Show r Standard-Examin- er Thursday September 1 2LX 1983 OVER Horizons Doom Prom 1 B 1 he reader may complain: “I'm confused All these possible apocalypses I can’t tell the difference between the greenhouse effect and the Jupiter effect or the ozone hole and black holes Which apocalypses should I take seriously and which should I reject as moronic swill?" V Here is a brief but helpful consumer’s guide to predicted apocalypses - The greenhouse effect: Scien- tists take very seriously the possibility that the Earth’s atmosphere is being warmed by the burning of fossil fuels and that as a re- will be roughly aligned on May 9 2000 — not May 5 as KJemmger claims — the conjunction “will have no effect whatsoever on the sun or on Earth" Meeus writes in Skeptical Inquirer magazine Meeus explains that such conjunctions have occurred before in recorded history Meeus cites conjunctions in 1623 1742 1881 and 1921 during which as far as anyone knows nothing especially unusual happened The most famous instance of such a planetary “alignment” triggering fears of cataclysm involved the “Jupiter effect” of 1982 in which a number of planets including Jupiter were supposed to line up and exert unusual gravitational forces on Earth That alignment would spark violent earthquakes in California said scientists John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann in their book “The Jupiter Effect” But other experts dismissed the book as flimsy reasoning based on flimsier evidence Gribbin disavowed the book before 1982 when California failed to be destroyed Nuclear war: The real apocalypse may come at humanity’s own hand if ICBMs ever flash across the skies and reduce the planet to radioactive rubble warning may be the Antarctic ozone “hole" a sharp annual decline in the amount of ozone over the southernmost continent California earthquakes: This category includes the “big one" They’ve happened before and they'll happen again geologists concur The latest word from quake monitors is that Northern California including San Francisco faces a 20 percent chance of a devastating quake within 30 years Southern California faces a much greater risk long-expect- Nostradamus: This monk’s forecasts of death doom and destruction are rolled out every couple of years to titillate the unwary To some his “forecasts” appear to fit modern events To scientists he’s just another crank 16th-centu- ry r Daily diet may lack Computer backing right now” Minson said “So for right now this is the closest I get” Currently Minson says about 100 people use his computer service from places as far away as Those interested in the gardening information or any of the other programs and services Minson offers can call him in North Ogden For computer communica7 For voice tion call 8 communication call From IB manganese Chicago Tribune Manganese may be joining calcium on the list of essential minerals that people do not get fncugh of IN FLOOR SAMPLES ARE FOR SALE y ed sult Antarctic ice might melt and flood coastal cities The recent Planetary alignments: A Texdrought may be a symptom of as man Richard Kleininger is this warming trend some experts word that a flurry of spreading speculate earthquakes will occur on May 5 i The ozone hole: Earlier this 2000 as the planets Jupiter and year a NASA-le- d Saturn align with the Earth and team of scientists issued the strongest warning sun He wants to assemble a fleet yet that the stratospheric ozone of blimps to loft him and his followers to safety until the shiverteyef which protects against radiation from the ing and shaking stops below suit js being damaged by chemiNonsense scoffs Belgian ascals from refrigerators spray cans tronomer Jean Meeus While it’s Snd other products An early true Jupiter Saturn and the sun - $1000000 West Virginia His goal is to eventually open his own computer store “I’ve got a lot of ideas but no 782-112- 782-631- OPEN FRIDAY SEPT 2ND SATURDAY SEPT 3RD AND MONDAY LABOR DAY SEPT 5TH FOR THE BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BUY BRAND NAME FURNITURE LIKE THOMASVILLE CENTURY BROYHILL BASSETT AND MANY MORE AT A FRACTION OF THE RETAIL PRICE GMY S1PH©IAILI qinmaEa: fiftSE? 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