# 50% chance of a extinction - level event in 2041? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313 "2014-05-26T21:06:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/1 "2014-05-26T21:06:26Z")
[http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1137095](http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1137095) Wow! I’ll be 81 - good chance I’ll still be around to watch the End of Civilization as We Know It. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/2 "2014-05-26T21:10:35Z")
I’ll be 84. Get off of my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![buddy431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@buddy431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy431)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/3 "2014-05-26T21:14:53Z")
March 35th, 2041? I didn’t know we were changing our calendar again; I thought that was straightened out. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/4 "2014-05-26T21:19:05Z")
> [@buddy431](#): > > March 35th, 2041? I didn’t know we were changing our calendar again; I thought that was straightened out. March 35 on the Mayan calender. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/5 "2014-05-26T21:20:24Z")
Why most such a crappy article? It isn’t April 1st. That link is to a garbage site and the article full of silly mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/6 "2014-05-26T21:20:38Z")
Figures. The Saints will probably have the #1 overall pick in the NFL Draft that year, and the world will end before we get to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/7 "2014-05-26T21:21:57Z")
Yeah March 35. It didn’t look like The Onion. I don’t believe anyone could quote odds like that 27 years in advance. Not my problem since I would be 104. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/8 "2014-05-26T21:37:58Z")
Note that it says on the left side of the page, “Not vetted for CNN.” It’s CNN iReport, which lets any person publish stuff without any verification. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/9 "2014-05-26T22:18:28Z")
Good news! I can stop recycling and just throw all my trash in the trash can. I don’t have to buy those expensive light bulbs and I can just drive where I’m going instead freezing outside for what seems like hours while I wait for a bus. Half hour showers and I can now wash my laundry on hot again! And I can just get plastic bags at the grocery store instead of having to lug these stupid cloth bags around with me wherever I go in case I need to go shopping. This is good news indeed. What is everyone else going to do to celebrate? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/10 "2014-05-26T22:18:59Z")
tags for this article: “beiber, war, gaming, stocks, science, cyrus, space, obama, earth, states” ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/11 "2014-05-26T22:21:47Z")
> [@buddy431](#): > > March 35th, 2041? I didn’t know we were changing our calendar again; I thought that was straightened out. Is that the day the 32-bit date fields overflow? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/12 "2014-05-26T23:01:47Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > tags for this article: > “beiber, war, gaming…” Always knew the appearance of Justin was a harbinger of the apocalypse. I knew it, I just knew it, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/13 "2014-05-26T23:11:24Z")
Funny that the news isn’t plastered all over NASA’s Asteroidwatch web page. The nearest I can come is [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/newsfeatures.cfm?release=2014-106](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/newsfeatures.cfm?release=2014-106) and that’s not even the same year. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/14 "2014-05-27T07:06:48Z")
Maybe we will have a March 35th by then. After all, people in the stone age thought planes would never fly. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/15 "2014-05-27T12:17:13Z")
The iReport linked to in the OP has been removed by CNN. They have _some_ standards after all. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-chance-of-a-extinction-level-event-in-2041/689313/16 "2014-05-27T15:09:55Z")
Since CNN has taken down the report referred to in the OP, I’m going to close this.