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Five extinction events more likely than the Mayan Apocalypse

Seriously, don't let geekend die.

Here's another vote to preserve the Geekend.

I do not see how it gets in the way of TR doing its main stuff, a little sidebar of humor and knowledge is a good thing.

Mr. Garmon,

I appreciate your 'just before Christmas' mood enhancer; nothing like the end of the world to remind us of the true joy of giving - or flaming out in massive style.

But I must question your list, because you obviously forgot one other possible option: Zombie Apocolypse!!!

original voodoo zombies or the idiotic Hollywood style zombies created in the 1950s or 1960s for fiction horror films. First is no issue as the zombies can only follow simple orders. The second is only likely if some lab has been working on some sort of bio-weapon to create such things and it gets out or is used.

Geekend makes me laugh at times and that is how the authors write it. The rest of Techrepublic are people writing trying to be serious and come off sounding buffonish and people STILL laugh at them. At least Geekend is suppose to be funny.

The other TR newsletters have been gradually declining in value, and the lamest articles get repeated a lot.
Oh well, I'll be able to reduce my spam a bunch.

TR needs to keep Geekend. Life needs humor.

the situation is, but the data available from the Soviet Union is that, in their own words, "significant numbers of smaller nuclear devices are unaccounted for." In short, someone stole a large number of tactical nuclear weapons and either has them for sale or has sold them as they'd have likely used them by now if they were for personal power use. Even the US has a number of TNW on their 'can't find' weapons lists.

Some of them are likely to turn up with various terrorist organisations when they can come up with the money to buy them, and then it's anyone's guess on where they'll be used.

http://www.kgun9.com/news/local/184176911.html#.UNN6yKQ_RWE.facebook

you must get to Willcox Arizona pronto, the rest of us, well, kinda out of luck.

Too bad other places have not taken a proactive approch to this, a lot of lives could have been saved.

Thanks, Jay.

Your post here is just unacceptable in any form.

Don't you know that the End of the World no matter how unlikely is the PERFECT EXCUSE for a party?

So the World Ends Today sometime depending on what the Mayans used as an Equivalent to our current International Date Line and I'm going to that Party.

The possibility of Killing Off Geekend sucks so badly that it looks as if TR is attempting to shut it's doors and destroy what was what attracted people here in the first place. If all you can manage are Serious Looks at things it's time to retire from the Gene Pool as you are doing nothing but Polluting it.

Col

The Vogan Constructor Fleet arriving today and destroying the planet to make way for a Space Bypass Lane. Under their Bureaucratic ways they are not required to inform the planet because it causes way too much paper work as they have to record every complaint and pass it on for examination and have those complaints vetted for any possible complaints against the Vogan Constructor Fleet.

So the first thing we'll all know about it is when the planet comes under attack and starts to disintegrate.

The Enterprise will not come back through a Time Warp and save the day as they never existed so there will be nothing to stop the Vogans.

Even the Invid knew enough to stay away as they didn't want to be involved, the Vogans are way to bureaucratic for them too.

Jay I should also mention that the Daughter in Law wants your Guts for Garters as it's her Burfday today and she's having a End of the World Birthday Party which can not be canceled under any circumstances.

Col

nt

how can you guys be here? you should have perished already!!!

it starts at the Mayan time zone, we get an extra day.

or they? Mayan time should be relatively close to my time? Mayan time (or Central American time) runs two hours behind my time. So, what time do they predict it will end? Is it noon, midnight, etc?

just thinking that it could run thru the time zones, like New Years, the earth will be sucked up hour by hour as the time changes.

This is silly, not going to happen.

And I was so looking forward to some sort of excitement

nt

But you need to remember it's Mayan Time hence the reference to what the Mayan's used as our International Date Line. That's anything up to a day difference depending on where they started their day.

Col