<span style="font-family:verdanatahomaarialhelvetica"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%">Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button... <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">1. Mayan Calendar</span> The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things: Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins. Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">2. Sun Storms</span> Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012 <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">3. The Atom Smasher</span> Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">4. The Bible says... </span> If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">5. Super Volcano</span> Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">6. The Physicists</span> This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"> 7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!</span> We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches. </span></span>
Funny thing here is that me and my girlfriend were talking about this exact thing a couple days ago. As accurate as the Mayan calendar has been in the past, I have to say this sis going to be completely discredited in the next few years.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jan 29 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Elect Hillary and I'm sure she can get it done by 2011</div> Nancy Pelosi fixed everything in the first 100 hours. Remember?
A lot of this stuff can happen tommorow or 1000 years from now. The Mayans have been wrong about a lot of things, and deducing the length of the lunar moon is different from predicting the end of the world. Surely you don't believe in their 190 Mayan Gods right? Don't worry about this and some technological breakthrough could save us from all of this one day, you never know.
I know I made the super Volcano thread, but I yawn at this 2012 BS. Smart experts say we're more likely to end the world our selves, than something natural ending it.
It's a popular conception that the Maya disappeared. Turns out they're alive and well and living all over central and southern Mexico. It is odd that they ditched their cities and blended in with the rest of the population. This speaks to "what did they really know?"
Didn't Mayans believe that when you had deja vu, it meant you were in the same place in a previous life? I thought that was pretty cool.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Will the world end in 2012? By Jaime Licauco Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines—The Mayan calendar predicted the world would end Dec. 21, 2012. Is this true? Yes, the world, as we know it, will definitely end on that date, but it will not be the end of the world. I hesitated to write this article because I did not want to scare people. But I was told by an angelic being that I must. This article began on my way back to Manila from Poland. In a big book and electronics store at the Amsterdam airport, two titles caught my attention: “The End of Time, the Mayan Prophecies Revisited” by Adrian Gilbert and “Building Your Mental Muscle.” The mysterious Mayan civilization flourished in meso America then disappeared without a trace. It left fabulous temples, pyramids and other strange monuments with stranger writings. The Mayans always fascinated me. The amazing calendar they left behind traced the precise movements of the planets and the stars without using any instruments. It described the present earth cycle from Aug. 11, 3114 BC, to Dec. 21, 2012. Back in Manila, I got a copy of an article by novelist Benjamin Anastas about the Mayan prophecies, reprinted from the New York Times, from my neighbor Ricky Gonzales, a management consultant. I was struck by the coincidence. Escalating phenomenon The article tells about the growing interest in recent years about doomsday scenarios as predicted by the Mayan calendar. “The Mayan calendar,” according to the article, “is at the center of an escalating cultural phenomenon, with New Age roots, that unites numinous (spiritual) dreams of societal transformation with the darker tropes of biblical cataclysm. To some, 2012 will bring the end of time; to others, it carries the promise of a new beginning; still to others, 2012 provides an explanation for troubling new realities—environmental change, for example, that seem beyond the control of technology and impervious to reason.” Predictions about the end of the world is nothing new. Ancient Gnostics, for example, predicted the arrival of God’s kingdom as early as the first century. Christians in Europe attacked pagan territories in the north to prepare for the end of the world in the first millennium. The Shakers believed the world would end in 1792. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have set the end dates from 1914-1994. “Any religious movement with an end-time prophecy is certain to attract followers,” says Anastas. In the Philippines, a religious cult believed the world would end Dec. 31, 1999. Its members went inside a cave in Tagaytay wearing helmets and waited for the end that never came. A few years before that, a retired military officer predicted the world would be destroyed and two-thirds of the population would perish. The other one-third would be taken by UFOs (unidentified flying objects) through a beam of light. Different With all these failed prophecies, why is the Mayan calendar prediction attracting a growing following even in the scientific community? Is there something different about it? Yes, according to experts. John Major Jenkins says the Mayan lineage goes back to 2000 years. He argues that the ancient Maya “calendar priests” charted a 26,000-year astronomical cycle, called precession of the equinoxes, with the naked eye. The 2012 end-date coincides with the “galactic alignment” of the winter solstice sun and the axis that modern astronomers draw to bisect the Milky Way, called the galactic equator. Adrian Gilbert, in his book “The End of Time,” says, “Not only is the night of 21-22 December the longest in the year, but because of the precession of the equinoxes it corresponds with the day the sun stands exactly at one of the star-gate crossing-points of the elliptic with the median plane of the Milky Way.” Gilbert names this position the “southern star gate—its counterpart, the northern star gate being placed exactly over the up stretched hand of Orion.” Precession refers to the “slow movement of the axis of a spinning object around another axis.” Equinox is “the time the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length.” Gilbert says this means on Dec. 22, any person observing the sun will also be looking toward the core of the Milky Way, the place astronomers say has a black hole with a mass some three million times that of our sun. Gilbert believes what was prophesied in the Book of Revelations is already happening, coinciding with the Mayan calendar. “This moment,” says Gilbert, “when the sun is located at the southern star gate and Orion, with its northern star gate, is dominant in the night sky, will signify the termination of the tribulation prophesied in the Book of Revelation and the true beginning of a new age.”</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller @ Jan 29 2008, 06:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Surely you don't believe in their 190 Mayan Gods right?</div> 175 of them and I are cool. Those other 15 though...
