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Nigh? The End Of The World Is Already Here
Independent (UK) ^
| 1-14-2003
| John von Radowitz
Posted on 01/13/2003 5:58:50 PM PST by blam
Nigh? The end of the world is already here
By John von Radowitz
14 January 2003
The end of the world is not merely nigh it has already begun. Earth has started the process of turning into a burnt-out cinder that will eventually be swallowed by the Sun, say the astrobiologists Donald Brownlee and Peter Ward of the University of Washington.
They calculate that Earth's "day in the sun" has reached 4.30am, corresponding to its age of 4.5 billion years. By 5am the billion-year reign of animals and plants will have ended. At 8am the oceans will vaporise. At noon after 12 billion years the expanding Sun will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence that it existed.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donaldbrownlee; end; iteotwawki; nigh; of; peterward; rareearth; rareearthnonsense; world
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We're all gonna die!!
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posted on
01/13/2003 5:58:50 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
End of World Has Already Begun, U of WA Scientists Say in Book 'The Life and Death of Planet Earth'
Boston.com via Drudge Report ^ | 1/13/03 | Ascribe Newswire
Posted on 01/13/2003 4:05 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/822074/posts
To: blam
are gonna get BLOWED up?
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:03:21 PM PST
by
new cruelty
(Read this tagline, then see the movie!)
To: blam
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:06:30 PM PST
by
genew
To: blam
I don't care as long as Al Sharpton doesn't become President.
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:10:06 PM PST
by
rs79bm
To: blam
And these people expect to maintain the U of WA as a credible education institution?
To: blam
Moronic science reporting alert - anybody think that they will be around in 500 MILLION YEARS? 500 million years ago the first fish vertebrates just got started. At that point either Humans will be totally extinct, totally different or totally gone from the Earth or any two of the three above. In other words - I'm really going to lose sleep on this, BIG TIME!
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:12:00 PM PST
by
SES1066
To: blam
Remind me to Moon the University of Washington on the way to work on Tuesday........
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:12:25 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( I am not gonna see Lord of the Rings Jhoffa !!!!!!)
To: blam
Good!
I am sick of waiting.
I say do it right now and as a side benefit we won't have to tolerate another "Donahue"
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:12:54 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(We have vays of making you zee the movie, mister Cmsgop.. You vill buy da action figures also.)
To: blam
The word's ending in 7.5 billion years? I better get started on my list of thing to do!
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:16:57 PM PST
by
flynhghr
(Proud supporter of the 2nd Amendment!)
To: blam
This sounds very series...
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:17:53 PM PST
by
Fury
To: blam
At noon after 12 billion years the expanding Sun will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence that it existed.NOTE TO SELF: be sure to schedule an early lunch 12 Billion years from now so I won't miss the show!
To: blam
Women and children hardest hit!
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posted on
01/13/2003 6:26:09 PM PST
by
roballen
(I'm not indecisive! Am I?)
To: blam
Lets see, who should I believe, a couple of Academia's made out of crazy dirt, or God, who has been around FOREVER!
I think I'll take a chance and bet on God.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
To: blam
OH MY, The sky is falling!
To: blam
This oughtta be a Fox News Alert!
To: blam
I think I'll start making travel plans now. But I won't be traveling by commercial carrier, what with the flight delays and all.
To: blam
At 8am the oceans will vaporise. At noon after 12 billion years the expanding Sun will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence that it existed. And my 18-year-old college student daughter will have slept through the whole thing.
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01/13/2003 6:42:08 PM PST
by
Argus
To: rs79bm; blam
We're all gonna die!! I don't care as long as Al Sharpton doesn't become President.
thank you for the laugh of the night!
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