Thursday, September 11, 2008

It's the End of the World as We Knew It

...And damn, we we're feelin' fine! In honor of the recently activated and non-world-destroying Large Hadron Collider, I give you this fascinating list of 30 times the world was supposed to end but stuck around anyway.

My personal favorite is this one from 1584:

Having made close study of the kabbalah, theTurkish rabbi Sabbatai Zevi predicted that the Messiah would make a miraculous return in 1648, and that his name would be Sabbatai Zevi.

Wow! What are the odds of that?

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