[blam]

We're all gonna die!!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Professor says Mayan calendar does not portend Earth’s doom

That's a relief.

[Prodigal Son]

We have but 9 yrs to conquer the globe ;-)

[Dog Gone]

“It’s kind of hard to say exactly what they meant,"

It's kind of hard to take any culture seriously who murdered the winning team as a sacrifice in their version of basketball.

[Sparta]

[Semper Paratus]

The Mayans couldn't predict the end of their civilization, I doubt they would have a clue about the rest of the world.

[Oberon]

Some researchers believe that date is important because it coincides with the winter solstice, and on that date the Milky Way galaxy, on which the Mayans placed great significance, will align with the sun.

Is it just me, or is this sentence entirely devoid of meaning?

[IronJack]

It's always amazing how many people who reject Christianity as too mystical and complicated willingly accept the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stone. It's like the Steve Martin routine where he said "If I didn't have my lucky astrology mood watch, I'd have nothing to believe in at all!"

[Bob]

It's worse than you think. I just checked my new calendar and it'll happen December 31st, 2003 not in 2012.

We're doomed, doomed, I say!

[LibWhacker]

. . . and on that date the Milky Way galaxy, on which the Mayans placed great significance, will align with the sun.

Huh? We're IN the Milky Way, more specifically, in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. So in what sense are we "lining up" with it? Astrology columnists shouldn't be allowed to write on science!

[Billthedrill]

Nuts. Looks like I gotta return those library books after all...

[StriperSniper]

“The world won’t end in 2012," laughed Gomez, who teaches in UA’s astronomy and physics department. “I can assure you of that."

Now, I'm worried. ;-)

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

That's it! I'm hitting the shower!

[Light Speed]

The Precession cycle of the Zodiac....the 12 signs...the 12 ages.
12 x 1,260....26,000 yrs our time measure.
Some in the Catastrophist side of historical study believe that knowledge has been forwarded via astronomical math/symbolisms..indicating junctions..or crossing points.
Our Galaxy Porpoises up and down on the galactic plain...passing through areas which have comets of immense magnitude.
the "Crossing"..disloges some comets...they begin to spiral into our solar system ...this process can take millions of years..or less.
the comets become torn apart by gravametrics within our system...some drawn in by Jupiters gravity well..some by the Sun.
some will circle the sun..to be sling-shot out...becomeing comets of long and short period.
some comets will fragment..portions impacting planets..with remaining on ellipses of varied time interval.

An area science is looking into to understand..and may have been noted...mapped to some degree by the ancients..and passed on.
recently several comets have appeared...comets of long duration...unrecorded by man.
they appeared suddenly...the portent...more could be on the way.
Scientists were able to time move the continents on computer...the Chixilub impact that was said to have terminated the Dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous had infact not been the only impactor...3 more were mapped..hitting the earth in the equitorial region of that time.
The impacts were bigger than Chixulub.
This information supports the notion of giant comets being torn appart within our solar system by gravametrics...like a frieght train...like Shoe Maker Levy 9..they spiral in ..one after another.
Extinctions...Epoch ending realities could very well be caused by Catastrophism.....the catalyst for this....comets.

[PoorMuttly]

Huh. I must have the wrong Mayan calendar.

I have the one with the picture of the kitten in the watering can.

[mrsmith]

"... By Steve Reeves "

Well, if Hercules ain't worried- I ain't either.

[Mo1]

Some people believe the ancient Mayan calendar suggests the end of the world will come on Dec. 21, 2012.

So does this mean I don't have to finish paying off my mortgage??

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

A topic from a few years ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/815326/posts?page=59#59

[SunkenCiv]