Article Archive for January 2011
Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000:
The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 …
New California Risk: Superstorm
As if supervolcanoes and earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, add floods to the list of natural events that could be catastrophic for Californians.
A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a …
George Lucas Update
LucasFilm has responded to the recent story about George Lucas being a 2012er, as told by Seth Rogen on TV show Ellen:
[Lucas] was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in …
Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see …
Doomsday Driver
A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, …
George Lucas: 2012 Believer
Just in, via a news report quoting Seth Rogen on a meeting he had with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg:
He recalls, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes …
The Sun… and us
A giant eruption (aka CME) on the far side of the Sun has some 2012ers bracing for the worst. Odds are everything will be OK, but this is one of those weeks in which the …
Tampa Airport and The Magnetic Pole Shift
This story has caused a big stir online, leading many people to jump to the conclusion that the magnetic poles are shifting, and doom is near.
The runways have large numbers visible to the pilots when …
Birds, Fish and Crabs Dying in Great Numbers
There’s a lot of talk about these (perhaps) mysterious deaths, both online in conspiracy forums, and in mainstream media. A good summary of all the events is at News.com.au. At this stage, I think the …
Child Says Doomsday Will Be Fun
This was in The Age a few days ago:
Of course, the film 2012 also helped to put this ”end of the world” idea into people’s mind.
Jordan Murnane, 10, Jake Drummond, 11, and Benjamin Dear, 10, haven’t …
Keeping an Eye on Earthquakes
I’m not a fan of “Earth Changes”, because in the last decade I have not seen a year in which any forces of nature have occurred outside the range of probability. But because of the …
Space News Items in Brief
Gamma Rays have been detected from a nova (not to be confused with a supernova) for the first time, something that has surprised scientists. I’m guessing that unlike supernovae, we are unable to tell if …
