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December 12, 2012

Apocalypse... but not as we know it
Paris (AFP) Dec 12, 2012
The End Of The World As We Know It - TEOTWAWKI - is littered with predictions that didn't quite pan out. Just ask the folks who are still chewing through the food they stashed away at the time of the Killer Blob scare four years ago. That was when doomsters predicted CERN physicists would reduce the Earth to goo when they switched on their new particle smasher. In October, a German woman who feared the Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed in her court bid to stop the ... read more

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