16:02 @ astroengine : Love to know what you thought of the bit with the planetary alignment causing an eruption at Yellowstone. I'm currently (cont) # 16:04 @ astroengine : ...working on a story for the Examiner on the crap science in the movie and that's the bit that most perplexes me. Jherara... # 16:04 @ astroengine : .......

It's the end of the world and I feel fine.

... makes it to safety. I can't be sure if the shoddy science was deliberate, though. To its credit, the movie doesn't really claim a planetary alignment was responsible, just showed crackpots claiming it. A different sort-of-scientific explanation was used to explain the global catastrophe, and I can live with it. ...

2012

... notable dramatic scenes. That said, what more could you possibly ask for from a disaster flick? Well, the science behind it was a little sketchy (a planetary alignment causes our sun to set off flares which heat up the earth’s core thus causing all sorts of natural disasters to reek havoc on the surface), ...

2012...

...at least a thousand kilometres away. Yeah. So yeah, a Richter 10 would be both *seen* and *felt* in D.C. And do *not* get me started on the "Planetary Alignment" shite... So yeah. We were entertained by the sight of lots of Americans and Chinese people - and a few Indians and a dozen or so rich Russians - falling or ...

... myth. This post isn't about dispelling the myths surrounding 2012, like the Mayan calendar, galactic plane alignment, or even Niburu the dark-star. I could spend countless hours trying to knock some sense into ...my one and only full-on doomsday dream. The others are merely about my own demise and not planetary destruction, so it makes for a decent push off here. Dream #1: Fall of Reality. Perhaps...

Thor's Day

... be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the relatively perfect alignment of our solar system is compared to that of other planetary systems. Plans No one has any demands on my time today. Phew. So I'll look at the pile of half-...

The Ugly Uggs Ghost Safari The Intergalactic Space Cadets of Zaxoo or The Planetary Alignment Committee or Apoapsis: The Farthest Point in an Orbit from the Body Being Orbited     --  Yes, this is an actual definition from the space dictionary The Puffy Space Boots   --  because they look puffy

Is 2012 really the "End of the World"?

...and that the poles will shift, due to the alignment of the planets. The magnetic forces are going to... days and nothing happened. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/05/02/planetary.alignment/index.html I don’t understand why people are fretting so much about ...it for yourself and see if there is any alignment of the planets. I think there was more of an alignment in May of 2000 than this!

Jesus Born on 11 Sept, 3 B.C. (Feast of Trumpets) NOT December 25th, Birthday of Tammuz

... book entitled “The Star That Astonished the World” by Dr. Ernest L. Martin shows that the planetary alignment which occurred that year when Yeshua was born was from Revelation 12: 1 And there appeared .... On no other day except on September 11th in 3 B.C. do we see this planetary alignment taking place. On this day and never before this date nor ever again after, has this ...

Westerners exhaust own myths, loot other cultures for new ones. News at... ah, forget it

...'s axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once..."Bad Astronomy" blog. He says the alignment doesn't fall precisely in 2012,... the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.... End of Days" says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger.... It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe." The idea apparently originates with...