BOOM: World's Awesomest* Astrophysicist Destroys December 21 Prophecy In A Snap

.....resulting in some truly apocalyptic hangovers on Dec 22.

Were I only old enough to have enjoyed Y2K... I bet that was quite the scene.

Maybe a nice house, too.

That is all that day means to me.

Christmas shopping. The malls will be overwhelmed!!!

you're correct ndt rules!

something about planet killing.

But this was from 2009!!!

*eyetwitch*

What if he's WRONG!?!?!!!

also, somebody who does that, ie, be's the awesomest,
is an Awesomist.

Or an awesomeiste, if they're extra awesomest.

computers were not able to adjust to the new millennium.

I've done a lot of software development and actually created some Y2K problems myself, so I can say on the basis of actual knowledge (and, were I not shameless, a little shame) that the year 2000 problem was genuine and potentially serious. But once it was widely recognized, it simply got fixed. That's the lesson to take from this: If we recognize a problem in time and do something about it, we can make the problem go away. The wrong lesson (and I don't mean to pick on you about this) is to assume that since the problem was solved there was never a problem to begin with.

The reason this is more than a bit of historical trivia is that global warming deniers sometimes point to the Y2K problem as an example of a crisis that never materialized and suggest that we can therefore assume that all crises are mere hype. That's ridiculous in itself, but it's doubly bad in the case of Y2K because it shows that if we recognize and act on a danger it time we can avert it. It's too late to prevent all the problems of global warming (some are already here), but we can at least mitigate them.

I kept stocking up on canned food, plus plenty of tuna. I was eating tuna for a long time after 2000.

although I can't wait for the end of the world parties.

Come December 23rd, people are going to say, oh what the frack did I do

And here I was hoping I could get out of buying a present for my son, whose birthday is on December 22. Sigh. (Leaving to see how much money is in the checking account.)

Weren't you paying attention? The world ended and everything since then is just a hi-def illusion.

Just look around...... The world - the GOP world IS hurtling towards it's demise. Here's hoping it's the GOP that goes off the cliff - on December 21st! YES!

* See * in OP

if the world didn't end on 12/21/12, I would have that colonoscopy he has been nagging me about. Looks like it is bend over baby time. Freakin' science!!

Heard that from the Tea Bagger Times.

...and spend Dec 22 cowering in them.