Armageddon

Despite his prediction of May 21st falling through, Camping now claims that the world will end on Friday.The controversial radio preacher made headlines back in May when he announced that he"d extrapolated the date of the apocalypse using numerical codes extracted from the Bible, but when that date came and wentnothing happened.

Now he"s back with a new prediction of Friday October 21st. The radio preacher who predicted Judgment Day on May 21 has not backed down from his claims that the end of the world is near, despite the lack of a Rapture or world-devastating earthquakes leading up to the doomsday.  

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The Prince of Wales has stated that mankind is facing a "sixth great extinction event".Speaking as president of the British wildlife charity WWF-UK, the Prince warned that mankind"s very survival is being threatened by the way we are depleting the Earth"s natural resources. "For too many years, it seems to me, we have been concentrating on climate change as the number one threat when,unfortunately, it is merely a threat multiplier to the risks we face from the rapacious way we have used our natural resources," he said.

Speaking to WWF-UK staff and other environmentalists at St. James"s Palace in London, Prince Charles - who is taking over a position once occupied by his father and, for the past 29 years, by his cousin Princess Alexandra - said that what was needed was"robust leadership into the future. "  

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Scientists have proposed a spacecraft that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth.A small spacecraft with a solar sail placed in a retrograde orbit could change the path of a large asteroid if it collides with it far enough in advance. The project was devised as an answer to the possible threat of the massive asteroid Apophis which is thought tohave a small chance of hitting the planet in 2036.

Shengping Gong, Junfeng Li, and Xiangyuan Zeng of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have published an article in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), proposing to place a small spacecraft with a solar sail into a retrograde orbit to prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth in 2036.  

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An asteroid the size of an office block will narrowly pass us by on Monday, say astronomers.The massive rock will pass 23 times closer than the distance to the moon at around 11,000 miles and be close enough for astronomers to view with a modest telescope. While it doesn"t pose a threat, worryingly the object was only discovered on Wednesday by a robotic telescope in New Mexico designed to pick up asteroids - if it hadbeen a lot larger and on a collision course with the Earth then it would have been far too late to do anything about it.

The space rock will reach within 11,000 miles of the surface and give off a light bright enough to be seen through a small telescope, experts said today. It was only spotted on Wednesday by a robotic telescope in New Mexico that scans the skies for such hazards. An alert was then put out yesterday by theInternational Astronomical Union"s Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts.  

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