End Of The World As We Know It!

Film at eleven!

Update: As it is now after May 26'th, the danger appears to be somewhat overstated. The great impact caused no damage except loss of a bunch of links to Mr. Julien's articles. So sad. I have left the links unchanged below, but due to the impact, most do not work any more. Use the wayback machine or other means to recover the Truth as it was back before 2006-05-26.

So, this guy claims the big meteor will hit in the Middle of the Atlantic on May 26 2006. The resulting 200m waves will wipe out life along the Atlantic coastline. This could be bad.

To prove this, he has pages and pages and pages of "scientific" explanations and diagrams to show the basis for these predictions.


So, given this, should you follow his advice and "Move away from the coasts and to go up on the heights sufficiently early, and even the day before"? Well, if you live on the Atlantic coast, you might want to check out exactly where the comet fragments will hit.

Hm... what's that "Lost City" label in the middle of the map?

Lets read the text a bit more carefully shall we:

It is auspicious to note that the Tropic of Cancer (located at 23° Northern), where the comet fragment would likely strike the ocean, is not very far from a particular site: Lost City on the Atlantis fault. In addition to the particularity of this mythical name (Atlantis), and of this unusually auspicious location (Lost City), this point is only 700 meters in depth! A comet fragment striking at the mid-Atlantic dorsal with a sufficient energy could awaken the chain of the underwater volcanoes there. Hardly 600 kilometres separate Lost City from the tropic of Cancer. In other words, it's a very tender zone for an impact.

Aha... maybe we should check more of the so called evidence:

It was precisely on June 25 1995 that the crop circle called "Missing Earth" appeared at Longwood Warren in the County of Hampshire in England. This crop circle, a gigantic view of the interior solar system, to the belt of asteroids, was designed without the Earth.

OK, sorry folks, false alarm. Just a kook. Nothing to see. Move along.

For an alternative view, check James [The Amazing] Randi's take on this.