The End of the World in 2012?

[-Jayson-]

Incase you dont know there are many predictions from prominent older cultures that predict the end of the world in 2012. Even current scientist strongly believe world changing disasterious events will occur in 2012. The Myian Calander ends in 2012 with reference to a black hole. The I Chang a book used to predict the future used by ancient chinese and still today predicts the end of the world in 2012. The real life wizard Merlin, predicted the end of the world in 2012. Scientist predict world changing events in 2012 when our solar system aligns with the blackhole that is the center of our galaxy. They predict this will cause the poles of the earch to rapidly shift and cause massive climate change.

Im just curious if anyone else believes this? I mean could this all be some kinda of coincidence or is it real? Different cultures in different times all predict 2012 will be the end of the world. Kinda scary if you believe it to know you only have about 5 years left of good life. Not to say you will die, but if its true, life as we know it will end.

[blakscorpion21]

Christ, you watched that damn history special crap. I watched that as well and it was so full of crap it made me laugh. The only thing that says the world will end in 2012 is essentially the myan calender. All the other things that claim it will end are just shotty interperetations of the origional documents. People want them to say the same thing so they twist it around to say the same thing. As for the black hole, the black hole in the center of our galaxy is about 50 thousand light years away, there is no way that it can have any effect on the earth or the sun if they are aligned. Ill let you have some perspective on how far away 50 thousand light years is, even if you were in a ship travelling at the speed of light it would take you 50 thousand years just to reach it.

As far as the poles flipping, that is a gross over exaggeration as well. The magnetic poles naturally move from place to place as a result of the earths core spinning on a wobble. Every couple hundred thousand years the earths magnetic field flips, it has happened countless times before and will happen again(we are overdue for another flip). When this flip occours the will only be small changes. At first while the field is flipping there will be multiple poles on the earth and because the magnetic field deflects all solar rays to the poles there will be an increase in solar radiation for all areas under the poles, this is the most dangerous effect but certainly will not cause climate change and mass extinction. It will probably only result in elevated numbers of skin cancer cases for affected areas. After the flip occours the magnetic north pole will becaome the south and vice versa. This does not mean that the earth is gonna flip upside down but just that compasses will point south instead of north.

There is nothing major to worry about. Dont beleive everything you see on tv, even if it is the history channel. I have found that the history channel has been spreading a bunch of useless superstisious nonsense like this around lateley.

[Damien]

back on the mayan thing? havent we've overdone this by now?

[ericn1300]

Originally Posted by Damien

back on the mayan thing? havent we've overdone this by now?

my wife just picked "Mayan White" tile for the kitchen counter and it has only a 90 day warranty, could she be the oracle of doom? really, i get tired of these doomday senarios, did the mayans have any sense of their own inpending doom? if you think the end is near show me the science.

[-Jayson-]

umm the poles flipping does cause massive climate changes, antarctica used to be a desert like continent before the dinosaurs. and yes i know the poles flipping is a regular thing, about once every 25,000 years. Which is the same amount of time it takes the earth to make an alignment with the blackhole in the center of the galaxy. And the I Chang wasnt just putting crap together form no where, the dates corresponded exactly with other signigicant dates in world history.

[blakscorpion21]

Originally Posted by -Jayson-

umm the poles flipping does cause massive climate changes, antarctica used to be a desert like continent before the dinosaurs. and yes i know the poles flipping is a regular thing, about once every 25,000 years. Which is the same amount of time it takes the earth to make an alignment with the blackhole in the center of the galaxy. And the I Chang wasnt just putting crap together form no where, the dates corresponded exactly with other signigicant dates in world history.

The magnetic poles flipping has nothing to do with climate. Antarctica used to be a desert because of CONTINENTAL DRIFT not pole flipping. The continent of antarctica used to be on the equator but drifted to the south pole. Look up continental drift or plate techtonics.

The flipping of the poles has nothing to do with a black hole 50k light years away. Like i said, its because the earth's core wobbles, the core is what generates our magnetic field.

And i never said the i chang put crap together, i was talking about the interpretation of it. The i cang was not written to predict the end of the world, it was written to predict peoples fortunes but ONE man, thousands of years after it was written, arranged the different symbols in the book into a graphical representation of history and the graph goes to 0 sometime in the 21st century. Keep in mind he could have arranged the symbols into any order to fit his own purpose. The i chang doesnt say the world ends in 2012, the graph that was created by this guy using symbols from the i chang says that it will. He just arranged these symbols so that the graph would correspond to events that had already happened in his time.

[Dyno247365]

What really scares me isn't the mayan calendar but wondering how long those protons are gonna exist, because when they go...history as we know it...that's a scary f****n thought. Or there is a god in the heavens.

[fredjacksonsan]

I don't buy it. If it was true, Prince's lyrics would have been "Tonight I'm going to party like it's 2011"

There have been prophecies of the world ending, for whatever reason, at each millenia, when the solar eclipses occurred, lunar eclipses, comets, and anything else.

We're more likely to kill ourselves off by pollution or war than through come cataclysm.

[fredjacksonsan]

I don't buy it. If it was true, Prince's lyrics would have been "Tonight I'm going to party like it's 2011"

There have been prophecies of the world ending, for whatever reason, at each millenia, when the solar eclipses occurred, lunar eclipses, comets, and anything else.

We're more likely to kill ourselves off by pollution or war than through some cataclysm.

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How can the magnetic fields swap or even change dramatically on the earth and NOT have any effect on the climate?

[blakscorpion21]

Because the magnetic field has no effect on the weather. All it does is deflect solar radiation away from the earth.

[drunken monkey]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

We're more likely to kill ourselves off by pollution or war than through some cataclysm.

i've always thought that if there was going to be a single final "end of the world" situation, it would be something very mundane.

[hotrod_chevyz]

Since the dawn of time people have feared the end of time. That sh!ts funny.

I agree that pollution or war will likely be the end of us all. We will poison the planet till it can no longer sustain life, or blow it to sh!t with some bombs and kill everyone in the process.

[Damien]

No we won't....termites will!!!

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...d.php?t=679031

End of the world will be the year 2336. I even know the month!!! It'll be March. So yeah, 329yrs from now. No way to make sure it's true, but I know i'm right.

[Broke_as_****]

http://www.exitmundi.nl/

Doomsday predictions have been around and been total bullshit for thousands of years. No reason to believe any coming forth in our time will be any different.