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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2011 11:05:44 GMT -5
I'm really not sure if this counts as serious, but I know some people have very heated thoughts on the matter.
What do you think? Personally, I just laugh whenever someone tells me we're all gonna die.
We don't know when we will die or the Earth will crash, so why fuss over it?
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Post by 2gamers on Oct 2, 2011 12:43:18 GMT -5
Actually, it really has nothing to do with death. The end of the Mayan calander marks the beginning of a new age, not necessarily the end of the world. That being said, I'd be more concerned about the increase in solar activity, set to peak in 2013. A big enough one of those (also happens to be a 2012 theory) can wipe out all electronics. In other words, the human race will survive. It's human civilization that's in doubt  . |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2011 13:18:17 GMT -5
Really? Well, thanks for telling me that. I've never seen any of the shows on it, so I'm just going by what I've heard and such, and I thought it all meant we were gonna die. *sweeatdrop* I thought maybe the Mayan's just got lazy and didn't feel like adding on to the calendar anymore.
Even laptops and such that aren't plugged in to a outlet? That's also a new one for me, 2gamers. How could solar flares affect the earth so much that it could shut down everything/
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Post by 2gamers on Oct 2, 2011 20:47:05 GMT -5
Even laptops and such that aren't plugged in to a outlet? That's also a new one for me, 2gamers. How could solar flares affect the earth so much that it could shut down everything/ Geomagnetic storm. I believe it's the same effect you see with auroras, only on a much larger scale. Being plugged into an outlet isn't a big issue when the entire electrical grid is destroyed. Essentially, anything that can be destroyed by a magnet will be affected. However, we'd probably fix the grid in a few months, so it wouldn't be permanent. An even bigger issue would be the computers. Magnetic waves destroy hard drives and everything on it. Any money in your bank account will not be there. Anything that runs on a computer, from new cars to nuclear plants, wouldn't work either. That would take much longer to recover. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2011 20:52:30 GMT -5
Wow...that's kinda scary. Maybe people should invest in USB drives, lol?
So, computers...credit cards...everything we use on a daily bases just wiped out?
That could cause quite a ordeal, even if we did fix it in a few months.
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Post by 2gamers on Oct 3, 2011 5:59:53 GMT -5
Mind you, this will probably blow over like the Y2K deal back in 1999-2000.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 13:46:19 GMT -5
Uh, another dumb question, but what's the Y2K deal? Excuse my stupidity--I'm only 15.
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Post by 2gamers on Oct 3, 2011 19:46:52 GMT -5
This makes me feel old  . In Y2K, since all the digits of the year were changing, people thought that would mess up the computers. They thought the computers would think its 1900 (only changing the last two digits) and stop working. In hindsight, it sounds really stupid, but it was a big deal back then. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 20:02:52 GMT -5
I'm sorry, lol. My older sister (she's 19) always says that whenever she mentions some boy band and I'm like who are they?
That really does seem stupid. Where was the basis behind the worry? I mean, couldn't they just go in and change the date themselves?
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