PREDICTION: the Earth will end in nuclear FIRE!

[jandrok]

In about 4.5 billion years. At that point, the sun will begin to exhaust it's hydrogen fuel and begin to fuse helium instead. As this process continues, the sun will swell to several hundred times it's current size, swallowing all of the inner planets into it's expanded corona.

Not a prophesy, but a simple scientific FACT. Demon-haunted worlds and exotic predictions aside, it's not something that I'm much worried about right this minute.

Here's a fun experiment to try: write down a list of 10 "prophesies" that you might expect to come true over the course of the next year based on what you know about current political and social currents. Pull out the list a year from now and see how "prophetic" you were. Chances are, you got several predictions right or pretty close to right. With some careful "interpretation", you may have even gotten close on a couple more.

With a little knowledge, anyone can be a "prophet".

[RedCloud]

1. More people to die now than in time of Christ!

There will be more earthquakes!
There will be rumors of war!
There will be floods!
There will be pestilence!
There will be famine!
There will be drought!
There will be fatalities!
There will be sunshine some day!
But the Earth is already in the outer most corona of the sun!
Our moon is escaping!
Andromeda is bearing down on us.

That's at least ten!

[MemphisTiger]

2. I guess that's the Nucular option

[underpants]

3. El Nino Will Probably Develop by July, Weather Model Indicates

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aTw.gb2gTd5c&refer=latin_america

April 20 (Bloomberg) -- An El Nino weather pattern, that threatens to cause drought in Asia and flooding in South America, will probably re-emerge by July, according to a computer model run by the Australian government's weather forecaster.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's so-called POAMA model assigns an 85.4 percent probability of an El Nino occurring within three months. The probability rises to 95.7 percent by August and 100 percent by September, the bureau in Melbourne said today on its Web site.

POAMA is one of 12 international computer models that track prospects for El Nino weather disruptions. Only three others predict an El Nino developing by August, the bureau said. The return of El Nino, which emerges first in Australia and takes months to develop, may worsen droughts that parched coffee trees in Vietnam, sugar-cane fields in India and Thailand and soybean plants in Brazil.

``POAMA is only one model,'' said Grant Beard, a climatologist with the bureau's National Climate Centre in Melbourne. ``It's very strongly in favor of an El Nino. But on the basis of one model, you wouldn't say we are going to have an El Nino. You have to be more conservative than that.''

[LynneSin]

4. Well Wilmington DE will if they build that LNG pier over in NJ....

...that's would be about a mile away from a Nuclear Power Plant

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