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Subject: World may end Feb 15th 2913! From: Mr Happy Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:00 AM Ayup, another prediction which may put the kybosh on our plans for folking about during summer, an asteroid may hit Gaia on Friday 15th February & wipe out life as we know it. http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/earth-will-likely-be-impacted-by-large-asteroid-february-15-16-2013/ |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:36 AM That site is lunatic fringe, Mr. Happy. The Feb. 1 entry shows women in India, sweeping next to a pile of ice (see all of the straight edges and corners - probably out of someone's freezer or cooler) and suggests India was hit with giant hailstones. You're not that gullible, are you? Take the keywords and inflate a story around them - this isn't doing anyone a service. They're just trying to get the National Enquirer to pick up their story. The asteroid story is old - there was something on the news last week that no asteroids or comets are coming near the planet any time soon after all. SRS |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:38 AM Record setting asteroid fly-by. Article @ NASA |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Rapparee Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:43 AM That's a government cover-up, Stilly, so the plebs won't panic. In fact, everything this a government cover-up. Nothing you think happened since Christmas Day, 800 CE actually happened. That's when Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor and the Holy Roman Empire started. The HRE actually runs things now and has for a very long time. The Holy Roman Emperor won't permit an asteroid to hit the Earth as it would mess up his plans for my birthday party. Besides, the world ended in October, 1842. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:59 AM The world is in a perpetual state of ending and non-ending. It has always ended. It has always not ended. It will always end. It will always not end. So it goes, The Tralfamadorians |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Feb 13 - 10:51 AM YOUR world may end on February 15, 2013, but the most likely cause will be that you failed to remember your S.O. adequately with an appropriate Valentine offering on February 14, 2013. THIS IS A VERY REAL DANGER, and not just another fantasy by the uninformed mentally inadequate purveyers of superstition. LIVE IN FEAR OF THIS DANGER! John |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 01 Feb 13 - 11:55 AM Aw, John. You stole my thunder. I was going to point out how munificent it was of Fate to hold off until we had celebrated one last Valentine's Day. We better eat the chocolate now, in case the asteroid comes early. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Mr Happy Date: 01 Feb 13 - 11:56 AM Well a couple of weeks back when the Mayan prediction apparently didn't happen, actually did happen but in the twinkling of an eye, the world ended & then started again so that no one noticed |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,JHW Date: 01 Feb 13 - 04:44 PM A shame if it does; you'll all miss the Darlington Mummers Ceilidh on the 16th |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: kendall Date: 01 Feb 13 - 07:38 PM My world ended when my dog died. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST Date: 01 Feb 13 - 08:03 PM Have you got any news of the asteroid, my family were on it you know... |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Stim Date: 02 Feb 13 - 12:51 AM You people are lost...this is not only real news, it is real old news. There's even been a movie about it..."Melancholia" and that was released in 2011! |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:11 AM LOL John. My S.O. has already got me a lovely card, 'cos I saw it hidden in the drawer while putting away his clean underwear! These folk are totally bonkers, I'm quite tired of being told we'll soon be raptured or ruptured or blown to bits. Seriously, what annoys me is that vulnerable or 'simple' folk may get scared and panicky about it. It was 'Ban The Bomb' decades ago, we were all going up in an atomic cloud. Then those daft public awareness films about what to do when nuclear war broke out. Now it's the Weather Warnings, "You may have 2 millimetres of snow so take precautions and be prepared". They'd have us living in a trembling state of fear if they could. Why don't they all bugger off? |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 Feb 13 - 11:02 AM Guest 8.03PM - LOL |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 11:05 AM "World may end Feb 15th 2013!" Doesn't leave me a helluva lotta time to start a religion now, duzzit? Two fookin' weeks less a day? Next time gi'e us a year's warning! Laird suff'rin' Jaysus. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: bobad Date: 02 Feb 13 - 11:28 AM Can't resist the temptation to insert a thread theme song here: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention "Help I'm A Rock" |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JohnInKansas Date: 02 Feb 13 - 01:27 PM Eliza - My S.O. has already got me a lovely card, 'cos I saw it hidden in the drawer while putting away his clean underwear! That's probably the card he got a couple of years ago and then forgot to give to you when the time came. A prior near-disaster may have encouraged him to stock up on "emergency supplies" to be "prepared" for the next one, and he's probably got a whole stash of them somewhere else where he keeps his "secret stuff" or maybe scattered about in several places to be handy when needed. When he gives you one that's kind of old and crumbly, he'll probably say he got it at a used book store, 'cause "it seemed special and made me think of you." It's a kindness to pretend you believe whatever story he comes up with. John |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 01:33 PM When is Valentine's Day? Aw, forget it. The world's gonna end anyway. