OOC: This is no different than the utterly meaningless Y2K scare way back in 1998 or something. I remember changing my DOS system clock to 12/31/1999 23:00 one day and sat there for a couple of minutes...

Nothing happened. In fact, I doubt that any computer would've malfunctioned and determined some rediculously random date a second after 12/31/1999 23:59:59. Lemme do some binary here...The only way to hold '99' is to have an 8bit variable right? (max 127). So even if we didn't do anything the computer won't 'crash' or 'blow up' or 'get confused'. I could be hideously wrong and misunderstood the whole problem, but I never saw a problem to begin with. I couldn't understand how a computer would reset to the year 1900 (00) if a variable got too big. If variables get to big we get a different error and the program stops working. That's a definite problem, but I don't think Y2K was any sort of problem like that.

Anyway I went hideously off track, but the point of all that was to illustrate that this is quite normal and we don't really need to assassinate the person's character by calling him a quack, and that more often than not, our predictions of highly unlikely events happening to destroy the planet and ruin everybody's good time are wrong. Remember the meteor scare way back when we were kids? Or that unfortunate incident where a comet was going to leave a trail in the path of the earth? "o nose!"

All rubbish.