Our world ending in 2012?

Question

I heard that some planet nibiru was going to pass through and mess our polar shifts up and we were supposed to get hit by a comet that would kill us all. Do You belive that?

Answer 1

There have been many many doomsday predictions... as you can see none have come true. Never heard of planet Nibiru. In billions of years from now though the Andromeda galaxy will collide with ours but there is so much space between solars systems, planets, stars... it maybe be pretty uneventful.

Answer 2

It's a hoax most of these things are If it was true we'd have countries preparing for it

Answer 3

It's just an internet myth.  Sorry to say we will still have to work out our problems in 2013 and following years.

Answer 4

Nope, I think that is just a myth or somthing!

Answer 5

I believe that when we die, we will appear before the Grand Monkey of Annoyance, where every person who asks the same stupid question about 2012 that appears on Y/A fifteen hundred times a day will be judged as guilty of being incessantly irritating, after which they will be condemned to be kneed in the crotch repeated by his miniature helper monkeys for all eternity.

Answer 6

Here's a life-saving tip for you.

Make a cap out of tin foil and put it on your head.

This will stop the gullibility rays getting to you.

Sorry, I know you were just asking, but it is getting ridiculous.

Seriously, if there was a planet heading our way, and it was large enough to affect us, it would be within the the orbit of Jupiter and be close enough to be seen by now in every small amateur telescope in the world.

Scientists have found planets about the size of our moon, further out than Pluto, I think that a large planet should not escape anyone's casual gaze through a telescope.

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Answer 7

Do you believe everything printed in the National Enquirer? Do some research beyond the sensationalist headlines and you'll see that it's all a bunch of nonsense.

Answer 8

Nibiru is known to be a fictitious planet.

It was created by a translator with a vivid imagination, working with old Sumerian documents.  Since they were the first Sumerian documents to be translated, it was difficult.  The translator (not an astronomer) thought the document was the story of a planet that came close to us every 3700 years (or so) and its inhabitants came here to collect the gold that we are supposed to mine for them (according to his version, we are their slaves).  The translator (going well beyond his job of translating) calculated that the next return would be in 2085.

When more Sumerian documents were found, other translators got more experienced.  we finally understood that Nibiru was the name of the planet we call Jupiter (definitely not coming this way).  Nothing of the legend -- created by the first translator -- was true.  No slave-masters, no interplanetary gold swindle.

However, someone else (not the translator) decided to use the legend of Nibiru to scare people.  He wrote a book announcing that Nibiru would cause the end of the world (in 2003) and another book (expensive) with how to survive.

Apparently, many of us survived 2003 without having to buy the book.  Nevertheless, this guy made a revised version and there is now a new book for sale (for 2012 this time).

Well, you can't sell a book on how to survive the end of the world, if the people don't know that they are supposed to be scared of the end of the world.

Hence the videos on YouTube.

If there was really a planet Nibiru in our solar system and it was on its way into the inner system (even if it does not come here to hit us), we would already be able to see it even in small, amateur telescopes.

Millions of amateur astronomers would have seen it already.  They have not.

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Comets hit the Earth often enough.  Small ones almost every day.  The last big one was on June 30, 1908.  Comets can cause damage and even kill people.  However, they can't destroy continents.

Comets (unlike asteroids) are loose assemblage of ice, dust, gas.  The shock and heat of entry into the atmosphere causes them to blow apart very high in the atmosphere (10 km -- over 32,000 feet -- in 1908).

Because it was over Siberia, lots of trees were destroyed.

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The "Mayan Calendar" is not coming to an end and it does NOT predict the end of the world.

Mayan astronomers (who used the Long Count calendar) left descriptions of astronomical events that will be seen from Earth after the year we call 2012 (just like we can write about eclipses that will take place in the  3200s, for example).  They give the date using their calendar.

Obviously, they expected neither the world nor their calendar to end.

Answer 9

Hoax----

Answer 10

Nibiru is hypothetical - that means that it doesn't exist.

So if it doesn't exist, it can't "mess our poles shifts up" (whatever that means).

There are no known comets on a course that will strike the Earth.

Its amazing what just a little research will reveal to those that bother to look for the truth.

Answer 11

Not going to happen!

It is just a myth which mysteriously propagates (mostly because of the History Channel and YouTube)

Planet X/Nibiru does not exist. If it did we would have found it by now. We have mapped the sky in the infrared several times in the last 25 years (including WMAP, IRAS etc), and it would show up. It is not there. We would have found it if it existed. So all the nonsense about the return of Nibiru/Planet X is just that – nonsense

There is no scientific evidence for the existence of Nibiru

Furthermore, at the distance it must be to hit us in a little over 4 years, it would be reflecting enough light from the sun to be detectable.

Thanx to previous question from Brant and answer from bikenbeer2000, we know how bright it should be by now – it would have a apparent magnitude of 7.4 – which would not be visible with the naked eye – but easily visible in a modest telescope and would have been spotted by amateur. If there was a conspiracy to keep it quiet – it would be out of the bag by now.

Ask someone where it is supposed to be, get a pair of binoculars and look for it.

Moreover, it is supposed to be in orbit around a brown dwarf. We have detected brown dwarfs at much larger distances than the alleged distance of the sun’s mythical brown dwarf companion, so why haven’t we seen this “star:?

The videos on YouTube that purport to have evidence are disingenuous to say the least. They put together pictures of other objects (e.g. Jupiter, comets even a dust shell around a distant red giant star) and try to scare people. There is no validity to their claims. They present NO EVIDENCE at all.

As for the predicted catastrophes – the most popular one seems to be the Pole Shift!

The sun will have a pole reversal that year – it has one every 11 years – it is not a problem.

The earth’s magnetic field is less predictable –

but is still nothing to worry about: we know that the magnetic field does not collapse in the process of reversing polarity- if it did, there would be major extinctions that correlate with the geologic record for pole reversals - there is no correlation.

Answer 12

Take a bunch of fraud and distortions of ordinary astronomical facts add faked translations of old Mesopotamian records, combine with lies about a non-existent prophecy of doom (or something) when the long count Mayan calendar runs out in 2012.  

Throw in a gallon of drivel from a woman who claims to be in telepathic contact with aliens, who predicted an invading planet for 2003.  Add some stuff about planetary alignments even though that is easily disproved.

Add twaddle about Bible codes, which predicted a nuclear war for 1997 and were shown to be fakes straight after the first book was published.  Season with Nostradamus, Revelation, the I Ching and predictions based on the number of times the dog barks between 4pm and 5pm.  

Stir lightly and serve up on the Fox network, which will broadcast anything that does not breach copyright or defame anyone who can afford to sue.  Also present as books and videos sold mainly by mail order and advertise on the internet via YouTube and some faked up sites.  

Word of mouth advertising can be expected from middle school children and credulous adults.

You should be able to make some money out of this.    

Answer 13

umm....no.

The mayans predict that we will die or go to a new level of consciousness...I think whatever happens  we'll have to prepare for anything...

Answer 14

maybe, but not in 2012, more like 2015 or so.  

Answer 15

No, but if you may die of ignorance.