have a few less competitors to worry about.
Re: I dialed an imaginary phone number once. (Johan Bastiaansen)
BT customer service?
Re: not the end
"it's a mathematical exercise to get to day -1, but is such a thing possible in physics?"
You'd find it a bit hard to get to -1 K, I think!
Re: re: Possible in physics?
'Ever looked at the concept of imaginary numbers? *shudder*'
Yes, echo "shudder".
Looks like I will have to find a new job after all
I was banking on the end of the world to solve that particular problem
:(
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
I'll bet a $1,000 against each and every doomsayer who says the world will end on 21st December!
Re: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
I'll wager £1,000,000 against each one.
The trouble with them being right and winning the bet is they're going to have a hard job finding anyone left to pay up :)
Re: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
I've got a grand on the end of the world, if it does end on the 21st I'm due to collect £25K!!!
If people are so dumb they believe it will end we should offer to fly them all to a "Secure Cave" (With no air ducts) and lock them in to save them. Gene pool greatly improved.
"There's nothing we know of physically that would allow the Sun to switch off for three days and then switch back on."
He obviously hasn't read Vernor Vinge's "A deepness in the sky". But then that sun turned off 215 out of 250 years.
"the Sun to switch off for three days"
In Ireland, that was the best summer that I can remember.
In Ireland, that was the best summer that I can remember.
Err, shouldn't that be "switch on"?
"It makes no sense, because if it was there we could see it. We'd have been tracking it for a decade or so. And by now, it would be the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. You can dispel this rumour yourself, just go out and look at the sky."
What, trust the evidence of my own senses over the interpreted writings of some ancient folks who made their astronomical observations with rocks? What kind of crazy do you take me for?
Locating the plant
Thanks. Now I have the confidence to locate the planet with my own senses simply by spotting the third brightest object in the sky.
Let me fix that.
"... there is a core of people who are truly concerned complete raving nutjobs of the highest calibre."
ORLY?
What's the more likely?
1) The world is going to end and NASA know this to be true, and a public message to advise us all to spend the next 4 weeks kissing our backsides goodbye
or
2) The world is going to end and NASA know this to be true, but they issue a public message anyway to tell us all it's not going to happen, thereby avoiding 4 weeks of chaos as mankind descends into hell, rioters taking to the streets, wide spread looting, law and order breaking down, mob rule taking over as no one bothers to go to work and many people dying horribly?
Re: ORLY?
2) Sounds like the standard economic depression.We know it's boring.
Re: ORLY?
Well if the world is going to end, then a few rioters stealing the neighbours TV and people running around like a bunch of headless chickens doesn't really matter. Whats the point of trying to save civilisation when in a few weeks the planet will be nothing more then pile of space junk anyway. I say let em have their fun.
Re: ORLY?
2)....as opposed to many people dying horribly anyway?
Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
...for UFOs to land or something. Girlfriend has suggested that if that place exists, we go there on the 21st to watch the doomsdayers gather. This could be entertaining!
It's almost beer o'clock here.
Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
You could sell bière and saucisses and fromage to good profit.
Then the government comes and taxes you.
Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
"Girlfriend has suggested that if that place exists, we go there on the 21st to watch the doomsdayers gather"
Leading to the amusing situation of having 12 doomsdayers and 30,000 amused spectators, unfortunately misidentified by the media as doomsdayers.
Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
"Then the government comes and taxes you." -- Maybe you could try to claim that whilst your sausage and cheese selling arm of your business is based in France; Your profits are actually accrued in another country and that their tax laws are not applicable to you.
Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
Take a big sign saying
"If the world is going to end, then you don't need your money/beer/stuff any more, give it to me"
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