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2009-11-13
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{ 2012 } ⊊ ℕ ⊊ ℤ ⊊ ℚ ⊊ ℝ so yes, 2012 is Real.
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2009-11-13
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Originally Posted by daperl
You would find yourself one of many to discover it, to start with..
If you were an astronomer and you discovered a doomsday object on a collision course with Earth, what would you do?
Asteroids or other objects so small that they can only be discovered by one-of-a-kind, mega-huge equipment (where incidentally only you as a single astronomer have access) aren't doomsday objects. They just make a little 'boom' in the athmosphere, and there have been a couple lately.
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2009-11-13
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Regardless of how many discover it, if it's determined that this object will destroy all higher order life on Earth, what would be your protocol? After, of course, you recheck your numbers and sh*t your pants.
Nearby objects are being discovered all the time, and didn't something pretty massive just hit Jupiter this year? How long have we had technology looking for this stuff? I am saying that we'll probably see it coming from far away, but I'm also saying it's possible that some very large objects with some very large abnormal orbits are out of our discoverable reach at the moment. Don't you think? My question remains: how would you disseminate this information?
Nearby objects are being discovered all the time, and didn't something pretty massive just hit Jupiter this year? How long have we had technology looking for this stuff? I am saying that we'll probably see it coming from far away, but I'm also saying it's possible that some very large objects with some very large abnormal orbits are out of our discoverable reach at the moment. Don't you think? My question remains: how would you disseminate this information?
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2009-11-13
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Well, I guess we can only look at how this kind of information has been disseminated before. There has been several discoveries in the past of large objects that would have a non-zero possibility of hitting Earth, and some of those objects were large enough to cause catastrophe had they hit. So far information on these objects has been released early, with later followups (after tracking the objects for longer, or after finding the same objects in older photos). Fortunately the followups have all concluded that the probability of a hit was low.
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2009-11-13
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Originally Posted by God
Isn't it your call?
Well, at this point...I think the world will be destroyed before I get my N900.
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2009-11-13
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Originally Posted by TA-t3
After you rechecked your numbers and you decided that it was going to be inert, of course you'd tell everyone ASAP. But would you do the same in the other case? I say no way.
Well, I guess we can only look at how this kind of information has been disseminated before. There has been several discoveries in the past of large objects that would have a non-zero possibility of hitting Earth, and some of those objects were large enough to cause catastrophe had they hit. So far information on these objects has been released early, with later followups (after tracking the objects for longer, or after finding the same objects in older photos). Fortunately the followups have all concluded that the probability of a hit was low.
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2009-11-13
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Keep an eye on Apophis. It's next pass will determine whether the one after that gets too close for comfort or flitters harmlessly away. 
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2009-11-13
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Originally Posted by gokuman56
Read this and give us your lthoughts in 6 hrs time after reading
http://socyberty.com/folklore/is-2012-real/
Read this and tell me please comment if you think about 2012
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/2012.html
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As far as I rememer Mayans predicted the world's end for 1984. 2012 is only the end of the calendar basic cycle.
May be there's a mayan still working for Nokia and we should make a "world's end delayed" thread of this?
Where is the world's end countdown application for maemo?
May be there's a mayan still working for Nokia and we should make a "world's end delayed" thread of this?
Where is the world's end countdown application for maemo?