[LINK] Apparently the World Ends on Saturday.

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Tom writes,

> End of the World on May 21st
> 
> Oh sorry, that would appear to be the beginning of the apocalypse.
> According to http://judgementday2011.com/may-21st-doomsday/


Strange .. http://www.astrology.com doesn't seem to be aware of this.

Maybe it's a newly theorized 'wandering planet' they don't know about 


 http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110518/full/news.2011.303.html


Our Galaxy may be full of worlds without a sun to call their own.

Free-floating planets may be more common in our Galaxy than stars.

Scattered about the Milky Way are floating, Jupiter-mass objects, which 
are likely to be planets wandering around the Galaxy's core instead of 
orbiting host stars. 

But these planets aren't rare occurrences in the interstellar sea: the 
drifters might be nearly twice as numerous as the most common stars. 

"This is an amazing result, and if it's right, the implications for planet 
formation are profound," says astronomer Debra Fischer at Yale University 
in New Haven, Connecticut.

To find the wanderers, scientists turned their telescopes towards the 
Galactic Bulge surrounding the centre of the Milky Way. Using a technique 
called gravitational microlensing, they detected 10 Jupiter-mass planets 
wandering far from light-giving stars. Then they estimated the total 
number of such rogue planets, based on detection efficiency, microlensing-
event probability and the relative rate of lensing caused by stars or 
planets. 

They concluded that there could be as many as 400 billion of these 
wandering planets, far outnumbering main-sequence stars such as our Sun. 
Their work is published today in Nature1. 



> Quote/
> Ok, no more BS - here is the quick and short of what you need to know
> about the May 21st Judgement Day now.  You want to know how we will know
> when Jesus returns to Earth for the Second Coming and why?  Well, quite
> simply, Jesus will save those who truly believe in God, while shunning
> those who have ignored his love.  These people will be saved on May 21st
> 2011 in the Rapture, where they are brought to Heaven from Earth in an
> instant by Jesus himself.  Those left behind will suffer the torment of
> the Apocalypse for 5 long months until the End of the World on October
> 21, 2011. 
> /Quote
> 
> So linkers, sweep the front porch and make the beds. say goodbye to kith
> and kin and just sit down to await the Rapture.
> Whilst you guys are doing that, I think I will just ignore the crowd
> sourced FUD currently trending and go and cut the lawn.
> 
> Can't have an overgrown lawn for the apocalypse can we... (I think
> that's one of the entry questions... Did you mow the lawn before you
> ascended ?)
> 
> I think we should postpone in depth discussion until we all have the
> time to spare... Uh, that would be next week I'm guessing.
> 
> /body
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