Nostrildamus is the whipping boy for all cataclysmic or otherwise newsworthy scenarios. Just check how many books have been written since WWII. He supposedly predicted Hitler, the bombing of Japan, Kennedy's assassination, Nixon's resignation, the fall of Phenom Pen, the Falklands conflict, the Challenger Shuttle disaster, Y2K, 9/11, George Bush, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, Obama, and now 2012.

And guess what? His prose will be used to "predict" all the cataclysms and newsworthy items of the future too. Why? Because it sells books and makes for entertainment fodder. No other reason than that.

Remember that Y2K TV movie? It was shite, yes, but it provided jobs for quite a few people in the TV industry. Same with this new Emmerich flick. Same with all disaster movies, political biopics, polemic documentaries, and "uncovered secrets" books that we have not yet seen. We're creative, you see, and we demand to be entertained.

Rather than register to the umpteen-thousand conspiracy message boards currently out there, I'd very much like to frequent a single, official 2012 message board, expressly for rational thinkers' postings of "We're still here, morons."

Because I'm exactly the kind of person who says "I told you so."

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We have to keep in mind that that stream of matter has got to be millions of light years across, so the "spraying" that is occurring is happening very, very slowly. In addition, the space is still not very dense, so it is not clear what damage to life if any would happen.

I would love to be on a planet with a ring side seat of this phenom. Imagine how this would look in the night sky.

When the news reports on an internet phenom you know it is over... RIP Keyboard Cat.

Besides, they aught ot be celebrating it, some Jews made alottta dough on this thing, non-Jew muslimsmatics as well,
.and some Americans...imagine that-some Germans, some Russians, all mafia and criminales, cashing in onna sure thing.....play the goddamn race card ya idgits without discussing issues pertaining to the eventOR, pick on some towel-heads and turbines.....(and you Italians can suck the sausage,too...).all the same phenom.......that'll get ya real smart real fast,....that and reading history "books" instead of history "cliff notes" alla WIKI....Editorials

I wonder if an englishman might interject and point out that the british sway of the phrase "He CAN'T come back from this!" is merely missing out a "surely!?" at the end. I'm not sure if anyone knows this, so i thought i'd better throw it out there - "He CAN'T come back from this" is a dramatic way of saying "Coming back from this would be an absolute phenom".. Just puttin it out there.

BTW this sift has a phantom downvoter... perfectly reasonable comments being downvoted for no reason. Either that or the whole "OMG HE'S NOT SAYING AMERICA IS GREAT, DOWNVOTE HIM" trend has returned.

Have a day off people.

No, not pollution, not a natural occurrence , Could this be HAARP focused upon a specific area of the globe??.....Could the epicenter, about 500km away from where these lights appeared, prior to the Sichuan Earthquake, have been the location of China's main centers for designing, making and storing nuclear arms ????...Think so, perhaps.
Red and green light emitted from oxygen atoms is a constituent of the light seen at the poles. Atmospheric nitrogen also plays a role. Solar winds are the prevailing catalyst for brilliant auroral displays....
Was this an artificial geomagnetic occurrence, a blast of solar wind, or some benign, regular phenom in this area of the globe??? Kind of.Maybe.Perhaps.
Is HAARP or the patents associated with the dynamics of the apparatus involved capable of producing a variety of effects, which Nikola Tesla described as being wholly possible back in the 30s-40s? Did the military and the elite financiers shut Tesla down, when he would not stop talking about free energy and a new era of prosperity and evolution for humankind? Has the Dept. of the Navy, the air force, Raytheon done anything in recent years, to facilitate peace and prosperity for all, or for but a few, of their friends, family, cronies and sympathetic assholes??? Is China in the way of the European stranglehold over world economies that they have held for centuries??
Do you speak Chinese??? Better fucking learn, because these folks are pissed, and there's more of em than anybody....

Next stop, WW3, the natural order of things in a world where kings still play chess, the masses have their heads planted firmly in their own bullshit too smart, lazy, or fucking stupid to see they are the pawns, and where chaos, in all her glory, still reigns supreme, regardless of assholes and imbeciles....

LittleRed and thepinky, an observation from a man, who sees expression of self and constancy, righteousness, and dignity as available to whomever will avail themselves of it-
The truth is, humans prey on other humans in the society we live in, it gets worse, as the breakdown of society becomes more glaringly apparent, relative to the leadership, and the complacency and dumbing-down of the subjects. People have always had free will, few exercise it or are capable. We are reaching another transition/Armageddon(figuratively speaking) stage in world societies, and these are some of the signs: Violence, self-servitude, Nihilism, self-abuse, and unconcern for one's fellow man, to the point of self-extinction(the folks who want the world to themselves, want it however they can get it)

I understand the phenom, that from one's process and exposure extant in any individual's life, through their unique filter, the world becomes what they want, or think it should be-There are talented women and men, who can make a living given the venue and the room to move-Some of these performers need a niche they can be secure in, without the abuse-Burlesque is in revival hon, and always is during and prior to, really hard times (i.E. wars, or collapse of infrastructure and economy..this being the fault, not necessarily of the people, but of the few who have orchestrated such a fall for their own selfish ends)

All for morality, decency, etc. if its the natural course of the human condition, which it is, and is un-manipulated or capitalized upon by the strong over the weak scenario....(taking advantage of it, for selfish gain) Just as I am for anything presented, that raises awareness and consciousness, in an individual.

Hope Dita Von Teese, the discussion that followed thepinky tirade here, and this message has done as much-Peace girl-frintz!!

Someone on the comments said it right: loop the first 8 seconds and you've got a new Internet phenom. I love this vid!

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oh my god your treadmill video has me cracking so hard. as soon as i can afford a promote, it's going to this. funniest video of the month. maybe even year.

Cut it down to the first 8 seconds and you've got a new net phenom.

Irishman, they can't help it...between poor parental imprints, public schools, and flavor-of-the-week morality, Americans have been groomed for the last 30 or so years to obey the impulses implanted....they will sign on to Obama's form of watered-down Marxism until after the election, when he ladles it on thick as molasses inna fridgy....witness the beginning of the middle of the end....not about them not voting, it's about them "hoping in change" because the words sound good...same phenom in a way, of women voting for JFK because he was handsome-we're fucked!!

wow. phenom phemme.

*beg
He was a phenom, the likes of which come along only so often.

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Hmm, wow - this is kind of a weird phenom. Kind of like a random flocking of crows or something.

I hereby dub this thread a Siftle-Jerk.

Dupe, sorry
http://www.videosift.com/video/Incredible-Basketball-Phenom