jQuery, javascript libs, general rant

[Alex]

In order to determine if there has been an increase in natural disasters you would need to look over an extended period of time, and because over that extended period of time technology has improved our ability to detect natural disasters significantly (e.g. increased number of and quality of seismographs), it's not as simple as seeing more recorded events.

 

 

For example, if you look at the amount of recorded earthquakes over the past 50 years without taking into account the increased number of seismographs it would seem as if we have an eminent problem on our hands. We don't.

 

Remember those headlines a few months ago (?) where groups of animals were being found dead? Large numbers of birds falling out of the sky, tons of fish turning up floating in a lake, etc... Everyone was screaming that they were all related and were signs of the Apocalypse. Actually, these events aren't rare at all. In fact, they happen all the time, everyday. The only reason it became big news is because of the increased awareness of the public as a whole. All you need is a bunch of people posting on twitter about unrelated events and suddenly you have some false connection between a bunch of seemingly similar, but unrelated things.

[Adam]

You're quite the conspiracist, CV. What arguments are there for it? An out-of-date calendar, myths..?

 

@MrAdam: Also want to point out that the Q&A link you posted...mentioned nothing about stuff predicted to happen this year.

 

You mentioned about Nibiru (which people can't seem to decide whether it's 2011 or 2012). "Elenin" was March 15.

[xylex]

The Mayans came pretty close to accurately predicting the end of the world given the amount of time and available technology they were working with.  However the date was perfected by the brilliant engineers at AT&T in the late 1960's who discovered the real end of the world is going to be January 19th, 2038.

[TheFilmGod]

While you can always get better performance using native javascript; however the cross-browser compatibility jquery provides is AMAZING. a 10ms performance difference is nothing I'm worried about.

[The Little Guy]

Earthquake Stats: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

Tornado Stats: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html

Hurricane Stats: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

 

The world will more than likely not end from natural disasters produced by our earth. The way the world will end is probably by the Sun exploding, or a super sun flare, and I say we have an even smaller chance of getting hit by a passing by object in space (within our life time). Also, 2012-12-21 is as much b.s. as:

- 2011-05-21

- 2000-01-01

 

And these 200+ other dates:

http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

 

All in all the world will end the day you die, and an Apocalypse will happen in about 5 billion years.

[Adam]

Also, 2012-12-21 is as much b.s. as:

- 2011-05-21

- 2000-01-01

 

Ha.. Judgement Day, from the Terminator films, you mean? I actually thought that was real