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thecactus
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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:05 am Post subject: End Of The World |
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So apparently the world is going to end tomorrow 
I watched a report on it on ITN earlier today - people have built massive bunkers etc... all because of the mayan calander ending etc...
Has anyone been keeping up with this? What do any of you think?
Personally I think its a load of bollocks |
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flossy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:57 am Post subject: |
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to be honest im sick of hearing about it
i had to sit my daughter down the other day and explain things to her cos she was pannicking over it 
some people are gonna look very silly when nothing happens tomorrow |
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Sharla Tann
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:40 am Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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| thecactus wrote: |
Personally I think its a load of bollocks |
Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in our lifetime, but out there somewhere there's a huge lump of rock hurtling through space, and it's got our planet's name on it. |
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thecactus
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:46 am Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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| Sharla Tann wrote: | | thecactus wrote: |
Personally I think its a load of bollocks |
Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in our lifetime, but out there somewhere there's a huge lump of rock hurtling through space, and it's got our planet's name on it. |
and maybe not in the next 65 million years |
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flossy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| it wont matter to us then as we will all be dust anyways |
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Sharla Tann
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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| thecactus wrote: |
and maybe not in the next 65 million years :lol: |
Or maybe the next 65 minutes, as there is currently no monitoring system in operation to warn us.
All we can hope is that it doesn't happen before we can at least develop the technology to deflect it, if not away from Earth, at least to an internationally agreed area of zero-importance, whose obliteration won't be detrimental to mankind and may even be of benefit.
I believe the current consensus favours this area. |
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thecactus
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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| Sharla Tann wrote: |
Or maybe the next 65 minutes, as there is currently no monitoring system in operation to warn us.
All we can hope is that it doesn't happen before we can at least develop the technology to deflect it, if not away from Earth, at least to an internationally agreed area of zero-importance, whose obliteration won't be detrimental to mankind and may even be of benefit.
I believe the current consensus favours this area. |
No monitoring system to warn us? What about the Sentry Monitoring System?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_(monitoring_system)
It says on NASA's site:
''NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office website so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.''
As nothing is predicted to hit in 2012, I think we can rule out the next 65 minutes
lol I guessed the area before I clicked the link
If the asteroid was small enough to cause a blast radius no greater than 5 miles wide, then that would indeed be a good target. Newry 'nucks', as we call them, are of no use. |
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Sharla Tann
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:47 am Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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They didn't see today's one in Russia coming. Fat lot of good they are. |
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thecactus
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: End Of The World |
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| Sharla Tann wrote: | | They didn't see today's one in Russia coming. Fat lot of good they are. |
Or maybe they did
Russian-American relations are comparable to Cactus-Sharlatan relations  |
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GavKnight
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| There was 2, the 1 in russia they didn't see coming, they say it was because it was coming from the direction of the sun but they did see the 1 that was over the UK yesterday evening |
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