But i'm not completely ruling out the possibility some crazy looking giant carrying a jug will appear along with dragons vomiting columns of water all over the place.

Since nothing will happen, I present the numbers of doomsday:
7500 suicides
18750 divorces
12320 marriages
2490000 nudists running amok
100 riots
1040590210 conceptions
1 stock market crash
6000000000 searches of "how to escape the end of the world?" on google

Other notes:

Congress comes to a decision on tax raises and spending cuts
Greece starts to make an economic recovery
Twitter and Facebook receive record amounts of traffic
ConAgra and Kraft have their most profitable days ever

Other than debunked Nazca.....


So anyways, Astronomy is a calendar / roadmap / circuit / Formula 1 Racetrack for our time, it only takes one rogue planet that we don't know about to fall into a black hole (from an un-nova) that we can't see, which then emits a gamma ray burst towards two collapsing-spiral neutron stars within 50 light years for us to get wiped out and astronomy to be "whack calendar of the ancients".

That's at the nth-term, but yea you are right, stuff like this and Nostradamus serve to illustrate the prospecting-outcomes skill, and offers an additional opportunity for parallel reasoning skills later on in life.

I'm not so sure about that. Sometimes 'free love' is a great recruitment tool, and sexual promiscuity can bring people closer together rather than make them jealous of eachother. It seems to be working well for the Raeliens. But i suppose it would depend on the types of people who show up. If they're largely Christian i may just settle on polygamy since that's easy to justify using the bible. I will of course be able to select my wives freely, while everyone else makes do with those who are left over, because it's what god wants.



I think there's been 6 mass extinctions we know of. I'm skeptical of those who say another is just around the corner, but also think those who act like it will never happen are fooling themselves. If they keep claiming another is about to happen, they'll eventually be right.

And here's the tale of a Chinese man who has spent $160,000 creating floating balls which people can allegedly survive the 21st in.

Media itself is partly to blame
just look at the amount of documantries on history vhannel and similair tv channels about the upcomming doomsday in the last 2 years

a like for you good sir for linking a fragment of one of my all time favourite films made by my all time favourite director with one of my all time favourite actors

+1! My favorite movie ever, bar none.

aye i got very aggitated once when i stumbled on a episode of that series called ancient aliens , when on of those experts litteraly said , that those ancient culture didn't had the knowledge to draw a straight line and there fore it must be a extraterrestial alien influence

Where do they find these '''Experts '',this goes for those doomsday exper'ts aswell ...... really

and mathematics more complex than what we currently use,

they had a knowledge of the stars which matches our own with everything modern tech can provide.

You might find this interesting. Or this for more in-depth info on their math system. And all you have to do is look into the Dresden codex to see their knowledge of astronomy. No one argues they weren't highly advanced.



All we really learned from the deep field is that there are tons of Galaxies and nebulae out there, which wouldn't have surprised any of the ancient cultures i mentioned. None of them thought they were the center of the universe like the Europeans did for so long. They all knew space was really, really, big, and we were just one planet among many.

The sexagesimal system of math is much more complex than our current one. Everyone agrees on that. Some also claim it was more accurate at working with very small or very large numbers, so maybe even a better system than what we use.

And they were the first culture to use symbols to represent large numbers in Math, which could be considered the beginning of Algebra. Algebra was born in the same area, after all.

And methinks you haven't been reading about much of this at all. It's easy to just dismiss everything, or maybe at most go to the skeptics dictionary and let them tell you what to think. Read it all for yourself and decide. Don't even let me do the thinking for you.

I don't think anyone is looking to the past for solutions. Just trying to make sense of our past. A lot of things don't add up. We can't be sure of our future without knowing our past.

Even if the end of the world happens i'm refusing to acknowledge it since i'm seeing my GF again next saturday.

I'm not sure where you're getting that. I'm obsessed with modern science.

This is just about how so-called primitive cultures had advanced knowledge of things. There's no denying they did. The only thing up for argument is how.

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

I personally think that "paranormal events", "miracles," or whatever you want to call them do happen. And that there's a scientific explanation for them. We just haven't found it yet.

I'm hoping robots are invovled.. Just recieved my copy of How to Survive A Robot Uprising.

There is a book called "How to make friends and alienate people" - I claim to have only read half of it.

It's Solstice. 21 or 22nd depending on your Calender iirc.