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		Sighing quietly to themselves that they put a man on the moon and now they're reduced to this, NASA patiently explains, yet again, that no, the world is not ending in 2012 and no, there are no such things as invisible space-serpents (news.yahoo.com)		107
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Majick Thise

2012-01-01 11:49:57 AM

Or at least the end isn't coming from space.. in which case they have done as any good government agency should and passed the eventual blame.

CrispFlows

2012-01-01 01:56:44 PM

NASA had to deal with idiots since the moon landing. Dealing with idiots is their forte!

TheOther

2012-01-01 02:36:42 PM

HOW COULD NASA KNOW?!? THEY'RE
INVISIBLE!!!!

FloydA

2012-01-01 03:04:28 PM

Don't mess with Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin will fark you up.

HawgWild

2012-01-01 03:08:50 PM

FloydA: [i105.photobucket.com image 425x365]

Don't mess with Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin will fark you up.

Unless he is yelling at the moon, of course.

FloydA

2012-01-01 03:12:32 PM

HawgWild: FloydA: [i105.photobucket.com image 425x365]

Don't mess with Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin will fark you up.

Unless he is yelling at the moon, of course.

There's no such thing as Astronaut Mike Dexter.

coco ebert

2012-01-01 03:13:14 PM

HawgWild: FloydA: [i105.photobucket.com image 425x365]

Don't mess with Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin will fark you up.

Unless he is yelling at the moon, of course.

Heh, might as well post this: Link (new window)

HawgWild

2012-01-01 03:14:50 PM

Gotdamn, you guys are quick on the uptake!

/lulz

Ed Finnerty

2012-01-01 03:15:32 PM

Makh

2012-01-01 03:15:57 PM

The sad thing is these people get elected and vote on NASA's budget.

coco ebert

2012-01-01 03:36:20 PM

HawgWild: Gotdamn, you guys are quick on the uptake!

/lulz

30 Rock- SRS BZNS!

Keizer_Ghidorah

2012-01-01 03:38:52 PM

Gobblegut says otherwise.

/aim for the bellyache bulges

FloydA

2012-01-01 03:43:56 PM

HawgWild: Gotdamn, you guys are quick on the uptake!

/lulz

micuu

2012-01-01 03:44:18 PM

Ah yes, the "Reapers". We have dismissed that claim.

TravisBickle62

2012-01-01 03:47:27 PM

Yet NASA cannot explain that unexplained object in the sky that is 100,000,000,000 times larger than the sun.

J. Frank Parnell

2012-01-01 03:48:09 PM

What is NASAs stance on the elusive Yeti, or Agartha?

I wasn't worried before, but the way they keep talking about this is starting to worry me. If it's complete nonsense, then they've already said that dozens of times. Why is it so important to them that it's dismissed? The apocalypse is claimed roughly every 10 years, and they never acted this way before.

stuffer

2012-01-01 03:48:35 PM

i kindof hope a big meteor comes out of nowhere and nails us this year. that would be some funny shiat

Mantour

2012-01-01 03:48:37 PM

Yeah, but what is NASA's plan to protect us from the Planet of the Apes?

DeltaPunch

2012-01-01 03:50:04 PM

The Mayans have five main cycles in their calendar, which last 1, 20, 360, 7,200, and 144,000 days. The year 2012 marks the end of a 144,000 cycle, which has happened several times since they created the calendar. There is literally nothing special about it.

I like how we couldn't give a flying shi*t about anything remotely Mayan... we don't care about their culture, we don't observe any other significant cycles in their calendar, etc., but suddenly THE WORLD IS ENDING OMG THE MAYANS PREDICTED IT!!!!!

/laughable, mang!

Splinshints

2012-01-01 03:51:13 PM

Well, duh.

I've been seeing the space serpents perfectly clearly for years.

FloydA

2012-01-01 03:52:08 PM

Mantour: Yeah, but what is NASA's plan to protect us from the Planet of the Apes?

Ideally, it involves launching Marky Mark into the sun.

Maturin

2012-01-01 03:53:41 PM

I thought it was a mutant star goat.

Erebus1954

2012-01-01 03:54:37 PM

DeltaPunch: The Mayans have five main cycles in their calendar, which last 1, 20, 360, 7,200, and 144,000 days. The year 2012 marks the end of a 144,000 cycle, which has happened several times since they created the calendar. There is literally nothing special about it.

I like how we couldn't give a flying shi*t about anything remotely Mayan... we don't care about their culture, we don't observe any other significant cycles in their calendar, etc., but suddenly THE WORLD IS ENDING OMG THE MAYANS PREDICTED IT!!!!!

/laughable, mang!

