Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December 21 nears

[Jazzy]

Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.



Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year Long Count Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.



The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.



In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.



We've gone from one a month to one a day, he said. I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right.



In the French Pyrenees the mayor of Bugarach, population 179, has attempted to prevent pandemonium by banning UFO watchers and light aircraft from the flat topped mount Pic de Bugarach.

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Any of you in a panic too?

 

[wirelessguru1]

Nope, since I already know that it is the end of the present age/era and not the end of the world!

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, yeah. A sheer wide-eyed sweating fingernail-gnawing panic.



Poo is coming out!!! -Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear UK)



yeah. right



Excuse me.



Army-Navy is coming on and I need booze for the occasion.



I'll get back to hyperventilating shortly.



And, oh, by the way, as for the crossing the galactic plane thing. We have been for between twenty to almost a hundred years (depending on which cosmologist you ask), and will be for at least that long still to go.



Sorry.

 

[wirelessguru1]

And, oh, by the way, as for the crossing the galactic plane thing. We have been for between twenty to almost a hundred years (depending on which cosmologist you ask), and will be for at least that long still to go..

Damn, that's a pretty thick plane...