Posted by Arthur P. Bloom on Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 13:48:00 :
In Reply to: Re: 50,000 years or so overdue to blow posted by David Sherman on Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 12:31:49 :
"Like clockwork"?
They didn't have calendars or clocks back then. The so-called experts are just guessing. So how do they know with any certainty that the cycle isn't 606,000 years? That's an error factor of 1%.
That gives us a few years respite to play with trucks, and not fear the Reaper quite as soon.
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