Breaking News: Wednesday is Judgment Day, Goodbye Everyone!

Wow, if I'd realized that Wednesday was it, I might have had more fun this weekend. Hey, at least I got to watch the premieres of The Flash and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. So, I wonder what time the end is coming? Everyone have their hell-bound handbaskets ready to go? I think it's safe to say, that's where most of us are headed, right?

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Christian group predicts the world will be 'annihilated' on Wednesday

While our planet may have survived September’s “blood moon”, it will be permanently destroyed on Wednesday, 7 October, a Christian organization has warned. The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While that claim proved to be false, the organization is confident it has the correct date this time. . .

Read more (with video) at: The Guardian

Science is Cool: "Hazardous" Asteroid Headed Toward Earth

Did the Mayans only miss by a couple of weeks? Forgot to carry the two?

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Image from source, Raw Story

Apophis – a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid – flies by Earth on Wednesday

Apophis hit the headlines in December 2004. Six months after its discovery, astronomers had accrued enough images to calculate a reasonable orbit for the 300-metre chunk of space rock. What they saw was shocking. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

The World Ends Today, Sorry

James Van Der Beek expresses my reaction to
Harold Camping's prediction.

Harold Camping, the soothsaying preacher with a .000 batting average at doomsday predictions says that Friday, October 21 is the end of the world. Or at least the beginning of the end. Or something. Plan accordingly.

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Harold Camping Revises Apocalypse Prediction For Friday 

Like every other doomsday prophecy throughout history, the May 21st rapture promised by Oakland-based Family Radio network owner Harold Camping never materialized. The 90-year-old, self-styled prophet now claims the world will end by this Friday and not with a bang, as previously predicted, but rather with a whimper. . .

Read more at: Huffington Post