So Guys, We're going to all die this time again

[oktalist]

Doomsday money betting logic time: I'd bet my money on no doomsday. I mean, I can't really lose there. I lose bet, I don't have time to worry about loss of money. If I win, I get to live with money.

I bet you five Internets that you can't find a single betting shop that will let you place that bet, for exactly the reason you have described. So that kind of skewers your so-called logic.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This may have prematurely released a bubble.

Or they could've released the pressure, preventing one from forming for another several hundred thousand years or whatever.

In any case, I tire of Doomsday theories.

Spoiler: End of the World

"It's the End of the World as we know it and I feel fine..."

 

[Captain Pancake]

So we're all going to die from a massive earth-fart?

 

[Odoylerules360]

This theory actually looks pretty reasonable.

Also, You guys do remember what happened at the end of the 'boy who cried wolf' story, right?

 

[Digikid]

If it happens it happens. Lets just hope that the next evolution of Humans are smarter than this one.

So we're all going to die from a massive earth-fart?

ROFLMAO!!!!! Best response ever.

 

[Odoylerules360]

This may have prematurely released a bubble.

Or they could've released the pressure, preventing one from forming for another several hundred thousand years or whatever.

No. It's not that kind of bubble.

The methane is stored as a solid, with a very high vapor pressure.

"Letting some of the gas out" doesn't "relieve the pressure", it just makes more room for more methane to evaporate out of the solid.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Oh dear me, we seem to be quite screwed.

So, anyone want a shag?

 

[Gerrawn]

Jesus christ, now I've got to make another damned doomsday box for this particular scenario.

 

[Scrubbed account]

Oh good, another apocalypse. How many apocalypses have been predicted for the next few years, anyway?

 

[L4hlborg]

Doomsday money betting logic time: I'd bet my money on no doomsday. I mean, I can't really lose there. I lose bet, I don't have time to worry about loss of money. If I win, I get to live with money.

I bet you five Internets that you can't find a single betting shop that will let you place that bet, for exactly the reason you have described. So that kind of skewers your so-called logic.

There is always some idiot who wants to make a bet on this. And it's only good for the betting shop, if they take bets about it.

 

[Vuljatar]

Ugh.

Can't the nutjobs at least wait until the currently popular crazy doomsday theory fails to pan out before throwing another one at us?

 

[Skorpyo]

Wasn't this EXACT SAME THING happening in the arctic circle about, oh, 6 months back?

From the same site:

http://www.helium.com/items/1889326-fear-mongering-rife-around-the-gulf

Exactly. This always happens. When they are completely legit, I'll worry.

Off Topic: Wait, the Large Hadron Collider could create a "World-Engulfing" black hole and dispose of the "World-Ending" methane bubble! SCIENCE!

 

[oktalist]

Doomsday money betting logic time: I'd bet my money on no doomsday. I mean, I can't really lose there. I lose bet, I don't have time to worry about loss of money. If I win, I get to live with money.

I bet you five Internets that you can't find a single betting shop that will let you place that bet, for exactly the reason you have described. So that kind of skewers your so-called logic.

There is always some idiot who wants to make a bet on this. And it's only good for the betting shop, if they take bets about it.

Yes, I was rethinking this last night and realised, a shop might accept the bet, but the amount they would pay out in the event of no doomsday would be less than the money that you placed on the bet, so it would really be they who are screwing you. And if, as you say, some idiot always wants to make the opposite bet, then they are truly the idiot.

 

[L4hlborg]

Doomsday money betting logic time: I'd bet my money on no doomsday. I mean, I can't really lose there. I lose bet, I don't have time to worry about loss of money. If I win, I get to live with money.

I bet you five Internets that you can't find a single betting shop that will let you place that bet, for exactly the reason you have described. So that kind of skewers your so-called logic.

There is always some idiot who wants to make a bet on this. And it's only good for the betting shop, if they take bets about it.

Yes, I was rethinking this last night and realised, a shop might accept the bet, but the amount they would pay out in the event of no doomsday would be less than the money that you placed on the bet, so it would really be they who are screwing you. And if, as you say, some idiot always wants to make the opposite bet, then they are truly the idiot.

Now the world is full of idiots. All I have to do is convince them that something like this is a good idea. Announcing that the world will end with something that may seem like convincing evidence and saying that it's a good idea to bet on the world ending because it is more likely for you to survive if you get the cash and buy yourself a place in a bunker. Or some other stupid explenation. Someone always falls for it.