2012 - Countdown to Apocalypse Megathread

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by kokopelli

John Mayer is everything that is wrong with America.

Ain't that the truth, like here where he was hanging with his BCF (best comrade forever) Stalin.

[texasaurus]

awesome @chuck

[texasaurus]

"Judge Judy" was daytime's top-rated show last season -- knocking "Oprah" off its perch for the first time since the 2000-2001 TV season.

For the 2009-10 season, "Judge Judy" averaged 6.5 million viewers -- 600,000 more viewers, on average, than "Oprah," according to Nielsen.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainmen...1qr8srHhdoCkAM

[texasaurus]

And then there's this...

[texasaurus]

Several Texas Rangers overheard saying "We're just gonna take it one game at a time".

note the date: 10/12/2010

If you rearrange the numbers, you get 2112; plus you get some leftover numbers. bonus.

[texasaurus]

Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun.

However, today, there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112. Most of today's various wavelength images of the Sun all show this feature over at the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) - NASA website.


http://beforeitsnews.com/story/218/3...n_the_Sun.html

[texasaurus]

Encased in pinkish marble-like slabs supporting a balustrade, this dinosaur -- or what's left of it -- has for centuries been the most faithful presence in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, a town about 20 miles from Milan.

[texasaurus]

In breakthrough, scientists trap antimatter atoms.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_switzerland_antimatter

Hangst and his colleagues, who included scientists from Britain, Brazil, Canada, Israel and the United States, trapped 38 anti-hydrogen atoms individually. Hangst says that since the experiments they reported in Nature, they've been able to hold on to the atoms even longer.

"Unfortunately I can't tell you how long, because we haven't published the number yet," Hangst told the AP. "But I can tell you that it's much, much longer than a tenth of a second. Within human comprehension on a real clock."

Studying such trapped atoms could help answer basic questions in physics, like why antimatter has disappeared from the natural universe while ordinary matter abounds in the stars, planets and galaxies. Theorists say both must have been created in equal amounts in the Big Bang.

[texasaurus]

TENTH FOOT

Police are trying to determine the origins of a disembodied human foot found washed ashore in Tacoma, Washington, the ninth such discovery reported along the Pacific Northwest coastline in recent years.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BE6NU20101215

[Gear Jammer]

Originally Posted by texasaurus

TENTH FOOT

Police are trying to determine the origins of a disembodied human foot found washed ashore in Tacoma, Washington, the ninth such discovery reported along the Pacific Northwest coastline in recent years.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BE6NU20101215

World's most lethal game of footsie.

[texasaurus]

Folks Today's THV spoke with initially thought the birds were poisoned because they are what they call a nuisance around this time every year, but they are surprised to hear it is more of a mystery.

Stephen Bryant recalls, "Millions, millions fly over every night. You look up at the sky and it's just black and then last night at about 10:30 I came out here and saw a bird drop."

In a matter of hours on New Years Eve thousands of birds fell from the sky to their death.

Melissa Weatherly says, "I immediately called mom because I had to go to work, I said you have to come get the kids and get the dog because I don't know what's going on." She continues, "It was horrible; you could not even get down the road without running over hundreds.


http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/...136195&catid=2

[texasaurus]

Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC, ends `Countdown'.

Goodnight, Keith.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110122/...s_tv_olbermann

[texasaurus]

Computer beats humans on TV's Jeopardy. I wish they had gotten the computer generated voice to say "Suck it, Trebek" after winning.

http://mashable.com/2011/02/16/ibms-...y-in-jeopardy/

[Gear Jammer]

Originally Posted by texasaurus

Computer beats humans on TV's Jeopardy. I wish they had gotten the computer generated voice to say "Suck it, Trebek" after winning.

http://mashable.com/2011/02/16/ibms-...y-in-jeopardy/

Watched the first ep after seeing an interview with Jennings discussing the upcoming competition...wasn't even drinking, and couldn't keep up with the fuckers to save my life, kinda why I stopped watching years ago. In the interview Jennings revealed that there were 3 practice games in which each competitor won one. Guess Watson was playing possum based on the final outcome.

[RepoMan]

[texasaurus]

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/eu...ter/index.html


ed: Or destroy us all. yikwa1

[Chuck]

Due in 2012 http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/21...k=omni_popular What a sound track for the apocalypse.

[texasaurus]

The Cheezburger Network is about to get meatier; the LOL behemoth just announced the acquisition of cataloger of Internet culture, Know Your Meme.

Cheezburger founder and CEO Ben Huh says acquisition talks started in January, and the deal closed last Monday.

more: http://mashable.com/2011/03/28/cheez...now-your-meme/

[texasaurus]

Oprah a Noprah on Obama

http://www.popeater.com/2011/04/06/oprah-obama-2012/

[texasaurus]

A little bit of soap....

ABC canceled two of its three soap operas on Thursday, consigning "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" - and Susan Lucci, daytime's most famous actress - to television history.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110414/D9MJMI301.html

[texasaurus]

G Six. Team Six. Cheese Stix.

Six Planets Align.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/201104...edinthedawnsky

[texasaurus]

Not exactly sure how "The Crawford Factor" plays into the apocalypse yet. Time will tell.

http://thehill.com/capital-living/in...ney-supporter-

[texasaurus]

White Chicks make Rare Species List in Australia.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/an...524-1f1qb.html

Which, of course, answers the age old question "Where the white chicks at?"

[texasaurus]

GREENVILLE, Texas - A white buffalo, an animal rich in the lore of Native Americans and sacred to many tribes, was recently born in Texas.

Arby Little Soldier said the remarkable animal was born on his ranch near Greenville, about an hour northeast of Dallas, in the middle of a thunderstorm on May 12.

White buffalo are extremely rare. To be considered sacred they must also have certain markings.

“And that is black nose, black eyes and black-tipped tail. Not the pink eyes or the blue eyes or the pure albino,” he said. “This one here is the full one that’s counting now. He’d be the third. And the fourth in our Native American prophecy that is the end of the last days.”

more with adorable photo and video:
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/unu...-born-in-texas

[FulanoDeTal]

wait... is this the same buffalo that won Dancing with the Stars? Amazing!

[texasaurus]

well played, FDT