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Wow, zombie thread is alive and eating brains! o.O

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Originally Posted by Runamuck

Yeah, but doesn't mean something from space can't "self destruct" this planet before it's time.

True. But there have probably been just as many extraterrestrial predictions proven as there have been terrestrial, and most likely they are what-if scenarios, fictional or both.

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Originally Posted by Da_Last_2_Walk

Swooped up the dvd & watched it again today.

I saw it on Netflix recently, and I don't know why I continue to watch Emmerich's movies. Maybe I'm hoping for another movie like Independence Day - other than a sequel or remake.

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Originally Posted by scarecrow

I'm definitely not one of those people who think the world is going to end, but I thought that the reason everyone is freaking out about 2012 is because of the Mayan Calendar and things that have been established, for, you know, hundreds of years.

I think a lot of the frenzy surrounding 2012 is similar to what happened with the numberous listings about 1999 and 2000 that Nexodusrex provided.

A lot of the prophecies, predictions and postulations started agreeing on a general time frame (but not the scenarios). Others just took the date stated by one (potentially misunderstood) source and ran with it.

Personally, I don't think anyone should waste their time worrying about the end of the world, since you probably won't be alive long enough to care or even know it happened.