More end-of-the-world goodies from Fox News

[ghost]

So it appears as if the end of the world is upon us-  December 21, 2012 if the Mayans are to be believed.  Fox News has put together a pretty spectacular little article discussing this phenomenon, which I figure you would all love to read.  

Apparently, the perpetrator will be none other than the rogue planet Nibiru.  

Anotther fear is that a rogue planet that has been dubbed "Nibiru" or "Planet X" is supposedly aimed at Earth. Self-proclaimed Nibiru expert Nancy Lieder, who says she is in contact with the aliens from Zeta Reticuli, first said Nibiru would cause widespread disaster in May 2003, only to change it to Dec. 21, 2012.

I can't describe the level of happiness that this article brings me.  I haven't laughed this hard in weeks.  

Here's the Wikipedia rundown on Nibiru.  I really can't believe that there is this level of crackpottery in the world.  Not from the Lieder lady, who is clearly schizophrenic, but from the idiots that want to believe this nonsense.  

[TripleDES]

I gave up caring about shit like this, once a significant portion of my friends and acquaintances started to sport Power Balance bands, talking about earth rays and water veins, and shit like that.

And if you call them out on the various bullshit, you get token replies like "But it works, science can't know everything". Yeah, they're able to see the end of the visible universe, determine what's it made out with the really minuscule rest radiation they're able to measure. They're colliding atoms at lightspeed in a 27km diameter ring 100 meters below Geneva, that's cooled to near absolute zero and are able to measure tens of thousands of collisions per second, the energies and radiation generated, hundreds of thousands of particles and their paths each collision. But Jesus, earth rays, that's something science just couldn't get a grasp on. But that 70 year old grandpa with his dowser and some makeshift idiot e-meter knows what's going on. And oh, those fucking powerbands, I guess they had to figure out how to get rid of these hundreds of thousands hologram stickers that were left over when commercial movie videotapes were phased out.

I'm ashamed for all these idiots, especially those I had in my science classes.

[Azazel]

 

[ghost]

The world would be much less interesting without weirdos.  I can handle these types of people a lot better than I can your basic run of the mill religious idiots.  Take the Hale-Bopp cult, for instance:  that was some real comedy. 

[apocrypha]

I gave up caring about shit like this, once a significant portion of my friends and acquaintances started to sport Power Balance bands, talking about earth rays and water veins, and shit like that.

And if you call them out on the various bullshit, you get token replies like "But it works, science can't know everything". Yeah, they're able to see the end of the visible universe, determine what's it made out with the really minuscule rest radiation they're able to measure. They're colliding atoms at lightspeed in a 27km diameter ring 100 meters below Geneva, that's cooled to near absolute zero and are able to measure tens of thousands of collisions per second, the energies and radiation generated, hundreds of thousands of particles and their paths each collision. But Jesus, earth rays, that's something science just couldn't get a grasp on. But that 70 year old grandpa with his dowser and some makeshift idiot e-meter knows what's going on. And oh, those fucking powerbands, I guess they had to figure out how to get rid of these hundreds of thousands hologram stickers that were left over when commercial movie videotapes were phased out.

I'm ashamed for all these idiots, especially those I had in my science classes.

Best post I've read for weeks, awesome rant! 9/10.

[IainC]

Yeah, they're able to see the end of the visible universe,

Pedantic man notes that we have always been able to see the end of the visible universe.

[Mrbloodworth]

I made the mistake of turning my radio to AM. Specifically Fox news radio. What I found is, right after Sean Hannity spews his doom and gloom, there is a show on right after that has callers call in about alien conspiracy theories.

It was frankly amazing. Tinfoil hat amazing.

[Bunk]

There's been a power band booth in the Mall by my place for about six months. I walk by a couple times a week hitting the food court.

Every single time, exact same demo, some person standing there looking like an idiot while the saleperson manages to not yank them off balance because they've tried on a power band.

I mean seriously? At least have the decency to suggest that it might take a few days for your "molecules to align" before you see the effects. Nope, they slap that band on your wrist and BOOM, instant super get knocked off balancy resistance.

[TripleDES]

Yeah, they're able to see the end of the visible universe,

Pedantic man notes that we have always been able to see the end of the visible universe.

Yeah, I noticed too late. I guess I should have specified it a little more, since there's this tiny fact that it's over 13 billion lightyears away that makes it pretty awesome. :V

[TripleDES]

I made the mistake of turning my radio to AM. Specifically Fox news radio. What I found is, right after Sean Hannity spews his doom and gloom, there is a show on right after that has callers call in about alien conspiracy theories.

