And on 2012...

[Belial]

The only documents that I've seen hold up in civil court are ones like between landlords and tenants.  Watch judge judy sometime I think that contract works for things like giving someone a cell phone but idk about all their possessions.

[1pLUs44]

Just curious, how would the mayans be able to keep up with our Calender, knowing which day Jesus Christ had been born...etc? When they are a complete ocean away anyways? When you put something like that into account, it sounds rather ridiculous.

[DrDea]

 I dont even HAVE a calender.I go by what that notification in the right hand corner of the monitor says. Oh crap.If I lose power,that means the world will end

[Meatwad]

That day in 2012 will just be a regular normal day like any other day. Nothing will happen at all, just a bunch of hooey

[Simba]

I still grin when I remember the two religious twonks on my doorstep that earnestly insisted that the world was going to end on 31st December 2000 . . .

 

[Belial]

In the year 2525

[Meatwad]

In the year 2525

When we get to 9595, then we are screwed

[Clone155]

OMG I just went downstairs to get a beer and noticed the calender on the fridge ends Dec 31, 2009................ the world will obviously end on this day since my calendar doesnt go any further

 

After 2012 im sure there will be someone else saying the world will end sometime in the future.

Isn't there supposed to be a GINORMOUS asteroid that is gonna come really close to our planet in 2029?

[fudgums]

Isn't there supposed to be a GINORMOUS asteroid that is gonna come really close to our planet in 2029?

Thats cool.

atleast we have Bruce Willis

[MORAY37]

Isn't there supposed to be a GINORMOUS asteroid that is gonna come really close to our planet in 2029?

Close is an understatement, it's predicted to come in under our Communication satellites.  Run! Run for the hills! 

  FUTURE

The future for Apophis on Friday, April 13 of 2029 includes an approach to Earth no closer than 29,470 km (18,300 miles, or 5.6 Earth radii from the center, or 4.6 Earth-radii from the surface) over the mid-Atlantic, appearing to the naked eye as a moderately bright point of light moving rapidly across the sky. Depending on its mechanical nature, it could experience shape or spin-state alteration due to tidal forces caused by Earth's gravity field.

This is within the distance of Earth's geosynchronous satellites. However, because Apophis will pass interior to the positions of these satellites at closest approach, in a plane inclined at 40 degrees to the Earth's equator and passing outside the equatorial geosynchronous zone when crossing the equatorial plane, it does not threaten the satellites in that heavily populated region.

Using criteria developed in this research, new measurements possible in 2013 (if not 2011) will likely confirm that in 2036 Apophis will quietly pass more than 49 million km (30.5 million miles; 0.32 AU) from Earth on Easter Sunday of that year (April 13).

This one did perk a few eyebrows when they first found it and started doing orbital computations.  A few days after discovery the first models showed a 1 in 5 chance, which got whittled down to 2.9% and then to this current prediction. 

[Angus]

Let's hope that if the math is wrong, Bruce is still at large

[hammer]

Isn't there supposed to be a GINORMOUS asteroid that is gonna come really close to our planet in 2029?

No, Earth will be gone. Haven't you been listening? (or, in this case, reading?)   

[KgB]

When you have a society that is fascinated by the stars, has a basic knowledge of mathematics, has written records to pass to the next generation, and a zest for knowledge that is unclouded by religion, you can discover many things about the universe even without a telescope.

But that sure a hell doesn't mean the world is gonna end.  

They had knowledge of orbits,planets,galaxies that we discovered 10-20 year's ago using orbit telescope.
And check it out,thers an ancient tribe "Dogon"
"The Dogon are famous for their astronomical knowledge taught through oral tradition, dating back thousands of years, referencing the star system, Sirius. Sirius is the dog star. It is linked with the Egyptian goddess Isis. The astronomical information known by the Dogon since that time, was not discovered and verified until the 19th and 20th centuries, making one wonder how the Dogon came by this knowledge. Their oral traditions say it was given to them by the Nommo.The amfibios god"
"As the story goes ... in the late 1930s, four Dogon priests shared their most important secret tradition with two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen after they had spent an apprenticeship of fifteen years living with the tribe. These were secret myths about the star Sirius, which is 8.6 light years from the Earth."
 The Dogon priests said that Sirius had a companion star that was invisible to the human eye. They also stated that the star moved in a 50-year elliptical orbit around Sirius, that it was small and incredibly heavy, and that it rotated on its axis.

Initially the anthropologists wrote it off publishing the information in an obscure anthropological journal, because they didn't appreciate the astronomical importance of the information.

What they didn't know was that since 1844, astronomers had suspected that Sirius A had a companion star. This was in part determined when it was observed that the path of the star wobbled. In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the second star making Sirius a binary star system (two stars).


The Dogons have described perfectly the DNA pattern made by an elliptical orbit created by the two stars of Sirius as they rotate make around each other. They believe Sirius to be the axis of the universe, and from it all matter and all souls are produced in a great spiral motion.
http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon.html

Makes you wonder huh?

[Nisky]

The Mayans had about 20 calenders at least 5 of which they still keep in secret. Kinda makes you wonder whats on those. The calender that is making all the fuss is called the long count calender its about the great cycle as they call it. Its 5125.36 years approximately. So when the conquistadors can thru and subjugated the Mayans and killed most some survived and a Mayan scholar adopted the Gregorian calander and started matching up dates and came up with the end date which is Dec. 21 at 11:11 Greenwich time. the beginning of the last great cycle was Aug 13 3114 BCE. The Mayans said that this was not the end of the world just the restarting of the Great cycle. They believed that we had gone thru 3 great cycles already and its people in this age that are putting this brand of the end of days on this calender roll over.

The Mayans also believe that to live thru a great cycle is a blessing a time of good luck and to celebrate, not stock up on bottled water. This is the great flaw in the whole 2012 theory the people that made the calender dont even believe the world is coming to an end in 2012. WE put this end of days twist on this because, at least i think so, of it ending on the winter solstice.

Although there are some strange things that will happen on that day like the sun only on that day will be in the exact center of the milky way galaxy. The last time that happened was about 26,000 years ago. We are also beginning a new sunspot cycle. In July  31 2006 NASA scientists  found a backwards sunspot meaning that it was polarized in the wrong direction from south to north instead of north to south. These could have a big effect such as proton storms and messin with the earths gravitational fields. The solar cycle changes every few years anyways tho. The earths poles are in the process of changing right now but wont fully change for 1200 years scientists claim. These happen randomly. Its pretty neat how they know this happens they look for ancient lava flows and because lava having a lot of iron it it flows toward the north. So they just have to date the lava flow and can get a rough estimate of what was true north at the time. This only happens about every 780,000 years.  

IMO its just another Y2K scare. We the human race are far to blemished to get off that easy!

[KgB]

Someone here said that they could discover that just by looking at stars without telescope, i seriosly doubt that:)