What are some dates in history that relate to 2012?

The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.

According to Maya calender the world will end up in 2012. However, there are do dates that relate to 2012, at least there are not in serious science.

4000 bc when Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

2000 bc when God flooded the earth.

The day we bombed Japan with atomic weapons.

The day Iran bombs Israel with atomic weapons

1800, 1900, 2000, 2001 when "prophets" predicted the end of the world.

2013 when we have proof positive that the world did not end in 2012.

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But read below if you want some ready-made arguments of mine.

The main pseudoscience that this doomsday prophecy is based on revolves around the Mayan Long Count Calendar. First of all, it's not Mayan. It's the Mesoamerican Long Count. The fear-mongers just changed the name to "Mayan" because it sounds cool, and because most people wouldn't know what "Mesoamerican" meant. So anyway, apparently someone has concluded that the calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012. That's sort of true, but not doomsday true. Every culture in history has had its own calendar to divide time into whatever units they wanted, and none of them are the same. Even in our history of Western Civilization, we've already used at least two, Julian and Gregorian, and they were based on arbitrary dates. Not even some mighty astronomical thing that someone could magically guess the future with. The Long Count "ends" on Dec. 21, 2012 - but it ends just as our Dec. 31, ends. It's their New Year's Eve. On Dec. 22, 2012 (or however long their precise day is), the Long Count calendar will flip over, and start again at Day 1 of year XXXX. That's it. It doesn't just slam into a wall and stop. But if it did, would that really mean anything? Humans haven't changed over the tens of thousands of years that we've been around. We didn't have the ability to see into the future and make prophecies centuries ago. It's just a calendar. I'm sure that if the Mayans were around today and using it, it would come with pretty pictures of lighthouses, or kittens, or old bridges.

Then there's the Chinese I-Ching. A Western guy thought that it could predict the future, so he rather arbitrarily broke it into grids. None of it matched up with any important date in history. So he invented, all on his own, with no consultation or agreement from anyone, what he calls "fractal time." That sounds really cool. I saw Commander Data encode the USS Enterprise's computer core so that the Borg Queen couldn't gain access with a fractal encription. But McKenna's "fractal time" gave him the ability to stretch the grids that he had made out of the I-Ching so that his time "accurately" landed on major historic events. You know, if I was given a timeline of history, and given the ability to bend the timeline to whatever I wanted, I could make it look like that, too.

People worry about a geomagnetic shift. These really do happen. They take a minimum of ten thousand years to actually happen. Why do we care? Because we'll have to turn our compasses around. The magnetosphere does weaken slightly, but not enough to destroy civilization. We geologists have been able to very well correlate the reversals with the fossil record - there are no extinction events.

Some people get geomagnetic shift confused with pole shift. Pole shift is when the actual rotational axis of Earth moves. It happens too! But it's always happening. The earth "wobbles" like a children's top that is just barely out of alignment. However, unlike the top, it won't eventually lose energy and fall over. We will just keep spinning and slightly wobbling. Our axis has never wavered more than 5 degrees off center, and there is absolutely no reason that it will be doing it to any more extent in the near future (geologic time near future).

Massive Earth-ending solar flare? Nope. The sun can't blow like that. There are limits to even the Sun's power, and our magnetosphere is very capable of absorbing much more punishment than it is subjected to on a daily basis.

The frightening term "solar maximum?" The solar maximum comes around every 22 years. It's related to sunspot activity, and all that it means is that there will be the most number of flares and prominences than occur during the rest of the cycle. Not some kind of "maximum" huge solar flare, just more frequent solar flares. Further, the solar maximum will be in 2013, not 2012. So if you're going to die... you have at least one more year.

I love this one. "The Planet Nibiru" collision. Who names these things? I'm going to go back to calling it Planet X, because that's what it was called when I was a kid. Supposedly, this enormous thing, big enough to be called a planet, will slam into Earth in 2012. This concept was put forth by a bunch of "New Agers" back in 1995, and based on such scientific evidence as "channeling" from alien species. Cool. If a planet that big was on its way to hit us, it would already be so large and bright that we'd be able to see it during the day with nothing more than the naked eye. Also - it was predicted to hit us in 2003. So someone's math was wrong, or the concept was wrong, or perhaps there was nothing real there in the first place, and it was an idea generated by smoking a bunch of weed.

This is one of my favorites. The doomsday galactic alignment. Earth and Sun w

A Brief History of the Apocalypse (ABHOTA)

abhota.com

Lists all the predictions, who said, how many days they sat in a cave thinking the world above had ended, etc etc.

A fun site, if like me, you think intelligence is wasted on a lot of people. Hell, opposable thumbs are wasted on a lot of people.