So says this ominous looking flyer that just landed in our mailbox at SFist's Western Branch Office this week. According to the materials that we found with our $5 Bed Bath and Beyond Coupon, every weekend in May, Bible prophecy scholar and epic pessimist Mark Farrell (who unfortunately shares a name with one of our City Supervisors), will be bringing Bay Area truth seekers a "fully-illustrated series of dynamic lectures" regarding the end of days in "an easy-to-understand format." (Read: there will be a Powerpoint.) more ›

NASA Astronomers and amateur asteroid hunters alike believe they have tracked down fragments of the fireball that exploded somewhere over the Sierra Nevadas early Sunday morning. By analyzing a weather radar loop, Dr. Petrus Jenniskens of the NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View, traced the a handful of space debris to an asphalt parking lot in the tiny town of Lotus, California in El Dorado County. more ›

Regarding that meteor that may or may not have struck the Earth near Lake Tahoe this past weekend, NASA now has a better estimate of just how big that flying chunk of colorful flaming space rock really was: Roughly the size of a minivan, except it was over 40 times heavier than your standard Plymouth Voyager (space joke) and it blew up over California's Central Valley with the energy of a 5-kiloton explosion. more ›

Around 8 a.m. Sunday morning, reports of a loud explosion and a fireball streaking through sky over the California/Nevada border had local law enforcement agencies, astronomers and doomsday soothsayers alike all scrambling for answers. The fireball was spotted as far as away as the Bay Area and Las Vegas before the meteor broke up over the Sierra Nevada and reportedly crashed to Earth in Nevada, just over the border from South Lake Tahoe. more ›

Yesterday's delightful weather made for an excellent day to drop drawers and go for a ride on the Bay Area's questionably sanitary public transit. Here now: photos of all of the butts, none of the pants. Enjoy. more ›

According to Seth Rogen, Hollywood most favorite tender bro, George Lucas thinks the world might end in 2012. Yikes! “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it," Rogen reveals to the Toronto Sun. “He’s going on about the tectonic plates and all the time [Steven] Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, ’My nerdy friend won’t shut up, I’m sorry.' " So, yeah, there you have it. Plan accordingly, people. [TS] more ›

This sticker was spotted on a bus stop at Union and Van Ness this morning on a 2012, advertising what seems like a site with a serious discussion of Mayan mysticism, Maya-Portal.net. more ›