Just so you know, it's the END OF THE WORLD on Friday, 5/5/2000.
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all "line up" on the far side of the Sun, and the Moon will be approximately between Earth and the Sun around o4:00 GMT.
Expect the gravitational pull to cause earthquakes, tidal waves, tsunami, hurricanes, global warming, acne, dogs and cats living together, etc.
it's all bunk, of course, but if you've got a boss or teacher prone to believe in New Age pseudoscience, this could be your ticket to a 3-day weekend!
So you on the other side!!
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on May 04, 2000 09:37 AM:
Damn!! I have already taken Monday off, since it's a holiday Tue. (Election Day, Primarys)
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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on May 04, 2000 11:12 AM:
I already have tomorrow off... So the planets are going to be aligned at 8 AM? Might be something to look forward to, if I get up that early...
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on May 04, 2000 03:15 PM:
Not to worry! My co-workers and I have figured out that our combined gravitational attraction (relative to Earth) is far greater than the combined pull of all the aligned planets (sure -- they're heavier, but we're many orders of magnitude closer -- inverse square law and all that...).
Our plan is simple: At the critical hour, we'll just align ourselves to counter the "evil" influence of the conjunction. Sure, this will take some scaffolding, but we have work stands and ladders, so it ought to work.
If you're alive tomorrow, I'll let you all know where to send those checks and money orders (purely out of gratitude, of course -- we're providing this service free of charge out of the goodness of our hearts!)
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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on May 04, 2000 03:24 PM:
If indeed we do produce enough gravity relative to the Earth in order to counteract the undoubtedly Lucifer-created unholy alignment of the celestial bodies of sin, what happens if we all jump at the same time?
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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on May 04, 2000 05:09 PM:
Its funny tho...That people still believe in this stuff despite the fact that all the planets were aligned not too many years ago.
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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on May 04, 2000 10:07 PM:
What if all the people in all the world started shagging each other at the same time? If they reached a resonance frequency equal to that of core, mantle and crustal materials in the earth, would the earth shatter to teeny bits?
Only one way to find out...
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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on May 05, 2000 04:55 AM:
Pretty hard to do that since the core, mantle, and crust are made up of different materials so their resonances would be different.
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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on May 05, 2000 07:14 AM:
Oh, I know that. I meant that not everyone would be riding at the same rate. But...enough monkies and enough typewriters...there might be something there.
I'll arrange the whole thing myself. There'll be no need for contraceptives as if my plan works as it's intneded to, there won't be an earth left, therefore no more us!
WHO'S WITH ME?!?
------------------ Remember December '59 The howling wind and the driving rain, Remember the gallant men who drowned On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on May 05, 2000 04:15 PM:
Wow. I didn't think a monkey could do that w/ a typewriter...
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on May 05, 2000 07:33 PM:
I'm still feeling burned from when the world didn't end in October as promised.
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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on May 06, 2000 03:01 PM:
Cheer up Sol, it didn't end on Dec 31 1999 either.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on May 07, 2000 06:05 AM:
And WW3 didn't start in July '99, either. This past year has just been one disappointment after another, hasn't it...? *L*
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on May 08, 2000 01:48 PM:
And what happens if there is an odd number of people in the world? Eh? Imagine sitting in your uni room, while the people next door have sex. Now imagine EVERYONE on the floor is having sex. Now, imagine that everyone in the building is having sex. And so on.
Now, most people would have killed themselves after we got to "floor", but assuming that we do get to "the world", imagine how bad Frank will feel.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on May 08, 2000 04:01 PM:
*rimshot*
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