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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: Stuart2007 on October 27, 2009, 19:32:23
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We all are going to die on 21st December 2012. Discuss.
Me first. This is based on Mayan (ancient civilisation) theory that the planet will end.
1)NO. This is OUR interpretation of THEIR OPINION.
2)The Mayans couldn't even predict their own anhialation
3)In Red Dwarf style, there IS NO point 3, just reflect on the importance of point 2.
4)We can't even read the rest of the stone tablet this was inscribed upon
5)Just because they are making a film, doesn't mean it's true (although Nasa has been receiving lots of questions about it)
6)Bono, Geldof and Blair are all probably already doing a benefit gig for it.
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Not another "end of the world" topic... ::)
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Stu, I think that will be the day when Titanic will rise from the grave, killing all that disturbing her rest.
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Not another "end of the world" topic... ::)
I agree, Theyve been saying the worlds going to end for awhile, so I say lets just live our lives :P
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Stu, I think that will be the day when Titanic will rise from the grave, killing all that disturbing her rest.
I'm kind of getting tired of "end of the world" topics. Why does everybody think that the world will end in 2012?
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Actually there are alot of reasons but....
I don't think that the world will end...
I just think that the Aliens that altered the coarse of your lives once already when they passed by on the same asteroid that is supposed to pass by again in 2012 about 3200 years ago (Around the time of the stories "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey") are going to return. ;D
No seriously... :-\
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Hi All
Is there nothing else to discuss about??? :evil: Think about the kids here on the forum.
rgrds
JoMach
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Why does everybody think that the world will end in 2012?
Because everybody think that it must end someday!
Those who impatient in waiting for the world end - are hoping for the 2012.
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True, because i read it on the internet... :doh: :-\
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Now, now Ballast, you can't believe everything you read on the internet :doh: :doh: :doh: ::) :P
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I wonder if the ones that came up with 21/12/2012, took into account the fact that the mayan calendar does not take leapyears into account, so that even if there was some truth in this, which there isn't, the date is probably way off anyway..
Seriously, some of those that study the ancient cultures of central and south america seriously, have concluded that there is actually no mentioning whatsoever about an apocalyptic event, in mayan 'historical documents' (that includes wall paintings and stone carvings and tablets and folklore and all that). :P
All a load of nonesense, made up by greedy people, so that they can make money off of books that they write and sell to those that are dumb enough to buy into it. Noting is factual, everything is misinterpreted or simply made up.
So.. No.. we don't die on that date.. we'll die out some other time in the future, but not by 2012. :thumbs:
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If this was 100% correct, would it be on news every single day. And not 2 programs per. year on discovery. This is just something researchers think and scare peoples with. ;)
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So.. No.. we don't die on that date.. we'll die out some other time in the future, but not by 2012. :thumbs:
Touch Wood :doh:
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If this was 100% correct, would it be on news every single day. And not 2 programs per. year on discovery. This is just something researchers think and scare peoples with. ;)
It is how they get money, keep people watching their channel....
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Touch Wood :doh:
The first couple of times I saw that I thought that you said "Torch Wood" Which would also make sense in this argument....
(Sci-Fi Branch off of Doctor Who)--Notice that all the letters needed to spell "Doctor Who" are in the Words Torch Wood... :P
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/s2_12-13gallery/1024/torchwood_logo.jpg)
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To be honest, with the way our tax bill is going to go up to pay for the 2012 Olympics, I'm not sure the end of the world is going to be a bad thing.
Hi All
Is there nothing else to discuss about??? :evil: Think about the kids here on the forum.
rgrds
JoMach
I AM thinking about them... suddenly that asteroid/virus/volcano doesn't seem so bad :lol:
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I believe we will keep going on past December, 21, 2012 (If I can remember, it is the Winter Solstice on the 21 of December), we are alive and well and we'll keep going on till the sun burns out (Trillions of years from now).
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Now, now Ballast, you can't believe everything you read on the internet :doh: :doh: :doh: ::) :P
Hence allot of info people give here :P
Overclocking is a safe and good way to make your processor faster :doh: ::)
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I believe we will keep going on past December, 21, 2012 (If I can remember, it is the Winter Solstice on the 21 of December), we are alive and well and we'll keep going on till the sun burns out (Trillions of years from now).
i would have to agree i mean we have been told that we are suppose to die already like five times in the last decade. so this is old news haha.
