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NEWS ABOUT: armageddon

armageddon stories: 4 news summaries

 Relax, World Isn't 
 Ending in 2012 

Scientists are busy debunking growing urban legend

Oct 17, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The statement issued by a Los Angeles observatory and Sky & Telescope magazine this week says it all: "The world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012." It seems a confluence of events—the coming end of the Mayan calendar, for one, and the... More »

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Earth • apocalypse • armageddon • 2012 • urban legend

OPINION

 Sony Armageddon 
 Hoax in Crashing 
 Bad Taste 

World will end in 2012: Sony site

Jun 15, 09 2:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest Armageddon hoax has a marketing spin that LiveScience's Robert Roy Britt describes as a "sick twist." Sony Pictures went to elaborate lengths to disguise its movie plug on the "Institute for Human Continuity" website, which warns of "cataclysmic events that will devastate our planet"... More »

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entertainment • Sony • Earth • hoax • movies • armageddon • Election 2012

 How to Survive the Apocalypse 

Guardian explains how to kill pheasants, build shelter

Feb 1, 09 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Economic ruin, climate change, war—the apocalypse can’t be far off, right? Movies tell us that to survive the end of days we need “to sit in desirable country mansions, eat tinned tomatoes, develop post-traumatic psychosis and shoot each other,” Tanya Gold writes in the Guardian, noting... More »

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Canada • survivors • apocalypse • meltdown • armageddon • Election 2012

Odds of Cataclysmic Space-Rock Crash: 1 in 10

Despite danger, NASA doing little to protect planet

May 25, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chicken Little may have been smarter than we thought. A growing body of evidence reveals that the sky is falling, or at least gigantic space rocks are—and the Earth is at far greater risk of a catastrophic strike than previously thought, reports Atlantic. Despite the danger—an impact could... More »

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NASA • astronomy • extinction • comet • asteroid • crater • space program • armageddon

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