As my regular readers are probably already aware, I make no secret of my anti-bee stance. These kamikaze insect assailants have been plaguing humanity for thousands of years, bribing us with their so-called "honey" to make us forget their evil doings.
However, a recent news i have come across on the news has prompted me to re-evaluate this stance just slight-ly.
As it turns out, bees are not number sympathizers as I and science had previously thought. The perfectly-proportioned hexagons of the bees' honeycombal habitat were, we reasoned, too perfectly-proportioned to happen by chance.
Thus, we had thought, the bees must be doing complicated geo-metry in order to do their mathical honey-combing.
Researchers at Cardiff University in the U.K. Have discovered that this is indeed not the indeed case. The bees are not doing math at all - merely making bee-sized circles of bees-wax that later form into hexagons when melted by the bee-body heat. No math necessary.
This new development in apiology has prompted me to re-evaluate my anti-bee stance just slightly. Knowing that the bees are not aligned with the numbers in the War Against All Humans is an encouraging sign that, perhaps, they could be turned from enemies to allies.
After all, as Sun-Tzu said, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
And with approximately 78% of the human population wiped out in last year's apocalypse, we need all the friends we can get. Even bees.
I do hope that each and every one of you has prepared for tomorrow's Apocalypse! For suffice it to say that if you have not prepared for the December 21, 2012 Mayan apocalypse then you are unprepared for the apocalypse!
Now many of you may be saying "But The Math Skeptic! How can I possibly prepare for the End of all Earth? If all of us are going to die, what is the point of preparing?"
And indeed you have a point. An incorrect one, but a point nonetheless.
After all, when the apocalypse arrives tomorrow, most of us will die. Probably you, maybe even me. This is an inavoidable fact of apocalypses.
But there is definitely a very very slim chance that you will survive and go on living in the post-apocalyptic nightmare world to come. It is this eventuality for which you must prepare.
In order to assist the irresponsible minority of you who have procrastinated until now to begin your preparations, I hereby offer this Preparations Checklist For The Apocalypse
Move somewhere far away from cities, power plants, shopping malls, and oceans. Construct an impenetrable subterranean concrete bunker under your house or in your back yard.
Stockpile non-perishable foods, non-perishable water, and non-perishable alcoholic beverages in your subterranean concrete bunker.
Transfer all vital identification and tax documents to microfiche, insert microfiche into a watertight capsule, and implant under your skin - preferably somewhere readily-accessible.
Acquire a motorcycle by any means necessary.
Keep a close eye on your neighbors - one or more of them may be conspiring to form a post-apocalyptic cannibal motorcycle gang. Plan to join and/or eliminate them once The End comes.
Make peace with friends and loved ones, including your ex-wife and your estranged son. (Note that this doesn't mean you're putting him back in the will after what he did. You're just making peace.)
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Make sure your subterranean concrete bunker has a can opener.
When all other tasks are completed, take a few moments for quiet contemplation of your life and your contributions to this world, however meaningless they are about to become in the grand scheme of existence.
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Only the future knows what the future will bring - be it death, annihilation, total destruction, or chronology-altering timequake. Maybe all of us will survive (doubtful), maybe none of us will. Whatever the outcome, we will arrive at the future in less than a day.
And now, on the eve of the global numeropocalypse I would like to thank each and every one of you who have read The Math Skeptic over the past four decades. It is for you that I do this. And also for me. I do hope that over the past forty years of blogging I have imparted some knowledge and wisdom and opened your feeble minds to the great truths about the dangers of mathematics.
I wish all of you the best during tomorrow's catastrophic events. May your inevitable deaths be as swift and painless as possible. (While I do hope for your survival, the cold reality of reality dictates that it shall likely not be the case.) Blessings and luck be upon you all!
Sincerely, The Math Skeptic
P.S. OH! I almost forgot to mention!
I will be live-blogging the apocalypse tomorrow, for as long as I have power, Internet connectivity, and consciousness. If you're still alive, please come back and read my frequent updates!
In a horrifying display of insect ingenuity, a colony of 14 million bees has hijacked the truck that was transporting their hives across the country and literally ran it off the road. The truck then exploded when the fuel tank ruptured, mixing with the honey and producing a viscous flaming napalm-like substance that has set much of rural Idaho ablaze.
The load of bees and honey was headed from California to Minot, North Dakota. And according to local TV station KIFI (Local News 8), "It is not unusual for- OH, GOD! BEES! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! AAAAAAAAGH! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!"
The lame-stream media was quick to dismiss this crash as "driver error," but it is quite obvious to even the most amateur conspiracist that the bees have turned against us. While the bleeding-heart liberal apidae-sympathizing scare-mongers have been monging scary lies about "colony collapse" and "endangered pollinators," the hive-queens have been collaborating and plotting against us, using their collective hive-minds to find our vulnerabilities and cause maximum devastation and societal disruption!
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have turned against us. While the bleeding-heart liberal 
scare-mongers have been monging scary lies about "
" and "endangered pollinators," the hive-queens have been collaborating and plotting against us, using their collective hive-minds to find our vulnerabilities and cause maximum devastation and societal disruption!