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Jeri Date: 02 Feb 13 - 01:49 PM Don't spend the day before the planet goes kerblooie in the doghouse! |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 02 Feb 13 - 02:16 PM Hahahaha John you old cynic you! He might even have bought that card for another woman!! |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Feb 13 - 02:17 PM There's no way this can be true. Punxatawney Phil predicted an early Spring this morning and he said nada about an asteroid hitting the planet. I have absolute faith in the Groundhog! We are in no danger. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JohnInKansas Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:13 PM There is actually an asteroid that will make a close pass by earth on February 15, but it poses no hazard to any of us. Asteroid to give Earth record-setting shave. The asteroid will pass within the orbital radius of our geosynchronous satellites (i.e. will pass between the earth and the orbits of those satellites) but will not strike the earth. (Even the possibility that it might strike one of our artificial satellites, or disrupt the orbit of one, is "extremely remote." It probably won't get close enough to sweep up any of the space junk.) Should this particular "large" asteroid actually strike the earth on some future pass (a few thousand years from now?), it is about the same size as the "Tunguska Event" object that levelled trees over about 700 square miles in Siberia in 1908, which was hardly the "end of the world." (700 square miles damaged / 50,260,000 square miles of earth only gets 0.0013% of the surface and shouldn't kick up a lot of dust, even if lands in some place as dry as Texas has been this year.) By the time this one gets close enough to be seen by better amateur telescopes, it will be moving so fast (~1 degree per minute) that even very good amateur equipment won't be able to track it closely enough to do much looking at it or to record anything but a blur in a photograph. [1 degree is about twice the width of the full moon.] A few truly dedicated astrononuts (with lots of money) likely will post pictures, but we can also just wait for the book. A somewhat more general discussion of "things that might get us" is at Asteroids vs Comets, and there is enough there to worry about for those who really want to - but I think I'll have another cup'a before I settle down to study and wring hands over it all. "Let's do it quick, before we all die" never worked for me anyway. John |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:40 PM From the OP link... " The asteroid's closest approach to earth is scheduled for 15 February 2013, when they predict that the distance between it and earth will be under 27,000 km (16,700 miles). Is that the official equivalent of a "country mile"? Punxatawney Phil is a rat. A big furry rat and he doesn't even have a bushy tail. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 13 - 06:11 PM Earring Heart Charm Solar System And Asteroids Price: $27.97 A fitting Earth end Valentine gift |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 13 - 06:27 PM As Frank Zappa states in the prelude to this imaginary instrumental song - ""He knows the end is near, .... but, Ultimately, who gives a Fuck anyway""? Frank Zappa - Watermelon In Easter Hay |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Feb 13 - 07:04 PM Might end tonight for all we can tell. That's how it goes. Big deal. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Feb 13 - 07:37 PM I have spoken to Punxatawney Phil about your rude comments, gnu. He says you can suck rocks as far as he's concerned. He's a celebrity among rodents, and he doesn't have to put up with ill-mannered remarks from yahoos in the peanut gallery. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:30 PM I wish it were further away. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Donuel Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:42 PM As far as astroid collisions go, the one in 2030 does have some moderate concern among astronomers. There are lots of tugs and pulls that it will be exposed to in the meantime. The closest miss we had recently was a third of the distance to the moon. I wonder if people who said "who cares" made a whimsical rhetorical question , or a personal statement. I wonder if Aliens noticed a change on Earth on Fridays. I wonder if they too look forward to weekends. I wonder when the future does effect the past by rare circumstances, if anyone notices or could be capable of noticing. I wonder if the linear minds on Earth will legislate that complete human beings with well developed right brains will be deemed handicapped or deranged. Strike that, they already have. I wonder when the vegetarian tiger went extinct. I wonder if people would pay to see the color they do not see. I wonder if an Extasy oxytocin pill enhanced fear moratorium would let people trust each other if only for a day. I wonder if a mega sky hologram of God with LTA ships super acousticly (auditory brain wave broadcast) denouncing the republican base across the nation, they would listen. I wonder about the next secret Koch Bros commerical posing as a grass roots democratic party affiliate, spewing right wing gun love, and exactly who it will discredit. I wonder about elastic stitchs inside the upper cheek to just below the eyes making an older person look 20 years younger for only $99 instead of the barbaric plastic surgury metnods that cost $10K. I wonder if the "who cares" people meant that without consciousness no one would care and in fact would be incapable of caring, on 2 16 13. I wonder if Wonder bread is gone for good. