If Y2K isn't dead, it's in a deep coma, and threatening to kick the bucket completely at any moment. What evidence do I use to draw this conclusion? THIS FORUM. This forum is dying. That's right folks - the number of posters has plummeted, the lurkers are lurking elsewhere, and there are more OT topics than anything even resembling a true Y2K issue. All I've got left is the patriot stuff - which I got bored with 9 years ago once I digested everything. NWO "crisis" events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City are infrequent (thank God) - which do not satisfy a chap like me who's "addicted" to doomdom. Anyone else feel this way? All I have left to hope for is that leap year is the "real" Y2K that kills off all the unprepared pollies out there. The great thing about that is that they'll only be remembered every four years!!!!! (There you go Y2K Pro - another "gem" to add to your Timebum 2000 "spam")

-- SUPER DOOMER (super@doomer.com), January 21, 2000

Answers

SUPER DOOMER,

No, no, no!!! In some ways it's better than ever! Please see "The Great Deception..." thread over in new answers.

I think it's the longest, most civil, most interesting thread ever -- and it shows some possibilities for new directions for the forum.

-- eve (123@4567.com), January 21, 2000.

Super Doomer.. Our earth is a tiny little planet floating around in a vast universe. A myriad of horrible things "could" happen to us. Our air could suddenly be SUCKED OUT by a giant vacuum...!!! (WARNING-- Don't try preparing for this) Juuuust be carefull what you wish for.

PS.."They'll only be remembered once every four years"...Heh.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 21, 2000.

OK, SissyOps; I callin' ya out.

Time to punish this troll and publish his mommy's IP.

-- I'mSo (happy@prepped.com), January 21, 2000.

Sysop - please delete this post. It was partly "tongue in cheek" - but it's not being recieved well. I'm no troll, and I'll refrain from such "inappropriateness" in the future.

-- SUPER DOOMER (super@doomer.com), January 21, 2000.

Congratulations, SD (I suppose) -- you made it right to the tippy-top of YukkyPro's latest spam with that "death to pollies" comment. Do you get royalties?

-- Lucy Goldberg's Son (Lucy@Literary_Agents_R_Us.comm), January 21, 2000.

hey cheer up. The ultimate gloom and doom is death and the final judgement before the throne of God. Sure hope you know the Lord Jesus and His saving work from sin on the cross, or it's gonna be a lake of fire and a whole lotta thirsty eternity. All pollies wrong on this one. Find a bible and start prepping.

-- cheery (cheery@the.thought), January 21, 2000.

SUPER DOOMER, The 4 horsemen saddled up last year. There's ALWAYS SOMETHING. Hang on to yer hat. (But geez, can't you lighten up a little bit?)

-- Charli (claypool@belatlantic.net), January 21, 2000.

SUPER DOOMER,

I had just skimmed your post and missed that way-out-of-line comment of yours. Well, please tell me it was actually fully tongue-in-cheek, not just partly.

-- eve (123@4567.com), January 21, 2000.

It was "partly" tongue and cheek. I retracted because the Sysop on duty posted the IP provider of an earlier poster who's only sin - or so it appeared - was that he/she called the doomer-leaning participants of this forum "morons". I really was afraid - especially after the post from I'mSo (happy@prepped.com) suggesting "MY" IP provider be revealed - that the Sysop might just go ahead and do so. I then had dark visions of Y2K Pro and LL "spamming" my provider with all kinds of exaggerations and causing me REAL problems. Problems I DON'T need right now. So I'm going to retire from the forum and just "lurk". Censorship lives. Maybe Y2K Pro and LL have a point. Anyway, I'm outta here!

-- SUPER DOOMER (super@doomer.com), January 21, 2000.

SUPER DOOMER:

You are way too worried. Lotsa people want to be your IP. The sissyops have resorted to censorship for simple name-calling only out of frustration, and only against pollies. On this board doomers can say pretty much anything.

Rant on in peace, SD.

If a sissyop thinks a pro-doomer post is inappropriate, they'll just delete it. They wouldn't be committing time to this board if they hadn't bought into a pro-doom position--leastways, not if they had sense.

-- ImSo (happy@prepped.com), January 21, 2000.

Thanks I'm So. I can't just go anywhere - this is a high-speed connection I use for work. The company that provides it is VERY conservative, and would bounce me for the "slightest" infraction. So my paranoia is not totally unfounded. I definitely need to be more careful regardless.

-- SUPER DOOMER (super@doomer.com), January 21, 2000.

SUPER DOOMER,

Please reconsider. Although I don't know what the ramifications of what you discuss could be, I trust you can contribute lots of good ideas to the forum.

-- eve (123@4567.com), January 21, 2000.

The earth has existed for about 4 plus billion years and will be offed by the sun in the next 4 billion years. I hate being a pessimist but this is a bummer. If I have my brain frozen for a future resurection it will need a wake-up call before the sun does its dirty deed.

As Rosanne Rosannadanna would say,"Its always something".

After a low mass star like the Sun exhausts the supply of hydrogen in its core, there is no longer any source of heat to support the core against gravity. The core of the star will collapse under gravity's pull until it reaches a high enough density to start burning helium to carbon. Meanwhile, the stars' outer envelope expands and the star evolves into a red giant. When the Sun becomes a red giant, its atmosphere will envelope the Earth and our planet will be consumed in a fiery death.

Between now and then we should expect a mile wide astroid strike every 65 million years or so.

Actually, there are a googleplex (plus one) number of bad things that will happen in our future. I am spending most of my time at present trying to prioritize.

-- tc (trashcan-man@webtv.net), January 21, 2000.

A quote from the supernatural preacher/ghost in Poltergeist 2:

"YOUR'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!"

(Not that we all aren't aware of that already)

-- X (X@X.com), January 21, 2000.

Hey IMSO:

Deal with it. Maybe you can eventually get past your whining.

-- waaahhh (IMSO@isa whiner.com), January 21, 2000.

Thank you.

-- I'mSo (happy@prepped.com), January 21, 2000.

You're welcome. Have a good one. :)

-- X (X@X.com), January 21, 2000.

tc,

"The earth has existed for about 4 plus billion years and will be offed by the sun in the next 4 billion years."

Good point...but if we're still around then, I suspect we will have run out of ways to fight off the boredom, and will be pretty happy for the break.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), January 22, 2000.