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tgm4l
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I dont think this is a serious issue, if it was, the news would be more about the doomsday... not famous people's children...

Intresting idea though.

One thing that could happen is that nothing happens in 2012, so to celebrate, a scientist builds a super fireworks rocket for New Years that destroys the atmosphere.... that wouldn't be very nice....
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 4th Aug 2008 18:26 Edited at: 4th Aug 2008 18:27
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LT Tatters? (post above?)
Although if you are making a point concerning the inaccuracy of the quote, intriguing.

Must be using one of those flawed Intel chips with the inaccuracy problem. </sarcasm>

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Quote: "Who are you quoting?
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ME!
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[quote]Quote: "*shakes magic 8 ball*

yep, were
we screwed.
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LMAO! That was great [/quote]
Yep, thanks for that, took awhile to remember the name of the ball...

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Am I not cool enough to be in on this joke?

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Benjamin, do you know what a magic 8 ball is?

Sorry for the crappy quoting of LT, it was late and somehow I jacked it up lol.

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Quote: "Am I not cool enough to be in on this joke?
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NO! Cats are not allowed in here! Shoo Shoo!


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Agent Dink
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The quote is very different than what Tatters actually said. Which is odd considering Tatters' post is not edited at all.

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Benjamin
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Quote: "Benjamin, do you know what a magic 8 ball is?"

Yes.

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Mr Z
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Doubt this is true. There exist a lot of theories that are nothing but, well, nothing worth believing in.

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I had something like a magic 8 ball. But in the shape of the wise master yoda... Not an 8 ball... What if the world turned into an 8ball in 2012! (well, it's just as likely as some of the above mentioned cataclysmic end-of-world events!!! ...right?)

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Grandma
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Quote: "What if the world turned into an 8ball in 2012! (well, it's just as likely as some of the above mentioned cataclysmic end-of-world events!!! ...right?)"


No.

It's even more likely.

In fact, if it was more likely than it already is, it would be confirmed.

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If the world ends in 2012, I'll eat my hat.

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Keo C
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If the world ends in 2012, I'll also eat his hat.


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If the world ends in 2012, I'll stop eating Grandma's baby kittens (Yes, it was me)


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Posted: 5th Aug 2008 18:21 Edited at: 5th Aug 2008 18:22
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I'll bring the liquids. Let's all have a feast on Opposing force's hat. What a splendid way to go down.

@ Alucard94

All my cats are present and accounted for...

Hire yourself some new henchmen, they've probably gotten themselfes lost again and been to my neighbour (who coincidentally own (owned?) a pair of poisonous kittens).

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Quote: "Hire yourself some new henchmen, they've probably gotten themselfes lost again and been to my neighbour (who coincidentally own (owned?) a pair of poisonous kittens).
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What?! ... Damn you Superman! You can blow up a building with your eyes but you can't bring me non poisoned kittens! I want my... Wait... what did your neighbor put into those kittens... Was it Seal eyes? Because I can't handle seal eyes very well...


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Quote: "themselfes"

!!!


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Quote: "!!!"

!!!! ?


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If the world ends in 2012, I will stop planning how to end the world... and eat Grandmas kittens.

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Quote: " and eat Grandmas kittens."

You just try, bring it on!


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Note to self: Eat Grandmas kittens AFTER I have eaten... obs, do not want to get banned .

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I would just DIE if the world ended in 2012!!!

/giddy teen girl who just saw a celebrity voice

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Quote: "!!!"

Oh my!

I didn't notice that. Thanks, a ticking reward will arrive in your mail shortly.

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YAY my mail is here!
"Bill, bill, bill... Whaa...?"


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Yay! My mail is here! "Pron, pron, free pron, donutz, spammers in a jar, wait WHAAA... ?"


Err never mind


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Dam only four years to bring about the end of the world. Where does the time fly.

I'll add something later on.
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I suppose what we've failed to tell you is that 2012 is the year we have planned - that is when Grandma, I and our associates have dominated the world, why haven't we said anything until now? Simple, everything is running according to plan now, so it's safe to tell you as it won't make a difference...but one thing that gets me...how did the Aztecs find out about our plans so early on?

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Quote: "I suppose what we've failed to tell you is that 2012 is the year we have planned - that is when Grandma, I and our associates have dominated the world, why haven't we said anything until now? Simple, everything is running according to plan now, so it's safe to tell you as it won't make a difference...but one thing that gets me...how did the Aztecs find out about our plans so early on?"


That is just because you do not know what I have done .

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Quote: "I suppose what we've failed to tell you is that 2012 is the year we have planned - that is when Grandma, I and our associates have dominated the world, why haven't we said anything until now? Simple, everything is running according to plan now, so it's safe to tell you as it won't make a difference...but one thing that gets me...how did the Aztecs find out about our plans so early on?
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Ah, so that's why, when I gutted up one of your penguins and smelled its sweet organ juices, I found a note where it said "This is the Seppuku Grandma! 2012 is the time when Justin Timberlake shall take over tha worldz! OMFG LOL!!11" ... So did I reveal your secret plan on how to dominate the world now?


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Justin Timberlake? You're way off, though such icons of pop culture are effective tools for chaos. Unfortunately that's the plan of a rivalling 'empire', so we have to eliminate them first.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Quote: "Justin Timberlake? You're way off, though such icons of pop culture are effective tools for chaos. Unfortunately that's the plan of a rivalling 'empire', so we have to eliminate them first."