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till the sun burns out (Trillions of years from now).
Oh great. Thanks a bunch. What's the point in saving for old age then... Lets all tell the pension service to get paxo'd. ;D
It's one of those stupid myths that because enough people talk about it, it must be true (2012, not the sun packing up on billions of years)... and in a national newspaper too ::)
Perhaps that island in the Canaries that is 'imminently' (as in the next millenium or so) expected to fall into the sea and send a massive wall of water across the Atlantic is more alarming... Even though one poor quality redtop paper said "the water will race across the Atlantic at the speed of light..."(!) ::)
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I don't think planet "Earth" itself will end anytime soon...Unless, we end it ourselves...Or we poison it to the degree that WE cannot live on it.
I personally think that, There's a cycle...We'll all eventually die out once we've finished poisoning the place, or, the rest of us will go and "Discover" some other planets, and we'll all move over there...
Millions of years later, someone says "Wow, Look what I've discovered"....And we'll all end up back here. By then, there won't be any trace of (Our) Existance...I believe the planet just "Cleans" itself, or, species just evolve to live in the conditions that we have now...
Might sound far fetched - But how can we say the earth is "Millions of years old and a "Big Bang" made it all" - Now, that, is far fetched...
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Jack, please don't start the evolution/creationism arguement :evil:
Everyone knows that the world was made by a bloke called Slarty Bartfast. If you ask some Norwegian members here they can see his signature on Fjords in Norway.
Of course! he Vogons are coming to visit to watch the Olympics.
Or perhaps civilisation WILL die out in 2012... Britain might win more golds than China and Russia and everyone in the world dies of shock.
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Everyone knows that the world was made by a bloke called Slarty Bartfast. If you ask some Norwegian members here they can see his signature on Fjords in Norway.
:lol: :D
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"Follow me, Jack. Or you will be late."
"Late? Late for what?"
"Late, as in the late IrishJack. I never was any good with threats".
(More or less the words of Slarty).
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Yes Dr T. I've actually used that once to diffuse an arguement with an acutely large gentleman who wanted to turn my head inside out. I made a fool out of him in front of his wife/girlfriend/escort/pros...lets not go there.
He didn't understand it until she, and friends starting laughing at him and he sulked off. Thank God as he would have got (his) blood on my shirt.
Douglas Adams had a brilliant mind. Rich though- which is why he died 'for tax reasons'.
Terry, did you read Dirk Gently? I know one of the books was better than the other... I think we all know someone with characteristics like Dirk.
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When they'll pass the 2012, this (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/13may_2004mn4.htm) probably will be the next annoying subject.
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Thanks for that link... fascinating ;D
They are sure it won't hit earth, but don't yet know which side of the sun it will pass by... :-\
Think about it... We are so unsure about its path that we don't know which side of the sun it will pass... but we are sure it won't hit earth.
Thank whichever God you believe in for Bruce Willis and his nuclear bomb...
EDIT: On the subject of asteroids, has anyone read the book 'Rendezvouz with Rama...' now THAT would be interesting
Perhaps even WM wouldn't be bored by it :o
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Never mind which side of the sun, which side of the Earth will it pass by ?
Will the days become shorter or longer, and shall we need extra underwear..?
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Perhaps even WM wouldn't be bored by it :o
Why exactly even WM but not SD or Terry or Austin or even Chris1 ?
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When they'll pass the 2012, this (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/13may_2004mn4.htm) probably will be the next annoying subject.
Because this indicated to me that you thought the subject less than awe-inspiring. But in the interests of avoiding offence (as if I would)
Perhaps even Saltydog, Dr Terry, Agentaustin and Chris 1 won't be bored by it :o
How's that, WM? :angel:
SD: If it were to hit the earth, it would make the day a bit shorter for most people... ;)
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If it were to hit, I needn't worry about extra underwear..
The near-miss is stuff for another rubbish Hollywood film.. ;)
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If it were to hit, I needn't worry about extra underwear..
The near-miss is stuff for another rubbish Hollywood film.. ;)
That is just what the dinosaurs said.
