Apocolypse?

Question

is the world really gonna end in 2012. Everyone's talking about the mayan calendar and some planet thats gonna come close to the earth and knock it out of orbit.

Answer 1

I am personally fascinated by the 2012 prophecies.  There is much more to it than just some random date.

There are multiple civilizations that all put the date as 2012.

The Mayans were highly advanced in astronomy somehow. Their calendar is more precise than even the one that we use today.  We have a leap year because we lose a day every four years.  The Mayan cyclic calendar already takes this into account, and it is accurate even today.

The Mayans also dated the beginning of the universe.  As our science has gotten more sophisticated, we have been slowly realizing that their date for the beginning is looking more and more accurate.  As we put Hubble into space, and get a clear view of everything, we realize that the Mayan date of the beginning of our Universe is pretty spot on.  And, the Mayans knew this without the benefits of Hubble Telescope.

The main thing is that the Mayan calendar still continues after 2012.  But it does list December 21, 2012 as Doomsday.  It says the world will change as we know it.

The Sumerians (which were near Egypt) also give the date of 2012.  The interesting part about the Sumerians, is that they are the civilization where we get many of the earliest stories of the bible from.  

The Hopi indians also have a 2012 prophecy.

So, that is three different civilizations from different continents all that are trying to warn us about something that supposedly will happen.

I for one, am not convinced that the world will end or anything like that.  But, I do think there is a possibility of something happening.  

Would we be ignorant to not heed these warnings?  Because, these prior civilizations thought that this was important enough to not be forgotten throughout the ages.

From everything that I have heard, about theories of 2012, I think the theory that our poles are going to shift is a very good one.  Geologists measure the magnetism of fresh magma, and they concluded that we are in the middle of a pole shift.  

Regardless, we should be in for interesting times.

Good Luck

Answer 2

No it's not but maybe i'll find a hot air head who thinks it is and use her fears to get her in the sack, i figure if there dumb enough to believe it then whatever.

This is what people think is going to happen on 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIIc4tvt...

Answer 3

No it's not going to happen. This question is repeated so much, yahoo needs to create a separate category for 2012 Mayan prophesy. They can put it under superstition.

Answer 4

"Everyone's talking about it"?

Maybe in middle school, but not in the real world of adults and, in particular, scientists. Have you seen even one single story about 2012 on any mainstream media channel? A single article in any scientific journal? I think not. It's fueled by YouTube videos and c**p put out by the "History Channel" which contains absolutely no genuine historic information. How come middle school students are the only people who know about this?

Real scientists don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in the year 2012, or specifically on the date December 21, other than the solstice, which happens every year.

None of the "predicted" happenings for 2012 hold up under close scrutiny. "Planet X" and "Nibiru" simply don't exist. The Mayan calendar ends a cycle, but there were no predictions of the end of the world. The Sun doesn't line up with the galactic centre; it's 6 degrees off. No asteroids or comets are actually predicted to hit Earth.

All of this stuff was put together by sensationalists in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don't take any of it seriously!

Answer 5

I don't think you have any reason to worry. 2012 is the new year of the "future" (2001 was the previous candidate) and folks have been predicting the apocalypse ever since there have been folks to predict it. No, the sky is not falling.

Answer 6

Just like the Maya, I am Native American.  Unlike the Maya, I am a trained astronomer.  I promise you, Native Americans have no special insight into the fate of the Earth.  As an astronomer, I can make a far more accurate prediction, though even that could be several million, or even billion, years out.  Alignments, magnetic changes, mystery rogue planets are all figments of someone's imagination.  Claims that other ancient civilizations also predict doom in 2012 do not, I'm afraid, stand up to scrutiny.  None of them could even predict their own passing, invasions of Assyrians or Conquistadors, so how anyone can believe they could predict anything as momentous as the end of the world is beyond me!

Answer 7

its nothing but bullshit

Answer 8

no the world's not going to end in 2012.

The mayan calender isn't the end of the world. It's a start of a new era..kind of like how our calender resets in december....

And that planet thing doesn't exist. No planet is going to knock the earth out of orbit..

don't use google to research "2012", you'll end up at alot of kook new age websites

Answer 9

No. The world will end in billions of years.

Answer 10

Nope, the world is not going to end in 2012.  There is no rogue planet coming; if there were, it would be monitored by NASA's NEO (Near Earth Object) tracking, and it's not (check the link below).  

The Mayan calendar rolls over in 2012, but that means nothing.  Our calendar rolls over every year on Dec. 31st.  All it means is that we got back to Jan. 1st and start again.

Answer 11

Nope.

Even if the planet would collide with another planet, NASA's telescopes would find any object of that size coming right at us.