Well, it's time again for the insanophiles to pelt us with the latest end-of-the-cosmos scenario. This time it's 2012. The planets are lining up! There's going to be a giant war in the middle east! Niburu (Planet X) is coming!!
Well, even as the Age of Aquarius dawns, let me tell you why nothing is going to happen. Remember Y2k? Remember how the world fell apart because the computers all broke and then the earth fell into the sun? No? Exactly.
In case you don't remember, all the planets lined up in 1992. Wow, that was a diSASter, wasn't it? (or was that 1982?) People predicted earthquakes everywhere, sunamis, the death of California.
In the seventies people were writing about the unusually large number of carrion birds being born in Israel. Must be a huge battle coming the in the next ten years, right?
And if Planet X exists (pretty unlikely to start with), and if its orbit is 3600 years, and if it was last here at the time of Jacob -- let's see, that means it's still got 500 years before it's due again!
So, sorry if your latest doomsday scenario doesn't get me excited. It's just that nothing is going to happen.
Monday, August 31, 2009
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