Via
Arts Journal, we learn that in 2006 we are going to have a very, very
bad year. That is assuming we survive next Wednesday:
As I write, fears focus on the asteroid Toutatis, a mountain-sized planetoid that is expected to pass very close to Earth on Wednesday, September 29, 2004. For months, the internet has been abuzz with woeful speculation that Toutatis will hit us rather than miss by a few Earth radii. Depending on where such an object landed, it might devastate a hemisphere—or worse. An impact at sea might send colossal waves, or tsunamis, roaring around the globe to smash and drown coastal cities from New York to Singapore.
I question the timing! And there are other doomsday scenarios:
Depending on whose imaginings you sample, there is a terrifying risk that rising sea levels caused by global warming will put present-day seacoasts under water…North America soon will look like a tattered croissant…the San Andreas fault will give, with calamitous results for California…Antarctica and the Arctic will wind up on the equator…
Moving the equator around? Oh, well, we know all about
that, don't we.
…the Yellowstone caldera will erupt again…a huge undersea landslide will send monster waves crashing into shores around the Atlantic basin…we will freeze and/or starve in darkness as global oil supplies are exhausted during the coming decades.
He's trying to scare us. He doesn't realize some of us
like this
kind of stuff.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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