2012 and the end of the world

Evan S

Evan S

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So, I was driving home tonight (I was about 25 miles from home, and it took a good 45 minutes to get home) I turn on the radio and guess whose on.

None other than Art Bell himself. I didn't catch if it was a rerun I never listen to his show, but there was this lunatic talking about the end of the world, and he was "psychic" or something. He said in 2012 the sun will destroy our electro-magnetic field on earth and there will be no Starbucks cash registers working to take orders and America will be defenseless etc. and China with 25% of the worlds population will rule the world. So he extrapolated on his theories of the sun destroying the ozone layer or something, causing huge heat waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, and so on and so fourth. My favorite bit was "200 mile per hour winds."
What I find more interesting however is that I was reading about this "2012" apocalypse this morning on the internet on USAtoday and NASA, something about every 11 years there is a cycle in the sun or something.

So who actually believes this crap? Can someone explain it better than what I've googled? It seems like a bunch of conspiracy nuts looking to sell canned beans and bottled water.
 
Well the big thought at the moment is that the earth will end in 2012 because thats when the Myan calender runs out. They were pretty hip with astrology stuff. Also we are starting the new solar cycle for

sun flares that will reach its zenith in 2012. They have come and gone since the earth has been around and will keep happening until the sun dies. The doom sayers are putting these things together as of

recent and are predicting the end of the world. Its true that last year we had a rouge sun flare that went out into space half again as far as the earth is from the sun. FEW! If in fact it was at us we wouldn't

be having this conversation at the moment. But its more likely that we could make some money buy making a movie using some great animations and FX and some Nasa footage and I'm sure someone in

Hollywood will do just that. Even if it were to happen no one knows for sure what would happen because it all depends on a billion different factors. I can tell you this. I'm 54 years old and in my life time I

have listened to at least 50 different reports about the earth being destroyed by sun flares or earthquakes or astroids and ect. None have come true yet and hopefully wont in my lifetime. I like to work and

spend time with the family and if I happen to be involved in something worthwhile and great then I'll die happy. I'm working really hard at this something worthwhile! Me and my HVX-200 that is.
 
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OMG a hole in the ozone layer?! What will we do?

...oh, wait a sec. Down here we've been living with one for 20 years - thank you very much America and your CFC emitting refrigerators! :Drogar-Smoke(DBG):
 
Oh come on. The world will end on February 14, 2016. Didn't anyone pay attention during Ghostbusters II? (Dialog to follow because it's an obscure reference.)

Elaine: According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen.

Peter Venkman: Valentine's day. Bummer. Where'd you get your date, Elaine?

Elaine: I recieved this information from an alien. I was sitting at the bar, alone and this alien approached me. He started talking to me, he bought me a drink. And then he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world.

Peter Venkman: So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramis?

Elaine: It could have been a room on the spaceship made to look like the hotel. I can't be sure about that, Peter.
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The fact the World will end at some point is 100% certain,however when it will happen is not knowable, the scientist have as much data as any "crystal ball" type person.

BUT when we lack data, we always have good old imagination, my vote would be for:

Socks, why?

well you see.....
 
I've heard others who think the magnetic poles will flip. That would truly wreak havoc, and if you buy into the idea the Mayans had advanced science handed down by aliens, is something that could be predicted to happen.
 
Lol, obviously these aliens don't care about us to much, if they arn't going to help us now. or the mayans pissed them off.
 
I'd say the best thing for those who believe that the world will end is to donate all your equipment for those of us who think it won't... : )
 
I do recall a man named Sir Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world to be in 2060 based on some calculations.

...now I dunno about you..but this guy knows a few things about the laws of physics..and I'd take his advice and predictions over any other anyone else makes.
 
wait, I thought the world ended when Billy Ray Cyrus' Achey Brakey Heart fell from the billboard charts.
 
Well, 2012 is the end of alot of cycles (including my I cant drink legally time, world be warned) in lots of religions. I would guess that at the very best life as we know it will change drastically, but, honestly, I dont trust Mayans. Or Newton, for that matter.

I agree with Garvin. if your... dimensional enough to belive this jibberish, donate all your equipment to those of us who have working minds.
 
This is how the world will end--

INT. LAB - DAY

A scientist pushes a button.

SCIENTIST
Hey, it works!

THE END
 
Well, I have sad news for the mayan believers.

I've studied the mayan civilization for years. Visited the sites - the whole 9.

Yes, 2012 is the end of a calendar cycle. Specifically the long count, which equates to about 394 years.

1 kin = 1 day
uinal (1 uinal = 20 kin = 20 days)
tun (1 tun = 18 uinal = 360 days = approx. 1 year)
katun (1 katun = 20 tun = 7,200 days = approx. 20 years)
baktun (1 baktun = 20 katun = 144,000 days = approx. 394 years)

So basically the long count recycles at this point, at the end of the long count. Since the baktun runs between 1 and 13. The calander at this point would look like...

13.0.0.0.0

So, 13 Baktun, 0 Katun, 0 Tun, 0 Uinal, 0 Kin. Which is the end of the 12th Baktun cycle. Akin to the Gregorian calendar that end December 31st. What happens? We buy a new calendar. The 13th Baktun cycle begins. And we start from point one. 13.0.0.0.1

Records at Coba, a ruin in mexico, hold information of a much larger calendar system that goes much farther than the Baktun cycle we see. Yet it does make note of the end of the cycle - the link to the Gregorian calendar put this end of the Baktun cycle at December 21 or 23 of 2012.

So essentially, another cycle starts. That's all.

Or we all die...
 
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