So it's like saying my one year calendar predicts the world will end on December 31. Funny stuff.

jayhawk88

2012-01-01 03:54:44 PM

I wonder which ancient civilization will have a doomsday prediction/calendar/whatever after Dec 2012 passes without incident. I'd say early odds should probably go to the Aborigines.

eCurmudgeon

2012-01-01 03:59:23 PM

I thought the end of the world was foretold by Mike Judge.

DeltaPunch

2012-01-01 04:00:40 PM

Erebus1954: DeltaPunch: The Mayans have five main cycles in their calendar, which last 1, 20, 360, 7,200, and 144,000 days. The year 2012 marks the end of a 144,000 cycle, which has happened several times since they created the calendar. There is literally nothing special about it.

I like how we couldn't give a flying shi*t about anything remotely Mayan... we don't care about their culture, we don't observe any other significant cycles in their calendar, etc., but suddenly THE WORLD IS ENDING OMG THE MAYANS PREDICTED IT!!!!!

/laughable, mang!

So it's like saying my one year calendar predicts the world will end on December 31. Funny stuff.

Exactly.

In fact, the level of ignorance that goes into thinking the world will end in 2012 because "OMG the Mayans!" is comically staggering. If Western civilization didn't go in there and slaughter all the Mayans in the first place, maybe they would have found the time to make calendars that last longer than 2012.

SearchN

2012-01-01 04:01:57 PM

Splinshints: Well, duh.

I've been seeing the space serpents perfectly clearly for years.

Hey man, you gonna hit that? If not, pass it.

BarbadoSlim

2012-01-01 04:02:40 PM

I can't believe people still buy that men on the moon nonsense.

Why Yes I Am A Wizard

2012-01-01 04:05:42 PM

Science can save us from anything, except ourselves.

TV's Vinnie

2012-01-01 04:05:59 PM

Ed Finnerty: [dtdstudios.com image 259x45]

I'm not saying that was funny, but that was funny.

PsiChick

2012-01-01 04:16:45 PM

J. Frank Parnell: What is NASAs stance on the elusive Yeti, or Agartha?

I wasn't worried before, but the way they keep talking about this is starting to worry me. If it's complete nonsense, then they've already said that dozens of times. Why is it so important to them that it's dismissed? The apocalypse is claimed roughly every 10 years, and they never acted this way before.

Translation of TFA:

NASA: "~~No, the world isn't ending~~ We don't have enough money for any real work because our government apparently doesn't care about scientific advancement. How to solve that...become the nation's Mythbusters! Problem solved!"

bmwericus

2012-01-01 04:19:26 PM

I'm not worried about it, I miss ALL the good stuff, so I'm sure the end of the world won't happen while I'm around, probably the week after I kick the bucket.

J. Frank Parnell

2012-01-01 04:21:00 PM

DeltaPunch: In fact, the level of ignorance that goes into thinking the world will end in 2012 because "OMG the Mayans!" is comically staggering.

Instead i believe what NASA tells me about 2012 being the peak of an extreme solar maximum, and we should expect to be bombarded with solar flares that will probably knock out our power, but stop short of knocking us back to the stone age, out of kindness. The mayans, who were keen observers of the sun with an eerily intimate knowledge of its cycles also saying something about 2012 can be more easily dismissed.

adeist69

2012-01-01 04:26:11 PM

Who said the end of the world meant actual destruction? I could just mean the complete destruction of the advancements we've made over the past 300 years, because that could still happen- Obama's term isn't over yet.

/amidoinitright?

adeist69

2012-01-01 04:29:12 PM

"It could mean"

/stupid Opera password manager.

Knara

2012-01-01 04:29:37 PM

How is it that Roger Corman hasn't made a "space serpent" movie yet?

bluenovaman

2012-01-01 04:30:36 PM

BarbadoSlim: I can't believe people still buy that men on the moon nonsense.

Why not? Obama was on Mars in the 80's.

Ambivalence

2012-01-01 04:37:13 PM

We DID put a man on the moon. But doesn't mean we could do it NOW if we had to.

We just haven't kept up with our space-skillz.

Great_Milenko

2012-01-01 04:42:09 PM

BarbadoSlim: I can't believe people still buy that men on the moon nonsense.

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AbbeySomeone

2012-01-01 04:46:46 PM

TheOther: HOW COULD NASA KNOW?!? THEY'RE
INVISIBLE!!!!

Ya really. They could be everywhere and smartypants NASA wouldn't know. Won't NASA feel silly when they suddenly materialize and destroy the earth?

Non-evil Monkey

2012-01-01 04:49:17 PM

DeltaPunch: Erebus1954: DeltaPunch: The Mayans have five main cycles in their calendar, which last 1, 20, 360, 7,200, and 144,000 days. The year 2012 marks the end of a 144,000 cycle, which has happened several times since they created the calendar. There is literally nothing special about it.

I like how we couldn't give a flying shi*t about anything remotely Mayan... we don't care about their culture, we don't observe any other significant cycles in their calendar, etc., but suddenly THE WORLD IS ENDING OMG THE MAYANS PREDICTED IT!!!!!

