What's this about the world ending in 2012?

Question

Do tell.

And do you believe it will?

Thanks for your time xD

Answer 1

That wont happen, apparently the sun is going to have burnt out in 7 billion years from now, so earth will cease to exist after that, not before.  

Answer 2

it just some moron clearing his little mind forget it  

Answer 3

Pure BS

Answer 4

The Mayan calender ends in 2012. However, there have been predictions of the world ending for millennia, and we're still here....

Unless the Mayans have some secret plan to nuke us all when their calender runs out (not going to happen as their civilisation collapsed ages ago), I think we can all safely say the world will still be here in 2013.

Answer 5

It's all a hoax from a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar...

Answer 6

Soothsayers have been predicting the apocalypse every year since humans developed speech.  Remember, our measurement of time is a human contstruct- there is no universal significance to a new day, week, month, or year.  It is totally arbitrary.

The most likely way we will cease to exist as a species is because of some hyper-effective disease that kills us off over the course of several months or years (depending on how quickly we sequester it once we realize it's winning and we can't out smart it).  Global nuclear war would be the fastest way to kill us all, but we can control that (theoretically).

Answer 7

ending in 2012?

so many people said it will end in the past 50 years that believing another rumour is not very useful. in fact people been saying the world would end even before Jesus came about.

When someone releases true facts rather than guess work then i will be all ears.

Answer 8

this is one stupid S***y fake story... no1 knows when will the world end

Answer 9

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT.    Of course that is true for everyone and 2012 is just another year.  Several hundred million people will die from disease, starvation, warfare, accident, and just plain old age.  For them the world will end.  Everyone else will continue living their lives until their time arrives.  Anyone who believes in a worldwide catastrophe killing everyone is seriously deluded and pathetic.  I seriously hope you are not among their number. You would feel very foolish when you wake up alive on the day after the proposed disaster.  

Answer 10

It is a bunch of internet urban legend garbage.

The ancient Mayan calendar, which has a variety of "cycles" -- similar to our years, decades, centuries, and millenia.  When compared to the Gregorian calendar we are used to using, the last long count cycle that the Mayans "published" ends on 21 Dec 2012.  Since the Mayan civilization collapsed several hundred years ago, they have not published an updated calendar.

Some people have looked at this end to the long count cycle and decided that the Mayans knew something special about the Universe, and that they didn't publish the next long cycle because the universe was going to end.  Others doomsday fanatics have coupled that with all sorts of ridiculous hypotheses -- rogue planet Nibiru, intergalactic alignments, the universal loss of Froot Loops -- and have sold books and stories about how the Mayans knew that the Earth was going to be destroyed on 21 Dec 2012.  It is just so much horse-puckey.

In fact, the Y2K thing was a more serious threat, and we all know how that turned out -- pffft.

So relax.  On 22 Dec 2012, we can all pop a bottle of bubbly and celebrate our rebirth.  And then sit back and laugh as the doomsday nuts come up with yet another ridiculous prediction for the end of humanity.

Answer 11

The time is ripe for upheaval.

The world is in subtle chaos. Nostradamus's stuff coming alive. Edgar Cacey stuff coming alive.

Crop circles warning of 2012. Crop circles appearing all over the world since the 1980's when it was believed that the earth was entering the so-called photon belt.

It's not just about Mayan calendars. It is about GIZA plateau star alignments to the Orion constellation for 2012.

You have two separate cultures regarding 2012 in their own ways.

One of which builds immense pyramids, so huge and breath taking.

Why would someone go to all that trouble of creating a star alignment to the Belt of Orion for 2012 and create 3 massive pyramids with extreme precision? Cut all sorts of granite stone and limestone and quarry things hundreds of miles away? Then build stonehenge as well? And also Easter Island?

The great pyramid is the biggest mystery of all. For it encodes PHI or the geometry of life. It is also a teacher of science and the cosmos.

Come now all. Hinging onto the Mayan Calendar only and then dismissing it is like avoiding the truth altogether....when there are other world sites suggesting the same.

Answer 12

By early in July 2008 questions about 2012 had been asked more than 10,000 times.  I have given a version of this answer more than 140 times.  See also -

http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/Delus...

