Comments on: Followup commentary of DEATH

By: Vidar

Vidar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:37:29 +0000

@ Ronan:
The Mayan calander is carved into a rock, so they ran out of space on that rock, that’s all.
Pretty much all of the paper books that the Mayans made were destroyed during the Spanish invasion of America since they weren’t Christian enough for the catholic spanish conquistadores.

@Phil Plait:
Nice talk. You should do more of them.

By: Ronan Gallagher

Ronan Gallagher — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:40:57 +0000

The 2012 Armageddon brigade have based their belief that the end of days will come in 2012 because the Mayan calendar ends on that date. They never considered the possibility that the only reason the Mayan calendar ends at 2012 is because they simply ran out of ink!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:19:47 +0000

You wrote a book?

(Ok, there. I’ve said it once and gotten it out of my system. Am I finally a ‘real’ BABlogee?)

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:03:28 +0000

10. Beelzebud

I expect this is what we get when a species is an apex predator, crybabies who have no problem showing they’re injured or scarred spitless(we’re so far removed from REAL danger we have to manufacture something to provoke those old time emotions).

I note that dogs and cats, though they are carnivores, will keep their pain (from injury or illness) hidden because to display feelings of pain in the wild lets other predators know you’re vulnerable. We have no problem with that so I guess we’ve been apex predators for a very long time(biologically speaking).

Gary 7

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:14 +0000

Beelzebud,

If you had read the book, you’d see that this book is really a COUNTER to all those doomsday scenarios. While he describes xactly how one would appear to us on earth, the majority of each chapter describes the possibilities of such an event (i.e. slim to none within our lifetimes) and why those “History(LOL)” channel shows are such BS (in a much nicer way than I do when I yell at my TeeVee for those show even being on air).

By: Autumn

Autumn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:24:54 +0000

Elise, he says a gamma ray burst would be dangerous in the 8000 light-year range, not a supernova. The supernova would have to be closer than 100 ly, and to do “significant damage,” would need to be “a handful” of light-years away.

By: Colatf

Colatf — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:44:21 +0000

Fantastic talk; as previous commenters have noted, you would make a fantastic lecturer. I have to get this book!