Do You Think The World Will End In The Year 2019 ?

[jambo372]

Do you think the world will end in 2019 ?

[Ed]

It already ended on March 15, 1987. We are all experiencing the afterlife.

[Nolan Coppenger]

Why would the world end in 2019, how would this end take place?

[Pixel42]

Considering that the world has existed for 4.7 thousand million years, I think that the chances of it ending within my lifetime are negligable.

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by Nolan Coppenger
Why would the world end in 2019, how would this end take place?

I had to vote 'not sure'. My sources tell me 2023.

[jambo372]

Scientists said it would - they said an asteroid will collide with the planet unless it is blown up via nuclear devices beforehand - personally I think it sounds like something from a movie but who am I to judge ??

[Ed]

Originally posted by Rob Lister
I had to vote 'not sure'. My sources tell me 2023.

Listen, Lister you are simply too dense for me to discuss this with. I have already said it ended back in 1980 something and that [i]this is the afterlife. If you can't see that you are too stupid to engage in rational discussion with. For thousands of years we have been getting valid reports of the afterlife. What on earth do you need? I'm done talking to you.[/Ian mode]

Pretty good impression if I do say so.

[Nolan Coppenger]

Originally posted by jambo372
Scientists said it would - they said an asteroid will collide with the planet unless it is blown up via nuclear devices beforehand - personally I think it sounds like something from a movie but who am I to judge ??
If the asteroid is blown up by nuclear devices won't Earth then be pelted by radioactive debris?

[jambo372]

Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by jambo372
Scientists said it would - they said an asteroid will collide with the planet unless it is blown up via nuclear devices beforehand - personally I think it sounds like something from a movie but who am I to judge ??

jambo, jambo, jambo.

You got me all worked up over this?

Here I was thinking you had some inside trek on the real scoop and you go and blow it by quoting unnamed sciences in unnamed sources.

I want to change my vote to 'no' but the forum software won't let me. 2023 it is.

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by Nolan Coppenger
If the asteroid is blown up by nuclear devices won't Earth then be pelted by radioactive debris?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[BillC]

Originally posted by jambo372
Do you think the world will end in 2019 ?
I hope not. I'm going out at 20:30.

[JPK]

Originally posted by jambo372
Do you think the world will end in 2019 ?

Jambo372,

What do you think? Have you looked into it at all? Did you bother to check on any of the scientist that made this claim? Do you know anything about this incoming rock? Where is it now?

Take a look at this:



Odds of impact decline dramaticly (http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Asteroid2002NT7-UpDate.html)

JPK

[Operaider]

Originally posted by jambo372
Scientists said it would - they said an asteroid will collide with the planet unless it is blown up via nuclear devices beforehand - personally I think it sounds like something from a movie but who am I to judge ?? This sounds like a job for a rag tag group of deep sea drillers lead by Bruce Willis

[jambo372]

I don't know - it might it might not - probably not.

[Wolverine]

For those that don't feel like waiting around until 2019, click here (http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm) for other possibilities.

In terms of asteroid/NEO impacts, there are excellent resources here (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/) and here (http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/). As it stands, there's only one object in the database (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/) that's been assigned a positive value (albeit the lowest possible) on the Torino scale. That merely suggests it "merits careful monitoring" in their terminology, and is not suggesting imminent impact. Note also that it's not due in our backyard until 2101.

[Operaider]

Originally posted by jambo372
I don't know - it might it might not - probably not. Well if not it's definitely a job for Robert Duvall and the cast of Deep Impact
:D

[Ashles]

Operaider don't be stupid. Astronauts could not cope with such a task.

It would obviously take a team of highly-skilled oil drillers such as those in Armageddon. It stands to reason it is easier to train oil-drillers to become astronauts than vice-versa.
Although one of them will still have to die nobly in the cause because they have taken up so many guns that they end up shooting their own drilling equipment.

For full details:
You may enjoy this alternative commentary of Armageddon (http://www.renegadecommentaries.co.uk/commentary.php?movie=40)
(and I'm on it)
:)

[Correa Neto]

Sure not.

Planet X will terminate this cycle in 2010.

[mapguy114]

I thought the end was in 2012 when the Aztec calendar runs out:D

[Wolverine]

*grumble* :hit:

[rppa]

Originally posted by JPK
Jambo372,

What do you think? Have you looked into it at all? Did you bother to check on any of the scientist that made this claim? Do you know anything about this incoming rock? Where is it now?

Take a look at this:



Odds of impact decline dramaticly (http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Asteroid2002NT7-UpDate.html)

JPK

That update was in 2002. Is Jambo372 over two years behind in his newspaper reading?

[JPK]

Originally posted by rppa
That update was in 2002. Is Jambo372 over two years behind in his newspaper reading?
oh yes. and my link was from just days after his. Jambo seems to panic at the first sign of reported trouble. Chicken Little comes to mind. Jambo does not apear to investigate anything he posts here.
JPK

[c4ts]

Originally posted by Ed
It already ended on March 15, 1987. We are all experiencing the afterlife.

No. It's really the year 999, one second away from 1,000. All our lives, memories, relatives, and history from that point on was an elaborate hallucination because we all caught a glimpse of Cthulhu and went similarly mad.

Inane solipsism is fun. Isn't that right, Ian and Lifegazer?

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by jambo372
Do you think the world will end in 2019 ?

Don't be silly. Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a million tears...

Where did you get 2019 from?

