I’ve always known that the Mayan calendar just represents a cycle, as a previous poster has said.

Recently I saw a one panel cartoon where two guys are staring at the newly done calandar wheel and one character,just standing and observing asks, Why did you stop at 2012? To which the sculptor replies….
“I ran out of stone” which is probably closer to the truth than we realise and if you know anything about
Mayan or Aztec culture, the poor bugger probably got executed for his trouble. :-)

Hey Mike!

Its Avenger Class Frigate, NOT Miranda!
heh heh heh!

Irwin Allan would be so proud of Roland Emerich

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Acting was okay considering the script was pretty… um, out there!

Kind of a cross between ‘When Worlds Collide, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake (remember that one?), Twister, Finding Nemo, Volcano, The Towering Inferno and Armaggedon (okay, okay.. kidding about ‘Finding Nemo’).’

Really bad science. They threw in every disaster flick cliche but the kitchen sink… Dumb fun. My grade: 2 1/2 * out of 4.

And to think, the producers want to do a TV show springboarding off of this movie (2013). We’ll see!

Little do we know, this is the work of a spy that’s seen JJ’s early ideas for STXII You’ll see. They’ll be hunting this leak down like they did with the person that released Wolverine! =P

;-)

“Enterprise” fans will be happy to see that John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) has a fairly substantial role.

I’m glad Ares I-X was a success, but we shouldn’t get carried away. Solid Rocket Boosters, even mature ones like Ares I-X’s are inherently dangerous. And the real Ares I will NOT be a mature SRB, it will be an almost entirely new beast, with different propellant, different structural, aerodynamic, and thrust profiles, a very heavy upper stage and payload on top (which the Original SRB never had to contend with) and an additional field joint (thanks to its fifth propellant segment, which was only a dummy on Ares I-X.) And when Solid Rocket Motors fail, they tend to fail spectacularly. They go kablooey with little or no warning, and it is very, very far from certain that an Orion capsule will have sufficient warning to get away, or that its Launch Abort System will be sufficiently powerful to escape the debris field. The Shuttle SRB was redesigned after Challenger was lost (primarily by adding a third o-ring) and it has worked well. But it has not been perfect. We still have blow-by of o-rings now and then, and not a few engineers feel it is only a matter of time before another catastrophic accident.

In short, I think NASA should pull the crew off the SRB and launch them on Delta IV or Atlas V, trusting only unmanned payloads to SRB-equipped launchers in the future. Liquid-fueled boosters like Atlas and Delta can still fail, but historically they fail in a more benign manner, where chances of crew survival will be drastically higher.

Also, if the world does end on 2012, that would not bode well for the next Trek movie. So, for that reason if no other, I’m counting on the prophecies of doom to be wrong. Here’s hoping! ;-)