What is up with the date december 21 2012?

Question

What is up with the date december 21 2012?

Answer 1

It has a bunch of 2's and 1's with a 0 in it. Nothing more!

Answer 2

That is the date the Mayan calendar rolls over (i.e. resets to zero or something like that) which makes lots of superstitious people (and end-of-the-world alarmists eager to sell yet more book about the end of the world to suckers with money to burn) think that they may have (the Mayan, that is) some insight about that date being the end of the world...

Of course, this is all baloney, and I can't wait to the morning of December 22 2012 to see what new day those fools would pick up as the next doomsday date, and how they would explain the fact the world did not end the day before.

Answer 3

The Mayan calendar ends on that date.

December 21 — Winter solstice, also known as Yule

Take a read......

Answer 4

ummm i guess it's the end of the world =(

Answer 5

This is

How the world will NOT end:

http://www.theendoftheworld.tk/

Answer 6

If you mean all the "end of the world" junk, its just that - junk.

If you mean really, Dec 21 is the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) and that's all it is.

Answer 7

It is another doomsday prediction hoax, one of the many that have been predicted every few years throughout history.  They have based it on the items listed below.  The photon thing at the end was just added in the last day or two.  The silliest thing about the photon belt story is that photons are merely the units of light and would have no effect on us, even if this existed.

The Mayan Calendar - Their calendar was done in ages or cycles and their years ended at the winter solstice.  The current cycle ends December 21, 2012.  They didn’t predict the end of the world, it was only the end of that cycle.  Their civilization died out several hundred years before the end of the cycle, so no new cycle was added.

Alignment with the Galactic Center – The alignment was supposed to be in 1998.  We will be 6 degrees off from true alignment in 2012.  Because the sun is one-half of a degree wide, it will take the December solstice sun 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator This happens every 26,000 years. The Earth has been through it 173,076 times and humans 7 times.  

Polar shift – the poles are moving all the time and we don’t notice.  A complete 180 degree reversal occurs over a period of thousands of years.  The North Magnetic Pole is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic. The Geological Survey of Canada keeps track of this motion by periodically carrying out magnetic surveys to redetermine the Pole's location. The most recent survey, completed in May, 2001, determined an updated position for the Pole and established that it is moving approximately northwest at 40 km per year.  Although fast by geological standards, reversals are by no means quick on the human time scale. They take roughly 5,000 years, with estimates ranging from 1,000 years and 8,000 years.



Niburu (Planet X) - It doesn't exist. The Doomsayers predicted that it was to hit Earth in 2003. When it didn't show up, they just moved it out to 2012 to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar.

Apophis (2004MN4) – A yellow alert for this asteroid (for the 2029 pass) was originally issued in 2001.  After more points were added to its orbit, they found it wasn't going to hit us and the alert was canceled.

Photon Belt - (1) No photon belt or other such region of increased energy has been discovered. Photons in any case are merely particles of electromagnetic energy, which we commonly experience as light. Upon exposure to excess photons the most common transformation of your being is sunburn.

(2) There's no "anomaly" near the Pleiades star cluster. The Pleiades are surrounded by a nebula, or gas cloud. This cloud is composed not of photons but of dust and hydrogen gas.

(3) The earth isn't heading toward the Pleiades but away from them. In the 1850s it was conjectured that the earth orbited the Pleiades, but this has long since been discredited.

(4) Paul Otto Hesse is unknown to astronomers. Someone dug up a reference to a 1986 book by him in German whose title translates as "Judgment Day: A Book to Mankind That Speaks of Things to Come." 'Nuff said.

Answer 8

It's the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, nothing else.

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 crackpots in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don't take any of it seriously!

Answer 9

It's the Mayans belief of the day the world will end.

who knows? it's all depends on your personal or religious beliefs. whatever.. if you believe it, then live your life to fullest!

Answer 10

According to the 2012ers it will be the end of the world because

1. Nostradamus said so

2. The Mayan calender ends

3. an Ouija Board said so

4. there will be a pole shift

5. there will be a planetary alignment

6. there will be a galactic alignment

7. an asteroid will hit earth

8. Planet X/ Nibiru will appear

9. some crystal skull nonsense

10. we are heading into a photon belt (whatever that’s supposed to be

11. Indian Astronomer said so

and probably some other equally silly reasons.

I would take those doomsayers more serious if they

- had a better track record (just how many times has the world ended already?)

- could make up ONE story about it

Answer 11

something to do with the  number 122112

and the Mayan Calender

Answer 12

its just a mayan calendar prophecy. they think it'll be the end of the world or something like that. theres other end of the world prophecies made too. like theres one in 2060.

Answer 13

its supposively the end of the world