A lot of “concern” has been made of the recent Yahoo news article citing “reputable” sources reading crop circles and predicting the end of the world as we know it.  I was having some fun with this as more hocus pocus conspiracy theories until I read THIS:

Before the time of Newton or Celestial Mechanics, during a time when witchcraft was widely believed, Mother Shipton and Nostradamus foresaw comet impacts on Earth near the beginning of this millenium, nearly 500 years in their future. Three thousand years earlier, Moses recorded the Hebrew Pentateuch that contained encoded dates of these impacts. Other biblical sources including Christ, Daniel and Zechariah warned of this danger. Recently, (alien) abductees, an alien crop circle and even “mystic” humans have warned of these pending events. Surprisingly, all these sources form a consist description of the impending catastrophe…….

The two other papers offered on this web site offer evidence of the causal agent of these events, our Sun’s dark companion star. It generates two separate comet swarms (each orbiting the Sun about every 3,353 years) that orbit 180o out of phase. They alternately threaten Earth for about a hundred year period every 1500 to 1700 years. One of these swarms appears to have passed Earth about 1500 years ago, registering impacts around 440 AD and 534 AD. The impending threat is from several closely spaced comet clusters contained within the second of these swarms. The composite threat scenario indicates that a comet – Earth impact may first occur around 2006/7. An estimated one-kilometer diameter comet fragments into about a dozen major pieces along a 1,700 mile-long path from France to Israel. A second, and more deadly impact, may occur in the Southern Hemisphere less than a decade later. Impacts from fragments of a larger comet, or ones on a more vertical trajectory, may then occur. Both events catch most of humanity by surprise as our current habitat and political structure is swept away. Ultimately, they may cause the death of the bulk of mankind by relocation trauma, insurrection, thirst and starvation. Humanity may then be painfully returned to one of an Ice Age culture thereby greatly limiting the extent and capability of our civilization.

Although this guy refers to crop circles as well, he also cites the Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, Daniel, Zecheriah, and Christ.  What he does NOT do is give a specific date.  He wrote this in 2000.  However, the 2006 comet strike prophecy is all over the net.  And, unlike the Yahoo article, it’s based on a lot more “stuff” than just the crop circles. 

Nervous yet? ( I’m not. )