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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

13.7: Cosmos And Culture

How Close Is Doomsday?

A couple watches the sun set over the Baltic Sea on the pier in Palanga, Lithuania, on March 16.

April 2, 2013 Are you one of the last humans who will ever live? Commentator Adam Frank takes us through the famous Doomsday Argument and what it means.

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Friday, October 21, 2011

The Two-Way

Undestroyed Earth Defies Oakland Ministry (Again)

A sign on an RV announces the end of the world, outside Harold Camping's ministry in Oakland, Calif., Monday, May 23, 2011. Ahead of that day, many of Camping's followers had quit their jobs or donated money to pay for more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

October 21, 2011 The Oakland minister who predicted the end of the world would take place on Friday, Oct. 21, was confronted by the continuation of the world instead. It marks the second time the ministry led by Harold Camping, 90, has settled on a doomsday date, only to have it tick by in quotidian fashion.

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