I am obligated to mention this 2nd sun story

[CJ Man]

Umm it's actually the matrix............and the beginning is terminator too!

[PoorMansCamaro]

Originally Posted by CJ Man

Umm it's actually the matrix............and the beginning is terminator too!

guess you've never seen daybreakers with ethan hawke

[CJ Man]

I actually missed that one! I think I'll net flix it!

[PoorMansCamaro]

btw, jets suck. that is all.

[CJ Man]

if the fins win the super bowl the apocalypse will have started!

[PoorMansCamaro]

great way to go out, imo.

[The IOM Ninja]

Originally Posted by SSTG

Aren't People sick of hearing this crap by now?!?!

It makes me sick to think some even believe it.

Please..... people believe in more ridiculous stuff.....

See Noah's Ark, as if their were actually two of each animal on earth within walking distance, people that take that story literally should be hung from the nearest tree. Compared to that, a supernova wiping us out doesn't seem quite as ****ing stupid....

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by kalimus

They do happen at fairly regular intervals. Or at least, a very large impact happens at fairly regular intervals. They can tell by concentrations of irridium embedded in very old rock. For example when the one that made the chicxulub crater (the one they think wiped out the dinosaurs), they can find a layer of irridium embedded in rock dates back that far. The event happens about every 26 million years.

Here's the thing, the claim is that a star goes through the asteroid belt and knocks one large asteroid loose. If there were a star passed through the asteroid belt, it would knock a whole cloud of asteroids loose. We'd be hit with countless pieces of space debris. Large asteroids, small asteroids, medium ones ... we'd get bombarded with them for days on end, year after year until the trail of asteroids in the path of our orbit dissipates a dozens (if not hundreds or thousands) of years later.

We wouldn't just be seeing a iridium layer every 26 million years or so for the last couple hundred million years (I think thats how far back the Ir layer goes). It would surely lead to a mass extinction each and every time it happens. And it would be happening like clockwork for billions of years. Never mind the fact that chances are slim to nil that any sort of complex life would manage to survive a single event (let alone well over a hundred of them)

[Scalded Dog]

We're all going to die, but it's actually at the stoke of midnight when December 31, 2012 ends... I got a calender from Wal-Mart, and it ends right there! NOTHING follows!

Plus, without pretty sure we're not going to ring in any further New Years without Dick Clark around as our guide...

[kalimus]

haha well I don't know... I wasn't there... but a theory is a theory. There is lots of common science now that the same people hundreds of years ago thought was rubbish and impossible, and just crazy talk or wild stories. Hell, there are even people in the scientific community now that don't think gravity is real (true story). People that are "certain" we are the only life in the universe. Even with the irridium layers, I don't know how far back they go, but they do know there were several events at "regular" intervals. And maybe it's just cooincidence, but it's interesting that maybe it's not I don't subscribe to any of the prophecies or things like that, but I'd say it's a fairly safe bet that there will be something to happen that will wipe out everything (or almost everything) again. Big rock, supernova, gamma ray burst, huge volcano... and chances are good we might not even see it coming. Probably not in my lifetime, but you never know. I think the possibilities are almost endless, and that's what makes it so much fun to theorize about

[The IOM Ninja]

Originally Posted by kalimus

haha well I don't know... I wasn't there... but a theory is a theory. There is lots of common science now that the same people hundreds of years ago thought was rubbish and impossible, and just crazy talk or wild stories. Hell, there are even people in the scientific community now that don't think gravity is real (true story). People that are "certain" we are the only life in the universe. Even with the irridium layers, I don't know how far back they go, but they do know there were several events at "regular" intervals. And maybe it's just cooincidence, but it's interesting that maybe it's not I don't subscribe to any of the prophecies or things like that, but I'd say it's a fairly safe bet that there will be something to happen that will wipe out everything (or almost everything) again. Big rock, supernova, gamma ray burst, huge volcano... and chances are good we might not even see it coming. Probably not in my lifetime, but you never know. I think the possibilities are almost endless, and that's what makes it so much fun to theorize about

It's the Reapers, organic races are being harvested damn it.... I knew Mass Effect was based on future events D:

[Brokinarrow]

Originally Posted by kalimus

haha well I don't know... I wasn't there... but a theory is a theory. There is lots of common science now that the same people hundreds of years ago thought was rubbish and impossible, and just crazy talk or wild stories. Hell, there are even people in the scientific community now that don't think gravity is real (true story). People that are "certain" we are the only life in the universe. Even with the irridium layers, I don't know how far back they go, but they do know there were several events at "regular" intervals. And maybe it's just cooincidence, but it's interesting that maybe it's not I don't subscribe to any of the prophecies or things like that, but I'd say it's a fairly safe bet that there will be something to happen that will wipe out everything (or almost everything) again. Big rock, supernova, gamma ray burst, huge volcano... and chances are good we might not even see it coming. Probably not in my lifetime, but you never know. I think the possibilities are almost endless, and that's what makes it so much fun to theorize about

Here's the wiki on extinction events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct...inction_events

To summarize the dates here, they go: 65 ma (million years) ago, 205 ma, 251 ma, 375 - 360 ma, and 450 - 440 ma.

I see nothing regular in that pattern. A little research goes a long way.

Also, to come up with a good and solid theory, one needs to use the scientific method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
Not just random guesses at what COULD happen if you don't look at any prior evidence what so ever.

[IrocJack]

[kalimus]

Originally Posted by Brokinarrow

Here's the wiki on extinction events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct...inction_events

To summarize the dates here, they go: 65 ma (million years) ago, 205 ma, 251 ma, 375 - 360 ma, and 450 - 440 ma.

I see nothing regular in that pattern. A little research goes a long way.

Also, to come up with a good and solid theory, one needs to use the scientific method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
Not just random guesses at what COULD happen if you don't look at any prior evidence what so ever.

I realize that Wikipedia is the be all, end all for some people. But ok I'll bite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_hypothesis (linked from your article)


And also from your article:
"However, other authors have concluded the data on marine mass extinctions do not fit with the idea that mass extinctions are periodic, or that ecosystems gradually build up to a point at which a mass extinction is inevitable.[4] Many of the proposed correlations have been argued to be spurious" (note marine mass only) followed by

"It has also been suggested that the oceans have gradually become more hospitable to life over the last 500 million years, and thus less vulnerable to mass extinctions"


Seriously though... linking one wiki article (and I doubt anybody will argue the possible inaccuracies that riddle wiki), does not qualify as "a little research goes a long way" The point is, that there are lots of theories... all of which have conflicting research results. All of which also using... scientific theory! So... I can find research that supports my original post. Which, by the way, I said "Of course, there is no hard proof behind it, but it is an interesting theory".

I'm not trying to incite an arguement or anything, but before you try to link one thing and wave the , you might want to follow your own advice to a little research goes a long way, and see if maybe there is a reason I'm saying the things I'm saying. You sound like a college student, or recent grad. Valid, research backs me up. Conflicting, sure... but most theories have something that conflicts them.