slurp 7020 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 And I feel fine! Ok, so the Mayans, Nostradamus and lord knows who else predicts the EOTW on Dec 21, 2012. Last night I watched "Decoded" on History channel which was all about these predictions. There were many interesting conclusions drawn and it appears many people believe we may soon bite the dust. Or at minimum the earth is about to have some huge changes on that date. Floods, hurricanes, tornado's, earthquakes, solar flares etc. Personally the solar flares is what scares the crap out of me. How do you feel about all this? Personally I'm not terribly worried. To be honest since my son died a few years ago I don't really give a crap about dying. An event like that certainly changes your perspective. Concerning the EOTW, I figure if a bunch of freaky shit starts happening this summer we can all put our heads between our legs and kiss our asses goodbye. It'll be party hardy until it's all over. If summer passes with nothing major I figure it's just another false prediction. Unless I don't wake up Dec 22..... LOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 "I have another date in mind" with the lovelies on this board. Has anyone got their schedule for Dec. 22 handy? I'm available. :) 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malika Fantasy 144625 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 Let's say that there is going to be a lot of babies in mid-late September 2013 from people that believe that it's end of the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jhena Grey 25615 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 I always said the Mayan's didn't have time to finish their calendar because the Europeans killed them off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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stingray691427 110 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 The Mayan long count calander recycles, there is alot of hype based on this meaning the end of the world, it's not at all what it means. 3ooo years ago the got to 2012 and probably said ''yep, that should be enough, grab me a pint'' Same as all the crap about the Galactic alignment with the center of the Galaxy, bull. The Sun orbits the milky way (our galaxy) it is 120 thousand light years accross (unimaginably massive). It takes the sun 250 million years to orbit it once, think about it... last time we where here Dinasoars roamed the earth. In the Sun's path along the galaxy it bobs up above the galactic plane, through it then below it and one cycle takes 65 million years. What happens is when we bob above the galactic place we are no longer protected by the vast amounts of dust generated by billions of stars burning in the milky way, also dust created by collisions and all kinds of other weird stuff. We orbit the sun and follow along with it around the galaxy. There is a super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, we orbit around it... so aren't we always eclipsing it? There will be no tidal forces ejecting earth out of the solar system, even if the Sun did get ejected from the galaxy we would just follow along orbiting it. This process would take millions of years to unfold, but man what a sight that would be. The really freaky thing that gets me are neutron stars, the dead remains of a long exploded super nova. The mass of these things is so great that a teapsoon of it would fall through earth. They emit gama ray bursts, a stream of incredibly radiocative particles traveling at the speed of light. If one was to burst within a few thousand light years of us, and was aimed at us... lights out, it would strip the earth of life instantly. Astroids are a real threat, constant threat. We get at times no warning, hey look.... that was a near miss. Although most the size of buses one the size of Ottawa would really cause a bad day. What is interesting are the Nostradamous prophecies, finacial colapse, climate change..... these are all things that have been happening to earth long before we where ever here. They will happen again for the next 5 billion years, when the Sun turns into a red giant, swallows earth and Mars then explodes. We are so isignificant in the grand scheme of things, it really makes me wonder, what is it? Why is it? God? If the Universe was created from a singularity (infinatley small particle) that expolded out of nothing, creating time and space, who created the particle? How could there have been anything before time? We live in facinating times. the scientific advances in understanding it all has taken enourmous leaps forward and I hope to live long enough to learn what it is all about. The world will not end in 2012, life on it will end eventually and start over again over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. We are definatly heading for change, we will whitness unprecedented world events that will break us or make us. Yes, i am a total geek about this stuff. Thought i'd share :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kate von Katz 49953 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 The only reason there's a big ado about the Mayan calendar is because most people don't realize how it works. Both the short count and the long count are cyclic. Think of a clock. It's got a second hand, a minute hand, and an hour hand. And it keeps going around and around. The world doesn't end at 12. It just begins a new cycle on the clock. Same as the calendar. Only the individual wheels (hands) measure in much larger increments than seconds/minutes/hours. So.... No end of the world. Posted via Mobile Device 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baileydog 9367 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 whatever ... it is a great excuse for a very good party ... two parties actually, one before just in case, one after to celebrate still being around Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest S***dst*** Report post Posted February 22, 2012 This won't be the first or last solar flare. The earth has been around for millions of years and solar flares happen every day...Large ones happen roughly every 12 years. How many times does 12 go into 65 million lol :P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jabba 18389 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 This won't be the first or last solar flare. The earth has been around for millions of years and solar flares happen every day...Large ones happen roughly every 12 years. How many times does 12 go into 65 million lol :P Answer: 5416666666.6666666666666666666667 Hmmmm - seems to be a repeating 666 pattern here. Should I be worried? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kate von Katz 49953 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 I was really looking forward to the rapture. Maybe Satan planned to thwart it somehow? (I love that word: thwart. It sounds so vulgar.) Posted via Mobile Device Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stingray691427 110 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 This won't be the first or last solar flare. The earth has been around for millions of years and solar flares happen every day...Large ones happen roughly every 12 years. How many times does 12 go into 65 million lol :P Earth has been around for 4 billion years. The sun has an 11 year cycle, solar maximum and minimum. Flares don't happen everyday, the sun can actually go years dormant with no activity. 2013 solar maximum will peak for this cycle. Our sun is a variable yellow star, it will explode in about 5 billion years anialating everything within a few hundred light years. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BarrhavenWoody 10776 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 Dec. 21st eh? I usually start my Christmas shopping around about that time. Maybe I'll wait until the 22nd just in case :) Probably get a good deal on leftover "End of the World" T-shirts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
