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wasssup1990
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JUAN DELA CRUZ
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 Posted - Jan 06 2012 : 08:48:09 AM
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2012... It Ain't the end of the World?
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Happy New Year johnny! |
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 02:16:56 AM
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Originally posted by JUAN DELA CRUZ
2012... It Ain't the end of the World?
LOL!
Happy New Year johnny!
Happy new year to you too Juan and to everyone else on this forum.
I don't believe any of that 2012 end of the world stuff. It'll be just another year in a very long series of years to come. It's not like this is the first time we've been told the world will end. |
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 10:17:19 AM
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I think it's supposed to end on December 23rd of 2012, or maybe the 22nd. Either way all the people I've talked to who think the world will end on that date strangely aren't willing to sign over to me all their possessions, effective Dec. 24th, 2012. How very odd.
What I'd like to know is what gives those predicting the apocalypse automatic authority? Seems to me that someone predicting something crazy would automatically be considered crazy and ignored...yet the opposite seems to happen. |
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 08 2012 : 05:40:04 AM
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Originally posted by Aaron Cake
Either way all the people I've talked to who think the world will end on that date strangely aren't willing to sign over to me all their possessions, effective Dec. 24th, 2012. How very odd.
That's a good way to test if someone really believes what they claim to. Kids don't like to have their toys taken away and neither do adults. The potential threat of the world not coming to an end prevents them from signing over there possessions to you.
Some people say the world will end around the time you said. Some people say 2012 is just a starting point for some worldwide event that will be happening over this decade (Or is it the next three decades? They were not sure.) where ET sightings will increase to the point where we make contact. I'll take it with a grain of salt (not even) and wait till I see it for myself, or never. My father (retired) manages to find the time to research the ET spin of the story, so he passes on any information he finds to me and then I proceed to sift through.
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What I'd like to know is what gives those predicting the apocalypse automatic authority? Seems to me that someone predicting something crazy would automatically be considered crazy and ignored...yet the opposite seems to happen.
There is something exotic about apocalypses. It's in scripture. I'd prefer to dust off my emergency evacuation pod and blast off to the moon while most of my fellow humans down on earth realise what apparently their scripture "told" them. I'd look down and say "Well this is what you were looking forward to, right?". LOL!  Kind of sounds like a movie. I hope by the time anything apocalyptic happens we could all just simply move to another planetary body. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jan 08 2012 06:25:28 AM |
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jan 08 2012 : 10:38:43 AM
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Based on the success of previous apocalypse predictions, zero, I'm not holding my breath that anything other than daily life happens in 2012. I'm of the opinion that anyone who believes anything apocalyptic is going to happen in 2012 is barking mad, and/or stupid.
As for ET sightings, those people would have to prove that there have been ET sightings in the past, because I'm thinking no. Unless the aliens have figured out a way to bypass physics as we know them, then the distances involved are just too great and there's very little chance of practical interstellar travel. Kind of sad, because it means no Star Trek future for us. Now CERN has demonstrated the possibility of neutrinos moving faster than light, which does open up the possibility of interstellar travel, but until it can be confirmed and applied to something a bit bigger, it's still in the realm of ain't gonna happen.
I think there's going to be more sun spots in 2012...probably some suicide cults of people who are assuming the world is over...and that's about it. Maybe Bieber will get another tattoo.
On another note I was in Canadian Tire this past Friday afternoon buying smoke detectors, because they had them on clearance for $5 each. $5 is pretty good for an ionization smoke detector, complete with 9V battery. As I was putting some in my basket there were two other people at the bin stocking up. I turned to them and asked:
"Anyone else here buying smoke detectors to harvest the Americium-241 for use as a radioactive source in experiments?"
The question was met with a bunch of blank stares.
"Oh, just me then?"
Someone backed away.
Then I smiled and went over to pay for my purchase. |
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JUAN DELA CRUZ
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Posted - Jan 08 2012 : 10:55:28 AM
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Happy New Year Also to everyone in this forum. . .
