Early reports from foriegn time zones.....

[RadiomanATL]

....the rapture is a dud.

 

[Big Hoss]

LMAO. Damnit I was hoping it would happen would have been awesome lol....I bet my religious nut case family members are committing suicide right now LOL

 

[Mad Scientist]

Wow, didn't see THAT one comin'!

 

[Truthmatters]

hey its @ oclock eastern time that its supposed to happen.

I think Ill take a bong hit at the very momment.

 

[waltky]

Granny says don't feel too bad `bout it...

End of the world May 21st? About a billion years too soon, astronomers say.
May 20, 2011 - Beginning of the end of the world: May 21st is what a California minister (with a considerable following) predicts. Scientists, for their part, consider the sun's 'habitable zone' in calculating when Earth will become toast.

When doomsday comes to planet Earth, it will leave the third rock from the sun a scorched, sterile cinder devoid of living organisms. Virtually everyone can agree on that. But May 21, 2011, as the start of a five-month period that ends with an October 2011 doomsday? That's off by at least a billion years, give or take 50 million, according to a recent study by a pair of astronomers in Mexico and Britain. ("Recent" on time scales that astronomers work with, anyway.) And the cause they cite is considerably different than the one invoked by a California minister for an October end of the world.

The scenario the two astronomers' calculations spin out – in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain in 2008 – is based on what they say is an improved understanding of how stars like the sun evolve over their history. In addition, they examine the effect those changes would have on the sun's so-called habitable zone – a Goldilocks region where temperatures are "just right" to allow liquid water to pool and remain on the surface of a planet. Over the years, the typical one-sentence version of Earth's demise has tended to read something like this: In about 5 billion years, the sun will expand into a red-giant star, engulfing Mercury, Venus, and Earth as it grows. Poof, Earth is toast.

But if the calculations of Klaus-Peter Schroeder and Robert Smith are in the ballpark, the end of life on Earth would come much sooner – but with the potential for a haven on the fourth rock from the sun, Mars. The story begins some 4.57 billion years ago, when the young sun's nuclear furnace ignited and stabilized. Back then, solar physicists estimate, the sun was 30 percent dimmer than it is today. As it has matured, it has brightened at a pace of about 1 percent every 110 million years. Over that period, the two explain, Earth's climate system has adjusted to the increase in the sun's output, keeping the planet's average temperature within a livable range and with plenty of water on hand. Orbiting 93 million miles from the sun, Earth finds itself nicely placed in the sun's habitable zone.

But over the next billion years, the duo says, the sun's output will rise by another 10 percent. As the sun continues to warm, it will in effect push the inner edge of the habitable zone out beyond Earth's orbit. So when, some 5 billion years from now, the sun enters its red-giant phase, the habitable zone will have long since left Earth behind to embrace Mars. Thus, roughly 4 billion years before Earth is overrun by a swelling sun, the planet will already have warmed enough to drive water from rivers, lakes, and oceans into the atmosphere as water vapor, according to Dr. Schroeder, from Universidad de Guanajuato, in Mexico, and Dr. Smith of the University of Sussex, in England.

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Judgment Day May 21: When will the world actually end?
May 18, 2011 - Judgment Day May 21: Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio broadcasting network, has calculated that the apocalypse will begin on May 21. Do his numbers add up for a judgment day this weekend?

As you may have learned from one of the 2,000 billboards worldwide, May 21, 2011, is Judgment Day, upon which the righteous – which totals 3 percent of humanity – will be whisked away to the sweet hereafter, leaving the rest of us to weather five months of extreme natural disasters until Oct. 21, whereupon God destroys the entire universe and everyone left in it. At least that's what Harold Camping says. The head of Family Radio broadcasting network, which boasts 150 outlets in the United States, has what his website calls "infallible, absolute proof" that there's no point in making plans for Memorial Day weekend. It goes like this:

Camping says that because Jesus was crucified on Friday, April 1, 33 AD, and that it takes exactly 365.2422 days for the earth to complete one orbit of the sun, we can conclude that, on April 1, 2011, Jesus was crucified exactly 722,449.07 days ago. Add 51 days to this to get to May 1, and you get a figure of 722,500.07. Round that down to the nearest integer, and you get 722,500, which is an important number because it is the square of 5 x 17 x 10 . The number five, says Camping, represents atonement. Ten represents completeness, and 17 represents heaven. Multiply all these together – twice – and you get 722,500. Therefore the apocalypse kicks off on Saturday, May 21.

Skeptics of Camping's method might ask why the date of the end of the world is linked to that of Jesus' crucifixion, why the numbers five, 10, and 17 represent what Camping claims they represent, why they should be multiplied together, why they should then be squared, and, for that matter, why the Bible would contain esoteric numerological references predicting the end of the world in the first place. They could also point out that April 1, 33 AD was actually a Wednesday, and that, under Camping's method, April 1, 2011 gets counted twice.

Others use different methods to calculate the last day. For example, Dec. 21, 2012 marks the end of the 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, leading some people – particularly those who believe that the dating systems of pre-Columbian Americans can predict events hundreds of years in the future – to believe that the world will end on that date.

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[waltky]

Granny purt sure we didn't miss the Rapture, figgered it was a miscalculation...

‘Rapture’ prophesier revises doomsday date to Oct. 21
Wed, May 25, 2011 - OOPS:Harold Camping apologized for not having the dates ‘worked out as accurately as I could have,’ but said that Saturday had been an ‘invisible, spiritual’ Judgement Day

A California religious radio impresario who predicted the end of the world would begin May 21 revised his prophesy on Monday, saying the end is due in October. Harold Camping, whose Family Radio network paid millions of dollars to promote his prediction, said that Saturday had been “an invisible judgement day” of the spiritual variety, rather than his original vision of earthquakes and other apocalyptic disasters. In a 90-minute speech, broadcast online and on his stations, Camping, 89, said his company, a nonprofit, would not return money donated by followers to publicize the May 21 prediction. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions —some of it from donations — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 recreational vehicles plastered with the Judgment Day message.

“We’re not at the end,” he said. “Why would we return it?” Camping said he had no plans to fold his company before his new doomsday date: Oct. 21. “If it’s the end of the world, God will dissolve it,” he said. Camping said he felt so terrible when his doomsday message did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. He apologized for not having the dates “worked out as accurately as I could have.” Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, the light dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a “spiritual” Judgement Day, which places the entire world under Christ’s judgment, he said.

The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God’s judgement and salvation were completed on Saturday, there’s no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21. “We’ve always said May 21 was the day, but we didn’t understand altogether the spiritual meaning,” he said. “The fact is there is only one kind of people who will ascend into heaven ... if God has saved them they’re going to be caught up.” It’s not the first time the 89-year-old retired civil engineer has been dismissed by the Christian mainstream and has been forced to explain when his prediction didn’t come to pass. Camping also prophesied the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said later that didn’t happen then because of a mathematical error.

Monday, rather than give his normal daily broadcast, Camping took questions as a part of his show, Open Forum, which transmits his biblical interpretations via the group’s radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and Web site. Camping’s hands shook slightly as he pinned his microphone to his lapel, and as he clutched a worn Bible he spoke in a quivery monotone about some listeners’ earthly concerns after giving away possessions in expectation of the Rapture. Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their belongings, and those who had fewer would cope, Camping said. “We’re not in the business of financial advice,” he said. “We’re in the business of telling people there’s someone who you can maybe talk to, maybe pray to, and that’s God.”

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