So, some kid in my business class is going on about marshal law and 2012 and all that other disproven stuff, so...what are your guy's thoughts on this?
I personally think its just folks freaking out, like with 2000 and Y2K, and all the random folk on the streets talking about the end of the world. last I checked, unless were living in a universe of magic and stuff, planets aligning does not do much for earth XD.
You mean they are going to stop the world of warcraft servers in 2012???
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Extended Maintenance, Gasp. It is the end of the world, I don't want to go outside.
see you all in Hell
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The whole theory of aligning with the Galactic plane is fanciful, because the Galactic plane is very thick, and it is rather difficult to ascertain the true center of it. Besides, upon which standard? Visual? Infrared? Mass? We aren't even sure our theories about gravity at the galactic level are correct (hence Dark Matter).
*shrug*
-Tris
I fully support Marshal Law
I don't think 2012 is going to be a problem, but Y2k32 is gonna be a killer. its when the Unix Epoch (The second count that has been going since 1/1/70) will roll over in a 32bit space, where most computers keep it. Short result, ANY unix/linux system will expirence the Y2k bug, and think its the wrong date, by about 150years.
These systems RUN everything, end of the world, probably.
Moonlighting (Hah! Get it?) in astronomy is great, but be careful what you offer as arguments/counter arguments in a debate.