SUCK IT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!
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Because 'conspiracy' was a pretty major part of his post. If he doesn't know what he's typing, maybe he should break his keyboard in half and go read a dictionary or something.OhJohnNo said:
Also, when people type in caps, they look like dickheads, so hate will be forthcoming.
I can understand why he got flamed. The nail that stands out gets hammered!
Wouldn't be the end of the world no matter where it hit but if it really IS going to impact in the pacific ocean I'd hate to be living on the west coast.Signa said:
(I live in California...)
You have NO idea how awesome that looked when viewed in the PM quote window. The head came from under the right panel.mad825 said:Signa said:
He's coming to get us!We're all doomed.
Yea...chances are very low/.
Also, I'm thankful I'm a SG-1 fan, because that picture of an angry dude's head with a swimmers cap would have made NO sense what so ever.
Actually, he uses the word "conspiracy" twice in the first post. Granted, one of them was in the title, in caps, but I think the main gist of the post was supposed to be "this comet is not going to wipe out life on Earth". That doesn't really give very much discussion value, but that's another argument entirely.Private Custard said:
Also that final quote sounds like something out of a dystopia novel. Which I can see was probably intentional, but still, it's slightly scary.
You're stupid, it's clearly the government that are controlling them! They want to use the comets to raise ...comet tax on the middle class!Blue Hero said:
OT: Anyone want to be amused: http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm some of the end of the world predictions through out the years, there's been a LOT more but I can't find the lists I've read.
2012 is just the dumbest event ever because everything said that's gonna end the world aren't going to.
Comet? Nope there's nothing coming
Solar flares? We've been hit by the worst the sun can put out already.
Earthquake? When could anyone predict those?
Personally when the day passes I'm going to be sure to be having fun. Besides if it's not 2012 it's obviously going to be moved to 2020 or something
It's a Japanese proverb, although the wording seems to have changed over many years. I agree, it does sound pretty sinister!OhJohnNo said:
This won't phase them. It never has, and it never will. When one of their many, many predictions falls flat, they'll just make a new one. "Planet Niberu" was supposed to hit Earth in 2003. When that didn't happen, they shifted it to 2006 and some shifted it to 2012. When it fails to hit in 2012, they'll either claim that aliens saved us, NASA blew it up (somehow), or that they were a "little off" in their calculations and that some NEW prophecy (maybe from the Aztecs or Nostrodamus) predicts that the world will end in 2020 or some other suitably just-far-off enough date to provoke panic, but which leaves enough time to sell books.
Because, as you might have guessed, many of these conspiracy theory/Doomsday propagandists don't believe their own nonsense. You know how many silly 2012 doomsday books are out there? A LOT. You know how much money the authors make? A LOT. There is a commercial angle to these dooms-day prophecies, which ensures that they'll keep making up new ones to write new books about and the gullible suckers who fell for it the first time will keep coming back and buying their books because they want to feel a glimmer of excitement in their life. Conspiracy theories make people feel smart, they make them feel special, like something is going to happen and they know it while the rest of us "Sheeple" don't.
So combine the lucrative market, with the sense of superiority many conspiracy theorists feel, and the cognitive dissonance they experience when the prediction fails and what do you get? Believers. Believers who will NEVER stop believing in conspiracy theories or dooms-day prophecies, because to stop believing is to admit that they WERE crazy or gullible, and they will NEVER, EVER DO THAT. It would wound their pride too much.
I predict three things:
1) The Conspiracy theorists who claimed that Elenin would hit earth will simply move the date and claim that they never said it would hit in 2011.
2) Or, they'll claim that Elein DIDN'T break up, that it's a "NASA lie" or some other such nonsense, and that the comet is still going to hit us.... any day now.... soon..... just wait.... it's coming closer.... it'll hit....we're sure of it.... just hold on... any moment now... until the sheer embarrassment will force them to be silent for a week or two, before they trot out yet another "doomsday" asteroid the "Illuminati" are hiding from us.
3) They'll say that NASA contacted the Aliens from Mars-Atlantis who, in co-operation with bigfoot (who was the REAL assassin who killed JFK), the illuminati, the freemasons, used the hidden perpetual-motion-cold-fusion device that the Oil Companies (who are controlled by the space reptiles who also control the UK Monarchy) are hiding from us, to blow up Elenin. But even if they saved us, it's all for nothing because of the CHEM-TRAILS they are spreading from the planes to brainwash us ALL. WAKE UP SHEEPLE! GRAB YOUR TIN FOIL HATS! THE CONSPIRACY IS DEEPER THAN WE HAD EVER FEARED! HIDE! HIDE IN THE MOUNTAINS! THEY'RE GONNA PUT CHIPS IN OUR BRAAAAAAAIIINNNNNS!!!
EDIT: It's also right to call these people conspiracy theorists, as many of them believe there is a Conspiracy by NASA, JAXA, The Russians, the Brazillians, and indeed, every single country with a telescope or radio-array to "hide" the "Truth" from us. They might also believe in a dooms-day prophecy, but many of them are also conspiracy theorists who believe that there is a government "cover-up".