It was frankly amazing. Tinfoil hat amazing.

It's that kind of positive reinforcement that's bad. Even if the show hosts are sort of making fun of these guys (which they usually don't), that lunatics and their shit are getting air time at all is pretty irresponsible, given how ignorant the general populace is.

Our local newspaper, that reaches tens of thousand of households, ran an two page article a few days ago about some shitty alternative medicine. It's called "Cantor Holistic Touch", some woman from the extended region was contacted by some alien entity called Cantor and taught how to heal humans by laying hands on certain places on your body. She's even teaching apparently quite a few people about it. That's how it was picked up to begin with. Holy shit! I mean, she said that you can't abandon traditional medicine completely, but that apparently makes it A-OK for the author to neglect putting any critical voices into the article at all. It's filed as a "reportage", but is practically TWO PAGES of PR. TWO PAGES in those unwieldy tiny font cellulose newspapers. ALIENS! And not worth any criticism. And I already know of people getting these "therapies". FUCKING ALIENS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

I still could ignore all of this, if it wasn't for the money involved in it. 80€ for an hour. For bullshitting people. And the initiator of that whole shit even gets subventions for education from the government.

[Yegolev]

[Lantyssa]

Aliens make more sense than an invisible sky god?  Maybe?

[Paelos]

Aliens make more sense than an invisible sky god?  Maybe?

Well most people hold out more hope for meeting aliens in the universe than meeting God again.

[ghost]

I made the mistake of turning my radio to AM. Specifically Fox news radio. What I found is, right after Sean Hannity spews his doom and gloom, there is a show on right after that has callers call in about alien conspiracy theories.

It was frankly amazing. Tinfoil hat amazing.

Are you talking about the Art Bell show, also known as coast to coast AM now that George Noory took over?  I have listened to this from time to time, but more in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 sort of way.  There is some funny shit on that show, but I can only handle it in very short doses every decade or so.

[Mrbloodworth]

I believe there are aliens out there., I'm not so vain to think we are alone. However, I do not think they are connecting Fox news viewers/Listeners only. There must have been about 5 diffrent aliens contacting diffrent people in that one show, all of them hate Obama, who is also secretly waging war with he aliens.

Didn't you know.

[TripleDES]

Aliens make more sense than an invisible sky god?  Maybe?

Oh, I believe that there are aliens.

What I don't really believe is that they're visiting us (under the assumption that the current physical laws are generally valid). Especially not all covertly, just to tell some ex-astrologer in a backwater village how to massage her fellow humans.

[ghost]

That lady is clearly schizophrenic.  That is textbook schizophrenia. 

[HaemishM]

In a world with the Internet, schizophrenia is the new original. 

[TripleDES]

Also, I was once almost sued by some quack, that claims to be able to cure cancer with vitamins. He was boasting about successes, patents, peer-reviewed studies and so on. I kept bugging him like hell on an ~~~ internet forum ~~~, that he should post references and patents numbers, very heavily implying that he's indeed a quack.

Soon I got contacted by the police and the DA, because he filed something. But it quickly went nowhere because he failed to produce the same things, which the DA wanted to see to proceed. He submitted like 150 pages of rhetoric, yet nothing that remotely looked like a study, or patent numbers. Also, his PhD is from an university in Russia. 

[Zaljerem]

(crazy haired ancient aliens guy)

This guy cracks me up. It's as if he thought to himself "I'm already not being taken seriously; how can I ratchet that up to 11?" ... thus, the hairdo.

[Fabricated]

Systematically culling FoxNews watchers is first on my evil dictator to-do list after making sure my air vents are too small to crawl through.

[Sheepherder]

Better to have gradually narrowing air vents that are all built on an incline.  I call it the spy honeypot.

I made the mistake of turning my radio to AM. Specifically Fox news radio. What I found is, right after Sean Hannity spews his doom and gloom, there is a show on right after that has callers call in about alien conspiracy theories.

Art Bell is fucking awesome.  When I was younger I remember catching one of his programs broadcasting from one of the Chicago stations where he was bullshitting about all of the stars disappearing.  Mind you, it was a clear winter morning deep in the woods of Northwestern Ontario, so it was really hard to take him seriously when you could see in excellent definition one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

[squirrel]

Aliens make more sense than an invisible sky god?  Maybe?

Statistically speaking yes they do. Course that's not saying what kind of aliens. Almost certainly not the build everything and return later to tear it all down on a backwater planet kind.