Article

2009-10-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Scientists debunk 2012 as doomsday date

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-10-13 10:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 One of these days I'm going to have to expound on my 2012 conspiracy theory. Basically, that something _might_ actually be happening but it's not anything any of the new age people have detailed. Those are all "placeholder" theories so that when the Earth gets hit by some sort of supernova shock wave they can say it's because of the solar system crossing the Dark Rift or something like that, boosting their credibility and reducing the credibility of mainstream science.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-13 10:57|| 2009-10-13 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, everyone knows it's the 2018 (or 2031) problem in UNIX that's gonna kill us all...

Posted by M. Murcek 2009-10-13 11:30|| 2009-10-13 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 That's 2038. We have until then to change to a 64 bit operating system.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-13 11:34|| 2009-10-13 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The Mayan spokesperson was unavailable for comment.

Posted by Black Bart Ebberens7700 2009-10-13 12:14|| 2009-10-13 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 It's at least as scary as global warming.

Posted by Bobby 2009-10-13 12:49|| 2009-10-13 12:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I've heard the reasoning (Word used extremely loosely)That on that date we cross the Galactic Equator, so what.
it's just an imaginary line.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-13 13:16|| 2009-10-13 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The Mayan spokesperson was unavailable for comment.

The Mayan spokesman has been complaining mightily that he has to spend so much time answering stupid questions from people who're getting it wrong... and no, nothing bad is going to happen, so could they please leave him in peace.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-10-13 13:30|| 2009-10-13 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps the Mayan spokesman should pull a sacrificial knife on the next stupid questioner. Then he'll get some peace. :)

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2009-10-13 13:49|| 2009-10-13 13:49|| Front Page Top

#9 There is no superstition like an atheist's superstition.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-10-13 14:12|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-10-13 14:12|| Front Page Top

#10 "Only one problem with theory - it STUPID! Is stupidest theory I ever hear!"

Posted by mojo 2009-10-13 14:17|| 2009-10-13 14:17|| Front Page Top

#11 I enjoyed the blogs just before Jan 1, 2000.

"Yep, I'm sitting here in a cave with 2,000 gallons of gasoline and enough spam to last for a year..."

They disappeared the morning of Jan 1.

I suspect they will be making a comeback anytime now.

Posted by Kelly 2009-10-13 14:56|| 2009-10-13 14:56|| Front Page Top

#12
#6 I've heard the reasoning (Word used extremely loosely)That on that date we cross the Galactic Equator, so what.
it's just an imaginary line.

Actually, the galactic equator isn't an imaginary line.

But: we aren't anywhere near the galactic equator. We're about 150 light years away from it in the direction of "galactic north."

But suppose you know that (for instance) a supernova shock wave will hit on a certain date and you have all your patsies set up to declare that "Earth will have thus and so happen" on that date because "it's crossing the galactic equator" it could set things up for further con games down the road.

It's just another fun experiment you can perform when you have superluminal travel and the primitive marks' planet doesn't.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-13 14:57|| 2009-10-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

#13 There is no superstition like an atheist's superstition.

And there would be no atheists if there were no God.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-13 16:16|| 2009-10-13 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 *giggle* And so the circle is completed.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-10-13 21:46|| 2009-10-13 21:46|| Front Page Top

23:35 CrazyFool
23:17 Maggie Slalet3910
23:15 Maggie Slalet3910
23:13 g(r)omgoru
23:12 Maggie Slalet3910
23:12 trailing wife
23:10 Maggie Slalet3910
23:08 Maggie Slalet3910
23:06 Maggie Slalet3910
23:04 Maggie Slalet3910
23:02 Maggie Slalet3910
22:53 JohnQC
22:30 gorb
22:28 Silentbrick
22:23 trailing wife
22:22 gorb
22:15 JosephMendiola
22:09 JosephMendiola
21:59 trailing wife
21:54 Frank G
21:54 JosephMendiola
21:46 trailing wife
21:46 JosephMendiola
21:46 rammer