Doomsday Prediction !!!!!! 2012

[Scott]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

Hell no.

The Ewoks lived on the planet moon of Endor.

Observed on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Also on "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure", and "Battle for Endor".

Come on, someone must need a new sig?

[Road Games]

Originally Posted by GTP006

Come on, someone must need a new sig?

Goes into his best Cartman voice ...*ahem* " Wookies dont live on Endor !!!! "

[Van D]

Bit off topic but did anyone see that show on SBS the other day about computers becoming smarter than humans? They reckon a terminator style thing will happen, computers will be billion or trillions smarter than humans and fight back.

The key who invented the keyboard says it'll start to happen around 2020. They've already started using mind control/data transfer etc through computers and GPS. Wouldn't surprise me.

[asusdragon]

i thought it was bout time i put my say in on this doomsday thing bout this planet, i think somepeople nned to stop smokeing so much pot

[zetec]

Originally Posted by Van D

Bit off topic but did anyone see that show on SBS the other day about computers becoming smarter than humans? They reckon a terminator style thing will happen, computers will be billion or trillions smarter than humans and fight back.

The key who invented the keyboard says it'll start to happen around 2020. They've already started using mind control/data transfer etc through computers and GPS. Wouldn't surprise me.

So long as Microsoft don't build them. If they all run on Vista, there'd be an easy way to stop them. Just turn them on and watch them struggle.

[FlipXW]

Originally Posted by asusdragon

i thought it was bout time i put my say in on this doomsday thing bout this planet, i think somepeople nned to stop smokeing so much pot

Or alot more, either way everyone else will benefit in the end :P.

[XD 351 Ute]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

1+3 = 5.

It does.

Ed

[Airmon]

Originally Posted by troppo

after all, it's well past April, 2003 and no sign of a Red Cross in the skies yet

You can see mars on a clear night when its close, but then you can also see Jupiter.

[Nostalgia]

The end is NIGH. 2010 Ford stops producing the I6. Thats the end of my world. FTW.

[troppo]

Originally Posted by vztrt

We use the roman calander.

I assume you are referring to the Julian calender in common use in Britian since it's invention by Ceasar. We use that as a base, yes.
The Julian calender didn't allow exactly for leap years (one extra day every four years is close but not exact) and by the 16th century it was out by 10 days.
To address this fault, Pope Gregory advanced the calender to make up the 10 days and finer tuned the leap year cycle in it so that it now takes 3,323 years to get 1 day out of whack. It's not perfect but this is the calender we use today.

[Nostalgia]

Originally Posted by troppo

I assume you are referring to the Julian calender in common use in Britian since it's invention by Ceasar. We use that as a base, yes.
The Julian calender didn't allow exactly for leap years (one extra day every four years is close but not exact) and by the 16th century it was out by 10 days.
To address this fault, Pope Gregory advanced the calender to make up the 10 days and finer tuned the leap year cycle in it so that it now takes 3,323 years to get 1 day out of whack. It's not perfect but this is the calender we use today.

Yes, all hail Pope Gregory. He wrote the workshop manual that most of us own.

[El Sucio]

Originally Posted by TEaaron

didn't they discover a comet that was going to hit earth in like 30 years?


It was in the paper one day and then never heard of it since then.

There is a meteor on a collision course with earth. It's next pass is in the year 2017 and it is expected to pass between the earth and the moon. We'll know on this next pass if it will collide with the earth on it's following pass (2029) or another one after that.

It's not a planet killer. But with the destructive power of approx 200 Megatons it will definitely annihilate any of the world's largest cities (New York, London, New Delhi, etc).

You can research it. The meteor's name escapes me at the moment, but you should find it easy enough. There has been a fair bit on it on the BBC news lately.

We are currently testing technology to tail meteors and track their trajectories/take samples. We've successfully tailed another passing meteor recently.

The idea at the moment is to literally blow it up Armageddon style, luckily we still have 21 years (or 30 odd depending on how close it gets).

I'll be watching this one with interest over the coming years.

[gtfpv]

another. latest update.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPw78L_yhE0

[hypnodoc]

Life is too short to worry about what might happen. The end of the world has been predicted since the beginning of civilisation. One things for sure, regardless of how it happens, it ends for us all one day. make the most of it while you are here I reckon : :

[hypnodoc]

Originally Posted by El Sucio

There is a meteor on a collision course with earth. It's next pass is in the year 2017 and it is expected to pass between the earth and the moon. We'll know on this next pass if it will collide with the earth on it's following pass (2029) or another one after that.

It's not a planet killer. But with the destructive power of approx 200 Megatons it will definitely annihilate any of the world's largest cities (New York, London, New Delhi, etc).

You can research it. The meteor's name escapes me at the moment, but you should find it easy enough. There has been a fair bit on it on the BBC news lately.

We are currently testing technology to tail meteors and track their trajectories/take samples. We've successfully tailed another passing meteor recently.

The idea at the moment is to literally blow it up Armageddon style, luckily we still have 21 years (or 30 odd depending on how close it gets).

I'll be watching this one with interest over the coming years.

It might make a big hole if it did hit. But in reality even if it was 100 klm wide it would have the same force as firing a particle of dust at 250,000 kph at a golf ball, bugger all would happen except perhaps a few waves as there is a 75% chance it would hit the ocean.

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by hypnodoc

It might make a big hole if it did hit. But in reality even if it was 100 klm wide it would have the same force as firing a particle of dust at 250,000 kph at a golf ball, bugger all would happen except perhaps a few waves as there is a 75% chance it would hit the ocean.

If it were 100km wide hitting at around 50km/sec, bend over put your head between your knees and kiss your cheeks good..

