The Year 2012 (Merged)

[Gallagher]

2012: Mayan Doomsday Prediction or Thousand-Year Old Practical Joke? Only time will tell.

Those are some patient mother ****ers.

 

[SuperFerret]

Honestly though, if this was such a big thing, how come only the Mayans picked up on it? Or is it just their turn to predict the end of the world?

 

[Obi-Ron]

Also, scientists predict that the earth's magnetic field will reverse in 2012. I'm surprised that no one knew about these theories.

There's also talk about serious a supervolcanic eruption, a massive disaster possibly as a result of a third world war (which could likely start as soon as later this year if we're lucky. ), biblical-related occurrences such as a comet or an asteroid, or maybe even a new human evolutionary psychic state may be activated by other lifeforms.

It's just a bunch of weird crap that's supposed to happen in 2012. Whatever it is, it's supposed to be a big global screwjob and only a third of the population will be left standing.

-TNC

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!

So if they were so good at seeing the future how come none of them saw the Spanish coming?

 

[Captain Planet!]

"In the year 2000.... In the year 2000!"


Seriously though, I think it's crap. I don't think we're all going to die in 4 years. At least... I hope not.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

In the year 2012, there will be an asteroid coming for the Earth. Attempts will be made to try and blow it away, but it will just blow into hundreds of smaller ones still threatening to whipe out the earth. When all hope is lost only one man will be able to save the world. ASTEROID-MAN!

 

[Gallagher]

Hopefully played by Bruce Willis

 

[Obi-Ron]

I'd go see that.

 

[bullets]

I only have to spend four more years on this god -forsaken planet . WOOOOO!!! Start the countdown .

 

[StorminNorman]

I only have to spend four more years on this god -forsaken planet . WOOOOO!!! Start the countdown .

You could always skip all of us in line very easily...

 

[Matt]

really What's supposed to happen in 2012?

The Mayans did not really predict anything. It is just when their calender stops. Anyone ever consider that the calender maker just decided to take a vacation after writing some 1000 years in advance?

 

[Matt]

Also, scientists predict that the earth's magnetic field will reverse in 2012. I'm surprised that no one knew about these theories.
There's also talk about serious a supervolcanic eruption, a massive disaster possibly as a result of a third world war (which could likely start as soon as later this year if we're lucky. ), biblical-related occurrences such as a comet or an asteroid, or maybe even a new human evolutionary psychic state may be activated by other lifeforms.

It's just a bunch of weird crap that's supposed to happen in 2012. Whatever it is, it's supposed to be a big global screwjob and only a third of the population will be left standing.

-TNC

The Earth's magnetic field has reversed numerous times throughout the planet's history. It really doesn't change anything important. Now if the magnetic field died out...we'd be **** out of luck.

As for the rest...it is all just guess work with essentially no evidence to back it up.

 

[turtlefocker]

y2k

 

[Captain Planet!]

The Mayans did not really predict anything. It is just when their calender stops. Anyone ever consider that the calender maker just decided to take a vacation after writing some 1000 years in advance?

The Earth's magnetic field has reversed numerous times throughout the planet's history. It really doesn't change anything important. Now if the magnetic field died out...we'd be **** out of luck.

As for the rest...it is all just guess work with essentially no evidence to back it up.

 

[Carcharodon]

The Earth's magnetic field has reversed numerous times throughout the planet's history. It really doesn't change anything important. Now if the magnetic field died out...we'd be **** out of luck.

As for the rest...it is all just guess work with essentially no evidence to back it up.

EXACTLY.

It's like people read about these things, but only read about halfway through the article or report and think that suddenly they're completely informed, and then feel the need to spread their half-assed hysteria to everybody else.

"'Earth's magnetic field will reverse itself, scientists say...' HOLY PENIS! I NEED TO ALERT THE HYPE! DANGER! AAAAAAAAARGH!!!!"

 

[TNC9852002]

But that was just among over a dozen of other things. This isn't hysteria here and I'm not trying to alert anyone, definitely not with anything that's factual. I never said any of that. I'm just trying to find out if anyone read anything on this.

and Matt, what exactly do you mean by a reversal not changing anything important (As far as I've read, there are possibilities of some rather very important side effects)? I know that the magnetic field has reversed before, but how long ago was the last one?

