2012 - end of the world?

I've been reading in to this and it's got me quite intrigued.  The question is simple, do you think the world will end in 2012?

I'm very sceptical about this scientific/religious/secret organization's massive prediction.  I've pulled this article from another forum when I googled the subject, it's quite a scary thought.

7 reasons the world will end in 2012
 
Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that 3 years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button...

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:

Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano

Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=629455

I think it's fair to say I beat robbyr to this one!  

I'll make sure I'm out that day then.

Weren't there predictions of the world ending during the 90's and around the year 2002?

Anyway if it does end in 2012 then we wont know if they were right or not because know one would be here

Might be possible.

Remember SARS, Bird flu and Influenze A H1N1, earthquakes are playing their parts too.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm

Interesting link, i particularly like the heading "15 failed predictions of the end of the world during 2006"

I will take my chances and still buy christmas presents that year

As long as we win number 19 I am quite content.

December 21st 1 day after my birthday Ill be on a bender somewhere I dont think it will be as painful then.

Didn't Man City make like a 5 year plan to win the league last season when the Arabs took over?

Well, thats them fu**ed

Newcastle might never make it back to the Premier League, either.

 I thought the world ended in 1954 when we got relegated to the old second division.Luckily enough we were reincarnated when we got a saviour called Bill Shankly and went on to make so much history.

I heard that the world will end in 2012-12-12. That would mean that me and Agger won't have a birthday that day

I'm too young to die.

2 years to enjoy myself, think I'll dump my son in an orphanage, dump the other half and go live my life like an international playboy and do everything I have missed out on.



 

Wasn't the world supposed to end in 06/06/2006? 

Wasn't the world supposed to end in 06/06/2006? 

World had to end in 2000, too

What about the Olympics though?

What about the Olympics though?

Probably why this nonsense was drummed up.

So if that happens then next year will be the last world cup... EVER! 

So if that happens then next year will be the last world cup... EVER! 

No worries, England disappoint me every year anyway. I wont be thinking about them in December 2012 while im sinking in lava on LFCReds.

The world can end, but as long as we have No.19 in the bank and on top of the league come Dec.21, 2012 

Notradamus also predicted the world to end in 2012

 http://www.satansrapture.com/nostra2012.htm

Were all doomed I say doomed!

I've heard about this before! Especialy the Mayan Calender stuff, didn't they make a prediction about the twin towers on 9/11.Ther's a film being made about it too, aptly named........"2012".

“Great Birds will come from the sky and end a great city to the north at 9/11/01″ That's what they said aparantley..hopefully that's been made up coz otherwise we'r dead! 

Mayans stopped making the calendar at the stage 2012 which many see, wrongly, as them predicting the end of the world. They only stopped because it was so far into the future they didnt see any point going on. Its pure scare mongering. There is no planet X etc etc. In 2012 Ill be celebrating title number 21

In all honesty you could pull all 7 reasons apart with facts, scientific evidence and common sense.

The Super Volacno Theory for instance, the last super volcano to erupt was Mount Toba on the island of Sumatra 74000 years ago. The explosion was so great that the Volcano imploded and created a bowl that is now known as Lake Toba. The proposed theory was that the the Volacano erupted with such force that it threw ash into the atmosphere blocking sunlight coolling global temperatures and creating a 6 year global winter that basically crippled the human population down to the very last 15,000 world wide.

How ever it is now argued that this was not the case, yes the human race was affected but no where near on the global scale that was speculated. An archeologist team found stone tolos through various layers of Toba volcanic ash that suggests rather than being allmost drove to extinction the humans at the time seemed to persist through the eruption and its after effects.

Now if you think about how far we have come in a technological sense from the stone tool humans of 74000 years ago to what we are in 2009 there is no reason at all to suggest a super volcano could cause the end of the world or the extinction of the human race.

I'll take my chances, thanks for the info though.

IMO its not going to be the end of the world. Others and not just the Mayas made predictions for the end of the world. Those predictions failed to be true and life carried on as normal. Mayas were excellent when viewing the seasons and could predict eclipses because of what had happened in the past but had no way of predicting the future. WE WILL STILL BE HERE 2012 ONWARDS!

