Tomorrow is the supposed end of the Maya calendar which means the world will end. According to Isaac Newtown there is still time left before the world ends, so all is good. Better yet, there have been many predictions of the end of the world in the past and we keep persevering The Economist provides a nice chart of some of the more notable failed doomsday predictions.
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