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Read a news on DailyMail and as usual it is about the end of the world on Sunday. Can't understand why these news are published every now and then? Just to grab attention? Or is there some other agenda?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5093449/Conspiracy-theorists...

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:
Is it worth tidying up the house because if we are all alive on Monday I will suffer the wrath of She who must be obayed?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Remember Hale-Bopp?

http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/march-26-1997-comet-hale-bopp-claims-th...

39 deluded folk actually believed it.

There are people out there who will believe anything.

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Is Nibiru where Trump thinks Nambia is?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

I am not surprised that people endlessly forecast the end of the world. They might believe it or they might have many arguably unhealthy motives for example attention-seeking, increasing their fame or becoming famous, selling their book, reestablishing their position among their followers if any, or making money in other ways --

what surprises me is that people believe these charlatans

In reply to The Lemming:

No, just tell her the mess was caused by the plasmatic energy particles from nibiro disrupting the (very) local core flows.

You'll get off Scot free

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

I feel fine.

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

A s far as I'm concerned if, because of Brexit, my Beaujolais Nouveau goes up in price by 25% it is the fekin' end of the World.

In reply to Bulls Crack:

I don't know what you're worrying about - I've got a few bottles of Vosne-Romanee that are yet to mature!

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Ends today huh?

Wonder if there's enough time left for breakfast ?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

What time's it happening?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Have I got time to have breakfast?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Bl@@dy hell. I've just filled the van up to the brim with diesel!! I could've saved myself a fortune if I'd known about this

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

My last day on earth and I have a hangover, typical bad timing by me.

In reply to aultguish:


Yes 10 litres would have been enough or even 5

What amazed me was those people in the USA a few years ago who spent loads of money to advertise the end of the world as announced by Harold Camping

In reply to Bulls Crack:


But it'll be replaced by British turnip wine in red, white and blue bottles. What's not to like about that?

In reply to Big Ger:

So crap Saturday night then?

In reply to cander:

My REM was affected.

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Not long to go now, or Perhaps they are wrong?
We shall know in the next 50 minutes.

In reply to Moley:



Don't want to worry you, but it's gone really dark here?

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

My brother actually believes that the earth is flat (seriously).

Some people are naturally gullible.

TWS

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

Just to grab attention...

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In reply to Wainers44:


It's light here!

In reply to profitofdoom:



IF they are right , then there will be no one left to acknowledge that they were right( not even them)
Best then, just to keep that info to themselves.

In reply to Jim C:

I'm not up to speed with this latest one, but don't religious types predicting the end of the world tend to believe that they're going to survive it in some way? The rapture or some such, whether that means some kind of life-after-death or even being physically rescued by God.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':


And you believe in UFOs ...
Just an observation, like

In reply to Lusk:



Oh yeah I forgot we are the only sentient beings in the whole universe as well as the most advanced.

Small minded springs to mind here.

Knock yourself out.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':




Actually believing in the possibility of advanced alien life existing in the universe at the same time as us is just a matter of odds and is totally reasonable. Believing said aliens have come to the planet based on nothing more than hearsay and sketchy photos is a totally different matter.

In reply to Moley:


Oh no. That cant be good. Its a sign...a sign I tell you.

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

I'm quite happy with the idea that aliens exist on other planets but where I'm a bit doubtful is that for any of them to have visited us here on Earth they would need to be very considerably more technically advanced, enough to have overcome the laws of physics and found a way to travel much faster than the speed of light. This assumes that we all started to develop at roughly the same time a few million years after the big bang and developed our technologies at the same rate.

In reply to deepsoup:


That is no doubt true, but all the more reason for them to keep quiet about it and sit smugly waiting for all the unbelievers to be wiped out and then only they will be left to inherit the earth ( or whatever/ wherever it is they will inherit)

In reply to Lord_ash2000:


I liked the comment by someone (Asimov? Carl Sagan?) that
- it would be amazing if aliens exist
- it would be equally amazing if they do not exist and we are alone in the universe

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

There's always the slightly unpleasant possibility that one of the phenomena that we can reasonably assume is universal, i.e. evolution, inevitably results in life forms whose intelligence and development of technology always outstrips their evolved capacity to deal with it.

In our own case we have developed the ability to have access to as much food as we want - in the West at least - so now we're all obese. We have evolved the ability to work communally - then 'elect' seriously dangerous individuals like Trump, or are swayed by idiots like Farrage who divide and antagonise.

In short, maybe all intelligent life forms develop so far then self destruct...

In reply to The Lemming:

You should definitely tidy the house. Why risk it with SWMBO?

On the other hand, If the world DOES end, you're going to feel a bit silly having put all the effort in. Um..........

In reply to Jim C:

Absolutely! As the Good Book says "The sleek shall inherit the dearth". I think that was it anyway.......

In reply to Sanjeev Nanda:

My step daughter works at the Daily Mail. Apparently she is expected at work as usual on Monday.