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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago

On a serious note, what is your opinion about Doomsday?

7 reasons the world will end, what do you think??

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 math mathematics. Physicists at Berkeley University 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.

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  • 5 years ago

    I want to keep my mouth shut. I want to be good. Really I...Ok...I don't. Swamis, Miss Cleo, Nicodemus, fortune telling, reading bones and tea leaves, suan ming, divination... There are more ways to "tell the future" and more styles of "prediction" than you can shake a stick at. And they generally all amount to the same thing. Someone needs to "know" how something is going to happen so it gives them either relief or a sense of excitement. Oh yes. And since Sylvia Brown backs it up it must be true because she doesn't profit from telling people what they want to hear at all. Will she lose money if the world doesn't end come 2012? Doubtful if she isn't yesterday's news by then.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well dang good points, thanks for bringing down my new years mood :[

  • 1 decade ago

    On a serious note: I've read some of the sources you're quoting on this, and your numbers are off by a factor of ten on some of this stuff. Life has *survived* on earth during *Frequent* dipole switches of the Earth's magnetic field--this was the case during the days of the dinosaurs.

    I really think if you're going to be "serious" on the night of the New Year, while folks are partying, the *Least* you could do is a) cite your sources and cough up some links, and b) be a little bit more careful about the numbers you sling out there.

    Honestly. I'm not going so far as to say *nothing* will happen in 2012, but I'm not one to cause Unrealistic Panic either. We have three good solid years--and competent leadership, finally--to prepare with, should folks *wake the hell up and decide to*, versus sticking their heads in the sand like Good Little Fundies (tm).

    So....links please? And fact-check your numbers if you're going to demand our *party time* here. ^__^

    Source(s): Honestly, search the site below for the phrases "geodynamo" and "field inversion": http://www.sciam.com/ There is something *to* the earth's magnetic field doing a flip-flop, but our esteemed Gentle Asker overstates his point, like I said, by about a factor of ten. Humanity could survive the field inversion, north for south, because the field would not *disappear entirely* but instead fade to one or two *percent* of its ordinary strength. Humanity would survive....electrical and electronic civilization as we *know it* would not. At best this would send us back into the late 1800s., if not the Stone Age.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The world will end in 2012 just like the Y2K bug destroyed our way of life in the year 2000.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Only God knows when the world will end, And how many times has the "end" happened The world coming to an end has been predicted how many times for how long? They were wrong everytime.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    put on your tin foil hats boys. nothing will happen in our lifetime, if destruction happens itll be of our own because of nuclear war or something.

    oh and nowhere in the bible do they say 2012. 2012 is the end of a cycle on the mayan calander and the start of a new one.

  • :)
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    *sigh*

    didn't even bother reading it.

    this is suppose to be a HAPPY time, not a time to talk about depressing things that people have been trying to convince us of for years (remember the new Millenium?...we're all still here). really i think the world will end whenever God wants it to.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think it's fulll of crapp.

    noone truly know's when the world's goanna end, sorry to go all jesus on you but noone know's when the world is really goanna end exepct god.

    & plus didn't everybody & everything say the world was goanna end on 2000?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's depressing.

    Might as well live life to the fullest until then, huh, depressing person?

  • Lola
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm scared D=

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