Note to self:  Apply for as many credit cards as I can lay my hands on in 2011 

Why 2012 is a myth.?
Ok its time to debunk this myth. Ill get right to the point.

Its not a doomsday prediction, its been twisted all out of proportion. The Long Count calendar is going from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns, like when ours went from 1999 to 2000

There is what’s been called a galactic alignment, that day when the rising sun conjuncts the Milky Way. According to the Mayans, that means it’s being reborn. It’s an energetic shift.

The Mayan calendar doesn’t end on 12-21-2012. The Long Count calendar rolls from Baktun 12 to Baktun 13 on that date, but that’s not an end. It can go up to Baktun 19, and even then (in the year 4770+), it doesn’t end, it goes to Pictun 1 (! Pictun=20 Baktuns. 1 Baktun=~400 years)

As far as the galactic alignment causing a pole shift, that was supposed to happen with the alignment of 05-05-2000, when all the planets were in a line on the other side of the sun from Earth, and it didn’t.
1 year ago
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This 12-21-2012 alignment is purely visual–the sun crossing the center of the milky way at dawn–no gravitation pull or anything that would make the poles shift.

As far as the Mayan knowing “everything” about astrology, that is not exactly true. And the Long Count is not an astrological calendar.

The sacred 260-day calendar (The Tzolkin) is the astrological one, and that never ends, just runs in an endless loop.

The calendar was a celebration NOT a dooms day prophecy. Also this whole thing is a cash cow and do your reasearch on the History Channels ratings since that and you will see it has all went down hill.

To ease your mind go to NASA. Type in Planet X and then type in Nibiru in the ask a scientist section. Nothing like that is going to happen now or in the near future.

Nibiru or Planet-X is fake, we found a 10th planet Xena and its just bigger than the U.S. o be technical the only thing doomsday coming would be the asteroid in 2880 but NASA knows we can control it.

I was slightly nervous about 2000

I am not even remotely nervous about 2012

Hell, if it ends...it ends....just make sure I don't know about it. I would rather it just happen quickly

I don't mind it finishing in 2012, at least we can end as England's most successful club.. .EVER forever!!!!

Hell, if it ends...it ends....just make sure I don't know about it. I would rather it just happen quickly

Christ what's your name, the Grim Reaper?

Christ what's your name, the Grim Reaper?

My Ex has referred to me as that

Hell, if it ends...it ends....just make sure I don't know about it. I would rather it just happen quickly

No chance of that would be on the news every hour on the hour!

Why 2012 is a myth.?
Ok its time to debunk this myth. Ill get right to the point.

Its not a doomsday prediction, its been twisted all out of proportion. The Long Count calendar is going from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns, like when ours went from 1999 to 2000

There is what’s been called a galactic alignment, that day when the rising sun conjuncts the Milky Way. According to the Mayans, that means it’s being reborn. It’s an energetic shift.

The Mayan calendar doesn’t end on 12-21-2012. The Long Count calendar rolls from Baktun 12 to Baktun 13 on that date, but that’s not an end. It can go up to Baktun 19, and even then (in the year 4770+), it doesn’t end, it goes to Pictun 1 (! Pictun=20 Baktuns. 1 Baktun=~400 years)

As far as the galactic alignment causing a pole shift, that was supposed to happen with the alignment of 05-05-2000, when all the planets were in a line on the other side of the sun from Earth, and it didn’t.
1 year ago
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This 12-21-2012 alignment is purely visual–the sun crossing the center of the milky way at dawn–no gravitation pull or anything that would make the poles shift.

As far as the Mayan knowing “everything” about astrology, that is not exactly true. And the Long Count is not an astrological calendar.

The sacred 260-day calendar (The Tzolkin) is the astrological one, and that never ends, just runs in an endless loop.

The calendar was a celebration NOT a dooms day prophecy. Also this whole thing is a cash cow and do your reasearch on the History Channels ratings since that and you will see it has all went down hill.

To ease your mind go to NASA. Type in Planet X and then type in Nibiru in the ask a scientist section. Nothing like that is going to happen now or in the near future.

