[Carlhole]

Apocalypse in 2012? Date spawns theories, film

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CNN', ' ')Fueled by a crop of books, Web sites with countdown clocks, and claims about ancient timekeepers, interest is growing in what some see as the dawn of a new era, and others as an expiration date for Earth: December 21, 2012.

The date marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on the Long Count calendar developed by the Maya, the ancient civilization known for its advanced understanding of astronomy and for the great cities it left behind in Mexico and Central America.

(Some scholars believe the cycle ends a bit later -- on December 23, 2012.)

Speculation in some circles about whether the Maya chose this particular time because they thought something ominous would happen has sparked a number of doomsday theories.

The hype also has mainstream Maya scholars shaking their heads.

"There's going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that's just criminal," said David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

"There is no serious scholar who puts any stock in the idea that the Maya said anything meaningful about 2012."

[bratticus]

The day after 12.19.19.17.19 is 13.0.0.0.0.

So what?

A b'ak'tun is only 394 years long.

The 13th b'ak'tun started on September 18, 1618

Did the world end then?

[vision-master]

The eight spoked wheel, the time when we have a terrestrial alignment with the divine alignment.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he arrows of the Saggitarius points to the dark rift, which is the gravitational waves emitting from the black hole, and incident which happens every 11,000 years, an event where the drawings of Nostradamus predicted three eclipses before this event to occur. The culmination of this event is expected to occur similar to the Mayans on 21 December 2012.

[jasonraymondson]

Just CNN spreading the message of fear that their corporate gods wish to push upon the people.

Dance monkeys dance

[outcast]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'T')he day after 12.19.19.17.19 is 13.0.0.0.0.

So what?

A b'ak'tun is only 394 years long.

The 13th b'ak'tun started on September 18, 1618

Did the world end then?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'J')ust CNN spreading the message of fear that their corporate gods wish to push upon the people.

Dance monkeys dance

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'T')he day after 12.19.19.17.19 is 13.0.0.0.0.

So what?

A b'ak'tun is only 394 years long.

The 13th b'ak'tun started on September 18, 1618

Did the world end then?

[vision-master]

2012: NASA sees start of “new solar cycle”


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') bumpy ride ahead for sats and power grids. (Image: NASA)

NASA today published a forecast for a “big and intense” new solar cycle in 2011 or 2012, which its suggests will wreak havoc on satellite GPS and telecommunications, power grids and air traffic.

NASA says the next solar cycle, Solar Cycle 24, “could make itself felt as never before.”

We are now at the end of Solar Cycle 23 (see graphic, and excerpts, below), according to the U.S. space agency.

[IgnoranceIsBliss]

Great, more to look forward to.

Great stuff for the "In the event of rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned" crowd.

Glad I'm not in Asia for the great swamping. But life without the power grid won't be any fun at all.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IgnoranceIsBliss', 'G')reat, more to look forward to.

Great stuff for the "In the event of rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned" crowd.

Glad I'm not in Asia for the great swamping. But life without the power grid won't be any fun at all.

[yeahbut]

This date will pass like all the others. Humans seek patterns, meaning and significance in everything. It's how we make our highly successful way in the world- from our earliest days learning to recognise our mother's face on out, we catalogue images and connections.

Our amazing brain serves us well in this, but it has it's drawbacks too, usually manifested in the inability to recognise when things aren't significant. A good example might be believing coincidence to be evidence of a greater scheme at work, or drawing lines between stars and finding pictures of animals, or wondering if someone is ok and finding out they're unwell and seeing this as evidence of psychic abilities(conveniently forgetting all the other times when you wondered if they were ok and they were fine). These ideas often coincide with the idea that humankind, and in particular oneself, is at the center of things, so to speak.

The date 2012 is a human generated pattern, and will pass like all our other patterns. I'm just glad that, at least for this latest doomsday, no one is suggesting that you'll need to be on a special spaceship to avoid it, and there's only one way to get on board. The inablility to apply quality control to pattern recognition can take human beings to some terrible places.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', 'T')his date will pass like all the others. Humans seek patterns, meaning and significance in everything. It's how we make our highly successful way in the world- from our earliest days learning to recognise our mother's face on out, we catalogue images and connections.

Our amazing brain serves us well in this, but it has it's drawbacks too, usually manifested in the inability to recognise when things aren't significant. A good example might be believing coincidence to be evidence of a greater scheme at work, or drawing lines between stars and finding pictures of animals, or wondering if someone is ok and finding out they're unwell and seeing this as evidence of psychic abilities(conveniently forgetting all the other times when you wondered if they were ok and they were fine). These ideas often coincide with the idea that humankind, and in particular oneself, is at the center of things, so to speak.

The date 2012 is a human generated pattern, and will pass like all our other patterns. I'm just glad that, at least for this latest doomsday, no one is suggesting that you'll need to be on a special spaceship to avoid it, and there's only one way to get on board. The inablility to apply quality control to pattern recognition can take human beings to some terrible places.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '2')012 is a human generated pattern? WTF.

It's about the Stars and our Planet.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '2')012 is a human generated pattern? WTF.

It's about the Stars and our Planet.

[outcast]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')rom now on until the end of 2012, time will seem to speed up. Major events that happened once in a decade will happen at a faster and faster rate, from once in a decade, to every year, to every day, to many in one day.