Just noticed the Mayan countdown clock

Sweet.


/puts on thinking cap...

 

Ah yes, gravity. Completely ignored the difference between mass and material.

 

Like I said above, it makes for good sci/fi, conspiracy, fun talk. It's one of the few things left in this world where it is 100% speculation. Even naysayers can not 100% say for sure NOTHING of serious interest will happen and even the most fervent believers can't say 100% positively that they know what will. So it leaves the date open for speculation, imagination and interesting conversation. Just my opinion.

 

I went to the store yesterday and all of the calendars ended in December 2012. I'm scared now

 

Your Mayan plans all to hell, Fremen? A countdown is always going on. Too bad nobody has a date. Mass hysteria vs. itself. "Everybody! Remain calm!"
Anticipation can be fun.

 

It's STILL too early for Christmas stuff. Just, you know, for the record.

Also too early, but when it gets a little closer, we should totally count down to No Pants Day in May.

 

But if people actually did research and had that kind of attitude then how else would I get to enjoy "quality" movies with oh so special effects where the entire world is wiped out starting with LA and New York of course? I am still waiting oh so anxiously for the Michael Bay end of the world 2012 story where the both the question and answer ultimately is not "will explosions and a cliched love story fix things?" but rather "can we just jettison the plot entirely and film nothing but explosions and call it good?"
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Toga! Toga! Toga!

 

I'm going to party like it's 2002, instead-- I was only 18 in '99 (plus, I heard that song enough times my senior year of high school to be content with never hearing it again ever.)

 

the Mayans knew about the nuclear winter that will result after that secret Canadian sect detonates their two high yield nuclear devices here in the States as revenge for American Idol and making fun of them on television. Fortunately the twinkies will survive for generations to come and be enjoyed by our great-great-great-grandchildren. Sadly so will all of the Britney Spears Albums because that 13 year in Wichita, Kansas that hid all of them in the family bomb shelter.
Apparently the Canadian border patrol just asked "You got any guns in there, heh?" when the truck smuggling the radioactive material came through last week and asked what that new-fangled thing was the driver was talking to and holding by his ear.

 

have to call you on this one. apparent weightlessness for astronauts has everything to do with gravity. they are in orbit and orbit is basically the art of falling towards a centre but perpetually missing, i.e. the centripetal acceleration is cancelled out by the tangential velocity. actually, i feel that my response is probably not quite right and am hoping someone will chime in and correct me

 

My calander ends on December 31, 2011. Oh noes!!!!

 

Damn cayvmen, always gotta be a step ahead. Sleeping in the trees wasn't good enough for you, now you gotta be a year ahead of the Mayans. Over achiever.

 

Call me on what? I didn't say that weightlessness had nothing to do with gravity. I said that the gravitational effect in one direction - towards the core - is cancelled out about 120 miles up. Your explanation of why astronauts experience weightlessness is accurate enough, but I'm simply talking about the conditions astronauts feel, not any actual lack of gravity.

 

It's all in the alignment, I hear. What exactly is aligning that normally isn't aligned. How very many alignments can there be with an ever expanding, and moving universe? Us troglodytes want to know.

 

The way you're phrasing it is less than clear.

 

I think so

 

Oh shit....

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-acknowledges-2nd-mayan-reference-2012-232405916.html

 

Perhaps the Mayans knew when the rapture would occur and the anti-christ (insert favourite politician/dictator/etc that the current group of misguided folks likes for the next five minutes here) would take over and cause the chaos that would end the world. At least the those Pre-trib rapture horror films I remember seeing in my youth at whatever church had that "cool" 70's era hair and clothes that probably looked dated when they were first filmed.

 

That's probably it. We've had a pretty good run, though.