Re: 2012 End of the mayan Calendar

Larry Caldwell wrote:

This is the way the world ends:

9) Hillary might become president. 

LOL.

Then again, have you read "A state of disobedience"? by Tom Kratman?

That's just the US, though.

21) A supernova within 100 light years.

I have trouble with this. Are there enough particles in a star to produce a lethal density at that range?



Is that it?

Is that all that we have to worry about?

I'm sure the crew in the science fiction ng thought up a bunch more. That's good reading, but the threads tend to attain astronomical proportions. Is there some sort of unspoken rule against starting new threads?
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