tookatooka
476 posts
Sep 09, 2009
12:53 PM
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They say the world is going to end.
So be a sport and vote in the Harmonica Contest thread if you haven't already. Before it's too late. Voting ends tomorrow. Assuming there is a tomorrow.
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jonsparrow
983 posts
Sep 09, 2009
12:59 PM
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according to my text the end is dec. 21 2012. the sun will rise in the center of the galaxy with all the planets lined up for the first time in 25,000 years.
Last Edited by on Sep 09, 2009 1:00 PM
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tookatooka
477 posts
Sep 09, 2009
1:05 PM
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Well it didn't happen this morning at 9.09 so it may happen tonight. If it doesn't then your text is probably right. It's 3 minutes past 9 here right now so I might just have six minutes left. Enough time to knock out another copy of Summertime.
**UPDATE**
The end of the world missed us in the UK. I think it bounced over us here but beware it's on it's way across the pond now bound for the US of A.
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When I'm not blowing, I'm drawing.
Last Edited by on Sep 09, 2009 1:20 PM
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Andrew
600 posts
Sep 09, 2009
1:20 PM
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Don't worry, Lara Croft will save us.
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MrVerylongusername
502 posts
Sep 09, 2009
1:55 PM
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Thanks for the tip Jon - I won't bother with the Christmas presents that year then (mind you 21st is a bit early for me anyhow!)
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Andrew
601 posts
Sep 09, 2009
2:10 PM
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Of course, Sagittarius is where the center of the Galaxy is, so the sun rises there every year from Nov 21 to Dec 21.
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jonsparrow
985 posts
Sep 09, 2009
3:22 PM
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but not with every thing else lined up.
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tookatooka
478 posts
Sep 09, 2009
3:27 PM
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Hey fellas. Joking apart, this is absolutely true. I've just written this report and sent it to my local radio station LBC.
I think I just sighted a UFO.
This evening at 10.40 pm September 9th 2009, I was in my garden in Edmonton, North London looking south, when I saw an object in the sky heading northwards. It was moving very fast and changed direction instantly by about 20 degrees on two occasions to fly in a zig zag pattern. It was more of a light blur in the sky and dimmer than the brightest stars that were visible.
I am on the flight path to London Heathrow airport and quite used to seeing high altitude aircraft and low altitude aircraft on their approach to landing. The size of this object was indeterminate but if it was flying at something like 30,000ft it would have been twice the size of a normal passenger jet. There was no single point of illumination so the blur effect may have been due to it consisting of a number of small lights. There was no accompanying noise whatsoever.
When I normally follow the flight path of a high altitude passenger jet across the visible portion of sky that I can see, it would normally take approx 40 seconds. This object covered the same distance in approx 7 seconds. I have no idea what it was.
It must have been a UFO.
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When I'm not blowing, I'm drawing.
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jonsparrow
986 posts
Sep 09, 2009
3:30 PM
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you should have play some harp an see if it communicated with you.
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MrVerylongusername
503 posts
Sep 09, 2009
4:13 PM
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Everyone who believes in this planetary alignment gumf should read this:
http://www.etsu.edu/physics/etsuobs/starprty/22099dgl/planalign.htm
Where does that 25,000 years figure come from? This site calculates the changes of this kind of linear alignment as once in 86,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
Didn't the doom-mongers warn us this was all supposed to happened in 2000 anyway? unless I missed something, the planet wasn't exactly ripped apart then either.
Damn I am gonna have to stump up for Christmas pressies after all!
Last Edited by on Sep 09, 2009 4:15 PM
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walterharp
51 posts
Sep 09, 2009
8:18 PM
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it's when the central note shifts from f# to g flat...
:-)
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MrVerylongusername
504 posts
Sep 09, 2009
11:36 PM
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Alignment just means that the planets will appear, from our Earth bound point of view, to be bunched together in a narrow band of the night sky - it doesn't mean they actually line up - they are all orbiting in different planes around the sun, hence the infinitesimally small chance that a true linear alignment has or will occur in the predicted lifespan of our solar system. The gravitational effects of all the planets is fractionally over 1% of the effect of the moon - so even if the moon and all the planets did exert their influence in the same direction there would be no natural disasters caused by it (according to the site I quoted, the moons effects vary by 25% over the course of its orbit anyway).
I'm afraid it's astrological hokum; astrology dressed up as astronomy. I predict war, famine, maybe a flood and certainly an earthquake or two in 2012. It's a no brainer really, it has happened every other year in my living memory.
Who knows why the Mayan calendar stops at 2012? Maybe they just figured out they wouldn't be around that long so it wasn't worth going any further?
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bluesnut
97 posts
Sep 10, 2009
2:09 AM
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I think I will have a talk with chicken little if I can find him or just run around screeming with my hands waving around above my head it might make me feeeeeeeel better. I prefure F#, Gb just isn't # enough. Mabey the mayan calender maker's hands got tired and he never got back to it or was distracted by some hot chica and forgot to finish it. Dose anybody know chicken little's email? Am I making any nonsence? It's been a Hard days night. Y'all must think I am some kind of oximoron, I think i ain't. I'm tired I need to wake up from this day mare before I fall asleep tonite. Good day sir.
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snakes
347 posts
Sep 10, 2009
12:16 PM
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hey bluesnut,
the addy is clittle@theskyisfalling.com...
Last Edited by on Sep 10, 2009 12:16 PM
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mickil
517 posts
Sep 10, 2009
12:27 PM
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Anyway, enough of this tom-foolery!
None of you can prove the World exists in the first place. Well, that's if you're a solipsistic sort of chap.
By the way:
Q: How many solipsists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: What light bulb?
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Last Edited by on Sep 10, 2009 12:29 PM
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OzarkRich
3 posts
Sep 10, 2009
7:09 PM
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The closest alignment actually took place during the winter solstice(December)1998. It was in October 1998 that the sun was aligned with center of the galaxy but the closest crossing of the ecliptic and equator (solstice)was December 1998 (based on calculations from SolarFire 6.0 software). For mayanites, 14 years discrepancy out of 25,800 is close enough to lump it in with the 2012 end date. 1998 is the year I got serious about blues harp so I guess I'm playing on borrowed time :)
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