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Saturday, August 18. 2012

The countdown


With such an important event coming up in a few months, I figured we should install a countdown clock here on Maggie's, since so many of us are eagerly anticipating having the Democrats kicked right out of Washington, if not right off the planet.

You have to admit — if the world disappears into an alternate dimension, at least it'll take care of runaway inflation.  And those pesky Democrats.


While I don't think you'll particularly learn anything new here, it's still interesting watching an official JPL guy cover the bases.


And if he's wrong?


Just do as we learned to do back in the 60's when Russia was about ready to launch 25,000 nukes at us.


Just crawl under your school desk.  You'll be fine.

Posted by Dr. Mercury in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:30 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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I check the webby-tubes everyday from under my desk. Keeps a bit more of the dust off.
#1 Sam L. on 2012-08-18 11:25 (Reply)
I use Windex on my tin foil hat daily, just to keep it shiny and reflective, so I know what you mean.
#1.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-08-18 11:28 (Reply)
Wise beyond your years, Doc.
#2 Sam L. on 2012-08-18 14:52 (Reply)
MF should keep a countdown clock to JANUARY 21, 2013, exactly one month later, when America can tear off the last page of the catastrophic Obama calendar and start on the first page of the Mitt Romney calendar. On that day, America will see a rebirth. HOPE for the CHANGE.
#3 Agent Cooper on 2012-08-18 15:25 (Reply)
At precisely high noon.

Not that anybody's counting.
#3.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-08-18 15:28 (Reply)
That's the month my kid turns old enough to drive. Don't know about you, but I'm shaking in my boot at the thought.
#4 fiftyville on 2012-08-18 17:50 (Reply)
All of us here at Maggie's extend our deepest condolences for your impending misfortune. End of the world and your kid turns old enough to drive? Hard to say which is worse.
#4.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-08-18 17:57 (Reply)
Pah - 12/12, 9/15, 11/27 and some other freakin' "deadline" if you will - I mean hell, did anybody ever think that the Mayans simply ran out of space on the calendar and didn't bother to make a new one?

Hell - there's even one cosmologist who has made a cogent and highly logical argument that the "deadline" passed last year on November 16th.

Count down clock my.....
#5 Tom Francis on 2012-08-19 00:25 (Reply)
Over at Ac-of-Spades, some months back, they endorsed SMOD (Sweet Meteor of Death) for President....

With SMOD in charge, on December 21, 2012 all petty political, economic and budgetary problems will become things of the past.....
#6 steve on 2012-08-19 09:37 (Reply)
Exactly. "Look on the bright side!", is my motto. Besides, unlike global warming which is actually supposed to boil the oceans and raise the temperature of dirt to the point of spontaneous combustion, the Mayan prediction only indicates that roughly 90% of the world's population will be wiped out. So, we've still got a 1-in-10 chance of making it. Optimism! That's what it's all about.
#6.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-08-19 10:16 (Reply)
Attended a talk on calendars last week--guy covered Roman, the Julian and Gregorian upgrades, and then the Mayan. Said they had 3 calendars, a religious one of 260 days, and annual (roughly) of 380, and the third was never-ending daily from Day 1 of founding, which he said was calculated by a German in the 1890s to be August 20 of 3114 BC (later corrected to Aug 18). And a stone was found saying their king would be returning/reborn/reincarnated in 4774 AD (as calculated).

When was the spam-preventer addded?
#7 Sam L. on 2012-12-03 15:52 (Reply)
It's not a spam-preventer, it's something to do with posting comments to old posts. I have to 'approve' it on my end. Something I gladly did in your case.

Well, with the usual reservations, of course. :)
#7.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-12-03 16:07 (Reply)

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