10 reasons why the world isn't going to end in 2012. - Polidicks

[quote]In the early days of computers, when hard drives weighed as much as a piece of furniture, a popular phrase was "Garbage-in, Garbage-out" (GIGO). It meant that computers would unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data and produce nonsensical output. "GIGO" describes the abysmal lack of intelligent thought and critical thinking on the Internet when it comes to all the hysteria about the end of the world coming on December 21, 2012 -- just in time to ruin Christmas. I'm getting e-mail about this weekly and I expect the nonsense to ratchet up. This latest installment in decades of flaky astronomical apocalypse predictions is loosely based on the Mayan calendar that marks the end of a 5,126-year era. Apparently the Mayans knew something about the heavens we don't, according to numerous hot-selling 2012 doomsday books on the market. Our multi-billion dollar telescopes, space probes, and 6,000 professional astronomers somehow just can't keep up with the mystic knowledge of an ancient superstitious culture. With the much-ballyhooed release of the film "2012" opening on November 13, end of world chatter will be the topic from backyard cookouts, to bars, to wine and cheese parties. I am listing the 10 most popular 2012 end-of-world scenarios and providing a quickie reference guide to use in politely dismissing any friends, relatives, or in-laws whose brains have turned into a pile of GIGO mush after being suckered by the End of Days hype.[/quote] Read the 10 here: [url]http://news.discovery.com/space/ray-villard-doomsday-theories.html[/url] [editline]07:16AM[/editline] Beat that you damn skeptics. :smug:

How is this news?

Most people already know the world is not going to end.

I needed to quadtriple check everyone had the idea. It is newsworthy because there are crappier threads than this.

11. Because you touch yourself at night

[QUOTE=xxsetshotxx;24498660]11. Because you touch yourself at night[/QUOTE] I better continue touching myself then or else the world will end. :buddy:

Since when did this classify as news?

What about Global Warming? He didn't put that on there. We've already have had our hottest summer on record. It's only going to get worse.

My mom said the world won't end in 2012... She also said I was handsome, I am, right?? :smith:

Also this was posted: [quote]Wed Nov 4, 2009 09:53 AM ET[/quote] Besides, I doubt many people on Facepunch needed convincing.

[QUOTE=Fusilero1;24498726]Since when did this classify as news?[/QUOTE] [quote=Google;24498726]•information about recent and important events[/quote] It's not recent but it's important. We definantly know we aren't going to become an extinct race within the next 1-2 years.

[QUOTE=MrJazzy;24498790]My mom said the world won't end in 2012... She also said I was handsome, I am, right?? :smith:[/QUOTE] oh fuck start buying survival bunkers

We know, goddamnit. Everybody with more than two functioning brain cells knows it's bullshit, and knows that on December 22nd 2012 someone will start screaming about [i]another[/i] end of the world date conveniently placed a couple more years down the road.

We were closer to the end of the world in the 1950's than we are now.

[QUOTE=NotSo1337;24498368]Read the 10 here: [url]http://news.discovery.com/space/ray-villard-doomsday-theories.html[/url] [editline]07:16AM[/editline] Beat that you damn skeptics. :smug:[/QUOTE] You can't argue with a calendar bro, seriously. Once you run out of days on the calendar you're fucked, not just a regular calendar but a mother fucking Mayan calendar. So you know that shit is legit, we're all gonna die.

We only need one good reason, let alone 10.

1. It isn't, you paranoid retards. Shut up about it already. Did it in one.

the world isn't gunna end in 2012 because i say it's not going to end. :smug: [editline]01:06AM[/editline] [QUOTE=The mouse;24498470]How is this news?[/QUOTE] it's not. it's an article. rated op bad reading

I always say that these apocalypse theories won't happen, because if they don't, then I'll be right, and if they do, no one will know I was wrong. But they are all bogus anyway.

If anyone honestly believes the Mayan calendar then read their creation story. It makes Genesis sound like non-fiction.

If I have school on the December 21 I ain't going to school.

I will bet everyone on Facepunch $100 U.S. that with world will not end in 2012. And in the slight possible chance I am wrong, good luck getting a dime out of me.

I really really hope the world ends in 2012 just because of people like you, you arrogant miserable fucks who sit around squandering their lives talking about how the world wont end.

Either way, I plan I going in the army and die with an accomplishment, than have died with none at all.

[QUOTE=MR-X;24501953]You can't argue with a calendar bro, seriously. Once you run out of days on the calendar you're fucked, not just a regular calendar but a mother fucking Mayan calendar. So you know that shit is legit, we're all gonna die.[/QUOTE] How do we know it is a calander, anyway? I recall no one on earth knowing how to read Mayan.

[QUOTE]cheese parties.[/QUOTE] ok what

the problem will be the nuts who think it will happen, and are going to start doing messed up shit. I'm proud to be a hick gun owning american if that happens :v:

[QUOTE=grandpajenki;24504569]If anyone honestly believes the Mayan calendar then read their creation story. It makes Genesis sound like non-fiction.[/QUOTE] My favorite part is how dense the idiots who came up with the theory (and then started dramatizing it) fail to see the fact that the calander [B]had[/B] to end at some point. Seriously, did you expect the ancient civilization to make a never-ending calender? There were no mayan drawings, stories, etc. or anything about "The world ending". It was just a calender.

I'm afraid of what will happen on 21 DEC 2012. Not because of the world ending bullshit, but what stupid things people will do to eachother and their surroundings all over the world.

The world is going to end. But I think we do have about another 3Billion years left till our sun devours us. [editline]02:12AM[/editline] Note, the picture in that article is Nemesis, the hypothetical red dwarf that lies in the Oort cloud.