Will the world really end in 2012?

Question

im so scared, arnt you?

Answer 1

It's a HOAX! Why would I be scared of something that is just FANTASY!



The 2012 hoax is FANTASY, and SUPERSTITION not SCIENCE!



Do you really believe that the 30,000+ amateur astronomers just in the USA!!, and the hundreds of professional astronomers, would have just MISSED seeing Planet X! No where on the internet can you find the sky coordinates for this fake planet..



No Near Earth Objects are on a collision course with Earth right now for 2012, and a magnetic pole shift takes thousands of years to occur. The rotational AXIS of the Earth has NEVER shifted 90 degrees in the 4.5 billion year history of Earth.



Also, the Earth and the sun line-up on the center of the Milky Way Galaxy EVERY YEAR on December 21st! We are actually about 6 degrees away from the galactic plane, and moving further AWAY! Further, the planets NEVER actually align in a straight line; their tilted orbits prevent this.

http://www.etsu.edu/physics/etsuobs/starprty/22099dgl/planalign.htm



So please forget about this 2012 nonsense. It's just junk science gone wild on the internet!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I

Watch this famous astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson as he makes fun of the 2012 hoax.



http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers

Read NASA's 2012 debunking web site and see what REAL scientists say about 2012.



As for the Mayans, they believed that the Earth was flat and had 4 corners. They also believed the sky was held up by 5 trees each a different color, and the Earth was resting on the back of a gigantic crocodile floating on a huge pond of water lilies! and of course, they worshiped the SUN god! Their calendar was about as accurate as the ancient Chinese, Romans, Greeks, and Arabs. All of them used for farming and religious ceremony.



Good grief! Just "new age" hocus pocus! and junk science gone wild on the internet.



http://www.2012hoax.org

Answer 2

Don't be scared the world has been around billions and billions of year why all of a sudden on this exact date will it just explode? It wont, the reason a lot of people think the world will end in the year 2012 is because that is when the Maya calendar ends but not the world, so don't worry. The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to

resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT, just some extra information about the so called "date" the world will end.

Answer 3

Of course not. And no, I'm not afraid of a year. Only children, gullible people, and fools believe the 2012 hoax. The doomsday scenarios are nothing but wild speculation by the scientifically challenged. The world isn’t going to end in 2012. The claims that scientists are predicting doomsday in 2012 are lies. Don't worry about it. It is just people making money off books, advertising, "survival kits", and whatever else they can dream up to sell.



There is not a shred of scientific validity behind any of the claims being made by the fruit loops and scam artists promoting the 2012 hoax. There were no prophecies before the hoaxers invented them. The Mayan calendar doesn't end, it merely changes to a new cycle. The ancient Maya didn't have pencils though, they carved it in stone.



There will be no alignments, killer solar flares, stray planets, photon belts, polar reversals, black holes, or zombie apocalypse.



Here is a really good website that covers all the various claims about 2012 and about the charlatans who are promoting it. Go to it and read about the things that have you concerned. They give sources for their information and they aren't selling anything. The others are NASA Senior Scientist Dr. David Morrison, Dr. Donald Yeomans of JPL Near Earth Object Program, and Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, all saying that the 2012 tripe is false.

Answer 4

http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/?p=59



The Mayan calendar does not end in December 2012. Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period, but then – just as your calendar begins again on January 1 - another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.



There are no credible predictions for worrisome astronomical events in 2012. The activity of the sun is cyclical with a period of roughly 11 years and the time of the next solar maximum is predicted to occur about May 2013. However, the Earth routinely experiences these periods of increased solar activity – for eons - without worrisome effects. The Earth’s magnetic field, which deflects charged particles from the sun, does reverse polarity on time scales of about 400,000 years but there is no evidence that a reversal, which takes thousands of years to occur, will begin in 2012. Even if this several thousand year-long magnetic field reversal were to begin, that would not affect the Earth’s rotation nor would it affect the direction of the Earth’s rotation axis… only Superman can do that.



The only important gravitational tugs experienced by the Earth are due to the moon and sun. There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and Sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.



The predictions of doomsday or dramatic changes on December 21, 2012 are all false. Incorrect doomsday predictions have taken place several times in each of the past several centuries. Readers should bear in mind what Carl Sagan noted several years ago; “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”



For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, the burden of proof is on the people making these claims. Where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and all the passionate, persistent and profitable assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.



For more information on the silliness surrounding December 2012, see:



http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/nutshell.html

Wikipedia: look under “Nibiru collision.”

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html



And:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/69774827.html

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers

http://www.2012hoax.org/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/solar_max_sidebar_000131.html

http://skepdic.com/maya.html

http://www.universetoday.com/42603/2012-combat-the-nonsense/



Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqn-zZzbLw



"Too bad the Maya couldn't predict their own collapse."

