The Mayan calendar finishes one of its great cycles in December 2012, which has fueled countless theories about the end of the world on December 21, 2012 at 11:11(UTC). One theory suggests a galactic alignment which would create chaos on Earth because of the gravitational effect between the Sun and the Black hole called Sagittarius […]
NEW YORK — The city on Sunday looked as though a catastrophe had already struck. Manhattan sidewalks were littered with suitcases, babies were crying, police shouted evacuation orders through the loudspeakers of their vehicles and some stores were sold out of water. The feeling of urgency was particularly noticeable in Battery Park, Manhattan’s southernmost tip, […]
Without even worrying about the Mayan calendar, the words of Nostradamus, the prophetic dreams of Daniel or the revelation made to John, I have taken the definition to heart and concluded that we have experienced the apocalypse. To say that we have spent the past decade or so in an atmosphere of falsehood and misconception […]
Mayan experts reaffirmed that fears over the end of world this December 21 are unfounded. At a meeting of scientists who specialize in Mayan culture Friday, most agreed that Mayan prophecies were extensive, yet none predicted the end of the world. … It is still unclear how the apocalyptic visions were attributed to the Mayans […]
ACCORDING to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. With tongue firmly in cheek, a Mexican advertising agency has prepared a survival kit. … Hedging their bets, Monterrey-based advertising company have created a End-of-the-World Survival Kit to ensure they are ready if necessary for a post-apocalyptic party. Branded the Just In […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 16, 2012 By Michael Breen [Originally published by Korea Times] On a freezing night in December 1950 during the last refugee exodus from North Korea, a heretic Christian preacher named Moon Sun-Myung stepped onto an iceflow and pushed out into the Imjin River. When he reached the far side, U.S. and […]
“The Dark Knight Rises” is on track to become the most successful Batman movie ever, and to soon surpass $1 billion in global box office. Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff ….Bewkes’ comments on “The Dark Knight Rises” mark the first time anyone at Time Warner has publicly discussed the movie’s box-office performance. At studio Warner […]
The Rev. Billy Graham has posted a new prayer letter on his website where he addresses the people of the nation and tells them he is very much afraid of the damage that the American lifestyle is doing in the eyes of the Lord. The 93-year-old evangelist begins his letter by recalling an incident a […]
Crazies may be on the street shouting about this or that, but it’s nothing new….Here is a selection of some of history’s greatest apocalyptic whiffs. 634 BC – Many Romans believed that Romulus, the city’s founder, had been visited by 12 mystical eagles, and that each one represented 10 years of the lifespan of the […]
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One idea – a massive spacecraft that uses gravity as a towline – is illustrated in this dramatic artist’s view of a gravitational tractor in action. In the hypothetical scenario worked out in 2005 by Edward Lu and Stanley Love at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, […]
