Article Archive for October 2011
Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME
Thailand is now 1/3 under water due to the worsening floods. This map shows the affected area (might take a little while to load).
Up to 20 million tons of debris from the Japanese tsunami in …
Doom ‘n’ Gloom Daily
I subscribe to just about every blog and news service that could, maybe, possibly, have a story meaningful to the 2012 meme. One of the very best is The Extinction Protocol. There’s not much commentary, …
Tomorrow: End of Calleman?
This date crept up on me – I hadn’t paid it much attention in the past – the whole concept seems flimsy. But here it is, presumably unlike Mr Camping he will accept that his …
Another Satellite Re-Entry
Re-entry being the polite word for “crashing to earth and perhaps killing someone”.
The ROSAT X-ray observatory, launched in 1990 by NASA and managed for years by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), will return to Earth …
Harold Camping Wrong Again
This won’t come as much of a surprise, even for Christians, or even for his many former followers. The world did not end on Oct 21 2011.
The good news is there’s a new writer on …
Massive Comet Almost Destroys Earth!
OK, the close call was back in 1883, but that just means it could have killed your forefathers and not yourself. The size of the comet and how close it came to Earth have been …
Features Your 2012 Safe House Should Have
Note that these features are not for a bunker, but rather a “safe house”. The full article is over at one of those sites that exist to promote ebooks that cost more, yet have less …
Harold Camping Receives Major Award
Well, perhaps not major, but the Ig Nobels are certainly famous awards. This year, as announced at the end of last month, the joint recipients of the Mathematics Prize were the following people, each of …
Above-Ground Bunker by DuPont
The brand most associated with bullet-proof vests is Kevlar, developed by DuPont way back in 1965. One way of describing how well it works is that it is 5x stronger than steel of the same …
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Movie Gets Go-Ahead
As you can see from the video below (which is from Aronofsky’s graphic novel about Noah), this will certainly not be a cutesy story about pairs of animals. It’ll be more akin to The Passion …
Real World Promotion Technique for 2012ers
T-Shirts. Not new, but rather timeless. How better to open a conversation on the 2012 meme with strangers? Many people out there are 2012-curious, and just need an out-of-the-closet 2012er to discuss it with.
Yes, some …
Survivalist or Futurist?
I’ve been wondering as to what I should call myself, and I figure many of you might find the commonalities and differences interesting:
Survivalist: the policy of trying to ensure one‘s own survival or that of …
