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Originally Posted by renormalised
..........once they've got the idea in their heads that everything is going to go to pot on December 21.........
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December 21st? I did not know that someone had provided a date. Any chance that they might postpone? A few more days will be enough, otherwise I will miss out on my 40th. At least I won't have to worry about having a mid-life crisis
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It is interesting that normally rational people can get dragged into this type of thinking.
Recently a planet or comet was meant to collide with the Earth, I cannot remember its name. One otherwise intelligent person was trying to convince me of its reality and I tried to point out that if it were true anyone with a telescope would be able to look at it. They weren't because it did not exist. Next time I saw him, I gave him some astronomy magazines that had articles about events that could take place to create problems on a worldwide scale. Without being patronizing, it was my attempt to replace myth with reality.
I am sure it has been covered before, but these queries seem to surface at the public observing sessions. The only time I have not been willing to turn a conversation around was when a young bloke asked how far away a star was. I told him that the light had taken 'x' number of years to reach us. He then informed me that the data was wrong and the Universe was only 6000 years old. If he was so sure why ask?
Each to their own but sometimes there is little to gain by debating the evidence.