What Happened When the World Didnt End?

The World Did Not End

In accordance with the Mayans’ calendar the world was supposed to end in December, 2012. Some expecting that fate of the earth had started living like there was no tomorrow. But, the prediction did not come true and here we are! I guess the Mayans were just lazy to complete the calendar. So, now we have people with high amounts of debt to their name because they bought stuff on loan thinking they would never have to pay, lots of teenage pregnancies, new predictions on the next expected doomsday and also people making spoofs on the movie 2012!

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Five Possible Roads to Armageddon You Probably Never Thought Of

Call it morbid call it farfetched or call it what you will, the end of the world is coming closer every day – it is simply a case of when. True, there’s no need to be selling off all your gold bracelets and silver rings quite yet as the end is certainly less than nigh, but there are several ways the end of all things might come about without you ever having realized the risk:Volcanoes – Feared and respected yes, but truly understood in terms of their power – certainly not. It isn’t until a relatively small volcano wipes out a massive area that it becomes clear just what they’re capable of, therefore if the mother of all volcanoes were to appear and work its magic, oh dear!

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Live the dream!

Were you obsessed with the Y2K bug for a few months at the end of 1999? Were you, like me, a bit disappointed that all records of ownership were destroyed, all bank accounts wiped out and that you didn’t get the chance to loot that new TV you had your eye on? Well, fear not! Because believe it or not, you can actually play Y2K: The Game on your PC. It’s actually been around for a decade (released as a marketing man’s dream in the latter stages of the 20th century) but it had somehow passed me by until I saw it listed on an exhibition stand at a recent video game event I attended.

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Back to reality

Waking up on the first morning of the new Millennium, two thoughts were running through my mind. The first was how unbelievably ill I felt after the party previous night and the second was a slight feeling of disappointment that the world hadn’t ended, since that meant I had to get myself out of the bed and go to work! Yes, believe it or not the office furniture London warehouse I was working at in 2000 had asked us to come in on January 1 to do a stock take before the sales started. Happy New Year!

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Who’s laughing now?

It’s easy to laugh at Y2K now we all know that the whole millennium thing went off without a hitch. In fact, lots of TV shows and movies have done just that; and sometimes they’ve done it very well. There’s an episode of ’Family Guy'in particular that based an entire show about what life would be like in a post-Y2K Quahog. I won’t spoil the story, but it involves Stewie mutating into a weird sort of octopus, a quest to find the only food source that can survive an apocalypse – the Twinkie – and Peter setting up New Quahog, where everyone gets to pick their new job out of a hat!

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The future of gaming?

I can’t deny it, and nor do I want to. I love my gadgets — have done ever since I knew the world wasn’t really going to end — and the R4 Card is one of my most beloved. Now sit back, dear reader, and immerse yourself in my love of this extra special thing.

Primarily designed to work with your DS console, this little beauty is now available and fully-functional on a number of other gaming consoles: 3DS consoles and the Dsi to name but two (note: it really depends on which specific card you are buying, so always check website details to make sure your new card will work with your console!).

Now, you may ask How come the R4 has made such a statement in the world of gaming? It’s a fair enough question. After all, it isn’t as if Nintendo have a corner on the market when it comes to shifting devices which are capable of transporting us to a far galaxy or distant war-zone.

the card allows users to store tons of movies, music and even books. This means that not only is there more space for stuff you love, but while you are on the go you’ll be able to do virtually anything

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Y2K Exeter

I remember New Year’s Eve 1999. I spent it drinking too much beer with my two best friends in Exeter – where two of us were studying at University. To be honest we weren’t really thinking much about the Y2K bug. Our goal was more about trying to stand up straight outside Exeter cathedral at midnight and sing ‘Aud Lang Syne'without falling over. It wasn’t until the Bishop came out of the cathedral ten minutes to midnight and began reading a prayer that I noticed the pvc banners. They were adorning the fences around the grounds and a brave few souls had even had the gall to place several on the front doors of the cathedral. They all read ‘The IT World is ending!’

I’d completely forgotten that my computer along with several million others were probably going to turn into a pile of numerical mush come one minute after midnight. I sobered up quite quickly when I realised I’d left my computer on with an essay that was due in January not saved! My two friends laughed at me and told that it was pointless worrying and that if I lost the essay then hey it wouldn’t matter as no computer would be able to print it anyway. Still, I began to wonder if I should leg it back to the house and quickly print off the essay before the clocks struck midnight.

