Wednesday, October 20, 2010

End of the Earth Postponed - Yahoo! News

End of the Earth Postponed - Yahoo! News

looks like the link to the Modern Calendar to the Mayan Calendar is off by 50 to 100 years in either direction, meaning that the world already ended a few decades ago, or will end in a few decades.

This whole idea was so stupid it was painful to think about. I'm hoping, although doubting, we can put it to rest. I mean geologically speaking, the world will end at some point. At the very latest, the Sun will become a red giant. At that point it will expand so much that the Earth will be inside the star, and will be destroyed. That event will happen in about 4-6 billion years, unless Humanity or our progeny comes up with some way to prevent it. Between now and then, lots of things could happen that could destroy the world let alone humanity. Shoemaker-Levy-9 hitting the Earth instead of Jupiter certainly would have!

So, sure we're goners, but likely not for a long time.


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