Mayans predicted it, Chinese predicted it, the Bible predicted it, Nastradamus predicted it, and I think some weird computer thingy predicted it. The world is going to end!! I'm tellin ya what, on December 20th, I'm gonna go up to as many hot girls as I need to and ask if they wanna have sex till I find one willing to. Then, I'm gonna waste all my money on junk food and eat myself fat.
I wonder what will happen if the world ends. Will we all die? It's kind of strange to think about all the people you will probably never see again. They're there one day, and gone the next. Pretty weird.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Max @ Jan 29 2008, 09:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:verdanatahomaarialhelvetica"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%">Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button... <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">1. Mayan Calendar</span> The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things: Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins. Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">2. Sun Storms</span> Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012 <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">3. The Atom Smasher</span> Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">4. The Bible says... </span> If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">5. Super Volcano</span> Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">6. The Physicists</span> This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"> 7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!</span> We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches. </span></span></div> 1. To my knowledge the Mayan Calendar only reaches that far. If I made a calendar on paper and it only reached 1 year in length, it doesn't necessarily mean I don't think the Earth will not exist at that time, just that for my purposes I don't need a calendar that long at this time. 2. Even powerful Sun spots don't seem to have the ability to directly kill hundreds of people, although they mess with our power lines and satellites. 3. Is entirely absurd, the most that can happen from two individual atoms colliding with each other is tiny. A black hole is formed with huge amounts of mass, not energy being released from nuclear fusion or fission reactions. The only way for some serious incident to occur is they decide to shoot neutrons into a large mass of an unstable radioactive material. (Which would be Fission), which I doubt they would do knowing that they themselves would die from that. 4. The bible does not say the world will end in 2012. The bible says that Jesus will come back, and he has not, and that 32"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Be on guard! Be alert<sup>[a]</sup>! ... I would like to see the proof the guy has for I Ching, because apparently its meaning is very hard to make out, and is pretty difficult to get preciseness out of a text that is just has a series of Trigrams (3 lines broken or unbroken on top of each other, whose meaning is not exactly known, and gives a combination of 8 different possible trigrams) I have no clue what the Hindus say about it, he does not really point out any texts. 5. Lol, how do they determine this pattern... If the so called cycle is 650 000 years, how do they know if they are not 1000 years or even 300 years off, and have managed to get a pinpoint accuracy to 2012 lol. Ash settles from volcanoes, so even if this volcano was 30 times stronger than any Volcano we have seen in the past 100 years, I do not see why they would think this ash would stay i the atmosphere for any length of time similar to 15000 years, and it would not affect Austrailia if it happened in the States. 6. Where are the facts for this one, they do not explain how they think the world will end... 7. I have no idea if that is even possible, and anyway if it is factually correct, 20-30 km per year is not very fast when relative to the size of the Earth. I would think it would be possible for some to survive, because I do not think UV light goes through walls, and in richer countries they could make UV suits, although it would be a drag.