-TNC

 

[Carcharodon]

But that was just among over a dozen of other things. This isn't hysteria here and I'm not trying to alert anyone, definitely not with anything that's factual. I never said any of that. I'm just trying to find out if anyone read anything on this.

and Matt, what exactly do you mean by a reversal not changing anything important (As far as I've read, there are possibilities of some rather very important side effects)? I know that the magnetic field has reversed before, but how long ago was the last one?

-TNC

780,000 years ago. Less than a million.

The earth is around 4.6 billion years old. That's a lot of potential flipping.

 

[Carcharodon]

But that was just among over a dozen of other things. This isn't hysteria here and I'm not trying to alert anyone, definitely not with anything that's factual. I never said any of that. I'm just trying to find out if anyone read anything on this.

It's not specifically you I'm referring to. Don't worry. It's more about the general idea of field-flipping and the irrational hysteria it has caused among people who just don't know wtf they're talking about.

It's a peeve of mine.

 

[Loque]

Eh, we're always looking for a new doomsday prediction, and twisting ancient tellings into events that they're not.

Also, what a lot of people may refer to by 2012, is the pole reversal, in which our magnetic poles are supposedly going to "switch places."

I've heard many people twist this into our planet basically flipping on its backside in minutes, but for those of us who have attended school, we all know the solar system doesn't do anything in a matter of minutes.

At best, I'd expect a climate change in 2012. Go buy some new coats.

 

[Loque]

Now if the magnetic field died out...we'd be **** out of luck.

There's apparently talk of that happening too... But not for another thousand or so years.

We're safe... Unless the Chinese invent some medication to greatly lengthen our lifespans.

 

[Carcharodon]

There's apparently talk of that happening too... But not for another thousand or so years.

We're safe... Unless the Chinese invent some medication to greatly lengthen our lifespans.

What I don't understand about the idea of the field disappearing all together is this:

To be able to predict such an event (especially with such relative accuracy), there has to be evidence for the event occurring sometime in the past, likely more than once.

If it's such a doomsday scenario for us earthly organisms, we'd see that these events coincide with extinction events.

Do they?

 

[Loque]

What I don't understand about the idea of the field disappearing all together is this:

To be able to predict such an event (especially with such relative accuracy), there has to be evidence for the event occurring sometime in the past, likely more than once.

If it's such a doomsday scenario for us earthly organisms, we'd see that these events coincide with extinction events.

Do they?

There's been research on it, as well as numerous computer generated events that depict the field "collapsing" in on itself [a little of which is told about in the link I provided in the earlier post].

Then again, it's simply a computer generated image. I've also seen computer generated orcs take over a castle... And I have yet to see that happen.

Also, our magnetic field has been degrading rapidly over the past few hundred years... Unless it rebuilds itself somehow, then it may actually collapse in on itself.

But, I'll leave that up to my own speculation until I actually see it happening.

 

[Carcharodon]

There's been research on it, as well as numerous computer generated events that depict the field "collapsing" in on itself [a little of which is told about in the link I provided in the earlier post].

Then again, it's simply a computer generated image. I've also seen computer generated orcs take over a castle... And I have yet to see that happen.

Also, our magnetic field has been degrading rapidly over the past few hundred years... Unless it rebuilds itself somehow, then it may actually collapse in on itself.

But, I'll leave that up to my own speculation until I actually see it happening.

Yeah. That has to mean that something is changing within the earth's inner-layers, though. The whole reason for the field is the liquid outer core...

I heard a theory from one of my professors that the earth's rotation is actually slowing (extremely slowly) because of the presence of our oceans (counter-current and friction). He said it's actually been measured, but I don't know.

Kinda fun to think about, though.

 

[SuperFerret]

In the year 1012, there will be an asteroid coming for the Earth. Attempts will be made to try and blow it away, but it will just blow into hundreds of smaller ones still threatening to whipe out the earth. When all hope is lost only one man will be able to save the world. ASTEROID-MAN!

I'm glad you were around almost a thousand years ago to rescue us.

 

[rijuco]

2012 is simply the end of the pisces age and the start of the age of taurus...or is it aries.

anyhow, biblically some cultists believe that since the bible says I'll be with you until the end of the age....and the christian fish symbol is really a pisces fish...that the end of the age signals the end of times.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I'll be 26 when I die. A quarter century+ of life experience isn't so bad.