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Post by mike5286 on Nov 18, 2009 15:51:54 GMT -5
The only thing that people think is going to hit us in 2012 is a wayward planet full of aliens on a collision course with Earth. Seriously, I'm not making that up. That's what some of these nuts believe, despite the fact that we'd already see a planet if it was three years away. And the Yellowstone thing has always been a "what-if" scenario, but it's never been tied down to a specific date. The only reason people are saying 2012 is they're convinced the world has to end some way on this date. But how does a volcano erupting effect more then just the area where the volcano errupts.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 18, 2009 21:30:18 GMT -5
Does the Mayan Calendar even predict the end of the world for December 21st 2012.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 18, 2009 21:36:05 GMT -5
Does the Mayan Calendar even predict the end of the world for December 21st 2012. No....that was just alot of people's interpretation as the Mayan Calender had all dates up to December 21, 2012.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 18, 2009 21:41:23 GMT -5
Does the Mayan Calendar even predict the end of the world for December 21st 2012. No....that was just alot of people's interpretation as the Mayan Calender had all dates up to December 21, 2012. So basically a bunch of uninformed douches out to scare people.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 15:38:27 GMT -5
Does the Mayan Calendar even predict the end of the world for December 21st 2012. No....that was just alot of people's interpretation as the Mayan Calender had all dates up to December 21, 2012. So even though The Mayan Calender says nothing about the end of the world on Dec 21st 2012 certain people who know nothing about the Mayan Calender speculating about the end of the world without maybe researching the actual Mayan Calender. Is that about it.
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Post by Millie D on Nov 19, 2009 15:40:20 GMT -5
why do we listen to the Mayan calendar anyways? Aren't we on the Gregorian calendar?
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 15:42:16 GMT -5
why do we listen to the Mayan calendar anyways? Aren't we on the Gregorian calendar? Which ended December 31st 1999,
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Post by AriadosMan on Nov 19, 2009 15:42:42 GMT -5
The Mayan calendar says the current time period/age/epoch will end in 2012. It doesn't say that the event will be the Apocalypse.
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Post by B.B.M on Nov 19, 2009 15:49:20 GMT -5
No....that was just alot of people's interpretation as the Mayan Calender had all dates up to December 21, 2012. So basically a bunch of uninformed douches out to scare people. I learned that the hard way.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Nov 19, 2009 16:36:53 GMT -5
The Mayan calendar says the current time period/age/epoch will end in 2012. It doesn't say that the event will be the Apocalypse. It doesn't even say there will be an event at all is the thing. It could just be their way of seperating time into chunks, such as we look at decades, and centuries and millieniums.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 18:37:07 GMT -5
So basically this 2012 garbage is a bunch of bullshit speculation from people who think they know but have no idea when/how the world's going to end.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 19:21:50 GMT -5
The Mayan calendar says the current time period/age/epoch will end in 2012. It doesn't say that the event will be the Apocalypse. It doesn't even say there will be an event at all is the thing. It could just be their way of seperating time into chunks, such as we look at decades, and centuries and millieniums. Well wasn't that the same thing that freaked people out about the Gregorian Calendar ending on Dec 31st 1999 because i think that was a doomsday prediction as well yet that didn't come true.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 20:16:29 GMT -5
So basically a bunch of uninformed douches out to scare people. I learned that the hard way. How did you learn that the hard way BBM/
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Post by bubbles on Nov 19, 2009 20:29:49 GMT -5
I live in Cumbria which is currently turning into this film.
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Post by mike5286 on Nov 19, 2009 23:10:46 GMT -5
I live in Cumbria which is currently turning into this film. How so.
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Post by FrankGotch on Nov 20, 2009 8:54:38 GMT -5
The Mayans had a calendar where their cycle happens to be hundreds or thousands of years long, and the date in question just happens to be the end of one cycle which then repeats, just like December 31st is the end of our calendar's cycle which then repeats.
A lot of people are saying that there is supposed to be a rare astrological event on that day where everything in our galaxy lines up, and it won't do it again for hundreds of thousand of years.
News flash there's a rare astrological event every day - you can always find some objects in a relative position that they won't be in for thousands or millions of years again.
I'm actually somewhat knowledgable about astronomy, and I keep up with astronomy news and such. I don't hear anyone talking about the alignment in 2012. So it can't be all that serious or interesting a phoenomina. The wikipedia page on Jenkins' concept of galactic alignment says that this alignment of the sun with the center of the galaxy actually takes place over a 36 year span, with the most direct center-lined point being in 1998.
And it's not significant at all anyway. It's just because the Earth wobbles that its view of the sky at the same point every year precesses by a degree every 72 years, so a full circle every 26,000 years. And we just happen to be in a period where the zodiac constellation (which is an arbitrary part of nonsensical astrology in the first place) happens to be pointing in the direction of the center of the galaxy for 36 years.
I think people are visualizing some weird circumstances where the whole galaxy and all the planets line up in a line or something, and it's nothing like that. It's just that one constellation happens to be in a part of the sky that points towards the center of the universe. That's it, as I understand it. Nothing special in any physical sense, it only happens to be mildly interesting if you are giving arbitrary importance to various constellations because you think astrology is real.
Bottom line on dooms day is that the people who are writing books, and making predictions are just out for money. The world isn't going to end anytime soon, so stop worrying about things that will never happen.
(BTW the super volcano in yellow stone could erupt, but it wouldn't end the world. Worst case North America would become a wasteland, and many in the world would starve because we would not be able to grow crops due to the massive ash cloud, but that is absolute worst case, and not likley to happen.)
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