world ending 2012!?!?

Many people think the earth will end in august this year, when the Europeans fire up that accelerator.

Why be scared? People have been forecasting the end of the world for thousands of years. None of those people got their forecasts right or else I would not be writing this. The reason that some believe that the world will end is the Mayans. The Mayan calender is based on the gyroscopic precession of the Earth. The Earth completes a cycle of that precession in 2012 according to the Mayan calender. If only Mel Gibson had found a way to put that aspect of the Mayans into his movie.

Its as good a day as any, and there have been world ending dates since there has been men living on earth. The latest being Y2K and 911 and so many others. I will believe it when I see it. If you are saying the Mayans knew it was coming, then why didn't they see the demise of their civilization? It is just the ending date of their calender. I will probably (If I live that long) be celebrating winter solstice and then the new year (2013) and laughing to myself at those who will be walking about with a look of confusion on their faces. If it is, then why not party til it arrives? Good excuse for some fun!

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/Delusions/epdatmoc.html 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 that, 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.

Don't believe in those predictions. Even in the holy book doesn't indicate when the world will end.

i do not believe this b/c god is the only one who knows the day and the hour the son of man will come. this date is made up by man. i am not scared and u have no reason to be scared if u have god and if u dont have him i advise u to get him hope this helps god bless!!!!

The sky has been falling for hundreds of years now, and it's not happened yet. God will decide the time, and it will be when we least expect it, like a thief in the night.

No, I don't believe in the end of this world. Period.

i personaly dont think its gonna happen, and if it does bush screwed us over , but this is why i live in the moment , becuse you never know whats gonna happen , well guys we had a good run ......ill see you on the other side.

2012 sounds great! it did to the mayans yoyoyo what accelerator?