Earth has been getting very tetchy lately, or am I mistaken?

[flobadob]

Has anyone else noticed the amount of earthquakes/volcano eruptions that have been occurring lately? Is it just me or do they seem to be getting very frequent. I wouldn't usually be into hocus pocus but sometimes I do think that maybe the Mayans were correct and some time around 2012 there is gonna be some sort of major catastrophe on earth. Does anyone else feel like this?

[jake-the-peg]

There are always a lot of Earthquakes there has just been quite a lot affecting human habit areas recently.

This Mayan Clap trap is simply because their calendar cycle gets exhausted then.

It's like suspecting the end of the world when we run out of car number plates numbers!

[flobadob]

Well I'll still try and act surprised.

[webbo3]

The Mayans did'nt forsee the end of their own civilisation so they I would believe anything they predicted.



Dave.

[flobadob]

Did they not just take off one day?

[mccfluff]

yep they got in a space ship and went off for a daytrip

JTP - the world does end when we run out of car plate reg's, i thought that was a well known fact, it will also end if i run out of cake.....

[Old_Geezer]

I saw four horsemen this morning.

[beso]

I would be more impressed if the Mayan calnedar end about 1600.

We hear about more earthquakes now because most of the world is inhabited by media savy humans.

Armageddon has already come and gone. Nobody noticed it amidst the background of everyday catastrophies.

[mibn2cweus]

When it rains - it pours.

The nature of random events is that periodically apparent coincidences arise. The digits of pi approach a random distribution demonstrating this phenomenon. For instance, seven sequential sevens appear sporadically in the decimal representation of pi, at positions:

3,346,228
3,775,287
14,233,532
24,658,601
24,658,602
24,658,603
35,875,631
43,694,095
49,894,382
etc.

Note that this pattern (7777777) repeats 3 consecutive times after only the third appearance of this sequence. That is because there are nine sequential sevens at this point in the pi digit sequence.

Randomness and coincidence is only an apparent phenomenon, contingent on a lack of understanding of complex mechanisms. Once understood, randomness/coincidence is found invariably to be an illusion of incomplete understanding.

http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi

[RATTER15]

Reason, What The Funicular?????