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I didn't know the dinosaurs wore underwear..
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Well, they don't anymore.
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They sure could have used some..
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Now you know where the fossilised dino dung comes from...
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Because this indicated to me that you thought the subject less than awe-inspiring. But in the interests of avoiding offence (as if I would)
Perhaps even Saltydog, Dr Terry, Agentaustin and Chris 1 won't be bored by it :o
How's that, WM? :angel:
Much better now. Cheers!
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Much better now. Cheers!
You're welcome
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When they'll pass the 2012, this (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/13may_2004mn4.htm) probably will be the next annoying subject.
Wow, few days after my birthday
What a great present :doh:
Now you know where the fossilised dino dung comes from...
I have fossilised Turtle Dung!
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Wow, few days after my birthday
What a great present :doh:
I have fossilised Turtle Dung!
To think what archaeologists will make of your dung in 65 million years time.
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To think what archaeologists will make of your dung in 65 million years time.
Wild guess: a ferry?
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Wild guess: a ferry?
Possibly...
Do you remember when you were young(er) and you went to the zoo with the school (why they imply disparity...) and you could buy those fossilised dung keyrings... :o
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Hey I brought it from a fossil shop, and it is on one of my shelfs :thumbs:
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Hey I brought it from a fossil shop, and it is on one of my shelfs :thumbs:
One wonders how many fossils are in and around the Dover Straits environment? Have you ever been to Dover? It is near Calais.
Can you spot the hidden message? Subliminal messaging... Like the Da Vinci or bible code...
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Haha, your really anxious for that arent you?
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If there were a direct hit, what would survive..?
- rats
- cockroaches
- Bruce Willis (with babe)
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Cockroaches
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Wrong, Bruce and his babe would feed on the cockroaches, and he would shoot the rats with his never-ending gun.. ;D
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If there were a direct hit, what would survive..?
- rats
- cockroaches
- Bruce Willis (with babe)
The rats and cockroaches would have no chance.
Though the tough man brucie was somewhat scared of flying some years ago... in case it was seized by terrorists (was this about the time of the awful DH2 joke)
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I think it's pretty clear that both Sean Connery and Billy Joel would survive!
(http://riseofthetechnologyclass.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/jamesbondseanconnery.jpg)
(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/billy-joel/album-billy-joel-greatest-hits-vol-3.jpg)
And how could be forget the tenth Doctor David Tennant!!!
(http://tigeryogiji.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/tennant_2.jpg)
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If there were a direct hit, what would survive..?
- rats
- cockroaches
- Bruce Willis (with babe)
Me, because I sent the asteroid! :evil: :evil:
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Me, because I sent the asteroid! :evil: :evil:
Now we know to whom address the blame!
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I was planning the sun's implosion to suck up te first four planets :evil: :evil: :evil:
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I was planning the sun's implosion to suck up te first four planets :evil: :evil: :evil:
Matt, you better go finish your if only one WTC tower SU model than dreaming about the global terror.
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Goodbye World (http://i.fokzine.net/s/bye.gif)
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Goodbye World (http://i.fokzine.net/s/bye.gif)
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^ Ah, TQM... Quotes everything he sees...
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^ Ah, TQM... Quotes everything he sees...
He's my parot :-*
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He's my parot :-*
You must have mighty shoulders if The Ferry Parrot is sitting on one of them. ;D
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Well if we are going to die, we may as well say goodbye...
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And how could be forget the tenth Doctor David Tennant!!!
(http://tigeryogiji.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/tennant_2.jpg)
VERY easily :sleepy:
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VERY easily :sleepy:
I was just thinking that.... :lol: :D
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I was just thinking that.... :lol: :D
So it isn't just me that thinks his acting is a bit poor then? I've seen his acting in other programmes and he always seemed fairly good; so what went wrong with doctor who, I don't know.
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Personaly i rather think of the positive than the Negitive
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Flaming optimists. Naive, that's all I can say.
