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Why does the Mayan calender end at 2012?
Why do the Mayan people believe the world will end in 2012? Behind what theories, hypothesis, or evidence that set this upon such phinomena?
They had to run away and hide before the world blew up and killed them.
2012: Nibiru, Planet X & Mayan Calender – Science vs Fiction
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2012 — A Scientific Reality Check: There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there… So here is the scientific reality on the celestial happenings in the year 2012.
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DECEMBER 2012 — A SCIENTIFIC REALITY CHECK
(Written by Don Yeomans, NASA senior research scientist)
Nibiru, a purported large object headed toward Earth, simply put – does not exist. There is no credible evidence – telescopic or otherwise – for this object’s existence. There is also no evidence of any kind for its gravitational affects upon bodies in our solar system.
I do however like the name Nibiru. If I ever get a pet goldflish (and I just may do that sometime in early 2013), Nibiru will be at the top of my list.
The Mayan calendar does not end in December 2012. Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period, but then — just as your calendar begins again on January 1 – another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.
There are no credible predictions for worrisome astronomical events in 2012. The activity of the sun is cyclical with a period of roughly 11 years and the time of the next solar maximum is predicted to occur in the period 2010 — 2012. However, the Earth routinely experiences these periods of increased solar activity — for eons – without worrisome effects. The Earth’s magnetic field, which deflects charged particles from the sun, does reverse polarity on time scales of about 400,000 years but there is no evidence that a reversal, which takes thousands of years to occur, will begin in 2012. Even if this several thousand year-long magnetic field reversal were to begin, that would not affect the Earth’s rotation nor would it affect the direction of the Earth’s rotation axis … only Superman can do that.
The only important gravitational tugs experienced by the Earth are due to the moon and sun. There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and Sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.
The predictions of doomsday or dramatic changes on December 21, 2012 are all false. Incorrect doomsday predictions have taken place several times in each of the past several centuries. Readers should bear in mind what Carl Sagan noted several years ago; “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, the burden of proof is on the people making these claims. Where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and all the passionate, persistent and profitable assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.
For more information on the silliness surrounding December 2012, see:
• Asteroid Watch: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/
• The Planet X Saga: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/nutshell.html
• The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html
• 2012 FAQ: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
• Wikipedia: look under “Nibiru collision”
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Can you explain why I shouldnt worry about the Mayan 2012 end of the world prediction?
I already broke up with my boyfriend, cash all my bonds and whatnot and plan on dropping out of school at the end of the year and totally living it up for 2011 since thats our last year on earth.
My mom caught wind of this and has been yelling at me non stop. I’m doing it anyway but she did put a thought in my head that the Mayans could be wrong.
1) The Mayans didn’t predict ‘the end of the world’. It’s the end of one cycle of their long-count calendar which runs for thousands of years.
2) Even experts on the Mayans aren’t all agreed on when exactly this cycle of the calendar ends, and even fewer are agreed on what it means, although the majority don’t think it means the ‘end of the world’.
3) The whole ’2012′ thing has been massively over-hyped and exaggerated by people who wouldn’t know a Mayan if they fell over him. It’s just another dose of pseudo-Millenial paranoia which seems to surface every few years.
4) On New Years Eve in the year 999AD, people all across Europe were sh*tting bricks because they believed that on the first day of the year 1000, Jesus would return, the dead would rise from the grave, the world would end, and the Day of Judgement would kick off. Many stayed up all night, praying fervently, weeping, wailing, gnashing their teeth, and generally being overwhelmed with fear in expectation of the End of the World.
The next morning, they all felt a bit silly.
phil valentine 2012 mayan calendar pt1 8
2012 mayan calendar the art and science of hyper demensional warfare. Rev. Phil Valentine
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