Here's another interesting prediction from the things the make you go huh? department.

    Instead of getting sucked into the big black hole during planetary alignment, which would solve my crisis as to what to wear to an event horizon, the next theory is we would lose gravity.

  As the planets line up very, very close to the center of the galaxy the magnetic forces exerted would be strong enough to stop the earth's magnetic core from spinning. When this happens we alledgedly lose gravity and anything not firmly attached to terra firma goes floating off into space. Supposedly Earth regains gravity when the planets move out of their "perfect alignment"."

  It seems odd because I thought gravity was determined by mass.

  I posed this question to a keeper of arcane knowledge, my Mom. She reads tabloids. They are a font of SCIENTIFIC information!

   "Well, Poppi, you know what this means?"

   "What?"

    "I have to chain the car to the tree on December 20th so it won't float away. I'll call the hardware store and order one today, I don't want to get caught in a last minute rush. I'll order one for your Mercedes, we might need a car with bulletproof windows, you know it's the end of the world."

    I watch in amazement as she looks up the number of the hardware store and orders chains for not one, but three cars and  the camper.

    "Now, put that in your podberry and textmail Nicky at college and tell him to let his physics professors know how to protect their cars."

   "Sure,Mom, I'll get right on that. I've gotta go, I have an appointment"

    So now I know what I will be doing on December 20th 2012, chaining a Nissan to a tree. What will you be doing?