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Some though the end of the world was Y2K, and also 9/11. Y2K didn't happen and 9/11 was only WTC, Pentagon and Shanksville field. I think 2012 could be another small disaster. If there was a said meteor, I think it would be a 98% chance of it hitting the oceans and a 2% chance of hitting solid rock continents. so the chance of surviving is great
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Ever think of TIDAL WAVE :P
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When I think of a Tidal Wave, I think of Poseidon:
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/poseidonvs71s.jpg)
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i dont believe this junk, like others said Y2k was supposted to be the end and here we are. For me this sits on a far back burner in my brain and when the date comes i'll bring it up front and we'll just see what happens. I'll be mad...if the world ends i'll only be my second year of college :P
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If the 2012 is a hoax, I will go down to the Expert scientists and knock them right :evil:
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Oh, We're still going to die, are we? :lol: ;D
Jack.
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lalalalalalalalala not listening :doh:
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well we all shall die sometime and i'm glad i don't know when, and someone have to little to do then they spired this message around but i think this are not so serious :doh:
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I rather not know especialy because i want to Play SSE and i want to work for Vstep and the work on the Esperanza
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Anyone see the thing about 2012 and Sarah Palin on SNL?
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The human race WILL die out at some point. It MAY be 2012. It may be 27/11/09 or it may be 2123 AM (After Marmite)... Who knows.
Anyone that predicts such things based solely on astronomical observations from ancient civilisations is totally mad. I started this topic and I'm really glad to see so many people on the side of objective reasoning. Congratulations; you aren't a bunch of halfwits after all ;D
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The human race WILL die out at some point. It MAY be 2012. It may be 27/11/09 or it may be 2123 AM (After Marmite)... Who knows.
Anyone that predicts such things based solely on astronomical observations from ancient civilisations is totally mad. I started this topic and I'm really glad to see so many people on the side of objective reasoning. Congratulations; you aren't a bunch of halfwits after all ;D
Why thank you...
Coming from you, that is a real compliment ;D
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Why thank you...
Coming from you, that is a real compliment ;D
I wouldn't go that far 8)
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I wouldn't go that far 8)
:(
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Look on the bright side, TFM...
They say the biggest threat to life is yellowstone park volcano (cheers America) but it's likely that the landslide in the canaries will kill us off first. ALTHOUGH the Canaries landslide might not actually get us... if a meteorite beats it to us. A meteorite might not be the end of us though, if a mutant virus finishes us of first.
So, each doomsday scenario can be beaten with another such scenario...
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Im guessing you guys dont get along :-[
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Nah Stu's okay :thumbs:
It does make you think when you put all them doomsday scenarios together...
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Yes, of course. TFM is a good bloke. If I didn't like him, you would be in no doubt about it.
I wouldn't be horrible to someone I didn't like ;D
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Ok, just seems cause you guys are bickering
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Ok, just seems cause you guys are bickering
Nah just some friendly banter...
Same with WM...
I hate to be someone you didn;t like Stu...
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okk.......
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Ok, just seems cause you guys are bickering
No, not at all. Dry humour doesn't translate too well on an internet forum. Either that or it's just people are thick; I'm not sure which...
See? Most people would know that I mean that offensively, but some naively think I am joking... It IS hard.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
WM is another one with a dry humour. So occasionally, his posts can be misinterpreted as him being an arguementative, annoying, troublesome, confrontational, blood pressure inducing little... ;D
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life after death... ;D
Just look at it with humor ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQhAVFxDFk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQhAVFxDFk)
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life after death... ;D
Just look at it with humor ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQhAVFxDFk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQhAVFxDFk)
How about a little life BEFORE death...
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How about a little life BEFORE death...
I agree...
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not real Stuart2007
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people say in 2013 there is soppeosd to be a astroid the size of texas past by earth realy close if it is close enough the gravitational pull from earth will couse it to end the world
honastly i dont belive that
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people say in 2013 there is soppeosd to be a astroid the size of texas past by earth realy close if it is close enough the gravitational pull from earth will couse it to end the world
honastly i dont belive that
That's odd. In the ancient predictions of the tribe of Terricanrussellous Fantastico, which must be read whilst hanging upside down over a bonfire, covered in kippers and marmite, if you take the 16th, 3rd and 54th letter of each word of the text, it says quite clearly that Texas will fly past on March 16th 2013, disrupting the path of a giant asteroid and messing up the TV reception of the Asteroidians who live on it.
It then says "All things are relative".
