2012 Threats According to the Independent
July 2, 2010
The recent Independent article kicks off with a powerful prediction:
Forget man-made threats – the catalyst for the apocalypse will come from outer space – It’s true that the Mayan odometer will hit zeros on 21 December 2012
And, as befits a quality publication, it details the more likely cosmic catastrophes that may befall us, without any irony or sarcasm:
Then there’s the “Big One”. About every 100 million years, a rock the size of a small asteroid slams into the Earth, causing global earthquakes, kilometre-high tidal waves, and immediately killing all large land animals. Creatures in the sea soon follow, as trillions of tons of vaporised rock cause drastic cooling and the destruction of the food chain based on photosynthesis.
…If a hypernova went off within 1,000 light years, and Earth was within the narrow cone of high- energy radiation, we’d experience an immediate global conflagration. It’s brutal luck if a hyper nova ever goes off with its beam aimed at us.
And then it descends into the arena of “we’re doomed, but it is a billion years away so who cares…”
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we are not prepared
I think the world will end because people can't spell.