2012 End-of-the-World Countdown Based On Mayan Calendar Starts Today

ABC News via Yahoo ^ | 21 Dec 2011 | Suzan Clarke

[edpc]

The countdown to the apocalypse is on.

We're one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity.

But will it?

There have been many end of times predictions over the years. Christian radio host Harold Camping faced widespread ridicule when his predictions that the world would end twice this year - on May 21, and then on Oct. 21 - failed to materialize.

But in the flurry of doomsday predictions - there have been similar dire warnings about the world coming to an end from various cultures, including Native Americans, the Chinese, Egyptians and even the Irish - the supposed Mayan prophecy seems to have held the most sway with believers.

[LibLieSlayer]

Just another BS y2k scam.

LLS

[IrishPennant]

So you think its okay if I get that new living room set with no payment due until January 2013????

[freedomlover]

"there have been similar dire warnings about the world coming to an end from various cultures, including Native Americans, the Chinese, Egyptians and even the Irish"

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What, when the Guinness factory burned?

[onedoug]

And we´ll all eat our neighbors just like they did.

[americanophile]

Nice knowing you all :0

[taxcontrol]

Astrological observations? ... aliens told them?? .... lots of really good drugs??? Heck I dont know. But we do know the calendar does end in the same year and I believe month which our solar system crosses the galactic plane.

[bkepley]

It’s not a good theory because it does not cross the galactic plane in 2012. We’re light years away and it will take millions of years to get there unless we get a huge push so I guess the huge push will be what kills us, not the crossing of the “galactic plane”.

[Old Sarge]

That’s a scary thought.

Unless of course, he suspends the elections in October and declares himself President-For-Life.

[dfwgator]

“...and I feel fine.”

[Mr. K]

I think they got it down to the right day and time

That’s pretty freaky

It makes me wonder what what effect a giant magnetic field IN OPPOSITION to our miniscule magnetic field will have?

Make the earth stop spinning? a sudden deceleration of the center of our planet (that generates the magnetic field?)

slowing it down or stopping it would wipe out all life (the magnetic field protects us from the solar wind)

[GreenHornet]

We're one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity.

If the ancient Mayans are right, it means I will win the lottery on Dec. 20, 2012.

[null and void]

Most likely?

12/21/2012 will have the same temporal significance as the points where all the longitude lines cross have geographically.

I'm holding out for a thin layer of galactic dust that scatters galatic light in a cross-shaped pattern while we are transiting it...

[Mr. K]

y2K was not a scam

It was a WELL PREPARED FOR potential catastrophe that WAS AVERTED thanks to all the hype and effort put into finding out the problems

By the heroic efforts of many software engineers (gosh can we ever thank them enough?)

but seriously folks...

I personally worked 80 hour weeks finding and fixing Y2K bugs and know of many systems that would have failed. they were a lot easier to spot than we were worried aboit- reset the date and see what happens- then find and fix.

And we found A LOT.

So all the hype led to a lot of good work to fix it. Because nothig happend people think it was all hype- but it wasn’t by a long shot.

[albionin]

I saw a show years ago that said that some writing they found in the great pyramid said that this current pope would be the last one and his health is supposed to be failing so maybe.......

[freedomlover]

“Nice knowing you all”

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Can I have your stuff?

[Oatka]

How many remember the disaster that was supposed to occur on 05/05/2000 when most of the planets would be in alignment (on the far side of the sun) and the combined gravitational pull would tilt the earth and kill everybody.

12/21/12 is of the same stuff.

I remember reading when all the faithful burned their homes and clothes and went atop a hill in Europe and awaited the Millennium in the year 1000. Oops.

And then there was the Ray Bradbury tale about the coming end of the world, so this family killed their kids to prevent them from suffering. Later, the scientists said "Oops!"

[elcid1970]

And in the U.S. in 1844 a charlatan predicted the Earth would be destroyed by fire, thousands gathered on hilltops in white `ascension robes’ while the predictor locked himself in a fireproof `Salamander Safe’. Nothing happened, he recalculated the day of destruction, nothing happened again, he took the money collected for ascension supplies and ran off into oblivion.

Just asking, but why is so much credence being placed in a prediction made by a basically Stone Age culture that practiced human sacrifice and had been wiped out by the competing and equally barbaric Aztecs by the time the Spaniards arrived? What makes Mayans so special?

[RobinOfKingston]

I’m so glad I was born when I was, and am able to live through the end of the world. What a story to tell my future descendants.

[Mr. K]

I think it will have more than that...

Longitude and Latitude are artifical lines that have no physical existance

The earth will be a big magnetic field passing through an even bigger one. I am betting the bigger one wins

while we are in the same hemisphere we are actually getting a boost from the galaxy’s magnetic field- once we cross over, who knows how long ‘til we feel a braking effect.

And even the tiniest amount will shift all that water... some place

[LibLieSlayer]

I did not mean to denigrate those fine efforts... but there were many scams... the scams were the crooks that sold and marketed fear and sold it to gullible people that would buy into it... food stocks... generators etc... man there were some scams going on. 200 million people also held their breath when midnight rolled around.

LLS