Good, I can't stand Justin Timberlake


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Quote: "Good, I can't stand Justin Timberlake"

`dun worry, my eightball also predicted that he's gonna be the first to die.
'BOUT TIME TOO!
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This stuff's been going on since the dawn of intellect, (well, it's debatable if that's happened yet), from primitive cavemen fearing the wrath of imagined gods, peasants and priests preaching of witch's fires burning the world to cinders, all the way up to Y2K 8 years back.........

All of them are just as truthful, (or un-truthful), as ever.....

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I dont belive that it will be a apocalypse in 2012, but I do belive that something will happen 2034. And that is even stated by scientists.
These are real fact, not something I made up to scare you...
An asteroid called Apophis will probably hit the earth with 100000 times more energy than Hiroshima.
Search for it, its quite intresting.


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Quote: "This stuff's been going on since the dawn of intellect, (well, it's debatable if that's happened yet), from primitive cavemen fearing the wrath of imagined gods, peasants and priests preaching of witch's fires burning the world to cinders, all the way up to Y2K 8 years back........."

But now we know the true scale and power and science of it all, whereas before, like you said, it was all based on imagined gods and witches. Now we KNOW there is a volcano under Yellowstone that if erupts will destroy most of North America and cover the world in ash, we know that there is x% chance that an asteroid will hit earth on y date.


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They thought they knew as well.

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Quote: "They thought they knew as well."

But their knowledge was based on speculation, ours is based on scientific provable facts.


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Quote: "But their knowledge was based on speculation, ours is based on scientific provable facts.
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And does that mean it has to be true? That's the problem with most people, they can't think "outside the box" if you so will, they keep thinking that OBVIOUSLY our science is the 100% truth, even though it might not be. There are probably a lot of things that our outside our little bubble of logic that we simple can't and probably won't ever understand (and please don't take this as a "GOD" matter, I'm not christian, I believe in personal things. And don't take it as a "alien" way either)


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Uh, guys? I destroyed the world six years ago.

The "World" you know is nothing more than a computer generated illusion. I control all that you see and hear.
</Matrix reference>

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Meh, the first Matrix movie was the only good one anyways.


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From my perspective, Alucard94 is spot on (not thinking of his most recent post...). Science can show and predict all it want, but we can't really know for sure until it happens (or not). Because in many cases, science is not infallible, that's why there are a lot of experiments going on (LHC for one example). We use incomplete formulas to guesstimate results from experimental machinery. And scientists aren't themselves always to count on since you have scientists claiming something for every possible occasion, claiming the moon is made out of cheese and whatnot. If it's something that _could_ happen, I bet you can find a scientists or two claiming it is 100% sure. Even though you can also find scientists claiming the exact opposite.

It's a perplexing art, and people need to know that if a person has the "scientist" title, doesn't necessarily mean that he or she is always correct.

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Ah, thank you, Grandma. Glad someone understands it.

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Quote: "But now we know the true scale and power and science of it all, whereas before, like you said, it was all based on imagined gods and witches. Now we KNOW there is a volcano under Yellowstone that if erupts will destroy most of North America and cover the world in ash, we know that there is x% chance that an asteroid will hit earth on y date."


I'd like to know what "x" and "y" are so I can plan my retirement.

I think I agree with Grandma. Science proceeds - and succeeds - by proposing new theories in an attempt to better predict observable facts. Old theories get discarded when a new theory better fits the facts. Truth as such rarely comes into it - how could you know ever know that there isn't some experiment that could disprove any given current theory. It's just a case of steady improvement. Occasionally a theory has to be abandoned just because it doesn't fit new facts that come to light - even when there isn't an obvious successor theory. That is one of the driving forces for new ideas and research. Science is fun.
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I think, that every theory we will find, will be later disproved by another theory. And I think it will go on forever and ever. Well ok, not forever because the world ends in 4 years lol.

Technology is only going to get better and I think one day, we'll be considered cavemen.

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the only thing that could be happening is the poles switching

bioengineers canceld who cares
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Science failed mother earth.lol Sorry its from a song by S.O.A.D.


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Okay, five pages, I'm too busy to read through everything lol. Someone back on page one said something about how it'll be just like Y2K, and nothing will happen. Did anyone ever stop to wonder what might have happened if there weren't tens of thousands of software engineers around the world re-writing old code to fix the glitch? I don't think the world would have ended or anything, but lives would have definitely and undeniably been lost.

The Yellowstone Caldera is definitely something everyone globally should be informed about, but (A) there's nothing we can do to stop it, and (B) there's no point sitting around worrying about it. See, that's why me and Dink have a cave in Pennsylvania stockpiled with food, weapons, and copies of The Road Warrior. We're totally ready for the apocalypse, when and if it happens

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Quote: "but lives would have definitely and undeniably been lost."


What would we do if they had to calculate everything by hand! The lines at the grocery would have been deadly!


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Oh yeah, was that the blue pill or the red pill?
YES I LOVE THE FOURTH MATRIX MOVIE.

I don't want know about these things anymore... It's better to be ignorant with these things when you're overloaded with problems...

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^Your post made my head explode.

I would like to be compensated.

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