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Do not read on full stomach: http://www.tuxedojack.com/godawful/nauseating/aip/agonyinpink.txt

Ah, okay. Thanks!

Either way, if someone can find a copy, we can take it on.

Cheers for that, I needed a giggle.

Motion to render thread as silly as possible via the application of outrageous doomsday scenarios.

It is possible that the Great Leap Sideways did indeed succeed in ensuring some members of crabkind escaped the meteor, and live on in seclusion, plotting their eventual domination of the world that sought to splatter them across the sand. And they've had a bloody long time. We should FEAR THE CRABS!

I don't know that it was tackled. Trolls aren't, generally. It's not exactly in the spirit of things.

That said, the wiki page (http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/MyImmortal#PPCMission) says someone's claimed it.

We're in agreement then? End-of-the-worlders are silly and we're silly for giving them satisfaction by posting in this thread. Motion to adjourn thread.

Do you know the Agents that tackled that? Or if you have a link to the mission?

You know that book, "Everybody Poops"? It's kinda like that: everybody dies.

So far, we haven't encountered the government corrupt and insane enough to doom the entire planet to nuclear holocaust. I serious doubt that we ever will. Now, America getting nuked is not beyond the realm of possibility, but we really can't expect to be the top power forever. For better or worse, things simply don't work that way.

~Neshomeh, not about to stress about something she can't control.

We'd, er, spotted that one. It's a troll. We snigger from a distance.

I've got a beautiful article on it somewhere, but I don't have time to upload it just now. Very, very, very short version: They calculated everything astronomically and worked out their calendar dates backwards and forwards, everything running in cycles; twenty in all, each twenty times shorter than the last. The first three, I think, were all finished before Buddha and Christ turned up. The current one started in 1987 and will end on December 21st, 2012 - the winter solstice when the milky way is perfectly aligned to our planet.

They do not predict death and disaster. Opinions and interpretations vary, but it's just as likely to be an awakening of spiritual consciousness.

Also, they aren't the only ones. At least one Native American tribe - I forget which - predicts great happenings for that same year; possibly even the same date.

I'll get the details later, promise. Right now, must dash.

Hmm. I'm going to be one of those people who will sit through Dec. 9, 2012 all day biting my nails and looking at the sky anxiously, and then turning around and laughing at everyone the next morning.

Yeah, the Mayans thought that this was currently the third cycle, and it proves that they were comfortable with the idea of cycles before them and therefore after them.

...about being legendary within the PPC. Unfair, probably, but we can't be universal, and it's listed on our wiki. So I think it's most likely to be admitted only if 80% of the people on the Board know - and groan - about it.

... they thought, y'know, several centuries is long enough, surely other people will have learnt to make calendars by then?

That's why I'm glad we have things like the PPC. So we don't get so bored we have to hope the world will end to make our lives exciting. ;)

A skeptic's views about 2012:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093

Having undertaken extensive research involving the calendar Trojie made me, which is currently right next to me on the wall and featuring this month's Slashy Couple of Edmund Pevensie and Caspian X, I can safely say the world WILL END on January 1st 2010.

Or, you know, I'll get her to send me a new calendar. Logic failure's happened somewhere, I think.

Hi there! I'm new, just in case you're wondering, and hopefully going to create some agents soon.

I was just wondering if anyone has ever tackled 'My Immortal'. You know, the Harry Potter fanfiction that was so bad if you type in 'worst fanfiction ever' on google, it comes up in the search engine? The one that has over 7000 reviews?

I have flatly no intentions of tackling that as a first mission if anyone's thoughts were meandering that way, but it was just a question of curiosity.

Yes, hiding under tables is special secret knowledge they tell you when you study seismology (actually, that's true - this stuff about standing under the doorway is bullcrap - get under the nearest heavy piece of furniture and face AWAY from any glass).

Scientists in general will survive and we will rebuild the world sensibly! I think entomologists will rise to power first, actually, using secrets gleaned from cockroaches.

...the Mayan calender, which remains incredibly accurate even to this day despite the time and place in which it was created (long ago and far away =P), ends in 2012.

Some people think this means that the world will end then.

Some people think the Mayans were just lazy. =P

And set it to be aimed at the secret underground lair of the Big Bad Paki-Russo-Chino-Commie terorists of doom? Huzzah! For we are saved through the power of Science!

On a possibly marginally less facetious note, you'll be fine come the Bomb. Not only are you at the arse end of nowhere, but you also kow how to hide under a table, and have enough Biology knowledge to breed the Ubermenschen in the vacuum left by the destruction of the western world. See, being second world has its benefits.

I don't think it's quite legendary, personally -- though certainly up for debate.

But please kill it with fire. Pleasepleaseplease.

How odd. I've heard testimony that it's one of the most well-known badfic on the 'net. Pretty much everyone in that fandom, small though it is, has heard of it, I believe.

If we look at things and measure things and make testable hypotheses, we can do ANYTHING, eventually!

I mean, how's this for a minor miracle? I'm currently sitting in a building that contains a machine that can date the oldest rocks in the known universe, or tell me exactly how old a mollusc shell is, or the sea temperature thirty million years ago, or the atmospheric makeup over the South Pole four thousand years ago. None of that was possible even twenty years ago. Also, it has a great big shiny laser in it. Hells yeah.

If doom comes, we are prepared!

I think we're at a fist bump moment.

Yay for the unholy power of Science!

Many things are impossible. This does not mean they cannot be done. This means we need to change our way of thinking to incorporate how they may be done.