WELL, IT'S SATURDAY, MAY 21, and it seems that we're still here, contrary to the predictions of radio host Harold Camping and his Family Radio fundies. According to Cyriaque Lamar at io9,massive earthquakes should have already begun in the mid-Pacific and will be wending their way around the globe all day long. New Yorkers can expect seismic horror at approximately 6 PM. And just as your Friday night hangover loses its venom. Rats!
Anyway, Cyriaque lists a top-ten of failed End-of-the-World predictions:
- 1.) Harold Camping: 1994-1995;
- 2.) Elizabeth Clare Prophet: April 23, 1990;
- 3.) The Unarians: 2001;
- 4.) Pat Robertson: 1982, 2007;
- 5.) Benjamin Creme: 1982;
- 6.) Richard Noone: May 5, 2000;
- 7.) Wang Chao-hung: May 11, 2011;
- 8.) Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins: 2006-2008;
- 9.) Pyotr Kuznetsov: April-May 2008;
- 10.) Jeane Dixon
And that's just the 20th and 21st centuries. The 19th century produced a whole horde of end-of-the-world types.
