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- Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
- Subject: Re: ARMAGEDON?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.204107.12707@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:41:07 GMT
- References: <12977.2b0bcbe3@cpva.saic.com>
- Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
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- In article <12977.2b0bcbe3@cpva.saic.com> coycc@cpva.saic.com writes:
- >
- > I saw a program on tv the other night that discussed the possibility
- >of a global catastrophy in the year 2000. According the program, the
- >earth will lose its equilibrium, when the planets allign on may 5TH, because
- >the polar ice caps are becoming to massive for the earth to continue rotating
- >on the current axis. I thought it was kind of intersesting. what do you folks
- >think?
-
- [Caps transformed into nice soft lower case letters for the sake of our
- tired eyes and minds.]
-
- Well, not being one to scoff or anything but...
-
- How many of us remember the last time the planets were about to line up
- and a great firebolt was going to zap along this axis evaporating the
- surface of the earth as it went. It was about 1983 or something.
- I remember Patrick Moore (famous british television astronomer) pointing
- out that not all the planets were involved, the line up wasn't that great
- and that nothing had happened the previous time the planets had lined.
- He also pointed out that the previous line had been more of a line and
- involved more planets and nothing was going to happen this time either.
- He was certainly right. Nothing happened.
-
- Anyway everyone knows the world is going to end on april the 1st 2034...
-
-
- --
- Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu New Zealand --
- Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
- consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
- "If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
-