No wonder you diss the movies! (o O)

You’d think after the predictions that failed in 1975 & 1988 &c &c &c … this whole “Rapture” nonsense would have disappeared in hail of laughter at the clowns who keep predicting it but noooo ..

Its every time this has ever been predicted it hasn’t come true but this time it will.. Sigh.

I’m guessing we’ll get the same thing when 2013 comes round …

As if main Western culture doesn’t have enough crazy predictions of disaster w/o having to adopt Mayan mythology ones too. But then those guys thought our Sun needed the blood from sacrificed captured prisoners to rise each morning so I guess their “science” and predictions must be a sure bet ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfulfilled_religious_prophecies

Thinking Failed Apocalpyse predictions & the unending guillibility of some ppl check out this true story I read on another blog (Slacktivist, if you’re wondering) :

In 1994, while working part-time in a bookstore, a customer asked me [this blogger] to special order a copy of a particular book. I looked it up and then told her that we couldn’t get it for her because it was out of print.
“When did it go out of print?”

“That’s a shame. It’s a great book.”

The books title?

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‘88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.’

FACE PALM!!!

(The “Rapture” of course being the start of the Apocalpyse & end of the World in some Christian cults mythology.)

I really wonder when January 1, 2013 rolls around how many currently-scared people will take to heart at least some small does of critical thinking…I have a feeling it will be fewer then one would hope, though.

Sadly, I wouldn’t hold out too much hope.

People have been predicting the apocalypse forever – almost literally – & the world hasn’t ended yet. You’d think people would learn that such predictions are always bunk but sadly ..

I think there’s a list somewhere on Wikipedia of failed End-o’the-World /Apocalpyse / 2nd Coming predictions. 2012 will just add one more to the list & the same people that fell for the millennium =end’o’ world horrors both 1000 & 2000 versions, the same people who thought the world would end in 1984 and 1975 and so on will just find the next date to carry on about.

Anyway, if one did own a time machine and traveled a day in time (either direction) would that person stay in the same place? Or maybe that person would end up inside the earth or in space.
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I’ve wondered about it too, but then what would the machine remain stationary in relation to? There is no fixed space in the universe, the motion of all bodies is relative to each other.

Now, that should be a film. Granted, it would more than likely be a cult film, but I think that would be something for the big screen (in limited theaters, no doubt).

radioactive monkeys, with a viral epidemic, falling to Earth in a deadly rain after a comet passes close by while the entire Yellowstone Caldera is exploding during an earthquake.

Kinda on topic: I’ve always wondered about time-travel movies. As depicted, a person jumps into the machine, goes forwards or backwards, and is always in the same place. I guess that template was set down by Jules Verne.

Anyway, if one did own a time machine and traveled a day in time (either direction) would that person stay in the same place? Or maybe that person would end up inside the earth or in space.

With the spin of the earth and it’s orbit around the sun (and the sun’s travel in the galaxy, and so forth and so on), would one’s time traveling be far more risky than shagging one’s own grandma?

In the British sci-fi comic 2000 AD, there was a character called Strontium Dog who occasionally used a weapon called a time bomb. When he used it, those within its sphere of influence were shifted a short time backwards or forwards in time, usually to then suffocate in the vacuum of space, since the planet was no longer in the same position.

Yay, someone else besides me actually thought of this problem too

I would say that if the time machine only moved an object in time (and not also in space) then that would be a big issue.

Anyway, if one did own a time machine and traveled a day in time (either direction) would that person stay in the same place? Or maybe that person would end up inside the earth or in space.

With the spin of the earth and it’s orbit around the sun (and the sun’s travel in the galaxy, and so forth and so on), would one’s time traveling be far more risky than shagging one’s own grandma?

Darnit! You beat me! I was busy reading Orac’s blog and missed this post.