Winter strikes back

[vera_j]

Of course, what I was thinking? The weekend was suspiciously spring-like, and ah, you submit to it so easily. Now we have got real winter, snow, freezing wind, traffic problems and my warmer coat out of the wardrobe.
Um...there are some funny news in our media, quite accumulated  -  something about  possible Apocalypsa, solar storm that might damage the energetic net on the Earth in about 2012, and simultaneously about a mysterous message in the ancient Maya calendar that ends 21.12.2012 without furter continuity...have these catastrophic visions also appeared in your media? Mind you, the system "bread and circusses" has always worked nicely for distracting people - but still...? What do you think?

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What I think is that the Mayans didn't know anything about the Julian calendar. :-) We got past 2000 and we're still here.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

:-) Good!!!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Giggle. Every calendar ever published on hard media will have a point where the writers decided it wasn't worth wasting more stone/metal/etc going too far into the future (either that or they knew that minor inaccuracies would accumulate and make it worthless).

The papers must be really desperate for news this week. And it's so much easier to report on disasters that no one will take seriously than to write about the real dangers of man-made climate change.

(Yes, a really big solar storm could cause major problems, but I doubt very much that the Maya were worried about the damage to electronics)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

:-)You should see the reactions here .-):-)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And what I think is the mathematical genius that worked out that calendar got fed up at that point and stopped carving, or died. %) If Nostradamus got it wrong then we have nothing to fear from the Maya

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I like more the idea of him being fed up :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The Chinese calendar is *way* past 2012 already. :^)

Solar storms OTOH can really mess up communications. *ptui* (Makes note to print out lots of stuff from the internet to tide me over.)

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Stay warm! It snowed here - then rained. Now it's supposed to snow again tomorrow. 8-)
Solar storm would be nasty. As for the rest... taken with a grain of salt - if even that. ;-)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

*Grins*"a grain of salt" - this is new for me, lovely, thanks!!!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

No worries--the world will end when it ends, I promise. The media here digs up every apocalyptic prediction every few years; makes good copy.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Fits with the general mess here beautifully! :-)