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Old 02-October-2008, 02:56 PM
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That's what all the human sacrifice was about - punishing printers who made typos.
Now we take them out into a field with a baseball bat.

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Have you seen my stapler?
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Now we take them out into a field with a baseball bat.

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No, but has anyone mentioned to you that there are new cover sheets for the TPS reports? You submitted your last TPS report with the old cover sheet.
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I think this is serious. The end of the world as we know it predicted by a bronze age civilization should be taken seriously. Just think of all the parameters, which went into making that calendar. And, that a drought wiped out the Mayan civilization before 2012, doesn't that mean something?

Maybe we should worry about before 2012, too!

OK, so much for fun.

I go along with those who think that 2012 refers to the end of the Age of Aquarius and the beginning of the new zodiacal age.
In other words, no big thing.
(I think anything astronomical from extrasolar space would be showing up in Oort cloud, by now, if not the outer shell of our solar system. To my knowledge, nothing big has shown up).
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I think this is serious. The end of the world as we know it predicted by a bronze age civilization should be taken seriously. Just think of all the parameters, which went into making that calendar. And, that a drought wiped out the Mayan civilization before 2012, doesn't that mean something?

Maybe we should worry about before 2012, too!

OK, so much for fun.

I go along with those who think that 2012 refers to the end of the Age of Aquarius and the beginning of the new zodiacal age.
In other words, no big thing.
(I think anything astronomical from extrasolar space would be showing up in Oort cloud, by now, if not the outer shell of our solar system. To my knowledge, nothing big has shown up).
The fly in that ointment is that there's plenty of comets, asteroids, and whatnot that can get past the handful of stargazers, or the very many stargazers, looking up at the heavens. Also, we are now at a point where we have weapons powerful enough to destroy the planet. Never mind that we're popping forth black holes in the lab...

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