Answer 5

No the world will not end in 2012. The current cycle of the Mayan Calendar will, just like our calendar will end on December 31st and a new one start on January 1st. Yeesh, tin-foil hat city around here.

Answer 6

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gosh people just think it will because the mayans made a calendar that predicted many natural disasters and it ended on winter solstice 2012. if you ask any mayan they will say it is not the end of the world, it is the end of a cycle.



people have gotta stop believing in this crap.

Answer 7

Scared? No. Trying not to laugh? Yes.

What you need is our handy 15-part translation guide for interpreting what the crackpots say about 2012. Print it out and keep it handy when visiting woo-woo websites or watching the History Channel.



1) Statement: "Scientists say..."

Translation: "No scientists say. We've made it up, which is why we don't specify which scientists."



2) St: "NASA has confirmed..."

Tr: "NASA has not confirmed..." See 1) above.



3) St: "Planet X/Nibiru is only visible from the South Pole."

Tr: "We assume you're too stupid to realise that anything visible from the South Pole is also visible from Australia, South America, Southern Africa..."



4) St: "Planet X/Nibiru was discovered by the IRAS satellite in 1983."

Tr: "The object seen by IRAS was eventually confirmed to be a distant galaxy, but we've ignored all later reports because they disprove our claim."



5) St: "There will be a rare alignment between the Sun and the galaxy."

Tr: "There will be no alignment between the Sun and the galaxy which doesn't take place every single year."



6) St: "There is a blank area on Google Sky which hides Planet X/Nibiru."

Tr: "If you look at this area of the sky with your own eyes, you will see no sign of this object, but we don't like to mention that."



7) St: "Many ancient predictions point to this date."

Tr: " No ancient predictions point to this date. They've all been made up in the last few years."



8) St: "The Earth's poles will reverse in 2012."

Tr: "We don't really understand the difference between rotational poles and magnetic poles. If we'd studied geophysics we'd realise that a magnetic pole shift takes thousands of years and a rotational pole shift is a physical impossibility."



9) St: "The Earth will be destroyed by a solar flare."

Tr: "We haven't studied solar physics either. If we had, we'd understand that solar flares are no threat to life on Earth."



10) St: "The planets will align."

Tr: "We hope no-one will try running some software which simulates the positions of the planets because they'll find out we're lying again."



11) St: "Join our forum and share information about 2012. Anyone posting debunking messages will be banned."

Tr: "We don't want anyone spoiling our world of delusion and fantasy with real scientific facts."



12) St: "The surface of the Sun will be disrupted by a 'barycentric sleeve'."

Tr: "We'd like to blind you with science, but we don't know anything about it so we'll just invent some meaningless claptrap in the hope you'll fall for it."



13) St: "No-one knows what will happen in 2012."

Tr: "We do know what will happen in 2012 - absolutely nothing."



14) St: "Earthquakes, tsunamis, fire, flood, millions will die...."

Tr: "We like to appear knowledgeable and important and we don't particularly care if we terrify kids and cause people to commit suicide."



15) St: Support our advertisers and buy our books/videos/survival kits.."

Tr: "We know our predictions are garbage, but we'd like to rake in as much of your cash as we can in order to fund our comfortable retirement in 2013."



All the above statements have been lifted from genuine crackpot websites.

Answer 8

i seriously doubt that it will. there is no proof or anything that it will end. but everyone has different feelings and beliefs about 2012. i dont think the world will end, maybe a crisis or something will occur, but the whole world ending? no.

Answer 9

yes it will end. december 21, so to celebrate the end of the world as we know, i will be having a small get together at my house on the 20th. you are invited. and as many other people as we can fit into the grand canyon. no kidding. i say we should have a party in the grand canyon on the 20th. 50 million people ? 100 million ? i don't know. how many people could fit in the grand canyon. and on the rim. maybe spill over into glen canyon if we have to. see you there

Answer 10

YES. We are ALL going to die!!!!! The world as we know it is gonna end. Elvis will come back, so get ready teddy for some rock around the clock till the day you die on blueberry hill. Seriously though, we are ALL going to die!!!!!

Answer 11

the 2012 date is based on prophacies and pseudo-science, not facts

Answer 12

it doesnt specifically say the world will end,

if something DOES happen it might not be the apocalypse. but nothing will happen because nothing EVER happens.

Answer 13

nooo ! the world isnt qoinq to end !! its the mayans startinq this crap bc they dont have nothinq better to do then trick people .

Answer 14

no one knows , just wait like me whats gonna happen. well im just continuing my life anyway and dont worry about it too much. if its gonna end I dont think we are able to stop it. im not scared of death ; )

Answer 15

yes. yes, im scared.

Answer 16

Gosh people will never get over this crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1