E.L.E: Extinction Level Event

E.L.E

Extinction Level Event

Prologue

December 13 1012

“Maybe everything we’ve done…maybe it was all for nothing” That whisper lost in the vacuum of space was only heard by my comrades on this lonely world. They were silent, hearing but not willing to respond.  

“It’s over; there is nothing more we can do.” The sentence fills us all with fear.

“We tried our best”

The same thought echoed though each of our minds at that moment

‘It wasn’t good enough’

Chapter One:

Tears

March 5 2012

The people cheer.

They laugh, they play, and they leap.

If they knew, they’d cry.

If they knew they could all die at any moment, any second of the day. If they knew they would die, soon, very soon, they’d cry.

I know because I cry, every time I think about it, I cry. If they knew what I know, they’d start and never stop.

No, they would stop, when IT happens, they would stop.

When the world stops, all would be silent, no more crying, sweet silence, sweet peace.

I think about it everyday, every waking moment in fact. The silence that would follow it, the peace and quiet, to bad I would not be around to enjoy it. I would perish, along with everyone else in the world. There would be some survivors, but most likely not enough to save the human race. We would die out, the world would be empty, void of all human life.

Peaceful bliss.

I thought it wouldn’t be now, my lifetime, I thought it would be ages away. I was wrong. It’s in my lifetime, ands it’s soon, a matter of months in fact.

You see I know, I know the exact date it’s supposed to happen December 21 2012.

I know the estimated time 2:30 pm

I know because I’m the one that needs to know. The one that may need to tell the people that the world is crashing around them. I hope to God I won’t have to, I hope that the world will remain in ignorance and that this threat would be defeated.

I hate this job sometimes, especially if I have to do this, to tell them that there would be no tomorrow, that the world is ending.

I hate this job.

“Sir, you’ll be on in a couple of minutes”

“Thank you, Tom”

“You’re welcome Mr. President”

I walk on the stage, my thoughts in chaos.

If only they knew.

 And the people cheer.

There would some survivors, but most likely not enough to save the human race.

Doesn't mean anything.

I like the concept. No one cares about some random colonists! I bet the threat is two purge vessels nobody noticed, and forgot to build hangar defense!

Err ill edit this with more positive feedback after I sleep : D

Oh I saw the topic and thought this would be about semi pro.

Everybody Love Everybody

It's a nice start to what could be a very interesting story.  Though i do not believe the world will end on Dec. 21 2012 because if i remember correctly, it will only be a polar shift which will screw up wheather patterns like mad and probably cause millions of deaths but not enough to make the human population go on the endangered species list...

Just a thought...

Interesting....

Samurye.

There are actually many different theories about what happens on that date, i just kinda took the doomsday one and kinda tweaked it a little to suit my story,

Thats an interesting thought though, thanks for the feedback

I think the polar shift is now coming to be the most prominent because i think scientists are seeing shifts in the magnetic poles...but not saying that it couldn't be the doomsday one either because for all we know, this polar shift may be more catostrophic than what i'm saying and may more or less wipe out the human race...

i could be wrong though too....

The end of the Mayan calendar. Maybe it means doomsday, or maybe the Mayans didn't feel like going any further with it. To them this date was hundreds of years away. I think the Mayan guy who came up with this was probably like "eh, that's as far as I'll go for now, someone else will keep this going in a couple hundred years." rather than "this is the day the world (as we know it) ends." But I'm not a psychic and I don't have a time machine, so who knows, maybe billions will die that day. A pole shift isn't goign to take out humanity, we're too resilient and adaptive for that. It's much more likely that nuclear war will be the end of humanity. My vote, however, is for a deadly infectious disease. Not this swine flu BS (which currently has only killed people in or from Mexico, f-ing racist.) Something ten times more infectious and ten time more deadly. Man made? Maybe (if you consider drug resistant viruses and bacteria that have mutated and adapted to modern medicine, man made) Personally I think that's much more likely to make us extinct, even if that does take awhile (couple years to kill the majority of humans and the rest just die off in seclusion).But who knows, we humans are really good at coming up with new ways to kill stuff. Especially if we can't see it.