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people say in 2013 there is soppeosd to be a astroid the size of texas past by earth realy close if it is close enough the gravitational pull from earth will couse it to end the world
honastly i dont belive that
Why wouldn't you believe that. There IS a astroid coming. But the chances of it actually entering the earth's atmosphere and not bursting into flames is like 1/1000000 I think.
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Thanks for that convincing hypothesis Professor Austin. I speak not for any other person, but I will sleep easier at night knowing you think the chances of a collision are, like, 1/1000000 (give or take a few zeros)
Perhaps this is the next one to get worried about :sleepy: April 13/2029... It just HAD to be a Friday, didn't it.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0726/p01s04-stss.html
The end of the world is nigh. At least if it does wipe out the human race we won't have to listen to any more doom-merchants predicting the end of the world. Who thought up this damned topic anyway?
I'm sure that those geniuses at Hollywood will manage to make a film about it beforehand- something where the mission is facing certain doom, but one brave, heroic American gives his life so that others may live... :sleepy: :sleepy: :sleepy: Hey, Professor Austin- what are you doing 13/4/29?
For my part, I shall get blind drunk and enjoy an especially good firework display.
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Actually, a huge asteroid will hit hit the earth. :evil:
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I was reading some interesting facts about this... NASA, believes it can launch a mission to destroy or move any asteroid before it becomes a danger- a little less gun-ho than Hollywood would have you believe.
I know that the world may mock Hollywood for its 'America- the saviour of the world' attitude, but those chaps at Nasa (funded by America but using brains from all around the world, incidentally) are actually quite clever people.
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Hi Stu.
My wife was just speaking with a friend of ours who lives out near Houston and work at that very place (or one of the many places they have). She repeated your statement about "but those chaps at Nasa ... are actually quite clever people".
He fell about laughing. ;D
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ANY organisation that can take the technology of another country (Germany) and pass it off as their own to the whole world and then, through clever PR, makes the whole world forget this, is pretty impressive in my book.
Next they'll have people believe they invented the car and light bulb. ::)
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Hey Guys,
I promise I'll cite this later but...
I have just read something that states a fact that Magnetic North (For you pilots out there) is moving in the direction of Russia at 40 Miles Per Year. This indicates that Magnetic North and South may flip again in the near future.
To most people this seems unthinkable but! not only has this happened 5 or 6 times before in the history of the planet Every time it has happened before events surrounding it have been catastrophic!!!
Again, I'll find the source later...
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Let's not forget that the Americans were only able to go "supersonic" after having seen the "all-flying tailplane",
a British idea.. ;)
"In 1946 a team of American engineers from Bell Aviation, who were also working on a supersonic aircraft project, visited the top-secret research facility of the Miles Aircraft company. The British government instructed the company to co-operate fully with the Americans, in return for data on the United States' own supersonic programme4.
It is known that the Bell company had been having serious problems with control of their aircraft as it approached the sound barrier. The Miles team had overcome this snag with a completely new idea - the all-flying tailplane.
Basically, up until then, the horizontal tailplanes of all aircraft had been fitted with small flaps on their trailing edges to aid with vertical stability. The all-flying tailplane did away with these flaps, which were just not large enough to counteract the enormous forces encountered at supersonic speeds, and designed an aircraft where the entire horizontal tailplane pivoted, thus giving a much greater movable surface area with which to control the vertical pitch of the aircraft. This was a significant breakthrough, in fact Chuck Yeager5 is on record as saying that the single most significant contribution to the final success of the Bell XS-1 was the all-flying tailplane. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A882272
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Wow... I just found myself asking what does this has to do with Magnetic North... :doh:
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Hey Guys,
I promise I'll cite this later but...
I have just read something that states a fact that Magnetic North (For you pilots out there) is moving in the direction of Russia at 40 Miles Per Year. This indicates that Magnetic North and South may flip again in the near future.
To most people this seems unthinkable but! not only has this happened 5 or 6 times before in the history of the planet Every time it has happened before events surrounding it have been catastrophic!!!
Again, I'll find the source later...
The Poles are due a flip again soon...
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The Poles are due a flip again soon...
Yes, thanks to Captain Cadet for making them every day! :thumbdown:
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The Poles are due a flip again soon...
What time?
