Like the title said. We make the long shot and survive until 2013. What’s the next opportunity for global disaster?
I know about the Apophis meteor is supposed to take a couple of swings at us in 2029 and 2036. The odds listed in 2004 were 1 in 60, currently about 1 in 250,000. So it 's not looking too good for that one. The Russkies are planning on taking a shot at it anyway, probably more for practice for when it’s really needed than anything.
So what about it? Anything before then? Or after?
The absolute, hard date for the End Times is July 5th, 1998.
The saucer people will come on this date, doling out retribution and powder-form Ecstasy as appropriate.
Due to certain metaphysical difficulties with our current calendar, it remains unclear as to precisely when it will be July 5th, 1998. It is almost certainly not in the year 8661 of our current reckoning; that’s just silly.
Well sure, that’s when the world ends on Earth, but Earth and Mars got switched back when we were too busy fighting the Nazis to notice.
We’ll all be dead by 2012. The date is May 21, 2011
Sure, he’s been wrong before, but everybody makes mistakes.
I just know he’s going to be right this time!
Has a doomsday prediction ever been right?
Not yet, but it only needs to be right once
But then who’s going to be left to say I told you so?
Well, there was that one time, but we don’t talk about that day anymore those poor albino penguins… shudder. It was the second biggest apocalypse I’ve ever seen.
Ah, you paid for the good seats at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, didn’t you?
There was once this genius dinosaur…
I think 2018 (Israel turns 70), 2028 (Israel turns 80), 2034-37 (120 years since what was supposed by Charles Taze Russell to become Armageddon, but to his successors became the Beginning of Sorrows, also 2037 is the 70th anniversary of the Jewish recapture of Jerusalem), 2048 (Israel turns 100), 2068 (Israel at 120) and 2087 (120 for Jerusalem) will all be heralded by various Apocalyptic groups.
Hmmmmm - if only there were some logical pattern to these predictions that we could discern, they might make more sense…
According to the Bible, no man will know the day or the hour. I can just see God laughing, going, “Oh, so you think it will be this day? Well, I’ll show you!”
There’s also the argument that, when the resurrection happened, that it was the second coming. He was born, died and came back. In that case, it’s already happened.
So what we need to do is everyone pick a unique hour from now until the next…684,000 years. That should do it.
Actually, there is a weird sort of logic IF you go by certain premises.
Biblically, you have 40 years to a generation (Numbers 14: 34), threescore & ten (70) for a good long life and fourscore (80) for an exceptional one (Psalm 90:10), and 120 for the furthest time of probation before Judgment (Genesis 6: 3).
Next, you take a significant historical event that is seen as a Sign of The End, such as World War I, the creation of the State of Israel, or the recapture of Jerusalem, plug in the Biblically significant time-spans & Voila!
Don’t you remember back in '84 when the world blew up and we all moved to this planet?
We decided not to tell the stupid people because we thought it might upset them.
Ooops. Nevermind. Forget I said anything.
old Steve Martin joke
Civil engineer? I need to know what bridges he was involved with, so I can avoid them.
Only in a patriarchal society- in which all the fresh young girls get snapped up in polygamous marriages by the old farts running the tribe, and men can’t accumulate enough wealth and status to marry and sire children until they have grey hair- would a “generation” (the average age men are when their sons are born) be forty. :dubious:
Forty for kids? Really? It starts getting dangerous to have a kid that old (not that there aren’t plenty of kids who turn out just fine). The average childbearing age is closer to 25-30 range, and that’s largely a modern development. (link). In the days before “teenagers” were a bunch of no-good lawn-trodding ruffians, a male around the age of 17 would be expected to have a family and a steady job in the salt mines. In 1900 average life expectancy in this country was only barely past 40 (for some groups), and that was even after germ theory. (link).