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Yet another arbitrary chronological marker successfully passed without any cataclysm befalling the human race. Oh well, I guess there’s always next year.

Happy new year from everybody here at Lintbox!

Well, the Large Hadron Collider has not destroyed the world yet, a fact which many are looking upon with disappointment. We’ve all seen movies; the apocalypse always looks so awesome. But for now, the scientists working at CERN seem to be the only ones who really get to enjoy the LHC.

Not anymore. The folks over at io9 have made a drinking game of it. I wholeheartedly support this particular use for multi-billion-dollar scientific equipment.

For those of you not following the news too closely, I thought it might be of interest to you that the Large Hadron Collider has not yet destroyed the world! It seems, at least for the time-being, that we are still alive — and doing science!

Keep checking http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ for updates!

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?

This should prove a handy tool for those worried over the nonsensical doomsday claims regarding the LHC.

Be sure to check the website frequently to make sure you haven’t been swallowed by a cloud of micro black holes, or engulfed by and converted into strange matter!

Yesterday, to my stern disapproval, the normally science-friendly Discovery Channel hosted the documentary: Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012 – The End of Days, a title which could have been a lot shorter, but I suppose they really needed to nail down that end-of-the-world feeling to it.  Anyway, while I typically love what’s aired on Discovery, The End of Days wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be; It was worse.

We haven’t yet really covered much on the 2012 nonsense, which I suppose we should sometime in the future (we do have more than four years to do so, after all!).

The gist of it, for those lucky enough to have not heard of the hysteria, is that the Ancient Mayans’ calendar ends in December of 2012, which has led many to speculate that the world must end by that date, and not that, you know, the Mayans didn’t want to waste their lives writing calendars for dates they probably wouldn’t still be around to experience.

In any case, the finite Mayan calendar is the core of the 2012 doomsday claims.  Once you sprinkle a few vaguely applicable lines from soothsayers of the past to support it, you’ve got an apocalypse-nowish theory compelling enough to get Hollywood’s attention. Read the rest of this entry »