Holy shit! We're not all gonna die in 2012!

[JRCB]

I love how I created complete pandaemonium over Sarah Palin. BTW, I'm selling nuclear bunkers underneath the arctic. Anyone interested?

 

[Rhayn]

The LHC seems flat out inconsiderate if you ask me. If something has the potential of destroying the world, even if it is unlikely, then you probably shouldn't do it.

Are people still going on about anti-matter? Damn you Dan Brown. CERN has the ability to produce anti-matter, yes, but it would take several million years to produce even one gram of anti-hydrogen at the rate they are producing it now.

Not to mention they've actually ran the LHC for a few tests, but I might be wrong on that. I know a supraleading magnet broke, but before that, anyway.

 

[KyoraSan]

The probability that the LHC is capable of destroying the world is similar to the chance of burning the whole thing down with match.

Also I forgot about the Solar Storm one. I suppose its a possibility, but it could only be a threat if we're stupid enough to leave all of our eletricals on when it hits.

very eloquently put ^_^

I think the point of the solar storm one was it would destroy things like power stations which would take months to get working again, and just flat out shutting down power to prevent the stations from being destroyed would still take them a while to get back online. I for one welcome the idea of hunting for food in modern America. It's like a zombie apocalypse without the zombies :]

Exactly! I remember hearing someone complaining about how people would possibly die because hospital machine went off du e to power out.
Well the power's going out anyway! The good of the many o'er the good of the few.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Why would we all believe the Mayan's calendar? They're all dead. If you're going to predict the end of the world, at least survive long enough to see it.

 

[RetiarySword]

Spoiler

Since the beginning of space time - or at least the space year 2005, as I recall, I have been hearing prediction after prediction about how the APOCALYPSE IS NIGH, especially on one particular day.

December 21st, 2012.

The world is going to end that day, is it? Well, let's look at it scientifically. The various theories are as follows

The Mayan Calender
The main argument is the Mayan Calender. What is the Long Count? Well, it's a part of the Mayan Calender that goes on and on, well beyond their death. It has been around for millennium, and has always ended on the same day. It just happens to predict the end on that exact day. But here's the the thing. The Mayan Long Count doesn't mark that day as the end! The Mayan calender simply stops on that day. And what happens when one of our calenders end? Does the world end, or do we just get a new one? Even the philosopher who predicted the Mayan Long Counts in sections of 20 years didn't even say the Long Count ended then. It just restarts, as all calenders do.

All that said, how exactly does a really good calender prove the Mayans are smarter then us? Even if it did predict the end of the world. If New Horizons finds a Mayan Probe on Pluto, then I'll listen to what doom sayers have to say.

Nibiru
Okay, let's talk about this. For those of you unacquainted with this particular theory, it goes something like this. Our sun just happens to have a companion star that is so far away, no one can see it except the conspiracy nutters. So, this companion star (or Brown Dwarf, which isn't much better) has its own planetary system. Said Planetary system has intelligence giant beings on it called the Enichey or something, and they have a planet called Nibiru. Niburu is actually a battle station that they launch their evil Alien Invasions of EVIL from. Apparently the asteroid belt used to be a planet, but Niburu destroyed it for the lulz. Anyway, the evil aliens are finally fed up with us and have sent their entire evil planet into our solar orbit. Nibiru is slowly approaching the Earth and is going to destroy it.

Most of the pictures of Nibiru are actually things like Mars, Mercury, and the like. I've actually had some Nibiru-fanatic-tards send me coordinates to use on public telescopes claiming that said object is Nibiru. Each and every one is just a regular object, like a galaxy. Come on guys, 10 minutes with hyperleda is all it takes!

While it is true that most stars live out their lives in Binary Pairs, (our sun is the freak here, but only by a little. It's somewhere around 54% of all stars have a companion), no noted star has a companion star that far away. In fact, some physicists would say it's impossible because of how gravity works - it draws heavy elements to its center. You know, like, stars. Its why those gravitational monsters, Super Massive Black Holes are in the center of just about every galaxy. If Evil Nibiru really was making its way towards the Earth, we would see it perturbing the orbits of the outer Gas Planets at this point. So yes. Evil Nibiru is not on its way. Shut the hell up.