The Mayan said the rupture will be on DECEMBER. 21, 2012 
I have read some articles over the internet telling that in THAT specific day ALSO something or "extraordinary event" will happen based on different aspects such as document of the ancient civilization.
Maybe, the ancient civilization KNOW something that we didn't know... OR we also know it from the start but we keep on ignoring IT.
But of course, I DON'T BELIEVE THEM THAT'S FOR SURE! ..their just a Human just like us! Who have a lot of knowledge, technology and advancement in their hand and use it in the wrong way just to satisfy ourselves and now predicting of the time when the world that we know will come to an end?? And as the time goes by ..forgotten what is the REAL reason why WE are All here! wtf*
The end will come thats for sure because of our CARELESSNESS and SELFISHNESS in this planet where we live.
We can see alot of signs of drawback of what we had done in this World - flashfloods, Stronger hurricane/cyclone/typhoon, diseases, fammine, etc. (you name it!)
I only believe that our CREATOR knows when will be the right time... and I KNOW FOR SURE HE WILL SAVE US for OUR Sins.
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Yerboogieman
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Posted - Jan 09 2012 : 11:34:36 PM
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 05:57:19 AM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
It has to do with the Mayan Calendar ending. It's not like it can go on forever. The Mayans didn't say that's when the rapture will happen.
Yep, that's about all I've heard too, in closeness to reality. People have a tendency to blow things way out of proportion. The calender ends, the world doesn't. Dahhh! I wonder how many of these "world ending" things I have to go through before I'm twelve feet under. What's with this fascination about the world ending? If only we could just fly off into space to escape a threat we didn't have the ability to stop - this whole "world ends" thing becomes obsolete.
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"Anyone else here buying smoke detectors to harvest the Americium-241 for use as a radioactive source in experiments?"
Hehe. Did you buy any duct tape this time?
'Duct tape', 'radioactive source', 'experiments', 'Justin Bieber' - never use them in the same joke.
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wasssup1990
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jan 11 2012 : 10:24:41 AM
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Originally posted by JUAN DELA CRUZ
Maybe, the ancient civilization KNOW something that we didn't know... OR we also know it from the start but we keep on ignoring IT.
I doubt it's either. I don't know why people seem to give credibility to any kind of ancient prophecy. Yet at the same time they say "So and so a thousand years ago said the world will end tomorrow! OMG! Run!" they ignore the fact that so and so a thousand years ago also started the day by sacrificing a chicken to the tree in the front yard in order to bring the rains. Which is stupid, of course, because everyone knows you need to use a rooster.
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And as the time goes by ..forgotten what is the REAL reason why WE are All here! wtf*
The end will come thats for sure because of our CARELESSNESS and SELFISHNESS in this planet where we live.
If you know the reason we are here, I'd sure like to find out. I think also every philosopher since the beginning of time would as well.
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I only believe that our CREATOR knows when will be the right time... and I KNOW FOR SURE HE WILL SAVE US for OUR Sins.
Well, first you'd need to prove that there is a creator. Then you'd need to prove that creator is all seeing an all knowing. Then you'd need to prove that creator actually takes an active part in our lives. Since there's never been a shred of proof for any of that, it seems like kind of a strange thing to believe to me. About the same as believing that a Mayan calendar can signal the end of the world. Then you'd have to define what a sin is, why a creator would make us with a built in sin, etc. etc. etc.
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
It has to do with the Mayan Calendar ending. It's not like it can go on forever. The Mayans didn't say that's when the rapture will happen.
Yep. It's been covered time and time again by even the mainstream media, yet people still think that somehow the Mayans had some kind of advanced knowledge that about a million prophets before and after them didn't. Probably the same people that believe aliens helped the Egyptians build the pyramids, that out ancient civilizations accomplished stuff that "we could never do today", blah blah blah. It seems to all come from a stunning lack of understanding about how the world works, then the inability to accept the logical explanation (or understand it) and instead accept a batshit insane and frankly ridiculous story instead.
