Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end before 2060 (2015)

Re:Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end be... by negamax on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:13PM (#15271180)

Wasn't something happening in 1999 and then in 2012? There's a Wikipedia page on failed doomsday prophesies. Check it out.

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Re:Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end be... by jzymbaluk on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:35PM (#15271281)

Here's a link for the lazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...

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Re:Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end be... by vacri on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:46PM (#15272807)

There's always something happening 'a few years from now'. The two you mentioned were bigger than the usual doomsday prophecies.

In the early 90s, hanging on the wall of my mother's shop was a map of the new coastline of the western US after California fell into the sea in 1997. As far as I'm aware, this map is not in wide use these days...

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