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The Penultimate Day Party.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:13 pm
by peter
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:29 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
"Tomorrow" is relative; it's the 21st already Down Under and KW's still up and above. If the -30C promised for tomorrow means the end of the world, then I wonder how we managed 9 months back.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:32 pm
by Iolanthe
Happy Penultimate Day Peter. Are you going for the prize for most different emoticons used in one post? When it gets to 11:11 in Aus we shall know whether or not it is all over.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:39 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
It's Fri 07:35 in...Kiritimati. Looks like I'll be asleep when the 11:11 whatever hits.
And they apparently canceled that forecast. So I guess my most eventful thing this week, aside from a brooding 'world's end', would have been the bus that slid into a ditch on an icy road and I was late from work. </meh>
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:42 pm
by deer of the dawn
I get it several hours ahead of most of you peeps, so I'll let you know how it's going.
Actually, Shaun should give us the heads-up: they're already there where she is!
As a Christian, we're supposed to be ready any time, because "no one knows the hour", according to Jesus. So I'm not worried.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:58 pm
by Damelon
I think the official time is when it's the 21st in Mexico.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:59 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
Don't brag, I'm ahead of you.
I'm guessing Ásatrúar recognize Ragnarökkr, but we haven't had that 3-year fimbulwinter yet (only normal frost) and no wolf has munched the sun.
Baltic-Finnic suomenusko/maausk, funnily enough, doesn't have such an event looming in the horizon. Unless one counts that legend about the witch Louhi stealing the heavenly bodies and imprisoning them inside a mountain.
Oh, and the Last Dark for Tctcians.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:00 pm
by Fist and Faith
Damelon wrote:I think the official time is when it's the 21st in Mexico.
Hadn't thought about it before, but you're probably right.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:36 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:10 pm
by Iolanthe
Shouldn't we be "against all things ending"?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:25 pm
by Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm
There's apparently a water and sewage systems failure in the city where I live, which resulted in half the city left without water. Someone performed a trick on the local governmental website and here's what it displayed:
"In connection with the planned renovations of the public utilities in our city on December 21 will be disabled: gas and water delivery, electricity, air and so on.
Pleasant end of the world to you.
Do what you like - we don't give a f..."
Also, keep in mind there's the 22nd - the 21st is the last day after all, not the one after the last, also there' the 2017th - according to Nostradamus, the 2027/9 - the Apophis asteroid, 10 (and a hundred more zeroes) - the heat death of the universe. As I already mentioned somewhere here, I actually think we're not too likely to survive the latter.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:27 pm
by Savor Dam
Iolanthe wrote:Shouldn't we be "against all things ending"?
Nah, no worries. The day "shall pass utterly", and all will continue.
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:11 am
by Frostheart Grueburn
11:11 in Jötunheimr...
ALL ABOARD NAGLFARI!! RAGNARÖKKR SHALL COMMENCE!!!! PERRRKELE!!!
STORM THE RAINBOW BRIDGE AND LET FENRISULVR EAT THE SUN!!!
In my [pink fuzzy] sword I t[h]rust!
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:14 pm
by Vader
I wait for the aftershow party.
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:02 pm
by peter
Well it appears that the world didn't end and that we have all been given a second chance. Lets hope we can use it wisely
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(Just a footnote to the topic. I read in a news magazine a week ago that next December a chunk of rock and ice the size of London will pass between the Earth and the Moon. Apparently it will be visible in the daylight sky equal in size to the moon and will have two tails at 90 degrees to each other, one composed of debris from the burning comet, the other of ionised particles of vapour etc from the atmosphere. Now saying those Inca guys didn't have a zero in there number system or dropped a 1 somewhere.........
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:26 pm
by Vader
Ison (C/2012 S1) is gonna miss us by 0.4 AU which is roughly 40 million miles. That's in December. Before that Panstarrs (C/2011 L4) is gonna say hello and fly by in March 2013.
I wait for Apophis (2004 MN4) who is due April 2029 - it's a Friday 13th of course and we won't live to see noon. The profits of doom ...
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:43 pm
by Iolanthe
Doc Vader wrote:
I wait for Apophis (2004 MN4) who is due April 2029 - it's a Friday 13th of course and we won't live to see noon. The profits of doom ...
If I live until I'm 77 I look forward to seeing it!
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 1:42 pm
by Vader
So we have an appointment.
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:23 pm
by Iolanthe
Definitely!
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:51 pm
by shadowbinding shoe
It looks like Apophis has been dismissed as a credible threat.
Global manmade ecological disaster is much more likely to happen and we are working very hard to achieve it.