Alcohol fuelled sense prevailed and I stuck around with my friends, ignoring the banners and drinking more beer content with the knowledge that if my computer was going to blow up then there wasn’t a thing I could do about it. It turns out common sense also prevailed that night as well. My computer didn’t blow up and my essay was fine.

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Ortak’s Gonna Get It!

In many ways, I was disappointed when the world didn’t end: I’d been planning for it for ages and had everything together to leave planet earth. So, when I woke up in the new millennium and my body was still there, and the world hadn’t been ravaged by virus and disease – or just good old apocalyptic fire and mayhem – it was a terrifying thing.

The first things I did in the new millennium:

1) Sat on my bed and felt angry for a while. Wondered if I could get away with not going into work and getting a friend to tell my boss that the Y2K bug got me.

2) Ate some cereal.

3) Ate some more cereal and felt more annoyed.

4) Called my friend Derek to see how upset he was. He was even more upset than me, which was not surprising: he hates his job even more than I do!

The worst thing, though, about the world not ending, was all the people who, for the next few months, went on about the world not ending. It was everywhere you went: the post office, the supermarket – you couldn’t even go for a wee in the pub toilets without someone coming up beside you to do a wee and unzipping and saying “still here then? Yeah, me too…”

It just got beyond a joke if you ask me.

Then there was ortak , the guy at work who had a smile on his face that new first day in the millennium. I didn’t mind too much though: he was brand-new at work. After he’d been there a few weeks he’d wish the end had come after all!

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How is it going to end?

Many believe this world could end at any second and life as we know it would cease to exist. These threats are not just from science fiction books or religious texts but they are events that could really happen. If the world ends there will be no need to take paternity tests because no one will be here. Here are five major disasters that can bring the world to an end:

1. Black Hole: Collapsed stars can turn into what is called black holes. Black holes command a sense of fear and awe. Nothing is able to escape a black hole not even light. The Milky Way galaxy which we live in contains numerous collapsed stars that are ready to become black holes. If a black hole was able to pull itself towards earth then it could disrupt the climates and orbits in our solar system and thus destroy our planet.

2. Religious: Many theories exist about how the world is going to end. Most of the major theories around the world are religious and involve divine intervention by a deity to destroy the earth. Most of the religious groups believe that God (gods) will destroy the planet. Like any of these theories it is not known if and when it will happen; but some religious groups have taken their belief into their own hand by taking violent actions and mass suicides which have destroyed thousands of lives around the world.

3. Alien Attack: Mankind has been searching the universe for life for ages. Now with the modern technology if there is an alien life, the chance to encounter that life is increasing. If there is an intelligent alien life out there it is possible that there could be a conflict between them and our planet. If we have a conflict with an alien force then we all could be destroyed.

4. World War Three: It is more realistic that we would destroy ourselves than for aliens to come and destroy us. Since the world has had two world wars, there is always the threat that there could be another one. With thousands of nuclear warheads around the world the threat of a global war has never been more dangerous.

5. Environmental: The biodiversity of our planet is disappearing. Thousands of species are becoming extinct every year. The main issue is that many organisms depend on each other and when one dies other creatures will die too. Forests are being cut down, pollution is increasing and we as a world are not concerned about our planet. This could cause the human race to eventually become extinct itself.

There is always a threat of end of the world happening. It could one of the above mentioned ways or some other way, let us be thankful for each day we have, live it our fullest and try to save our planet earth.

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The whole business of ‘survival'after a nuclear holocaust is not quite as simple or clear-cut as you’d think. After all, it isn’t just your physical self you must save; there are your mental faculties to consider as well…

For example, you may be able to pick up a fully equipped nuclear bunker for an absolute steal and this will provide you with instant safety from any impending atomic attack! But just how long do you think you could hold it together in there? Bunkers are not exactly ‘spacious'and there are only so many weeks that you can play klonkdike solitaire before going totally stark raving mad!

You can see what I’m saying, can’t you? Sure, it’s pretty easy to keep yourself away from apocalyptic harm on a physical level; but what is the point if you are only going to emerge as a drooling, muttering shadow of your former self??? Apart from that, have you stopped to think about the long-term consequences of an all-out nuclear attack?

You are likely to see many long months of fallout, whilst there will be very little sunlight at all. And if you do manage to grow any food, then it is bound to be deformed, discoloured and dangerously radioactive. Perhaps you could live underground instead? But that would be a little depressing as well; no sunbathing, no country walks and no wandering into town whenever you get a craving for fish and chips!

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