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Doomsday Is Coming: Escape Earth on Dec. 21, 2012, for as Little as $24.49
By David Moye - AOL NewsSome people see the 2012 doomsday prophecies as a sign the world will end on Dec. 21 next year. Others see the apocalyptic predictions as nonsensical hogwash fueled by superstition and misconceptions about the Mayan calendar. But Jack Dowd, an entrepreneur in Fairfield, Iowa, sees the fears of Armageddon as an opportunity to make some cash. Dowd, 27, a former writer's assistant on the sci-fi series "The Dead Zone," is capitalizing on doomsday hype by offering escape packages to people who would like to leave Earth should the apocalypse strike four days before the 2012 Christmas shopping ...
May 21, 2011, Is Doomsday? Twitter Ain't Buyin' It
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThe world will end on May 21. Or not. Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster from California, has picked May 21, 2011, as the start of the end times. Now, as the date draws near, he's organized a doomsday caravan of fellow believers to travel across the country, spreading the word about the end of the world. On Twitter, it's a tough sell. .bbpBox44837426962763780 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1298748610/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsFarmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples of peas and 42 rare chickpeas in the vault, intending to protect the plant species from extinction by climatic or man-made events. John McConnico, AP Australian farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples ...
NASA Calls '2012' Most Flawed Sci-Fi Film Ever
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsThe 2009 film "2012" depicted an ultimate end-of-the-world scenario based on an ancient Mayan calendar that ends on Dec. 21, 2012. But does NASA believe the film accurately portrays something that will really happen? Absolutely not. In fact, NASA scientists say the doomsday "2012" is the most ridiculous sci-fi film ever. "The filmmakers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America," Donald Yeomans told The Australian. Sony Pictures/Everett Collection Doomsday befalls Earth in the 2009 film "2012," ...
Doomsday: After Many Predictions, We're Still Here
By Lee Speigel - AOL News"Repent, repent, the end is near!" Or is it? How many times have we heard that in movies, on TV, throughout literature and in the Bible? Yet, as often as people have predicted a global apocalypse, we're still here, still intact. You've undoubtedly heard about the upcoming end of the world, scheduled for Dec. 21, 2012. Based on an ancient Mayan calendar, some believe that date signals possible cataclysmic events for our home planet, where others, like NASA, insist the only thing that will happen on that day next year will be another winter solstice. But, for all the preaching and chanting ...
2012: Psychology of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL NewsEditor's Note: For Part 1 of "2012: Psychology of the Apocalypse," click here. (June 11) -- Earlier this week, we discussed the re-emergence of the doomsayers calling for another imminent apocalypse at the end of the Mayan long-count calendar, scheduled for Dec. 21, 2012. While most simply brush off the apocalyptic warnings, the groups always seem to find new followers. With all the prior failed prophecies (and there have been many), it raises one question: Why are we susceptible to these suggestions in the first place? "It appears to be a human trait to initially believe what we are told, ...
Doomsday Shelters Make a Comeback in Time for 2012
By David Moye - AOL News(May 20) -- Everything eventually makes a comeback, whether it's skinny jeans, Mickey Rourke or Bret Michaels. Now, another relic of a different age is getting a postmodern twist: doomsday shelters. It's less than 1,000 days to Dec. 21, 2012, which is the last day listed in the Mayan calendar. Terravivos.com Robert Vicino is selling underground shelters in preparation for a possible future doomsday. Each shelter goes for $10 million and can house up to 200 people. Many people believe this date could mark the end of the world as we know it, and even those who aren't completely convinced ...
NASA Declares It's Not the End of the World (Whew!)
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyAmericans may not agree on troop numbers in Afghanistan, a resolution in Iraq, universal health care, or how to pull the jobless rate from the cliff at 10 percent, but will they find agreement in the possible threat of an apocalypse?Maybe . . . if only to escape the harsh, complex reality of the world as it is now. Chatter about end-time events -- whether generated by the hand of God, otherworldly creatures, galactic collapse, human corruption or some combination of all four -- have become common conversation in many circles. Google "2012," and you can read tons of entries about the ancient ...
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