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Originally posted by wasssup1990
Yep, that's about all I've heard too, in closeness to reality. People have a tendency to blow things way out of proportion. The calender ends, the world doesn't. Dahhh! I wonder how many of these "world ending" things I have to go through before I'm twelve feet under. What's with this fascination about the world ending? If only we could just fly off into space to escape a threat we didn't have the ability to stop - this whole "world ends" thing becomes obsolete.
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Hehe. Did you buy any duct tape this time?
'Duct tape', 'radioactive source', 'experiments', 'Justin Bieber' - never use them in the same joke.
No duct tape, but it did remind me of this:
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
Proof evolution sometimes runs backwards. They say the sores on his skin are from constant radiation exposure. I postulate that it's from all the meth he smoked on order to think what he was doing was a good idea!
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Originally posted by wasssup1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DPJHNVx2Q&feature=fvst
It won't be long before all Macs look like that. If Apple continues down their current path of restricting the user more and more, all Macs will contain only a single button marked "Do Stuff" then pressing it will launch a series of predefined tasks that complete without any user input.
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Too lazy to smoke cigarettes yourself? Let this gadget do it for you! It's the healthier alternative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBGau9623I&feature=related
That is AWESOME! So very steampunk, and completely pointless. I actually made an autosmoker years ago because my brother was doing a science project on smoking. Not even remotely as fancy, but it could smoke several cigarettes per minute. Took about 10 smokes to make the filter so restrictive that it had to be changed, as I recall. Yuck. |
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 09:27:01 AM
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I got back from a 39km bike ride a few hours ago. Took about 5 hours. I almost skidded off into a river. I was going fast down a slope and at the bottom there was dry dirt in the crest of a sharp corner. The back tire lost grip and slid left while I was tilted right. I quickly released the rear break and shifted my weight forward and luckily my rear tire returned to its position.
EDIT: Some people were interested in the route we took. So here is an image that is pretty self explanatory. Sorry about the shit quality.
The graph at the bottom is the elevation profile.
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People love automation. Our computers are self automated monsters. People just want things done as quickly as possible without having to deal with tedious things, unless those tedious things happen to be of a creative nature (e.g. hobbyist electronics, model air-planes etc.).
Speech recognition has been a tough one but the only way I can see it making a huge impact is if the computer has a human-like AI in order to understand what someone is saying. In order to understand what a person is saying you need an enormous amount of knowledge. Even the most simple sentence or paragraph requires lots of knowledge. E.g. "Mary saw the puppy through the window. Mary wanted the puppy." You then ask the computer: "How could Mary get the puppy?" Think about it. How many things do you need to know to solve that problem?
The speech recognition on Windows OS has little titbits of knowledge pre-programmed into it to solve language ambiguities. This is automation to an extent but far from talking to a human-like AI which does what you tell it and never complains (maybe even ask you for clarification). Now that would be world changing and I'd imagine it could get quite controversial, but I think it's inevitable. Humanoid drones will probably come next, utilising this technology. This is how I see the future anyway. We've all seen those drone aircraft the US military has. It can be said that they have AI but there is still no clear definition for what AI is. I believe the predator drones will RTB on their own at bingo fuel and on mission completion or abort.
The future will be full of many great things. I just hope that the countries that have a world changing military strength stay friendly to each other. If they do then all we need to worry about is earthly natural disasters and the very rare chance of a Meteorite.
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Aaron I read that story about the radioactive boy you posted. I have never heard anything like it before. That boy's crazy. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jan 15 2012 01:11:52 AM |
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 10:47:46 AM
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 11:51:20 PM
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What software did you use to map that route?
I used the Google Earth software.
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
I wasn't carrying a GPS tracking device, I plotted the route manually from my memory when I got home. I thought you would be interested in this Aaron because I remember you talking about going on a bike ride with your trailer that you made. |
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 10:23:51 PM
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Eleven of the world's best drivers cars, dragging. Why? Because they can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7Pty8Qnw |
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