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:59 PM Let's hope so! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Donuel Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:01 PM I wonder if the Malcome in the Middle writers will get back together and write a series with quirky family characters that surround the Trillionaire Bros. I wonder if I should write the book about a blonde Leibensborne baby boy that is adopted by a Jewish GI and brought back to the states once a mother in Chicago agrees to marry the GI by mail...when the boy turned man choses a career as a civil rights minded secular evangelical in the form of a hypnotherpist he is well suited to a career at 35 as the... I wonder if you are wondering too. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:42 PM ""When you feel like a toad on the highway of life... and everyone seems like a steel-belted radial... when you're lyin' there squished in an assortment of bodily fluids... at least you left your mark"" The Red Green Show. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Donuel Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:23 PM Just think of how the originality and uniqueness of future Hollywood movies will be cut short in the prime of their diversity. Alien, Aliens ,Alien, Alien Resurrection, Predator 1&2, Alien vs. Predator, Aliens vs. Predator, Requiem, Prometheus, on 2-15 We will miss out on; Aliator loves Predian, Predator vs. NRA, NRA vs. NBA...The Hulk vs Alien, Thor vs.Predator, Silver Alien vs Predator Surfer,...17 more variations, Halloween 17 (the final end of redundency) The Magnificent 7 vs. The 7 Samuri, Obama, Obama2, Obama vs. LaPierre |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Feb 13 - 01:26 AM (sigh) "If there's anyone out there with an original idea, I could use it right now." - Bob Dylan (in the epic song Brownsville Girl) |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 03 Feb 13 - 05:21 AM 'The closest miss we had recently was a third of the distance to the moon.' As the NASA article I posted a link to in the early part of this thread points out, the asteroid on feb 15 will be at only 0.09 Lunar Distance. Well within the orbit of most communications satellites. It's path is wellknown and there's no worry about a collision. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Mr Happy Date: 03 Feb 13 - 06:10 AM ...........there's no worry about a collision. Don't panic!! |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Feb 13 - 06:20 AM But always carry a towel. John |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Mr Happy Date: 03 Feb 13 - 09:18 AM But always carry a towel. Make sure it's a brown one!! I'll get me coat! |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:44 PM "Melancholia" wasn't about a mere asteroid hitting the Earth. It was about an enormous blue planet (and a very attractive one) colliding with the Earth and swallowing it up the way a very large fish might swallow a small goldfish. That's a considerably bigger problem than an asteroid collision. I'd say that "Melancholia" was about the size of Jupiter...or perhaps Saturn. There'd be nothing left for Earthlings to complain about after that event. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Stim Date: 04 Feb 13 - 01:53 PM Actually, Little Hawk, "Melancholia" was an allegory about dealing with and accepting depression. The "blue planet" thing was the central conceit, and it was huge and overpowering because real melancholia is... Hollywood has been definitely thinking about celestial objects and their consequences lately. Have you seen the other recent "planetary" movies? "Another Earth", about a planet that is a mirror to Earth that appears in the heavens. There is also, "Upside Down" about two inhabited planets that are so close that you can climb from one to the other, but when you do, you are still subject to the gravity of your home planet. And there is"The Tree of Life", no one has been able to figure out what it's about, but it has lots of huge planets moving around all through it. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Feb 13 - 03:36 PM Yes, Stim, I can see how "Melancholia" worked on the level of an allegory about depression, as you say. There are (in my opinion) some actual solutions for depression, though, other than just accepting it (although those solutions may not at all be apparent to the one who is experiencing the depression). There's another recent movie about celestial objects and their consequences..."Seeking a Friend at the End of the World". I liked that one, and I liked "Melancholia" too. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JennieG Date: 04 Feb 13 - 03:58 PM If the world does indeed end on 15th February I shall be very peeved, because I will miss my birthday. Himself's birthday is 14th February so his will have already been celebrated, but mine isn't until May so I will miss out. I am most annoyed. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Feb 13 - 05:02 PM It may have already ended yesterday, Jennie. If so, you have both missed your birthdays. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: GUEST,Stim Date: 04 Feb 13 - 09:51 PM I saw, and liked "Seeking a Friend...", too. I mentioned this before, but if you haven't done so, make sure that you see, "Safety Not Guaranteed". Also, I've read that "Upside Down" will be released in 2013 in 3D--I generally think 3D is overrated, but this will probably be worth seeing. |
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Subject: RE: World may end Feb 15th 2013! From: JennieG Date: 04 Feb 13 - 11:22 PM Bummer...... |
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