I don't think this is something to worry about in your lifetimes- It isn't that quick... Me on the other hand, well I intend to live forever so I WILL see it...
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It is one of these things we don;t really know - we know they will change, but when, well soon, but soon on a big scale, not a human scale, where soon could be tomorrow, or it could be a 1000 years from now...
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Yes, yes... And the Canary Islands will collapse into the Atlantic sending a tsunami across to America sometime in the next 20,000 years- just in time, no doubt, to quench the fiery pits of hell that will befall America when Yellowstone Park goes up... anytime in the next 50,000 years or so.
So, one disaster will help another one; no big losses then... Except that without America and its legions of Bruce Willis clones- there will be no one to save the human race from this asteroid/mutant stargoat/ supernova/ aliens...
The issue is that when geologists and such predict "soon" they mean 10,000 years being "soon". Also, one wonders that when their £/$/Eu grants depend upon their importance to society... would they perhaps enhance the likelihood of such problems just to secure research grants for anxious politicians... (Or is that just the global warming mob?)
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According to my pan-dimensional organiser, I have scheduled the next magnetic reversal for 1876787643871996787468574747854876.00256 nanoseconds from the universal start date in enviroment 12ABQ7.
As you'll notice, that day has a very special significance for me. :2thumbs:
But that isn't the one you need to worry about. It's the physical reversal of the planet Dirt that should worry you. You'll all be spun off into space when that happens.
PS Sorry, I meant "Earth", not "Dirt". Seems the same word to me, but I gather it's important to you mudlings. Not sure why you don't call it "Water", since there's far more of that (until the physical reversal).
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"Greetings earthling...Take me to your leader"
"Greetings mudling...Take me to your leader"
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Hmmm...
An interesting point incidentally; since centrifugal force* and gravity balance out to just the right amount for human life to survive on planet earth (and keep Marmite jars on the brekkie table)... If the earth slows down enough, the balance of gravity/c.f. will be affected making us all 3ft tall... ;D
*Just in case any bright sparks here (and you two KNOW who I mean :evil:) want to point out that there is no centrifugal force, I AM aware thanks... But explaining to some members what inertia is is hard enough, let alone the mathematics behind it and how it applies in this situation).
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"Greetings earthling...Take me to your leader"
"Greetings mudling...Take me to your leader"
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Hmmm...
An interesting point incidentally; since centrifugal force* and gravity balance out to just the right amount for human life to survive on planet earth (and keep Marmite jars on the brekkie table)... If the earth slows down enough, the balance of gravity/c.f. will be affected making us all 3ft tall... ;D
*Just in case any bright sparks here (and you two KNOW who I mean :evil:) want to point out that there is no centrifugal force, I AM aware thanks... But explaining to some members what inertia is is hard enough, let alone the mathematics behind it and how it applies in this situation).
Centifugal Force exists in an accelerating Frame of Reference ;)
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"Greetings earthling...Take me to your leader"
"Greetings mudling...Take me to your leader"
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Hmmm...
An interesting point incidentally; since centrifugal force* and gravity balance out to just the right amount for human life to survive on planet earth (and keep Marmite jars on the brekkie table)... If the earth slows down enough, the balance of gravity/c.f. will be affected making us all 3ft tall... ;D
*Just in case any bright sparks here (and you two KNOW who I mean :evil:) want to point out that there is no centrifugal force, I AM aware thanks... But explaining to some members what inertia is is hard enough, let alone the mathematics behind it and how it applies in this situation).
I think you mean "centripetal" force (see http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00305.htm for a really good explanation of the difference).
But if your assertion is correct, how come Eskimos aren't 3ft 6 and people in Singapore 8ft 3 (on average)?
In any case, I meant the fact that on average, you are spinning around at many miles/kilometeres/lepton lengths per second. When I stop the Dirt you will continue at that speed, briefly but long enough to wipe the surface clean.
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If we all die in 2010, does that mean even Terry? But Terry can't die on this Earth, his planet just won't allow it. Also, if everything dies, how will Terry get his Marmite?
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Centifugal Force exists in an accelerating Frame of Reference ;)
CF doesn't exist. It's an engineering phantom. I'm (thankfully) not an engineer or a professor of physics. Nevertheless:
I was led to believe that centripetal forces are those that INwards on a curve, not outwards. Anyway, the 3ft was a somewhat exaggeration... But lets take a more scientific approach to it: If a baby is born on a stationery object, that HAS gravity (1g), but no CF to act against it, would this have an effect...