In reality, kiss civilsation goodbye. The asteroid that caused the K-T event is theorised to have only been several kilometers wide. The force of an impact of 100kms wide would be equivalent to probably several trillion nuclear weapons detonated simultaneously. You'd want to be wearing a lot of sunblock and have your floaties on that day!

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Rodp

If it were 100km wide hitting at around 50km/sec, bend over put your head between your knees and kiss your cheeks good..

In reality, kiss civilsation goodbye. The asteroid that caused the K-T event is theorised to have only been several kilometers wide. The force of an impact of 100kms wide would be equivalent to probably several trillion nuclear weapons detonated simultaneously. You'd want to be wearing a lot of sunblock and have your floaties on that day!

Agreed, it would have to have a catastrophic effect no matter where it hits. If something that large lands in the ocean with that kind of force the displacement of the water from it's impact would cause numerous huge destructive Tsunamis going in all directions. Just think what happens when you add an ice cube to a glass of drink the more ice you add the glass soon overflows, the effect of a meteor that big striking the earth, I don't know about the floaties but I'm stocking up on undies.

[troppo]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

another. latest update.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPw78L_yhE0

LOL.
Translation "Oops...forget the old story, here's another version. Once we took out all the bits that are now known to be wrong, there's not much left....but here it is!!"

[|||]

man imagine if we all were gunna die but really it was just a dream hey have you seen the film the matrix that blew my mind man

*pulls another fat cone*

[duaned]

Don't now about you people, but when 2012 arrives, I'll ensure I have a packet of lifesavers in my possesion for if this is really the end of reality!

[WILDB]

First that hoax virus alert (they have been sending the same one around for years - IT IS A HOAX!) and now this :

[XR6_661]

The world will end when all the highly ranked individuals and bankers say it will end.

Hahah I watched zeitgeist too much.

[hypnodoc]

Originally Posted by Rodp

If it were 100km wide hitting at around 50km/sec, bend over put your head between your knees and kiss your cheeks good..

In reality, kiss civilsation goodbye. The asteroid that caused the K-T event is theorised to have only been several kilometers wide. The force of an impact of 100kms wide would be equivalent to probably several trillion nuclear weapons detonated simultaneously. You'd want to be wearing a lot of sunblock and have your floaties on that day!

Yeah. Theories are always good. Look at the moon craters, they must have been from some big mothers, and it's still there.

[FlipXW]

Havn't you guys ever seen The Simpsons, geez when it enters the earths atmosphere it will break up and end up no bigger than a chiwowa's head :P:P.

[troppo]

Originally Posted by hypnodoc

Yeah. Theories are always good. Look at the moon craters, they must have been from some big mothers, and it's still there.

No don't look at the moon craters, there is something very strange about them, particularly the large ones...they just aren't deep enough. Almost as if there is a very hard (maybe impenetrable) layer just below the crust. They don't compare in to the ones found here on Earth in terms of penetration.

Why?....damn good question...

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by hypnodoc

Yeah. Theories are always good. Look at the moon craters, they must have been from some big mothers, and it's still there.

If we're going to use that line of thinking... there's no life on the Moon therefore asteroid impacts extinguish life. QED.

I never suggested that a 100km asteroid would destroy the Earth, I just suggested the impact scope and the fact that it would end civilisation as we know it. It would most likely extinguish all life on our planet, most of it really quickly and the remaining slowly due to the atmosphere being covered in ash and blocking out the Sun for a few hundred years.

In the late 80's, astrophysicists had their panties in a bunch over an asteroid only 300m in diameter striking Earth estimated to impact with an explosion 1000 times that of an atomic bomb. If you've got research data that suggests that it would be like a speck of dust hitting a golf ball, by all means, pony it up, I'm fascinated with the Universe and how it works.

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by troppo

No don't look at the moon craters, there is something very strange about them, particularly the large ones...they just aren't deep enough. Almost as if there is a very hard (maybe impenetrable) layer just below the crust. They don't compare in to the ones found here on Earth in terms of penetration.

Why?....damn good question...

The moon currently has the largest discovered crater in the solar system and does have scientists baffled. From memory it's ~2250km wide and ~13km deep and near the south (?) polar region of the moon. Appeared to be a low and slow glancing blow.

[GasoLane]

Lets see if I get this right... the Mayans are able to predict the end of the world (Did they have their own Uri Geller?) but were'nt able to predict the end of their own culture?.

[hypnodoc]

Originally Posted by Rodp

If we're going to use that line of thinking... there's no life on the Moon therefore asteroid impacts extinguish life. QED.

I never suggested that a 100km asteroid would destroy the Earth, I just suggested the impact scope and the fact that it would end civilisation as we know it. It would most likely extinguish all life on our planet, most of it really quickly and the remaining slowly due to the atmosphere being covered in ash and blocking out the Sun for a few hundred years.

In the late 80's, astrophysicists had their panties in a bunch over an asteroid only 300m in diameter striking Earth estimated to impact with an explosion 1000 times that of an atomic bomb. If you've got research data that suggests that it would be like a speck of dust hitting a golf ball, by all means, pony it up, I'm fascinated with the Universe and how it works.

I am an academic, and have based my dust particle-golf ball scenario on common sense. Most of what is postulated by academics is based on stastical theory and has little to do with the real world especially regarding Physics. It's a great way to keep the research dollars flowing in.
The present nonsense about man made global warming is a classic example of this. Any scientist can get a grant at the moment so long as man made CO2 emission research is involved. Same as the wash of 5 and stay alive garbage that justifies speed cameras. Anyway, throughout the millennia nothing has hit the planet yet to create total extinction cause if it did none of us would be here, so I don't think we are likely to experience anything like this for a few more 1000 millennia. We can agree to disagree.

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by hypnodoc

I am an academic,

And you admit this on a public forum?

What a brave man!