Do you think the world will really end =/?

http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/?p=59

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 about May 2013. 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:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/pla%E2%80%A6

Wikipedia: look under “Nibiru collision.”

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feature%E2%80%A6

And:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/6977%E2%80%A6

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astr%E2%80%A6

http://www.2012hoax.org/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/so%E2%80%A6

http://skepdic.com/maya.html

http://www.universetoday.com/42603/2012-%E2%80%A6

Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqn-zZzb%E2%80%A6

"Too bad the Maya couldn't predict their own collapse."

If you mean by the 2012 standards then the answer is no. I highly doubt that it would end just like that because of some Mayan prediction and tilting of the earth. However, I think at some point the world has to end but even then that would be millions of centuries from now. So I doubt you'd see it. If you're still scared about 2012 then just be prepared and enjoy your life. Live your life to the fullest and you won't have any regrets. :)

Eventually, yes, the world will end. That's given scientific facts. That's in the future though, billions of years away.

As for whether life for humans will become much more difficult/humanity's time on Earth will end due to an event before that? The odds are there - i.e we have a 1/45000 chance of a massive meteor impact in the 2020s, etc, global nuclear war etc.

2012 was just a movie though.

At some point, yes.

On 12/21/2012? Doubtful.

I have lived through many end of the word days, but we are all still here, arent we?

To be fair, there IS a mayan calender that ends on that date (once its translated to our calender, anyways), and the mayans WERE exceptionally good at predicting natural diseasters and other natural phenomona, and had a very accurate calender.

However, I have to wonder...... in several thousand years, is someone going to peice together an old calender that had only went through 12/31/3999, and be terrified that the would is going to end in 4000? lol

the movie 2012 was just a movie, it wasn't based on what is going to really happen. If the world does end, then it doesn't matter because we will all be dead anyway

Because there are no extreme heat waves or random cracks on the Earth, it will not end soon. Eventually, the world will explode in a couple billion years because of age but the human race will end before the explosion because of the ozone layer disappearing and the poisons we breath everyday.

Not the physical world as we know it, but the world or governments of ungodly mankind will end. In essence, a system of things will end.

The Earth will never be destroyed or de-populated.

Remember, this Earth is the same one that Noah and his family survived the flood on...it wasn't made over, just the wicked was removed Genesis 7:23 and 2 Peter 3:5-7

God's promise is sure, the earth abides forever Ecclesiastes 1:4 and Psalms 104:5

It's very fake.

When I went on my school trip to Canada's capital (Ottawa, Ontario), we went to this really cool science museum. There was a real scientist/astronomer, and he said that the movie 2012 is in the hugest pile of garbage and nonsense. He said, and I quote, "Soon people are gonna start selling you 2012 survival kits - don't fall for it."

No one really knows when the world will end.

No way, this is what the Mayans in the past has predicted on their calendar. Think about it, they can't prove it but they only believe it because of the sun. But I highly doubt the world will end in 2012.