Hey I thought the world was supposed to end in the year 2010. Anywho, Happy New Year! I stumbled into this group called Barats & Bereta who made this short film called 2012. It starts off with a group of robot giants destroying the world, and two scientists try to escape the apocalypse by traveling through time. The result is hilarious.
Source: YouTube (BaratsAndBereta)
This is how it starts: There was a husband a father who crpytically announced to his family that he is going to announce in two hours something that “will impact the way the family takes road trips”. The family becomes flabbergasted as the dad leaves. While there is nothing to support their specualtion, most of the family begins to agree that the big man has bought a new car, that’s a convertible, with an awsome stereo and DVD players, also the chairs vibrate, and you get drink holders that automatically refill your soda. Oh yeah and the car is red.
Well two hours pass and the dad comes back, and everyone rushes out to see him. Most are dishearted as they see him driving in the same car, with white wall tires. As it turns out he was able to invest in a new kind of a tire. What makes them special is that it contains a product that usually would wear the tires down, but in this case the tire endures on it, almost thrives on it. The father knows that this is a big deal becuase no one has ever tried this on the market before, and he knows that this discovery will “impact” what people will percieve what it really takes to be a tire. After all, everything that we thought made up a tire, has changed, as there is now a tire that is made of something that we thought couldn’t be possible.
Oh yeah and NASA has announced that they discovered a new life form at Mono Lake in California that thrives on poisonous arsenic.
Back around early July*, a writer calling himself Terrence Aym wrote an article on helium stating that the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico had caused a methane leak – a methane leak is considered the primary suspect of “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, and we may have it’s sequel within six months. After waiting four months for the big scary clock to run its course, I pulled the story out of the back burner and did a little digging.
Sure enough, there was another article calling the theory bupkis.
Annalee Newitz, from io9 sat down with Dave Valentine of UC Santa Barbara and Chris Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute around the same time, and each gave evidence that counters the original article. Here’s a quote from Valentine:
During our recent cruise to the Gulf we observed significantly elevated levels of methane at water depth greater than 2500 feet, in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon spill site. While the total quantity of methane and other hydrocarbons is enough to cause problems with the regional ecosystem, there is no plausible scenario by which this event alone will cause global-scale extinctions
So while the BP spill has caused a massive damage to the Gulf, it looks like you won’t need to have an early Valentines.
To check out the article and to learn more about methane bubbles click here.
Source: io9.com (via Discover Magazine)
*Disclaimer: I estimated that the article was written around mid-July based on the bounce back from other websites.
It’s been nine years since the US government did an inside job a group 19 terrorists flew four planes and murdered almost 3000 people.
What? This is a debunking blog with a dark sense of humor, not a conspiracy blog with no life. I will never forget how quiet my drive to school was, and how much of a disbelief I was in when I got there and heard the news for the first time. Then there was the whole “End of the World” idea (pause for gust of wind for added sense of irony and miscalculation), which was followed by the coming of theorists with their ideas of what really happened that day.
To remember this solemn moment I would express my condolences to all those who lost a loved one as a result of the attack. I would also like to post these two videos about debunking several conspiracies, mainly pertaining to the Pentagon crash.
It’s twenty minutes after twelve, looks like we’re still here.
Person 1: Did you hear? The World Health Organization declared the Swine Flue pandemic to be over.
Person 2: Who?
Person 1: Exactly.
Person 2: Who?
Person 1: Yes WHO?
Person 2: That’s what I’m asking!
Person 1: And I’m telling you.
Person 2: Who?
Person 1: Yes.
Person 2: Yes?
Person 1: Yes.
Person 2: YES called the pandemic over?
Person 1: No not YES; WHO called the pandemic over.
Person 2: What are you asking me for?
Thank You Abbot and Costello – Go St. Louis Wolves!
Typical hurricanes are about 300 miles…
Hurricanes come from the Ocean…
There was a big oil spill in the Ocean…
Oil is flammable…
Therefore it is very likely that a hurricane of fire will hit us causing half the US to go up in smoke…
I think not.
I found this article on Nat Geo’s website talking about how it’s impossible for the South to be hit by a “Firecane” or “Black Rain”. While I haven’t heard anything dark prophecies about an apocalyptic hurricane opening the gates of Hell, I thought that I would beat doom sayers to the punch and post this article. You can find the article here.
P.S. If anyone uses my broken logic above to spread panic at the disco, you owe me two cents in royalties. That or a good kick to your balls – cause that’s how much they’re worth.
So a friend told you that if a zombie attack were to occur then there is no way you could survive. Well, I have some news for you. I was referenced to this article yesterday about why a zombie attack is more bark than… bite?
Sorry I couldn’t find a way to wrap that last sentence up.
Source: Cracked.com (via The Escapist)
YouTube personalityJeremyJahns posted this video a year ago. While it’s mostly a humorous rant about End of the World issues, he also plugs in a useful quote about what the Mayans think. Here’s a spoiler: They don’t know what the fuss is about!
There are theorists that would like people to believe that NASA is covering up patches of the sky in Google Sky and other programs in order to hide the truth – that something big is coming our way. However YouTube user EvilSpork29 created this video that debunks this idea.
Sorry Mario, but your princess is in another castle.
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Remember when we were all supposed to die when the Large Hadron Collider was turned on? Yeah how did that go for you doomsayers?
