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2009-08-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

World likely to be destroyed by alien death ray in 2049

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Posted by Mike 2009-08-29 13:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Wasn't this a very poor 60's science fiction film?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-29 13:42|| 2009-08-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, Charlie Tuna. If the world doesn't end in 2012 because the ancient Mayans said so, that is it. No more EOW stuff until 8661*, which is when J.R. "Bob" Dobbs of the Church of the SubGenius says he's coming back. Maybe.

*Originally it was in 1998, but then they figured out they were holding the cocktail napkin upside down.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-29 13:44|| 2009-08-29 13:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Fact overrides fiction, any beam from that far away would only be barely detectable, they'd need to use their entire sun's output for a year or more to even be noticed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-29 13:53|| 2009-08-29 13:53|| Front Page Top

#4 If I'm an advanced alien culture, and I get tweets from Meghan McCain, I'd feel like I wasn't killing intelligent life, so no moral dilemma

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-08-29 13:58|| 2009-08-29 13:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I admit, a message from me is going on that signal. I apologized to them that we gave such an awful sounding name to their planet.
But every message was essentially limited to Twitter length, so it was hardly going to be War and Peace.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-08-29 16:00|| 2009-08-29 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 The last upside-down year was 1961. The next one is 6009. We're gonna be ok. Trust me.
/moonbat thoughts

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-08-29 16:59|| 2009-08-29 16:59|| Front Page Top

#7 tin foil beenie in place... i'm ready!!

Posted by linker 2009-08-29 18:27|| 2009-08-29 18:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe Bugs will steal the Iludium PU-39 Explosive Space Modulator.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2009-08-29 19:24|| 2009-08-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe Bugs will steal the Iludium PU-39 Explosive Space Modulator.

This keeps me up at night.

Posted by NCMike 2009-08-29 19:40|| 2009-08-29 19:40|| Front Page Top

#10 More likely than Global Warming.

Posted by Iblis 2009-08-29 23:18|| 2009-08-29 23:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm not so sure about them killing us. Maybe they'll want to, um, increase the size of their intraspecies pleasure tentacles instead....or assist a temporarily impoverished son of a former Nigerian president. Or connect with sizzling hot singles! (After all, aren't Earth girls supposed to be easy?)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-29 23:35|| 2009-08-29 23:35|| Front Page Top

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