You know, I think that the guy who chose the December 21 2012 date is laughing his head off. I mean, mabey it is the end of the world, mabey the calander maker was lazy, but I think that it may just be one of the funniest practical jokes ever. Millions are running about in fear, books are being written. Because of one guy. "Why did he do it?" you may ask. His answer is "4 TEH LULZ. ROFL."

Samurye.

You can bet your last shirt on a few Doomsday Asteroids to cap the fearsome Torino scale sooner than never even if the Mayan calendar expires on the galactic center alignment with our star as superstitiously speculated by the 13th Baktun's end.

Lucky us, NT7 Impact odds for February 1st 2019 were lowered to none.

Be we're still evaluating or keeping track of facts, not story.

But that's interesting (if you don't want to bother going to the link above) and remember two blockbusters such as Armageddon and Deep Impact, quoting wikipedia;

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On March 23, 1989 the 300 meter (1,000-foot) diameter Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius (1989 FC) missed the Earth by 700,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) passing through the exact position where the Earth was only 6 hours before. If the asteroid had impacted it would have created the largest explosion in recorded history, thousands of times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba. It attracted widespread attention as early calculations had its passage being as close as 64,000 km (40,000 miles) from the Earth, with large uncertainties that allowed for the possibility of it striking the Earth.

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Now... that's what i call a near miss!

WE all have heard this statement and understand what it means but it just annoys when people say it, a near miss because to me sounds like something hit something. I dont know why i think that.

It's because the word "near" is a synonym for close, while "nearly" is a synonym for almost, and also that a "miss" is a noun, while "missed" is a verb. To say "near miss" (adjective modifying a verb) is the opposite of saying "nearly missed"(adverb modifying a verb), eventhough they use the same base words. One hears "nearly missed" more often in natural conversation, hence, being the same base words, we tend to want to think it means the same thing. Weird how that works eh?

Close call, skimming, thin slice, brushed.

6 hours on Earth is; you wake up somewhere and by Noon -- anything in the night side is simply gone, and within the next hour or less the local weather forecast is quite, say, pessimistic. Think of it for a moment, where is the Moon on average? Two misses, might be a distinction worth considering.

The strangest thing about this particular event is that we ONLY found out a day later. There i was standing in the store, selling electrical & plumbing stuff to customers as usual -- two daughters in school, wife waiting for a phone call to fix the grocery list and drive back home. It gives perspective on how precious lives are.

Even Shoemaker-Levy collision with Jupiter was more of a near miss for Earth, indirectly.

Gazing at the Stars is fun. Being aware of ELE, struck a few sensitive chords.

If we intercept threats, we survive.

The Maya calendar thing is a myth, especially since the Mayans themselves didn't think that there would be an apocalypse, since there are actually many Mayan inscriptions showing dates beyond 2012, and there is never, ever, any reference to an apocalypse then.  What 2012 was to the Mayans was the end of a calendar cycle, where they'd have a big party and start a new cycle (they seriously lked to plan ahead didn't they).  So the Mayan apocalypse stories are roughly equivalent to those that said the world would end at the millenium (which incidentally ended at 11.59 December 31st 2000, not 1999).

The title of this thread has now given me an urge to watch Deep Impact again.

Sometimes we humans get excited with very little. So the mayan stopped the calandar on 2012. And because he did we think it's the end of the world. So what should of he done just kept on going forever, the poor guy would still be at it...? He had to stop at some point no?

How far does my calandar goes in my computer? Where it stops is it another end of the world?

Gosh get real....

Y2K bug created a flop so big, collective paranoia resolved issues of "illicit" propaganda simply by reasoning over the inevitable or parsing facts from truth. If time has any importance (on calendars or otherwise), it is because we can observe or influence it.

