The Apocalypse : Death By Technical Error

What a sick day and age we live in, where we find life so dull and miserable that we want everything to just die. Although, I conjecture that the origins of the idea of the apocalypse was derived from a mystical understanding of cosmogonic causality, that seems to no longer be the case. The ancients understood patterns in the heavens, as well as on earth, and found a correlation between the two. In addition they realized that all things have a beginning, and with that, all things have an end. Therefore, an end must come for all of existence at some point. Since the end of all of existence would be a very grand thing, there might be signs of it in the heavens, just as we can predict the coming of a comet or the rise of the Nile from certain aspects in the skies.

Today, sadly, we assume the end must be nigh on account of a technical error. Y2K was thought to be the end of everything because of how computer clocks were programmed. Essentially, to save byte space the first two digits of the year were negated. So when 2000 rolled around the computers would think it was 1900, and vast quantities of data would be erased and credit cards would be screwed, and a bunch of other stuff. Wow, two missing digits could cause the end of all things. I don't know what chaos theory has to say about that, but somehow the butterfly simply created a hurricane on its own. The same is true for the an upcoming apocalypse date in the year 2038, because the UTC in Unix will run out of digits and revert back to 0, and will be much like Y2K.

The same can be said for the Mayan calendar, which simply ends December 23, 2012. Though it never occurs to anyone that the Mayan calendar begins something like 3000 years before the calendar was actually created. It seems that they would make the calendar last for sometime, and if they last long enough to see it end, then they probably would have made a new one (just like how every year we make a new calendar). But no! They ran out of digits, that means it's the end of all life and existence as we know it! O, that this too too solid flesh would melt! Woe is me!

Technical errors do not indicate the end of anything. Considering time and space can swap places within the second event horizon of a black hole, it seems pretty solid that the end of time would not have a causal relation to humans forgetting to put in a few extra digits.

It's a bit like the Witch King of Angmar (lead of the Nazgul) in Lord of the Rings, who dies by a technicality. He says no man can kill him. But, of course, Eowyn is a woman, which means she can kill him. Perfect! Problem solved! Find a loop hole in causality and duration and abolish everything! (Of course, I think the Witch King was just pompous so that no man would actually attempt to kill him, which is another matter).

Technology won't save us. Much less kill us. Technical errors won't do the trick either. I suppose we'll just have to see if the Nemesis Theory is correct in about 12,000 years. That, or wait until 4,500,000,000 CE when then sun swells and swallows Mercury, Venus, more than likely Earth, and possibly Mars.