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The Millennia After Tomorrow?

Posted by timothy on from the stay-tuned-for-variable-predictions dept.

frankthechicken writes "Analysis of a three-kilometer-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, has revealed our planet has had eight ice ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today. And fortunately, the end of the world is not the day after tomorrow, instead it may be expected on Sunday, 17000."

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  1. Apocalypse news? Check Google. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Funny


    I check Google News frequently, because if the world ended, how else would I know?

    I expect there would be a story something like, "The world has ended, if you are still working, you are out of touch."

    What is the proper way to behave when the world ends? Do you make backups and shut down your computer?

    Don't do anything radical, because it might be a mistake.


    Off topic: I put some links together of the 36 books and movies that say that the U.S. government has become corrupt: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

    1. Re:Apocalypse news? Check Google. by Feztaa · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know about you, but I'd be too busy playing Duke Nukem Forever to notice the end of the world.

    2. Re:Apocalypse news? Check Google. by zakalwe · · Score: 5, Funny

      What is the proper way to behave when the world ends?

      Don't Panic.

      And always know where your towel is.

    3. Re:Apocalypse news? Check Google. by jaakkeli · · Score: 1, Funny
      I don't know about you, but I'd be too busy playing Duke Nukem Forever to notice the end of the world.

      ...whereas I'd be getting laid.

  2. Can somebody provide a translation? by esac17 · · Score: 2, Funny
    nearest research outpost was 1000km away by tractor across the white wilderness. ...
    Measuring 3190 metres long


    kilometre .. metre .. I just don't understand!
    1. Re:Can somebody provide a translation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here in the US they're usually called the "meter", and "kilometer". I think it makes more sense, but then again I'm British, not French: "er" is logical than "re" given my pronouciation of the terms.

      * 1 meter probably comes up to a little higher than your belly button from the foor.
      * A 2 meter tall person would be on the tall side, but not outlandishly tall.
      * 100 meters is approximately the length of an American football field (or exactly the length of a Canadian football field).
      * There are 1000 meters in 1 kilometer.

      So the sample core would be approximately 32 football fields long. Or over 1700 people lying head to foot.

  3. Re:First reply! by tdemark · · Score: 3, Funny

    European scientists endured temperatures of as low as -40 Celsius

    -40 Celsius isn't so bad. Now, -40 Fahrenheit, on the other hand...

    - Tony

  4. Which Sunday in 17000? by jfern · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are 52 Sundays in the year 17000, starting with January 5th, 17000. I demand to know which Sunday, and why it won't be some other day of the week.

  5. Re:First reply! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not nearly as bad as -40 K.

  6. Here's 20 more by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot:

    Nuclear war/winter
    Global warming catastrophy
    AI conquest (ala Matrix or System Shock. Mmm.. SHODAN...)
    Alien invasion
    Religious Armageddon
    The return of disco
    Freak biological accident (eg: virus)
    Grey goo/nanotech-style disaster
    Mass civil/govt/corporate war (ala Titor)
    Universe collapsing
    Death of Windows/Microsoft
    Intergalactic phenomenon (eg: black hole, solar colision, etc)
    Any of us getting a date with a supermodel
    Earth's core stopping
    Global scale natural-disasters (think Noah's ark)
    Sun exploding or expanding
    RIAA stops suing people
    Chemical accident/atmosphereic poisioning
    Bush says something intelligent
    Linux finally having it's "year of the desktop"


    I think that about covers it.

    1. Re:Here's 20 more by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 2, Funny

      The world isn't going to end. Plain simple. Why? Because I've got a gf now. If *that* didn't cause the end of the world, nothing will.

  7. Re:C'mon, at least spell the headline right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It helps to remember that "millennia" is formed from "mille" meaning thousand, and "annus" meaning years.

    So when you spell it with only one "n"... well, suffice it to say that it isn't a thousand years you're talking about.

  8. Re:We need to get a chart... by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot the comming of Christ by the Jehovah's Witnesses- 1914, 1956, 1964, 1972, 1987, 2000 (has there been a new prediction yet? I've been preoccupied with the econonmy for the last few years and haven't been reading Watchtower).

    --
    SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
  9. 1 more by socsuj · · Score: 2, Funny

    We barely avoided it last year: Cubs-Red Sox World Series