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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Science World Not Ending in 2012

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM

Phew.

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"...millions of Web sites, depending on what combination of “2012” and “doomsday” you type into Google."

Depending on what combination? There are only two search terms there. I'm not even sure putting them in a different order would really count as a different combination.

Posted by Dee on November 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM

@1: For the sake of brevity, I'm pretty sure the skipped rattling off a laundry list of possible terms one could use.

Posted by Baconcat on November 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM

This is the most hyped doomsday theory no one actually believes in.

Posted by Arsenic7 on November 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM

That's great and all, but I didn't think the world was going to end in 2012 in the first place.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM

But America might be....

Posted by D. Tooley on November 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM

@2 Well then they should have said "depending on what combination of “2012” and “doomsday” synonyms you type into Google."

Just sayin'. "Well, you know what I mean" is a poor excuse for writing something that makes no sense.

Posted by Dee on November 17, 2009 at 9:57 AM

Very true, the world is actually ending in 2013; NOT 2012.

All that hype for nothing!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM

I knew I shouldn't have let my subscription to the Mayan Calendar lapse - oops, my bad.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 17, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Hey, who are you gonna believe, Roland Emmerich or some "scientist" from NASA and his "facts?"

Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 17, 2009 at 11:06 AM

The Mayan calendar is cyclic, so it doesn't end in 2012, it just starts over. So the world won't end in 2012, the Mayans will just come back to life. And probably take over the world.

Posted by Ben on November 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM

Yes, Ben, but that would require a really large blood sacrifice on our part ... hmm, what's this new giant earthquake fault they found is even closer to Seattle than expected ... uh oh.

Maybe the Billionaires Tunnel is part of an elaborate blood sacrifice plan to cure Paul Allen's cancer and bring back the Mayans?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 17, 2009 at 11:19 AM

@10: Will these be the zombies we're supposed to be preparing for?

Posted by Queen of Sleaze on November 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM

You know, this is EXACTLY the sort of thing they would have a NASA "scientist" say if it were true that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE IN 2012!!

When should you panic? When they start saying "Don't panic," that's when!

But srsly, it's sad that some morons would believe the movie hype.

Posted by seattle mike on November 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Why do the Mayans get so much respect with the calendar? What about the Hindus, or the Aborigines, or the Bantu, or the Iroquois? Or the Finnish? Don't the Finnish have ancient wisdom about when the world will come to an end?

Posted by sdstarr on November 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM

@12 - no, the zombies come from when we get boiling hot mud cascading off of Rainier ... that's for dessert.

And @14 - the Finns are really really depressing about that.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 17, 2009 at 12:36 PM