Or put another way- if the world was to stop spinning (slowly not suddenly!!!) would that make the relative effect of gravity=2g?
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I'm (thankfully) not an engineer or a professor of physics. Nevertheless:
Many professors of physics are equally thankful about that :evil:
Or put another way- if the world was to stop spinning (slowly not suddenly!!!) would that make the relative effect of gravity=2g?
No.
Consider this: ignoring the oblate spheroid shape of the earth (which causes the poles to flatten a little), how much heavier is an Eskimo at the North pole? Answer: almost no difference in weight. The outward force due to the Mud's rotation, even at the Equator, is almost negligible.
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Is there a McDonalds at the North Pole..?
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We all are going to die on 21st December 2012. Discuss.
Me first. This is based on Mayan (ancient civilisation) theory that the planet will end.
The Mayans probably ran out of stone slates, or simply got bored of doing the calendars so they stopped at 21/12/2012 and decided to mess about with the mind of their future forebearers by announcing that the world will end on that date. (i.e. like we are discussing about the end of the world on this topic)
The Mayans are not the only one who have prophised the end of the world.
Nostradamus said the world would end around 12 years ago. I remembered it would end on a day in July - it didn't. (I was actually working overtime on that day - rather than going AWOL and on a booze bender)
Jehovah Witness said several times that the world would end - it didn't. (in fact they stopped announcing when the world would end as they were wrong on each occasion)
Many people believed the Millennium Bug would cause the world to fall into chaos - aeroplanes dropping out of the sky during mid-flight and nuclear power stations going into meltdown due to the computers not recognising the year 2000 - it didn't.
When CERN ran the Large Hadron Collider, many people thought it would create a Black Hole, engulfing the world from within inside. Well, we are still here...... ::)
My advice is just to enjoy life as much as you could and stop worrying.
:thumbs:
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Cheers Dr T for correcting my knowledge on that. It was explained really quite well by a rather well qualified gent (who has not, as yet, given permission for his PM to be made public). Although I think we can probably all guess what brain box it was!!! :D
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Has anyone seen the film 2012? Is it really as bad as I've heard?
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Cheers Dr T for correcting my knowledge on that. It was explained really quite well by a rather well qualified gent (who has not, as yet, given permission for his PM to be made public). Although I think we can probably all guess what brain box it was!!! :D
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Has anyone seen the film 2012? Is it really as bad as I've heard?
My friend says there are ships 3200 feet long in that film, so, yes. ;D
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My friend says there are ships 3200 feet long in that film, so, yes. ;D
3200 feet long... and built in the Himalayas... where the good people of Nepal are known for being extremely adaptable, roubust people... Unfortunately, their infrastructure isn't geared up for building ships up mountains...
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3200 feet long... and built in the Himalayas... where the good people of Nepal are known for being extremely adaptable, roubust people... Unfortunately, their infrastructure isn't geared up for building ships up mountains...
Let alone a "Mega super" sized vessel. ;D
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Were Not Going To Die On The 21st Of December In 2012. Highly In-Logical. Impossible. ::)
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Well the Nostradamus says we will all die in over a thousand years. And that has a habit of being right.
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Well the Nostradamus says we will all die in over a thousand years. And that has a habit of being right.
I take it this is some sort of sarcasm? Nice, I like it.
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No sarcasm... It says we all die in the year 32and something. But I don't care, because I'll be dead then. ;D
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what has nostrodamus ever been right about? ??? Apart from predicting his own death- which lets face it, was going to happen eventually.
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what has nostrodamus ever been right about? ??? Apart from predicting his own death- which lets face it, was going to happen eventually.
I have no idea. :doh:
But I do know that it is more right than everything else, or so they say...
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No idea.... Hmmm But right aout everything... hmmm
Have you been sniffing Marmite?
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No idea.... Hmmm But right aout everything... hmmm
Have you been sniffing Marmite?
Yes I Have!!!
(http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module2/80571/Lemmings_qjpreviewth.jpg)
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what has nostrodamus ever been right about? ??? Apart from predicting his own death- which lets face it, was going to happen eventually.
