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The end is nigh! Well, maybe …

There are reports of weird noises being heard all over the world. An article at Sync.ca has a clip of the strange sounds and lists a number of possible explanations:

• A by-product of the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) which Wikipedia describes as being, “an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).”
• The effects of spacequakes
• A marketing campaign for an upcoming film
• A marketing campaign for an upcoming video game
• Aliens/UFO
• Caused from solar flares
• Phenomenon involving thunder

There are, of course, a wide range of other theories out there too. Some say the noise is the tooting of the seven trumpets marking the start of a series of increasingly catastrophic events; others say it’s the cries of a slowly dying earth, the sound of a geomagnetic reversal or the howls from an approaching army of marauding sasquatches.

Whatever the source of the noises may be, one thing is for sure: if an extinction-level event is just around the corner, you’ll want to make sure that your data is backed up on an apocalypse-proof¹ ioSafe – and you could win one, easy!

Yes, that’s right, you could win a super-tough 500GB ioSafe Rugged Portable to protect your data from whatever 2012 may bring! To enter, all you need do is leave a comment saying what you think is causing the strange noises. The contest will remain open for the next six weeks at the end of which a winner will be randomly selected from the correct entries. If the noises remain a mystery after six weeks, the winner will be randomly selected from all the entries.

Good luck!

¹ Note to humorless and overly-litigious readers: this post is tongue-in-cheek. We have not field-tested our products against geomagnetic reversals, black holes, marauding sasquatches, Chuck Norris or hellfire and make no claims that they will survive these or similar doomsday scenarios.

RULES

1. The contest will be void should the world end prior to the closing date stated below.
2. The judge’s decision is final. No bellyaching or petulant whining is permitted.
3. You must be old enough to grow facial hair to enter.
4. The contest is not open to the person named Jerry who we don’t like (you know who
   you are!).
5. The contest is open to everybody everywhere (except Jerry and people not old enough to grow facial hair), but the winner must have an address in a country to which trade restrictions do not prevent shipping from the U.S.
6. The closing date is 4^th March 2012.The winner will be randomly selected on 5th March 2012 and notified by email on that day.
7. Should you not provide us with a mailing address within 14 days of us sending the notification you’ve won, we’ll award the prize to somebody else. If you think this is unfair, see rule #2.

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