2012

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Permalink Reply by Alex Barber on January 4, 2009 at 11:45am

The idea of a possible apocalypse with an actual date seems to influence peoples actions for the worse. Already I have heard people around me say things like, "Well the worlds ending in 2012, so why not?" or "It doesn't matter what we do, the worlds ending soon." I'm afraid this might escalate as we get nearer to this so called apocalypse. Unless everyone just gets bored of the idea and starts thinking straight again.

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Permalink Reply by Umar Ali on January 4, 2009 at 1:11pm

OH NO!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by J.J on January 4, 2009 at 5:55pm

The future has not happend yet, according to some quatum physics theory it all may be happening right now. Time is a relative thing ...but of course for us the future is still to happen and those theories need to be confirmed anyway.

I think 2012 will bring changes ...specially a new U.S president ...election year and of course changes in technology, but we already know that, don't we?

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Permalink Reply by Opus V on January 5, 2009 at 9:29pm

In my opinion, quantum physics theory is a bunch of science fiction, it's so outside of reality that when you really look hard at it, it's based on a minimal number of observable truthes, wraped up in a lot of fancy words and fantasies.

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Permalink Reply by Opus V on January 6, 2009 at 8:36pm

So, do you believe quantum physics is accurate?

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Permalink Reply by Opus V on January 7, 2009 at 4:35am

I've done a bit of research into this subject before, and I have a couple good friends that know a decent amount about it. They always say, "oh, i'm not going to talk about it, it's CRAZY and hard to understand" but eventually they do. It's not hard to understand, it explains itself fairly well, same with what i've read about it. That being said, my problem isn't that i can't grasp it, that's the easy part. Suggesting that I don't like what i can't grasp is like saying I didn't "get" someones favorite movie because I didn't love it as much as they did.

my first problem with quantum physics, a decent percentage of what i've read and heard has been more along the lines of science fantasy than fact, and the intellegent people i've spoken to about quantum physics agree(not that this is a popularity contest). That being said, i'm not the type to take a theory seriously if i feel that it crosses this line a bit too far, the line between gravity being a theory, and quantum physics being a theory, they are obviously vastly different when it comes to evidence.

problem number two, it completly goes against my personal beliefe that time travel is impossible. I've come to the conclusion that the past is done, the future hasn't happened. You can't alter something as perminant as the past, and you can't alter something that doesn't exist(the future), simple as that. All we have is now. The past only exists in our memories, and recorded media, the future is nothing but our hope, anticipation, and predictions.

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Permalink Reply by Opus V on January 7, 2009 at 2:05pm

I should have been more specific, these conversations with friends of mine did involve showing parts of books and/or online articles, it as definetly more than second-hand accounts.

While i'm being more specific, the stuff about multiple worlds, and dimensions, and time travel are what i find completly ridiculous. In reality quantum physics is just a bunch of similar theories that someone decided to group together, and from my experience with it, way too much of quantum physics is complete fantasy, but i will say, there are some interesting experaments and facts, but none of it supports the BS(which is most of what quantum physics is..in my opinion).

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Permalink Reply by madd sketch on January 4, 2009 at 7:36pm

Sometimes i feel like most of that stuff is set up so that they can make movies lol. Its not a completely serious idea but i couldn't help but think, that would be insane if that would be tru lol.

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Permalink Reply by madd sketch on January 5, 2009 at 7:14pm

Very tru!

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 6, 2009 at 5:02am

The world will end because the London olympics will be balls

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Permalink Reply by bboylefty08 on January 6, 2009 at 2:38pm

I don't believe in the 2012 bs it's nothing but hype that people will blindly believe in. I think most of us we'll looking forward to who is going to be running for president.

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Permalink Reply by Ankeet on January 7, 2009 at 2:20pm

I'm posting back in time from the future! Really. It's June 4th, 2013. December 12, 2012, smallish meteors started appearing in orbit, hurtling towards the ground, all around the world; experts don't know how they got there, but everyone started getting all religious and stuff. A lot of deaths, flooding, panic, earthquakes, red ashy sky, all that junk, there was a political breakdown, a complete New-Orleans-style lack of authority- on a worldwide scale- but as far as I know, no sci-fi-style space evac. Of course if there was, it would be all CIA covered up and all that. Who knows. So now we pretty much have no economy, a large job market for pretty much everything, lots of debris and ruin everywhere, an increase in global warming (or so the liberals say, while the conservatives are still convinced it'll sort itself out in time). Economic changes under Obama seemed to be starting to show some slight improvement, and he was reelected, but no one's heard much from him a) there are only 2 newspapers left and b) he's "gone underground" since the meteors.
Yeah, we finally got time travel to kinda work, but only over the internet. I'd explain how it works to share it with my brethren (/sistren?) of the past, but I'm not really sure how, since the meteor crashes took out all the Wikipedia servers. My productivity has definitely shown an improvement since.
Apple just released OS11, Linux is rapidly gaining market share since Ubuntu stopped sucking at wireless support, Microsoft ended up buying Yahoo but they still can't get search right, and Google still is on top, with contracts to supply free wireless internet to a bunch of major cities.
Ford and GM... well, be careful what you're investing in, denizens of 2009. 2010 is not a great year for the American auto industry.
Epic Fu still exists, but I can't post anything about them because their new style, content, and name change is covered by the new time-travel-relevant-NDA internet laws until they update their license. Which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for Big Brother- HTML5 in combination with new international WWW laws and ISP tactics mean no HTTP piracy (as in Rapidshare link-sharing warez boards), no copyright infringement (frickin' semantic internet). But we won the war against DRM! (Though nobody's really talked about the War on Terror recently.)

Still no return of the USSR, no dumb Star Wars movies yet, Harry Potter 6 sucked, 7 was pretty good, still no Mortal Kombat: Devastation still no flying cars, and still no Duke Nukem Forever. Great end-of-the-world parties though (LAN and otherwise)!

I'd post more, but I my flux capacitator's running out of juice, and I've got to teleport over to the shop to pick up my hoverboard (lithium batteries still suck in the future). See you in some sort of not-bound-to-the-concept-of-time-later! (Yeah, we still will not have figured out how grammar is going to have worked with this.)

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