/laughable, mang!

So it's like saying my one year calendar predicts the world will end on December 31. Funny stuff.

Exactly.

In fact, the level of ignorance that goes into thinking the world will end in 2012 because "OMG the Mayans!" is comically staggering. If Western civilization didn't go in there and slaughter all the Mayans in the first place, maybe they would have found the time to make calendars that last longer than 2012.

The amusing thing is that their long count calendar totally can go past 2012.

December 21st 2012 marks the beginning of the 13th B'ak'tun. Now it just so happened that the first cycle of creation in Mayan mythology ended at the end of 12th B'ak'tun (with us currently being in the second).

However I am unaware that there would be any reason they couldn't just keep counting straight through 13th B'ak'tun and into 14th, 15th, and so on. Alternatively, they could just declare it the start of the 3rd cycle of creation without the need for any great apocalypse to end the 2nd.

Quantum Apostrophe

2012-01-01 04:50:11 PM

TravisBickle62: Yet NASA cannot explain that unexplained object in the sky that is 100,000,000,000 times larger than the sun.

Woops, sorry, I didn't know my fly was open.

FloydA

2012-01-01 04:52:00 PM

Ambivalence: We DID put a man on the moon. But doesn't mean we could do it NOW if we had to.

We just haven't kept up with our space-skillz.

We could, but why bother?

There are lots of cool things that we could be, and should be doing in space. But sending people to the moon at this point would be a huge expense with no return. It was important to do that40 years ago, as proof of concept, but I can't see much benefit in doing that again unless we plan on staying.

J. Frank Parnell

2012-01-01 04:53:49 PM

AbbeySomeone: TheOther: HOW COULD NASA KNOW?!? THEY'RE
INVISIBLE!!!!

Ya really. They could be everywhere and smartypants NASA wouldn't know. Won't NASA feel silly when they suddenly materialize and destroy the earth?

...My god, you're right.

It all makes so much sense now.

Bennie Crabtree

2012-01-01 04:55:52 PM

Keizer_Ghidorah: [images.wikia.com image 500x281]

Gobblegut says otherwise.

/aim for the bellyache bulges

I was going to say, NASA has always been very active with children, who might be the intended audience for their anti-apocalyptic messages. They must walk a fine line between teaching science and, well...becoming the horrible teacher of death in Where the Wild Things Are (the movie).

AzErNy

2012-01-01 05:04:32 PM

Self-proclaimed Nibiru expert Nancy Lieder, who says she is in contact with the aliens from Zeta ~~Reticuli~~ Ridiculous, first said Nibiru would cause widespread disaster in May 2003, only to change it to Dec. 21, 2012.

FTFH

joe not appearing in this picture

2012-01-01 05:05:24 PM

The problem Mayans had is they didn't have Barnes and Nobles around to buy a new end of calender.
If they were so predicty they would of predicted their own downfall and prevented it.
And I don't care what some modern day crackpot say's about what the Mayans "said"
they weren't around back then and the crackpots are most likely trying to sell their viewpoint.

whidbey

2012-01-01 05:06:42 PM

Funny how people might entertain ridiculous notions like some of the "Doomsday" prophecies, but when it comes to something very documentable like man-made climate change, that's just downright impossible, how dare they?

FloydA: Ambivalence: We DID put a man on the moon. But doesn't mean we could do it NOW if we had to.

We just haven't kept up with our space-skillz.

We could, but why bother?

There are lots of cool things that we could be, and should be doing in space. But sending people to the moon at this point would be a huge expense with no return. It was important to do that40 years ago, as proof of concept, but I can't see much benefit in doing that again unless we plan on staying.

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea to do an updated survey of the moon just to get the program going again. The innovations in scanning and analyzing technology have certainly improved in 43 years. And we've hardly explored the entire surface from the ground.

The moon would be a good staging area for other planetary missions.

FloydA

2012-01-01 05:17:31 PM

whidbey:

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea to do an updated survey of the moon just to get the program going again. The innovations in scanning and analyzing technology have certainly improved in 43 years. And we've hardly explored the entire surface from the ground.

The moon would be a good staging area for other planetary missions.

Sure, if we were going to build something lasting there, that would be great. I just think it would be a waste to do another Apollo style mission just to get some people up there and back. I'm not sure what surveying could be done by humans that couldn't be done quicker, and more safely, with robots.

(I do survey here on earth with human crews, and it's cheaper than with robots, but that's because I don't have to bring the oxygen to the site!)

If we were actually going to build something there, that would be different, but going just to go? Meh. If that's our goal, I'd rather go to Mars.

TheOther

2012-01-01 05:19:30 PM

CrispFlows: NASA had to deal with idiots since the moon landing. Dealing with idiots is their forte!

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