[Pixel42]

Even if an asteroid did collide with the earth in 2019, that wouldn't be the end of the world. It might be the end of us, but after all 99.9% of all the species that have ever existed on this planet are extinct, and the world is still here, and it's still teeming with life. The world has survived asteroid impacts, massive volcanism, ice ages etc etc, it will survive countless more such disasters.

In about another 3-4 billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen and will start to swell up into a red giant. It will swallow up Mercury and Venus, but probably won't actually consume the earth, however it will fry it to a cinder. That will be the end of the world.

So the date for the end of the world is approx 4000,000,000 A.D.

Next question?

[epepke]

Just a guess. End of the Mayan calendar? Dec 24, 2019?

I don't think the world will end. I predict that Mexico will be a mess, though.

[Zep]

In the year 2525
Zager and Evans
Reached #1 in July of 1969

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doing that for you

In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgement day

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again woh oh

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's takin everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin woh oh

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find.....

[Wolverine]

Originally posted by epepke
Just a guess. End of the Mayan calendar? Dec 24, 2019?



December 20, 2012...

The Mayan calendar does not end, however -- it simply rolls over. There's a lovely explanation here (http://www.wundermoosen.com/default.aspx?f=1&tab=Calendars&nav=ABCD&page=calMayan).

Yet another exercise in woo² eschatology that's become widely-believed urban legend.

[epepke]

Originally posted by Wolverine
December 20, 2012...

Well, it was just a guess anyway. But I could have sworn it was the 24th.

[Wolverine]

I should have clarified... wasn't nitpicking your estimated date but the spiel about the calendar "ending"... ;)

[Correa Neto]

Originally posted by mapguy114
I thought the end was in 2012 when the Aztec calendar runs out:D

No, the alien entities I know assured me its 2010. It's the year we'll make (official) contact, after all...

Plane X is an artificial world with a phase cloaking device, that's why it has not been detected yet. Oh, yes, the device also masks its gravitational disturbance.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

You forgot this option: It will end in an alternate universe.

~~ Paul

[TheBoyPaj]

Originally posted by Wolverine

December 20, 2012...

The Mayan calendar does not end, however -- it simply rolls over. There's a lovely explanation here (http://www.wundermoosen.com/default.aspx?f=1&tab=Calendars&nav=ABCD&page=calMayan).


Nice page, that. When I read it yesterday it inspired me to knock up this little bit of PHP:

Today's date in the Mayan calendar. (http://cgi.pagetworld.plus.com/mayan.php)

[Zamzara]

Pixel42 is right. Even if we get wiped out, the world won't end, nor will it's ability to host life in some form. It's hard to imagine any disaster short of the death of the sun that would cause that.

[Savagemutt]

Originally posted by Ashles
Operaider don't be stupid. Astronauts could not cope with such a task.

It would obviously take a team of highly-skilled oil drillers such as those in Armageddon. It stands to reason it is easier to train oil-drillers to become astronauts than vice-versa.
Although one of them will still have to die nobly in the cause because they have taken up so many guns that they end up shooting their own drilling equipment.

For full details:
You may enjoy this alternative commentary of Armageddon (http://www.renegadecommentaries.co.uk/commentary.php?movie=40)
(and I'm on it)
:)

Does this mean we'll have to listen to a lame Aerosmith power ballad?

[Dr Adequate]

I can guarantee that the world will not end in the year 2019. I shall activate the Annihilation Device today, shortly after teatime, before returning to my own planet.

Sorry 'bout your evening out, BillC.

[Wudang]

Originally posted by Dr Adequate
I can guarantee that the world will not end in the year 2019. I shall activate the Annihilation Device today, shortly after teatime, before returning to my own planet.

Sorry 'bout your evening out, BillC.
Would you mind waiting until next year after the Babylon 5 movies come out on DVD? I realise it's probably a bit of an imposition but if it's not too much trouble?

[rebecca]

Predicting the end of the world is the stupidest of all predictions. There's nobody to brag to when you're proven right.

[Dr Adequate]

Hence "the Rapture". Everyone will realise that the fundies were right, and oh boy, will they be sorry.

[Cleon]

We can always hope.

[phildonnia]

In case you're not aware, here's a link to a virtual encyclopedia of end-of-the-world prophecies.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/

12/21/12 is pretty popular, but 2019 gets a few mentions.

[Soapy Sam]

2019?

Gregorian or Julian?

[Dr Adequate]

The difference is about a fortnight, so there's not much in it, Your Grace.

[kalen]

Originally posted by rebecca
Predicting the end of the world is the stupidest of all predictions. There's nobody to brag to when you're proven right.

What exactly is meant by "the end of the world"?

Say an asteroid does hit and say it destroys Ohio (for instance), someone like jambo will claim that he (or whoever) was right even though most of the world is still around.

So, when the end of 2019 rolls around, no matter what happend and how many people are left, the prediction will be true!!

Let us be more precise in our predictions, people! How about a prediction that says "an asteroid of at least size X will hit the Earth in 2019"?

Basically what is going to happen is that the world will not end, and no matter what happens whoever made this prediction will still be going around bragging how he/she was proven right! This is MY prediction for 2019.

[c4ts]

Originally posted by kalen
What exactly is meant by "the end of the world"?

Say an asteroid does hit and say it destroys Ohio (for instance), someone like jambo will claim that he (or whoever) was right even though most of the world is still around.


1inC did that with his prophecy about Osama Bin Laden's capture. Apparently "capture" meant "captured on video," because there was something on the news about an Al Qaeda video of him broadcast in Afghanistan. Never mind that "captured" implise some element of candidness which the video lacked