Will A Huge Asteroid Hit Antarctica In 2012?

Ans: No.

If it does, it would be fun to be there and greet it with open arms. I correspond with the mothership inside the asteroid fairly regularly.

There's a new apocolypse prediction every other year, so we have a roughly 50/50 chance that, sooner or later, one of them will be correct. When that day comes, I will be too annoyed at everyone proclaiming the accuracy of the prophesy that I won't be able to appreciate my approaching doom.

Good thing I'm going to be raptured up before then.

OH NOES!

If the ice on Antarctica was added the the world's ocean it would raise them by 70 meters.

Toronto sits at 77 meters above sea level, so I don't give a meep.

The Incas who predicted this life-ending 2012 event not only had an awesome calendar, they also had super-awesome space telescopes.

Incas!?!!? I thot it wuz Aztecs.

Wait... did that article just talk about Canadian Astronauts? CANADA HAS ASTRONAUTS!?!? MY AMERICAN SUPERIORITY COMPLEX IS CRUSHED!!!!

I think I can have everything ready to move 150 feet uphill in a year.
Wake me up when the ice

Wake me up when the dog chases the cat across the keyboard.

richard_parker: There's a new apocolypse prediction every other year, so we have a roughly 50/50 chance that, sooner or later, one of them will be correct.

For fun, explain how, given infinite years, and one prediction per year, we have a 1 in 2 chance of a human accurately predicting the apocalypse?

You wouldn't be able to comprehend the answer because the science is at an extremely advanced level.

like having a 50% chance of rain, there is no way to be wrong. I base this on evidence given here: meep

I'll try to take this slow, V. Let me know if I need to slow down and I'll backpedal for you.

me: There's a new apocolypse prediction every other year

That's one prediction every two years.

I hope that clears it up ^_^

There is actually a zero percent chance of anyone successfully predicting an apocalypse... unless there's actually an apocalypse. You're saying it's a given it'll happen any year now and some lucky person will have stabbed blindly at it. Moron.

I disagree on the zero percent chance. Astronomers can accurately predict an approaching asteroid that would be about destroy most of the life on this planet, if one were approaching, probably quite accurately. But here's the thing: they wouldn't be allowed to tell us... which is kind of what this link is about.

Also, it's not just here.

Also, also, I agree that Richard_Parker is a backpedaling moron.

The world's gotta end sometime. Sooner or later the sun will explode, and someone, somewhere, will have predicted the year. Maybe we'll be out of the solar system by then. Probably not.

Or our species will last forever, as you say.

Oh, oh, so, if you wave the hands, really hard, and you throw out the entire body of the assertion, then the statement, she kinda works.

So anyways, that's probability in a nutshell, class! Science.

The sun isn't the kind of star that explodes, dummy.

I hope Richard_Parker isn't an example of the scientists our children will inherit.

Vas, that whole thing you do isn't working very well this time. Try examining your process to find where you went wrong, and work to fix that.

More hand-waving pseudo-intellectual doodoo. Frankly, I'm surprised. Generally you seem capable of understanding when your BS has been detected and you then immediately pivot to firmer ground for at least the next couple limp-wristed ripostes.

Please define 'that thing you do'. Be specific. I consider this homework since I'm pretty sure you don't have the answer yet and were counting on not being asked.

*waits...

*waits...

*still waiting...

http://www.youtube.com/v/X0De_-Bx-mA?fs=1&hl=en_US

leaves this here

haha

Although I would have to practice up on my heavy drinking skillz for a couple of months beforehand, there is little I would enjoy more than attending a legendary BBP.