He predicted fax machine.
Big deal - anyone could have thought of that. Nostradmus just got there first a couple of centuries earlier than everyone else.
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He predicted fax machines?
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He predicted fax machines?
Fax machines... :o
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OK, Kevin... Nostrodamus invented the fax machine. I'm going to go and update his wikipedia page- if it hasn't already been done ye :D
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He predicted fax machines?
Yeah, that's what I once read, many years before the internet become popular and accessible to everyone. Nowadays you would struggle to find Nostradum's predictions without the search engine coming up with rubbish like this one:
(screenshot taken from my PC)
::)
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OK, Kevin... Nostrodamus invented the fax machine. I'm going to go and update his wikipedia page- if it hasn't already been done ye :D
lol, on this occasion you're welcome to claim the credit. ;D Not me ;)
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Did nostrodamus predict google I wonder ???
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Did nostrodamus predict google I wonder ???
I wouldn't put it past him ;D
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Did nostrodamus predict google I wonder ???
Did Nostradamus predict Dover-Calais in the same environment...
Now that is a question to ponder...
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Did+Nostradamus+predict+Dover-Calais+in+the+same+environment ;)
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:P
That didn't help
I bet he never saw it coming...
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You did atleast try :doh:
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You did atleast try :doh:
Google doesn't know everything... 8) :P
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Then humans dosent eighter since almost everything goes out on the web (apart from military secrets) ;)
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Then humans dosent eighter since almost everything goes out on the web (apart from military secrets) ;)
Wikipedia wasn't around to record all Nostradamus predictions...
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No but google for nostredamus and go to site forexampel 9536 and you probeably find something :doh:
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If nostrodamus was so damned clever, why didn't he win the lottery.
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OH my God!
Look what I discovered!:
If you change the following letter in his name:
N --> Y
O --> O
S --> U
T --> W
R --> I
O --> L
D --> L
A --> D
M --> I
U --> E
S --> !
then it says: YOUWILLDIE!=You will die!
OMG!
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:doh:
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OH my God!
Look what I discovered!:
If you change the following letter in his name:
N --> Y
O --> O
S --> U
T --> W
R --> I
O --> L
D --> L
A --> D
M --> I
U --> E
S --> !
then it says: YOUWILLDIE!=You will die!
OMG!
And if you rearrange the following words:
on about? you What ARE
you get:
What ARE you on about? ???
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It's obvious, Stu.
In this cipher, you can take any letter in any word and substitute it with any other letter or punctuation mark.
So,
S => C => S => M => W
H => O => A => O => A
I => D => L => T => L
P => => T => H => L
S => A => & => E => S
I => N => V => R => H
M => D => I => - => A
U => => N => I => V
L => C => E => N => E
A => H => G => - => E
T => I => A => L => A
O => P => R => A => R
R => S => ! => W => S
Easy when you know how... :doh: :evil:
This of course proves conclusively that the ancient Egyptians could foretell the prophesies of Nostril d'Armus. The venusians obviously helped them with this.
Or something...
Can you tell that I'm not taking any of this terribly seriously? ;D
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Taking it all serious?
It is getting more and more tempting to put down what I really think to all this superstitious bullsh[ine].
Taking it seriously? Nah, I know you're not. But it worries me that some people on planet earth DO (and that isn't a pop at anyone here)
Perhaps that is the reason why the human race will die out....
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If nostrodamus was so damned clever, why didn't he win the lottery.
You don't expect him to be that good, do you? ;D
Edit: Woo! Page 7! ;D
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Hi All
Is there nothing else to discuss about??? :evil: Think about the kids here on the forum.
rgrds
JoMach
well well well a 15 year kid just read >:(
anyway, the world wont end 2012, cause if thats treu they should build space ships and stations for humans to liv in :-\
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Sorry chap, but you've been watching too much Babylon 5.
I doubt very much if they can build large space stations and develop a way to power them, whilst providing food and water for the space population...
Though I have to admit that 2012 isn't looking likely. I think probably about 2nd feb 2010.
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Though I have to admit that 2012 isn't looking likely. I think probably about 2nd feb 2010.
:lol: :D
Now now Stuart :doh: