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July 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/07/2010 10:53 AM Page 36 36 5 Questions with an Astrophysicist 5 questions with then probably the galactic alignment idea if you The deputy quoted Moore as saying she kept the astrophysicist Stuart throw in Brent Miller's, "souls will be plant because it was "cute" and she put it on the harvested." That could be interesting. curb with the trash because it was growing too If you're asking what's the most likely Robbins way that civilization on Earth will be destroyed, big. Moore was arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana. She was taken to the it would be by a giant asteroid impact event. Land O'Lakes jail with bail set at $2,000. The University of Colorado will play Statistically, this will happen; it has happened in host to some doom and gloom Friday night the past, and it's going to happen again. Smart phone, really dumb thief when a presentation chronicling and debunking the major theories of the 2012 doomsday 5. What odds are you giving Earth to SAN FRANCISCO - Police in San Francisco conspiracy comes to Fiske Planetarium. survive 2012? said a mugger was arrested after stealing an CU astrophysics doctoral candidate and The same odds that we'll survive 2010. iPhone while it was being used to demonstrate self-proclaimed skeptic Stuart Robbins will Or 2014. Or 1831. new GPS tracking software. David Kahn, chief display some of his research into the executive officer of Covia Labs, said he gave astronomical possibilities and impossibilities of Bizarre News his iPhone to an intern to walk around the block popular 2012 theories, including galactic while he was demonst- rating the real-time GPS alignments and devastating solar flares while tracking software Monday to potent- ial clients throwing in some humor for good measure. In-store wedding a first for TJ Maxx at K/F Communications, the San Jose Mercury Robbins started discussing 2012 News reported. "We kind of noticed while that theories in his blog, "Exposing MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A Michigan was happen- ing, boy, she was really starting to PseudoAstronomy," in 2008, the same year he couple's wedding in the shoe section of a TJ move pretty fast and she wasn't heading back received his master's of science in astrophysics Maxx store was the clothing chain's first ever toward the place," he said. with a geophysics concentration from CU. He in-store ceremony, company officials said. "Moments later she comes bursting into the expects to defend his doctoral thesis next Drew Ellis, a reporter for the Mount Pleasant office and said she'd just been mugged." Kahn spring. (Mich.) Morning Sun, married former reporter said he used the software to track the thief's Robbins recently talked with the Lisa Satayut in the shoe section Saturday while movements while the intern called 911. Camera about Earth's (potential) impending customers shopped in other areas of the store, "It was pretty exciting to realize what was going doom. the Morning Sun reported. The store widened on and wondering if he had noticed," Kahn said. the size 8 shoe aisle, the bride's chosen location "Obviously if he had turned off the phone, that 1. What made you want to study for the wedding, and provided white chairs with would have been it." Police said they recovered astrophysics as a kid? red bows and a vine-covered arch for the the phone and arrested Horatio Toure, 31, on Looking back at my college and occasion. Sonya Cosentini, a spokeswoman for suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen graduate school admissions essays, I probably TJ Maxx's Boston corporate offices, said property about 9 minutes after the incident. started out as most people do: Astronomy is officials were delighted by Satayut's e-mail likely the most popular science among the lay asking for the unconventional wedding facility. Watch and Listen to public. I just never grew out of it. It also "This is very exciting," she said. "We never had The ‘X’ Zone Radio & TV Show probably helped that early on, my younger a wedding in a TJ Maxx store before." with brother would claim that he was the King of Jupiter and so my goal was to study it and Pen pals meet after 59 years of letters Rob McConnell propulsion to send him back as quickly as 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, possible. NEW YORK - A 59-year friendship that began 364 days a year as a school assignment to write a letter to a on at 2. Why is Fiske Planetarium a good fit soldier stationed in Korea finally has ‘X’ Zone TV for this presentation? culminated in the pair meeting in New York. www.xzonetv.com Fiske is a good venue for this because Barbara Rohl, 69, of New York said she first one of the major claims of what will happen in sent a letter to Orville Schumacher, 80, of 2012 is there will be some form of "galactic Nebraska -- then a soldier stationed in Korea -- alignment." Explaining what this means by as a school assignment when she was 11 years CHECKOUT THE ALL NEW talking about various coordinate systems old in 1951 and the two continued exchanging ‘X’ ZONE STORE FOR YOUR intersecting is not very easy with slides, and so letters for 59 years, the New York Post reported. ‘X’ ZONE RADIO & TV SHOW using Fiske's star projection capabilities is a Rohl and Schumacher met in person for the first AND useful way to explain what's going on in the sky time last week. "I'm getting past 80 now and I PARAGATORS GEAR! now, what doomsday proponents claim, and figured if there was a time I was ever going to then showing why it won't/can't happen. meet her, it's now," Schumacher said. Rohl said she had strong 3. Why do you think people are so emotions about meeting her longtime pen pal fascinated with the prospect of the apocalypse? for the first time. "I can't even explain how I feel I'm not entirely sure. People have been about this whole thing," she said. predicting the end of the "It's a beautiful thing." world/civilization/humanity/universe pretty much as far back as we have written records. ... Florida deputy spots pot plant at curb Nearly every civilization and generation has had some group that believes they are living in the HOLIDAY, Fla. - Authorities in Florida said a end times, and ours is no different. woman arrest- ed for allegedly growing a marijuana plant told deputies she only kept the 4. If you had to pick a way for the Earth plant because it was "cute." The Pasco County to go out, what would it be and why? Sheriff's Office said a deputy passing by the www.xzonestore.com If you're asking me to choose from the Holiday, Fla., home of Jacqueline Moore, 55, www.xzonestore.com 2012 ideas of what I would "want" -- as in most Tuesday noticed a 2-foot-tall uprooted www.xzonestore.com interesting that could actually happen and affect marijuana plant by the curb and asked Moore www.xzonestore.com us -- well, right there you've limited yourself to about it, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported www.xzonestore.com something on the sun larger and more powerful Thursday. Moore told the deputy she does not than has happened in history ... though this smoke marijuana and she received the plant as a www.xzonestore.com likely isn't possible. If we ignore impossibility, "baby plant" from a neighbor a few months ago. www.xzonestore.com