The best way to address concerns of the world ending in 2012 is to not address them. Even talking about them in derisive tones gives them credence; it's suggesting that such fears are worthy of discussion, which they most certainly are not.
Instead, let's talk about the more interesting and scientifically factual ways in which the world will end. The Earth is going to be cooked to a crisp in five billion years when the Sun blasts its last burst of energy!
Also, I totally want to see 2012, but I feel the same way about all stupid-looking disaster movies.
2012 is made by the guy who did 10,000 BC, the American Godzilla, and the Day After Tomorrow.
In other words, this movie is gonna be awesome.
And a word on the whole Mayan thing. December 21st 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar, yes. But that does not mean it is the end of the world. The Mayans were a cyclical culture and they believe that the world will simply begin a new cycle then.
I don't think you guys are taking this seriously enough. The ending of the Mayan calendar has nothing to do with death and destruction other than the fact that they marked a date of astronomical significance. All the crazies who have make prediction about the end of the world have no influence over whether or not something will happen. If you think that they are nuts and have no basis for making their predictions, then that day could still be the end, since they just don't factor into the equation at all, they certainly can't be used as a reason to eliminate the date for the end of the world.
I predict that we will have very poor radio and cell phone signals leading up to and immediately following 12-21-12 and no cell service on the day itself. And there may be some natural disasters as well.
Overnight polar shifting will not happen. It won't happen over a day, or a month or year or decade or century. Magnetohydrodynamics doesn't work that way. Current estimates by NASA put polar shifting requiring approx. 5000 years to complete. By comparison, that's the approximate length of all human civilization.
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This is what happens when the poles shift. It doesn't just fade away and start anew; it becomes painfully complex and messed. But at the same time it will maintain the magnetic field that protects us from solar radiation. You may be able to see the northern lights from Africa, but you'll still be around to see it. The key here is that it is gradual. A new, smaller pole popping up somewhere will possibly screw up cell phones and other waves, but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this will happen in 2012.
There is currently no evidence (that I'm aware of...?) to support the idea that a changing magnetic sphere will have drastic geologic effects on our planet. And any evidence or sources that has books to sell you should be immediately discarded.
What else... there are also rumors that the sun can flip our poles, but that's also bunk, because the sun flips its poles once every 11 years or so, and we've gone over 700,000 years without a polar shift, so the odds are against it happening anytime soon.
The Mayan calendar had no emphasis on something happening at the end of it; it was just the natural end to their counting cycle. Once the cycle ends they just start a new one, plain and simple. Mayan culture scholars around the world agree on this.
I've also heard about people believing a planet is going to crash into us in 2012? Anyone who believes that clearly has no understanding of astronomy. The gravity that something that big would cause would influence the orbits of nearby planets and comets, and out of the hundreds of thousands of professional and novice astronomers scanning the night sky, one of them would have noticed if their particular body of interest had its orbit affected by an unknown large gravitational force. If something THAT big was coming at us, we would know about it many many many years in advance.
I think those are the main doomsday theories of 2012. SCIENCE, people. Arm yourselves.
Pfft! Like NASA knows anything about geology. They work in space, man. and it's not the magnetic field that's the problem, it's the gravitational forces all lining up on one side. They're gonna suck our oceans to one side of the planet causing the whole world to flood as it rotates and the water stays in the same relative position. Wake up, people! We have to prepare for the end.
We have little tourist pedal boats at the lake, and those old traditional Chinese boats. I suppose I could grab one of those, but that's assuming I'm still here in three years. Hm.
Boats... Hmmm, I could certainly find a boat easy enough, but I think it wouldn't work unless I was actually on the ocean, or the ocean water would just sweep over the lake water and get me anyway. I guess there's the Great Lakes, but I'm not sure about that.
depends how close ou are to a drop in the surface elevation. If your behind a moutain rsange, it'll flow over an kill you// If yor about sea level it;'ll come evena nd you'll rise ok with a little bit of crazy waves.
They did a test run but they haven't actually collided anything yet. All they did was accelerate stuff to near lightspeed in one direction. A full run would also involve stuff going at near lightspeed in the other direction slamming into the first things.
Forgive my late coming... but as someone who watched that video from the history channel which spawned this... i can't say what will happen by the year 2012, but i can guarantee you that show had nothing to say. It was soooooooo bad. Typical history channel dregs in my opinion. And again something I can't really say one way or the other, but it certainly makes followers of Nostradamus look like idiots.
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When I have a child, I will groom him accordingly in the ways of destroying the earth.
Instead, let's talk about the more interesting and scientifically factual ways in which the world will end. The Earth is going to be cooked to a crisp in five billion years when the Sun blasts its last burst of energy!
Also, I totally want to see 2012, but I feel the same way about all stupid-looking disaster movies.
In other words, this movie is gonna be awesome.
And a word on the whole Mayan thing. December 21st 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar, yes. But that does not mean it is the end of the world. The Mayans were a cyclical culture and they believe that the world will simply begin a new cycle then.
I mean, uh... the world gon' die.
I mean, no I don't think so.
I predict that we will have very poor radio and cell phone signals leading up to and immediately following 12-21-12 and no cell service on the day itself. And there may be some natural disasters as well.
Overnight polar shifting will not happen. It won't happen over a day, or a month or year or decade or century. Magnetohydrodynamics doesn't work that way. Current estimates by NASA put polar shifting requiring approx. 5000 years to complete. By comparison, that's the approximate length of all human civilization.
Refer to the picture below:
This is what happens when the poles shift. It doesn't just fade away and start anew; it becomes painfully complex and messed. But at the same time it will maintain the magnetic field that protects us from solar radiation. You may be able to see the northern lights from Africa, but you'll still be around to see it. The key here is that it is gradual. A new, smaller pole popping up somewhere will possibly screw up cell phones and other waves, but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this will happen in 2012.
There is currently no evidence (that I'm aware of...?) to support the idea that a changing magnetic sphere will have drastic geologic effects on our planet. And any evidence or sources that has books to sell you should be immediately discarded.
What else... there are also rumors that the sun can flip our poles, but that's also bunk, because the sun flips its poles once every 11 years or so, and we've gone over 700,000 years without a polar shift, so the odds are against it happening anytime soon.
The Mayan calendar had no emphasis on something happening at the end of it; it was just the natural end to their counting cycle. Once the cycle ends they just start a new one, plain and simple. Mayan culture scholars around the world agree on this.
I've also heard about people believing a planet is going to crash into us in 2012? Anyone who believes that clearly has no understanding of astronomy. The gravity that something that big would cause would influence the orbits of nearby planets and comets, and out of the hundreds of thousands of professional and novice astronomers scanning the night sky, one of them would have noticed if their particular body of interest had its orbit affected by an unknown large gravitational force. If something THAT big was coming at us, we would know about it many many many years in advance.
I think those are the main doomsday theories of 2012. SCIENCE, people. Arm yourselves.
I hope the first experiment from the LHC happens to be on Dec. 21st, 2012.
Q: What do you get when you put a cat in a particle accelerator?
A: A fucking mess
Thus, no Atlantis.