Nostradamus
I could spend hours telling you how much of a problem Nostradamus' prophecies are. But instead I will just go over it in brief. Nostradamus had his prophecies, and all of them were vague. They could have applied to anyone or everyone. And what's more, some people even make shit up and say he wrote it! The biggest example I have here is that one about the twin towers. That one was actually written as a way of proving how vague a prophecy needs to be by a college student emulating his style. Poor Nostradamus, I guess. Anyway, this guy had his prophecies, and while some of them were surprisingly accurate, when you shoot 25 arrows one of them is gonna hit the mark, especially when the mark happens to be 40 feet large. Either way, Nostradamus never specified this era as the end of anything.

Other Fortune Tellers
Have the same damn problem. They're either too vague, too inaccurate, too silly, or just plain weird. And now more and more people know about the 2012, more and more can predict disasters in that era. Old time fortune tellers are unreliable - there was even one that never existed, but was said to exist by some man who was the only person in the world to contact her. No other proof.

LHC
No. Just no.

Armageddon
I'm not going to alienate people by proving the Bible is a wrong - even though that is seriously up for debate. I will, however, say that people have been 'waiting for the lord to come back in about...5 minutes' since he died. He himself said "Only He knows the time. Not the Son nor the Spirit." So stop shouting about how the world's gonna end and just live your life.

Magnetic Pole Reversal
These events happen. We are indeed due for one in the relative near future. However, life is easily capable of enduring these events.

Conclusion
The only reason the world will end on Dec. 21st, 2012 is because humans are a bunch of superstitious idiots who will end it themselves because they're all so upset.

Well said, I am sick of people broadcasting this shit as well. I can't wait to wake up on the 22nd decembed 2012 and run around calling these people idiots!

 

[nathan-dts]

Doom-sayers are trolls; they do the things they do to get a reaction out of people, just like trolls.

 

[Raven28256]

Ugh...I've said it before and I'll say it again:

All the 2012 shit has been misread. It isn't the end of the world they are predicting. December 21st, 2012 is when Duke Nukem Forever finally comes out.

 

[samsprinkle]

WELL...the mayans probably had trouble writing calanders with conquistidors stabbing them and burning them and raping them and shooting them and taunting them.

 

[Archemetis]

And imagine the irony if all of these prophecies came true at ONCE.

But realistically it won't happen, the world will go, much like the tedium of everyday life.

 

[CrafterMan]

What's the definition of the world ending though?

 

[CrafterMan]

WELL...the mayans probably had trouble writing calanders with conquistidors stabbing them and burning them and raping them and shooting them and taunting them.

Lol! JUST.ONE.MORE.DAY....no gringo you die now!

 

[Neosage]

I've telling people that ever since this whole 2012 nonsense started up. People have been proclaiming the end times since they invented language.

I saw that and immediately thought "OMG bioshock city being made real?"

Which is more interesting.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I've telling people that ever since this whole 2012 nonsense started up. People have been proclaiming the end times since they invented language.

There was one of these about 4 months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=j_6V6I5x3T0

The galactic federation of light were supposed to land on earth on October the 14th. I had some real fun on youtube the day after believe me.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

Naw, the end is coming earlier than that. Actuall this month. In just a 1 week. Then Cthulhu will rise from his sunken city of Ry'leh to destroy the world.

I can't remember the exact dates from Call of Cthulhu but its coming up soon.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I don't see why the Mayan calendar is connected to the end of the world. So course is ends. The Mayans were wiped off the map. How can they finish it?

/Aimed at the superstituous people, not the OP.

But yes, the 2012 stuff is just a fad, like Y2K, the Cold War using nukes, the Plauge in the Middle Ages, etc, etc. The benefit? I can rub it in peoples faces once 2013 comes around. That will be fun.

I wrote in my calander on january 1st 2013: We Made It!

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Ugh...I've said it before and I'll say it again:

All the 2012 shit has been misread. It isn't the end of the world they are predicting. December 21st, 2012 is when Duke Nukem Forever finally comes out.

And the World will end in a cloud of awesome.

The LHC one was just a bunch of idiots screaming at the mention of black holes and ignoring what the whole thing entailed as well as the fundamental idea of black holes. Also religious nut jobs threatening to kill scientists before the destroy the world. The LHC does in fact present no danger at all.

I've been wondering how anyone can argue that black holes could be created... Where the hell would the required mass come from? How can you create a black hole without mass?