Isaac Newton calculated apocalypse

[haunt]

Not exactly the latest news since the manuscripts have been on display to the public since 2003.
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He spent something like 50 years and wrote 4,500 pages trying to predict when the end of the world was coming.

Newton's documents

[Canmorite]

4,500 pages...Damn.

reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.

Phew, we'll be alright for a while.

[Zephyr]

Let's start a pool going, I bet 100 on the year 2075

[black13]

but but I thought 2012 was the end?

or is it in 2012 that we move onto the "next phase of evolution" and then the world ends all together in 2060?

uh I'll be happy enough to survive tomorrow.

[Skyline_Addict]

max out your credit cards everyone! it doesn't matter anymore!

[Soren1989]

2012 is when either the mayans or azteks said that the aliens would come back so give it a few years

[haunt]

2012 is when the mayan long count calendar ends, meaning literally the end of time, nothing is said about the world ending or whatever. When the Spanish invaded the mayans they destroyed most of the information and technology the mayans had created, and probably erasing the answer to what will happen after time ends.

[haunt]

Originally posted by Zephyr
Let's start a pool going, I bet 100 on the year 2075

My moneys on April 13, 2036 with the Apophis asteroid

[Nissanaddict]

It ends sooner than we thought.

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html
This is great stuff (by the way, they do that every year....)

[msommers]

Originally posted by Skyline_Addict
max out your credit cards everyone! it doesn't matter anymore!

I LOL'ed so hard

[sputnik]

There have been a few attempts at calculating the end of the world.

Here is a list that covers 30AD to 1990.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm

[Mr_ET]

ill go for 2042

[shakalaka]

So what is the current speculation then? When is the world coming to end according to newton?

[retro-steve]

Originally posted by haunt
2012 is when the mayan long count calendar ends, meaning literally the end of time, nothing is said about the world ending or whatever. When the Spanish invaded the mayans they destroyed most of the information and technology the mayans had created, and probably erasing the answer to what will happen after time ends.

After Mayan time ends, modern time begins