Problem is, freaks and fools exploit it soooooo much that *some* people start to believe in lies and can't realize they were wrong (in absolute terms, btw) before it's already too late for them & everybody else.

So, beware of the rational... it may look obvious and yet science is theory until it isn't.

True,  i was reading the Nostrodamus prophecys, and the prophecys of Edgar Cayce on the events of 2012, you know the ones talking about WWIII and the next Antichrist and the end of the world, thats kinda where i got my idea for the story

thats where i got the name from, i love that movie..

That's also cool because we should always plan for the worst--a.k.a--WWIII, Antichrist, Nuclear Holocaust--but we should plan for something that is better than what we expected--a.k.a--pole ship causing massive natural disasters killing thousands of humans but humanity still survives unlike WWIII or Nuclear Holocaust

If I'm not mistaken, 2012 is supposed to correspond to the coming of the next astrological age, either Aquarius or Capricorn depending on what people believe our current astrological age is.  Many ancient civilizations followed the Zodiac and often based their cultures around whichever age it was at the time.  For example, the great sphinx was supposedly built during the age of Leo, and Christ was born during the age of Pisces.  Biblical and egyptian references talk of a sudden change of sacrificing bulls to sacrificing rams corresponding to the change from Taurus to Aries (golden calf anyone?)

Many ancient civilizations also told of an ancient snake that came winding down from the heavens to attack the earth and cause major destruction.  These are believed to be meteors, asteriods, comets, etc... that have wiped out many ancient and technologically advanced civilizations.

The snake prophecies often portray the "snake" one day coming back to attack the earth.  The Mayans also had this portrayal of the snake, but it is unclear as to whether they believed it would happen on 2012.

My bet would be an asteriod that wipes us out...although the movie "Knowing" gave an interesting take on the appocalypse.

If i'm also not mistaken, this is the time when our solar system will cross an imaginary line that seperates the galaxy in half.  In 2012, we will cross this line and begin a new galactic year--i think that it is a new galactic year or the last half of the one we're on.  But if Prozach2K3 is right, then it should be a new galactic year.

Deep Impact is showing tonight at 9:30 on TNT.

Check your local listings.

December 21 2012 is also the day that our sun eclipses the center of the milkyway galaxie, i also think that it could be a start of the new age

most likely, I mean other then nuclear war or super Volcanos what else would

Deep Impact is also on now on TNT, well over on the east coast anyway

I dunno.

I think 'the end of the world' would be a pretty rad 57th birthday present for me.

Good day too one and all. I wish you all who have responded to Darkfall's idea and

of my 'own' way of thinking... See, most of what you people wrote is in it's own slice of truth REAL.  My birth date is DEC 22 and haven grown-up so close within the gosspel it and  as most of my own 'past' studies of this possible event... it would make sense.

as this planet is nothing more than a scabbed over 'fireball'... and 'if' something did slam into it, the effect would make biblical sense as far as the [Ending in fire] (Not bible thumping here, just pointing a few 'other' things we fail to look at...).

The fact that the government would NEVER inform us (Nor 'could' any goverment) that in X amount of time... we would be extinct... [TRUE?] ... "like a theif in the night"

The calenders I have no faith in... the 'stars' though.... I do. Alignments are only small 'tics' of the much larger picture that unfolds time and the fates appear and dissapear... (begins as well as ends all cycles)

I beleave it's true that we have less (time) than we thought, that 'most' of humanity will become lost in the void and the few that have remained will only survive as well as there training has equipt them, however, mankind (i fear) is extinct...

They will 'find' the ....>right< comet or asteroid well to late to prepair for it )I'm guessing that the actual date for the 'right' rock to hit us will be around 6/23-30/2012.. witch will give us what.... 5 months?

yes because billions and trillions of gallons of water washing over every landmass on earth couldn't possibly drown anything not amphibious... *snikcer*