Do you think the world will end in 2012?

NO, because it is an utterly stupid idea!

See why the world will NOT end in 2012 here:

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/14/2012-comba...

If you like to go into detail by detail like a thorough research would, debunking each of the fallacy, go here:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/nutsh...

http://www.universetoday.com/category/2012/

http://www.2012hoax.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

Here's a site that discusses further but is rather short and not time-consuming.

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090614-end-...

Here's what NASA has to say, truthfully and scientifically:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.htm...

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-gue...

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist...

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/11/2012-nasas...

Hope you read them all!

Don't be fooled. Better stay informed with the right information from CREDIBLE SOURCES.

Feel free to share this information to anyone whom you think is concerned with this hoax.

Clear skies and have a nice day!:-)

The Mayans did know something about the real world and the real universe, probably more of the mathematics involved than most of the people on these pages. But that does not mean that they could predict the future. Nobody can do that unless it's bleedin' obvious.

One thing that anyone who has actually read into this stuff knows is that it is all lies. Lies about the Mayans, lies about Nostradamus, lies about astronomy, lies about just about anything.

The Mayan long count of days fills it's current set of baktuns on 21 or 23 December 2012, according to the most widely accepted calculations. By our system of counting, this is similar to going from 1999 to 2000. Scary, eh?

Back about 1966 shortly after some Mayan writing had been deciphered, someone writing a book on the Mayans speculated briefly that they might have thought that end of their long count was also the end of the world. But later translations showed that was wrong. Around 1985 a wacko called Jose Arguelles decided that the end meant something big. He's an astrologer who thinks he's a reincarnated Mayan priest. He's also living proof that LSD fries your brain.

When the world didn't end in 1999, 2000, 2003 or 2006 the people selling survival gear and books of superstitious nonsense needed another date to keep sales up.

So the woo-woos and frauds who have been pushing end of the world piffle for profit and pleasure, mostly profit, for umpteen years got on to the Mayan long count date and started promoting it as the next big end of the world. The History channel started running schlockumentaries about around the end of 2006.

Now this mental slime has spread to the other TV channels and of course Roland Emmerich saw a way of making a buck out of it too by making yet another disaster movie. CGI destructo-porn for the juvenile male market. (What next for Roland? Romantic comedies? Or do they involve too much plot and a few semi-original jokes that are beyond his meagre abilities?)

The only prediction the Mayans attached to this is a single damaged inscription that says something will descend into something else, which probably refers to some astronomical line up. That is most likely the sunrise on the day lined up with the position of a cloud of gas and dust that blocks some starlight from the inner part of the galaxy. This somehow symbolises the creation of the world, according to the Mayan creation legend. Or so say some people who actually seem to know what they are talking about. That does not include the woo-woos and frauds that promote this garbage. This line-up already exists and has done for a long time. That's all, there is nothing else. They also predicted that one of their kings would be remembered about 4772AD by our count. So they did not expect an end of the world.

All the other stuff about galactic or planetary line-ups. photon belts, heating of the Earth's core, comets, asteroids, meteors, stray planets and such are easily shown to be lies. The great solar maximum turns out to be in April or May 2013 and is expected to be average or even smaller than average. Anticlimax awaits, yet again.

All of these people are wrong, half crazy or deliberate and persistent liars, mostly liars. There is no prediction from the ancient Mayans and their modern descendants, several million strong think the whole thing is ridiculous or just damn annoying.

See www.2012hoax.org

No. Why would it? Why wouldn't it end today? Right now? Right this second? There is as much science to suggest the world will end now, or at any random moment you can choose, as there is to suggest that the world will end on December 21 2012.

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im exploding help!

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no cause dat wat dey said bout y2k so y should i beleive in dat?

no.... because people are saying the world will end according to the mayan calendars. the mayan calendars finish a couple days before x-mas in 2012. The world was created way long before the mayans did. Also, what person would spend his/her life to make the calendar for centuries in the future...

Do I think that the End of the World is going to happen in 2012 or any other upcoming, nearby future year? No, and here's why.

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 will "align with the center of the galaxy" as defi

I know the world won't end in that year. It will eventually though. Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"

It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.

One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn't survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

It's unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.

However - shades of Indiana Jones - erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."

Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 - including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

And anyway, Mayas in the drought-stricken Yucatan peninsula have bigger worries than 2012.

"If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea," said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. "That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain."

The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.

"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted."

If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off.

But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.

That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.

Another spooky coincidence?

"The question I would ask these guys is, so what?" says Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the "Bad Astronomy" blog. He says the alignment doesn't fall precisely in 2012, and distant stars exert no force that could harm Earth.

"They're really super-duper trying to find anything astronomical they can to fit that date of 2012," Plait said.

But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.

"If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal," said Jenkins.

As the Internet gained popularity in the 1990s, so did word of the "fateful" date, and some began worrying about 2012 disasters the Mayas never dreamed of.

Author Lawrence Joseph says a peak in explosive storms on the