Radio evangelist Harold Camping, who announced that the Rapture would occur Saturday May 21st, has had another revelation: He says that the world will now end on October 21st. Camping says God held off on Saturday out of mercy: God did not want humankind to suffer for five months, but nevertheless, God was here on earth, spiritually.
So I heard on the CBC local news this morning that the next apocalypse is forecast for 2012. This has something to do with the Mayan calendar cycle ending on that year (the ancient Mayan calendar has several cycles, this is the end of one of the longest). According to some proponents, "modern astronomers" have also found evidence that the year 2012 is likely to be the timing of the apocalyse. The radio news segment then cut to an astronomer laughing in response.