Because, as you might have guessed, many of these conspiracy theory/Doomsday propagandists don't believe their own nonsense. You know how many silly 2012 doomsday books are out there? A LOT. You know how much money the authors make? A LOT. There is a commercial angle to these dooms-day prophecies, which ensures that they'll keep making up new ones to write new books about and the gullible suckers who fell for it the first time will keep coming back and buying their books because they want to feel a glimmer of excitement in their life. Conspiracy theories make people feel smart, they make them feel special, like something is going to happen and they know it while the rest of us "Sheeple" don't.
So combine the lucrative market, with the sense of superiority many conspiracy theorists feel, and the cognitive dissonance they experience when the prediction fails and what do you get? Believers. Believers who will NEVER stop believing in conspiracy theories or dooms-day prophecies, because to stop believing is to admit that they WERE crazy or gullible, and they will NEVER, EVER DO THAT. It would wound their pride too much.
I predict three things:
1) The Conspiracy theorists who claimed that Elenin would hit earth will simply move the date and claim that they never said it would hit in 2011.
2) Or, they'll claim that Elein DIDN'T break up, that it's a "NASA lie" or some other such nonsense, and that the comet is still going to hit us.... any day now.... soon..... just wait.... it's coming closer.... it'll hit....we're sure of it.... just hold on... any moment now... until the sheer embarrassment will force them to be silent for a week or two, before they trot out yet another "doomsday" asteroid the "Illuminati" are hiding from us.
3) They'll say that NASA contacted the Aliens from Mars-Atlantis who, in co-operation with bigfoot (who was the REAL assassin who killed JFK), the illuminati, the freemasons, used the hidden perpetual-motion-cold-fusion device that the Oil Companies (who are controlled by the space reptiles who also control the UK Monarchy) are hiding from us, to blow up Elenin. But even if they saved us, it's all for nothing because of the CHEM-TRAILS they are spreading from the planes to brainwash us ALL. WAKE UP SHEEPLE! GRAB YOUR TIN FOIL HATS! THE CONSPIRACY IS DEEPER THAN WE HAD EVER FEARED! HIDE! HIDE IN THE MOUNTAINS! THEY'RE GONNA PUT CHIPS IN OUR BRAAAAAAAIIINNNNNS!!!
EDIT: It's also right to call these people conspiracy theorists, as many of them believe there is a Conspiracy by NASA, JAXA, The Russians, the Brazillians, and indeed, every single country with a telescope or radio-array to "hide" the "Truth" from us. They might also believe in a dooms-day prophecy, but many of them are also conspiracy theorists who believe that there is a government "cover-up".
You're right, it didn't. Although, I think I prefer it this way. There's a sort of dadaist humor to watching a .gif of some dude's face drawing steadily closer, completely devoid of context.Signa said:You have NO idea how awesome that looked when viewed in the PM quote window. The head came from under the right panel.mad825 said:Signa said:
He's coming to get us!We're all doomed.
Yea...chances are very low/.
Also, I'm thankful I'm a SG-1 fan, because that picture of an angry dude's head with a swimmers cap would have made NO sense what so ever.
Well, I thought so, anyway.
laugh till you cry i say, that's just about the DUMBEST thing I've ever seen, topped only by the 'Disney is evil' video that popped up after that one, >.> don't suppose we can stop these people from breeding can we?MarsProbe said:
Yyyyyep, pretty much. But coming back to this thread I feel foolish so please consider my attack a spur-of-the-moment incredibly misguided venting, it was nothing personal (as much as it can be on a forum anyway).Dr Snakeman said:Hmmm... I did kind of do that, huh? Whoops. That was likely out of disappointment at the thread not being what I had hoped (see previous post regarding face-punches). Though I guess this thread may actually be interesting to some people.
[sub][sub][sub]Boring people...[/sub][/sub][/sub]
But for the sake of discussion, I'd always thought the the real reason these forums sucked was because of how immensely self-important everyone was. "I'm special because ______! Love me!"
And the angst. Oh, god, the angst.
Hah, I never tire of the angst. It's like a circus to me. ;P
Oh, apologies...as an emminent scientist posting in an online games forum, I really should have put things into layman's terms, so to speak.ZeroMachine said:
My term "rad" is actually an acronym for "Relative Astrological Doomsday Scenario Quotient". (I dropped the "S" and "Q" for the sake of catchiness.) Hence, "R.A.D". Get it?
By applying the term "game", I was using a common colloquialism that we astrophysicists enjoy throwing around- we refer to our field as "the cosmic game of billiards". You know, "eight ball in the corner pocket" being a euphemism for "catastrophic comet impact/Earth extinction event/game over, man, game over!".
Finally, with regards to "multiplayer" and "ships". "Multiplayer" was me attempting to be even more clever than I am right now- I was referring to multiple nations and scientific communities collaborating to address this threat- you know, "multiple players/team mates". By "ships", I was literally referring to ships (spacecraft, if you will) being deployed to fire/plant nukes directly at/on the comet. Hmmm...sounds like a good plot for a film, doesn't it?
So, in summary, you will note that I was actually completely on topic, albeit in a humourously obscure manner.
Great! Now that your comment/concern has been suitably addressed,...ahem...
"armageddon outta here!"
Heh. Ha ha! Oh, lordy...sigh.
You are a god among the men of the internet.Dr.Panties said:
I tip my hat to you, as well as the hat of the man next to me.