This stuff is all lies and fraud to get people buying faked up books, videos, watching nonsense shows on TV and directing traffic to fraudulent websites.

Pole shifts - no, not a chance.  The Earth’s axis of rotation is stabilised by the Moon’s gravity.  

Magnetic poles flip - no, they will just keep moving as usual.  They are likely to change ends at some time in the geologically near future but it will take hundreds to thousands of years to happen.  Meanwhile, the magnetic field will not disappear, but it will probably get more complex.  

Mayan calendar - one of their calendars ends in 2012. There is no prediction attached to this and even if there was, it would be astrology and that has been disproved so many times that it's not worth any more words.

Solar maximum - expected in 2011, not 2012 and it happens every 11 years anyway.

Predicted planetary “alignments” are completely false.  The positions of the planets will be about as far from an "alignment" as you can imagine.  The next "alignment" of the major planets is expected sometime after the Sun burns out.  Even if it did happen the question would arise "So what?"  Where is the physical connection between Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc?  

Gravity?  Like to calculate how strong the gravitational effects of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn is on Earth?  Multiply the masses of the planets together, divide by the square of the distance between them and then multiply by the gravitational constant, which is a rather small number.  Now add them all together and you still don't have a hill of beans.

Newton knew how more than 200 years ago, but our planetary alignment freaks never care to because the result would make them look as silly as they are.  

Venus will transit the Sun in June 2012, just as it did in 2004 and on a regular roughly 110 year cycle before that.  No noticeable effect then except on astronomers, some of whom will take measurements, no expected effect this next time.

Planet X / black hole / brown dwarf / wandering planet - No.  It was predicted for 2003 by a loony woman who claimed telepathic contact with aliens.  No sign of it then and still no sign of it.  If this big nasty exists it must be quite close by now and visible with a fairly ordinary astronomical telescope.  Where is it?  The assumption that it can only be seen from the southern hemisphere and therefore astronomers don’t see it is nonsense, there are many large optical and some radio astronomical telescopes in Chile and Australia.

Nibiru was originally a separate scare and depends on some faked-up scholarship by a fraud called Z. Sitchin.  He claimed to be able to read cuneiform, a script used by Assyrians, Babylonians and Sumerians among others.  He could not but others can.  He claimed that some old Babylonian texts talked of a planet with a 3600 year orbit that passed close to Earth.  This planet was inhabited by aliens who landed on Earth to enslave people into producing gold for them.

In fact Nibiru is an old Mesopotamian name for the planet Jupiter, which will be staying right in its accustomed orbit, thank you very much.  Sitchin disagreed with the "Planet X" loony.  

25,800 year cycles.  This is called "precession of the equinoxes" and was discovered a bit more than 2100 years ago. It has been happening since the Earth formed billions of years ago and will not stop, start or change direction in 2012.    There is no particular significance in the direction the poles of rotation happen to be pointing at present or in 2012.  

The Bible codes were disproved within months of the first book coming out, similar coded messages can be found in any random book or even newspapers using the same "anything goes" methods faked up by the author, Michael Drosnin.  He used the codes to predict a nuclear war starting in 1997.  Ooops.  

Revelation - nobody ever made sense of those febrile maunderings, the evidence for that is that there are so many different interpretations.  It has been used to predict the end on dozens of dates from the year 500AD right up to April 2008.

Nostradamus never predicted anything accurately and he may not have intended to.  Many editions of his quatrains contain faked verses inserted long after he died.

Galactic central plane - we are near it, so astronomers say, but we have always been near it, though nobody actually knows exactly where it is.  No exact "alignment" is possible because of the angle of the ecliptic to that of the galactic central plane.  A rough “alignment” of Sun, Earth and the galactic centre happens twice every year and nothing happens.  Even if there was an exact “alignment”, the question would be "So what?"

Photon belt - this one is almost the silliest of the lot.  The Earth was expected to enter this region in 1997 with remarkable effects.  Ooops.  The “photon belt” is also said to be around the "7 Sisters".  Our solar system is heading away from them, not towards them.  It does not exist anyway.

This is all fake scholarship, pseudo-science, lies, superstition and abject delusion.  

Answer 13

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