Showing posts with label End. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 June 2016

The Hokey Pokey

It took just six hours for the FTSE to recover, quite a feat indeed.  Hopefully now the Bank of England will not have to step in with a £250 billion injection.

The FTSE 100 recovered from the initial shock of Britain's decision to leave the European Union to end 3.15% lower at 6,138.69 which, to add context, is higher than last Friday's close.
However it is not all roses just yet there are still lot of companies that have not recovered from the free fall on Friday morning (see the article in full above).  Is it however just a storm in a tea cup or perhaps the quiet before the storm, who knows.

It is however definitely the end of the world as we know it or at least to 48% of the population whereas 52% are looking forward to brighter future and there is some talk of putting the 'Great' back into Britain.  I am pretty sure that was when Crackerjack was on BBC1 at 4:55, Friday or Saturday I cannot remember.  Still anything is possible really now we have put chaos into the driving seat or is that Boris.

Whilst the FTSE has recovered somewhat the Pound is:

The pound was down 9% against the US dollar and down around 7% against the Euro.
Which will reduce our spending power abroad, personally I prefer the British Summer.  I am still hoping for a really good thunder storm, I think Thor is currently on Economy 7 these days.

The irony is the rest of the universe have not noticed they were watching the other side.

Tuesday, 10 May 2016

The End of the World is Nigh Part II

Many keen observers will have noticed that the world completely failed to end yesterday when Mercury did the hokey cokey in front the Sun. The Sun was not impressed the constant glare was enough to send Mercury on its way.  However you may remember the Youtube prophet did hedge his bets by saying:
...warns that this could be a sign that this could be interpreted as the end times for humanity.
I think that perhaps it is going to be a slow motion disaster and really kick off in sixteen months time (September 2017) when Planet X aka Nibiru is meant to be doing a close flyby.  Closer enough to suck continents off the planet, apparently the US government has built hundred and thirty underground bases in advance of its arrival.  I can only assume they are on parts of the planet where the continents are well and truly stuck to the magna below or perhaps they have some fancy anti-gravity device that keeps them firmly connected to the planet.

What are the origins of Planet X I here you ask, well scroll back to 1846 after the discovery of Neptune when astronomers were wondering whether perhaps there might another planet beyond Neptune.   Planet X (x = unknown) was suggested by Percival Lowell as hypothesis to explain why Uranus and Neptune had discrepancies in their orbits.  A large unseen planet could perhaps account for the irregularities.

Percival Lowell died in 1916 having failed to find his planet, however in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovered a planet which was later named Pluto.  Honouring Percival Lowell, as his initials made up the word's first two letters.  As it turned out Pluto could not be Planet X because it was way too small.

Scroll forward to 1989 when Voyager 2 did a flyby of Neptune and it was found that its mass was at least 0.5% less than first thought.  The Jet Propulsion Laboratory recalculated the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, the irregularities vanished and so did Planet X's need to there.  I suppose X could of been elsewhere at the time...bowling perhaps.

Now scroll forward five years and we get The Nibiru cataclysm put forward by a lady called Nancy Lieder who:
...has the ability to receive messages from extraterrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain. She stated that she was chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner Solar System in May 2003...
2003 someone must have got their maths wrong, wow a stupid alien perhaps forgot to move the decimal point.  Working in base 14 must be a pain and then having to convert back to base 10 for us even more stupid folk on planet Earth.

Seriously though my problem is if it just over a year away why has not a single amateur astronomer spotted it yet, except in the form of exceptionally bad Youtube photographs.  In this day and age of modern digital photography you would think they could get one decent shot of it.  Much like all the bad shots of UFOs, Aliens and Elvis.

To read more about the cataclysm check out the Wikipedia article.

Apparently it is a massive government cover up (literally), they are using reflective panels in that part of sky so nobody notices.  Who knew?  Apparently the entire Internet but it is a well kept secret!  Except for those bad photographs of course those Men in Black must had turned down the opacity levels to moon someone.

Occam's razor rules and often gives a close shave except in the Chaotic universe of Nibiru where anything can happen.