Nibiru or Planet-X is fake, we found a 10th planet Xena and its just bigger than the U.S. o be technical the only thing doomsday coming would be the asteroid in 2880 but NASA knows we can control it.

Fair enough Brian but do you think its worth getting digital TV?

I've heard about this before! Especialy the Mayan Calender stuff, didn't they make a prediction about the twin towers on 9/11.Ther's a film being made about it too, aptly named........"2012".

“Great Birds will come from the sky and end a great city to the north at 9/11/01″ That's what they said aparantley..hopefully that's been made up coz otherwise we'r dead! 

  Where was hicks and gillet when the building collapsed .

At least Sky 'News' will finally have a breaking news story that doesn't go on for 12 hours after it first breaks.

I don't care if the world ends in 2012. It's sh*te anyway.

Maybe that's when Gerrard retires.

I love how it's always an even number of years. The world ending in an odd number of years doesn't bear thinking about.

Fair enough Brian but do you think its worth getting digital TV?

Never anything on mate 

The only reason I would even think about believing that it may happen is because a lot of things have gone to hell over the last few years. For example...
 We are running out of petrol fast
 A lot more plane crashes have been happening over the last few months
 The global economy has imploded
 3rd world countries are running out of food faster than in the past
 Man U has won the last 3 titles
 
 

sh*t, I guess I better stock up on Water, Cigs and Booze and move to the Desert and build "Barter Town and Thunderdome".. Maybe have a midget, riding on a giant called "Master Blaster" and process pig sh*t.

Your all Invited If Interested.

sh*t, I guess I better stock up on Water, Cigs and Booze and move to the Desert and build "Barter Town and Thunderdome".. Maybe have a midget, riding on a giant called "Master Blaster" and process pig sh*t.

Your all Invited If Interested.

Very tempting!!!

I'll come as long as Tina Turner is there singing Simply the best to our Nando

Save the cheerleader, save the world

Save the cheerleader, save the world

Heroes, ohh I miss that show

Iknow a lot about this , and i know its rubbish
they quote the mians a lot, and their calender ends, it does so because they had maths all sussed out, and htey knew, when the glaxy shifts, and in what direction, so they based their time on it, intelligent, but hardly makes any difference, just like when we go round the sun once a year.

Iknow a lot about this , and i know its rubbish
they quote the mians a lot, and their calender ends, it does so because they had maths all sussed out, and htey knew, when the glaxy shifts, and in what direction, so they based their time on it, intelligent, but hardly makes any difference, just like when we go round the sun once a year.

So it's an over complicated calender Robby? sounds like Jehova's Witnesses telling us they're right and the world IS going to end - the word inevitable springs to mind.

We're all gonna die!!! Panic!!!

Let's all go to Anfield, we'll be safe there. Unfortunately for Everton fans, lava will burn through wood, so they can't hide in that shed called Goodison.

Same for Old Trafford, God hates cu*ts.

Didn't Man City make like a 5 year plan to win the league last season when the Arabs took over?

Well, thats them fu**ed

Haha!

I can't wait to see this movie. I didn't like 'The Day After Tomorrow' that much, but i think this will do much better at the box office.
When is it coming out?

Typical isn't it. We get the 2012 Olympics, the 2015 Rugby World cup and pretty high chances of the 2018 world cup, and what happens! Oh yeah, the world ends at the start of it all!!

I blame Gordon Brown.

I blame Gordon Brown.

Who doesn't?

I blame him too!

21st? My birthday is in two days after that ;/

End of the world 2012, is it not 30th July 2009 with  Alonso handing in a transfer request  ?

21st? My birthday is in two days after that ;/

Not any more it's not. We'll go out the week before

I thought we were already doomed on the Millenium, and 6-6-06, and any number of Nostradomus predictions... If you really want to worry wait until Apophis comes.

Apophis is an Asteroid which is going to be so close to Earth in 2029 it passes below our Satellites.  Its classified as a near miss asteroid. However its trajectory brings it back around in 2036 and Gravity could swing it into a collision with Earth. Now that is fact.  Whether it happens is slim to none but it COULD.

Am going to be 20 want to see that talking a load of pish people were saying that years ago

Massive solar flare is going to wipe out the Earth(Knowing-Nicolas Cage/movie).