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From the article: NASA has since rebutted those reports, saying it could come "100 years away or just 100 days" Although that doesn't have quite the same ring
by Construct 16y ago
From the article:
NASA has since rebutted those reports, saying it could come "100 years away or just 100 days"
Although that doesn't have quite the same ring to it as a 2012 disaster.
- meelash 16y agoNot sure how that's considered a rebuttal? 100 days
- Construct 16y agoLet's assume the event could happen anywhere between 100 days from now and 100 years from now. This gives us, roughly and without compensating for leap years for simplicity, a 36400 day span. 2012 will occupy 365 days of that span, or 365/36400 = ~1% of that period. Basically, NASA made a blanket statement about a possible solar storm occurring at some date, and journalists are doing everything they can to force that date to be 2012 so they can play off of all of the apocalypse prophecies.
- KevBurnsJr 16y agoI wish more people had greater respect for Mayan astronomy. It took us decades to realize their estimation of the age of the universe was more accurate than ours.