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What do you think of 2012

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    Do you think December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world like the Mayans Say it will be?

    -What is 2012-

    -2012nostradamus-

    In the Calender the year 2012 is said to be a time of great change. [SIZE=-1]There is zero scientific evidence that anything will happen, but there are numerous things that could easily threaten the human species in the year 2012, such as a geomagnetic reversal, asteroid strike or redgiant. Or something more intimate, like a flu pandemic, or a nuclear war.

    Scary Eh! Thant domes day for you.

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    survive2012.com said:
    [SIZE=-1]According to the Universal Book of Astronomy, Eta Carinae is: [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=-1]One of the most massive and remarkable known stars; it lies in the constellation Carina. Surrounded by the largest diffuse nebula in the sky, the Eta Carinae Nebula, it is an S Doradus star with a mass of over 100 Msun and a luminosity of about 4 million Lsun, putting it close to the theoretical limit of stellar stability. Only by shedding matter at the prodigious rate of 0.1 Msun per year has it managed to stay in one piece so far. Its variability is extraordinary.[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=-1] In 1843, it reached a visual magnitude of -1, making it, briefly, the second brightest star after Sirius, despite its distance of some 7,500 light-years. Accompanying this visual brightening was an expulsion of 2 to 3 Msun of material from the star's polar regions. This material, spewed from the star at speeds close to 700 km/s, formed two large, grayish, bipolar lobes, nicknamed the Homonculus Nebula, that have been photographed in spectacular detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Each lobe currently expands at a rate of 2.4 million km/hr and spans about 6.4 trillion km. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=-1]After the great eruption of the mid-nineteenth century, Eta Car faded in spurts to below naked-eye visibility, settling at about seventh magnitude. Recently, it has started to brighten again, gaining a full magnitude from 1950 to 1992 and is continuing its ascent. Eta Car emits powerfully across a range of wavelengths. At some infrared wavelengths, the star and its nebula are the brightest objects in the sky beyond the Solar System. The mid-infrared emission originates in dust ejected by the star during giant mass-loss events within the past several hundred years. X-rays come from an outer, horseshoe-shaped ring with an electron temperature of about 3 million K, that is about 2 light-years in diameter and was probably caused by an outburst that happened more than a thousand years ago. Regular, small-scale variations in the star's ultraviolet and X-ray output, with a period of 5.5 years, have led to the suggestion that Eta Car is actually a binary star. According to this theory, previous eruptions may have been due to the orbital interactions of the two stars. As for the star's powerful X-ray emission, most astronomers agree that this is the result of the collision of two dense stellar winds, but whether these emanate from the two stars of a close interacting binary system or from the fast and slow stellar winds of a single star remains unclear. One thing seems certain: Eta Carina is doomed to explode as a supernova in the not-too-distant future.[/SIZE]
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    Here is picture of this star.
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    After reading that quote and your post, I see very little cause to be worried.
     
    I sure hope not, I want to graduate high school.
    Bad Scenario: Yay, I'm half way through my senior year! *world explodes*....
    Well ****.....
     
    I used to brush theories about the world ending in 2012 off as ridiculous, but then I heard that Palin was going to run for president in the same year. The theory could be valid!

    And yeah, I don't see much happening with your post, the website and the quote. It even said that no one knows why the Mayans decided to choose 2012 as the ending of the world. Maybe they just got bored writing dates in their calender.
     
    I looked it up some more and did a lot of research.. it's bogus. 2012 isn't happening. What they're saying is going to happen is impossible. There is no way that the world can do all of those things by itself. The Mayans just made it up randomly, to see how much buzz it would get. They had a logical reason for 2000, didn't they? Did that happen? If it did, I must have slept through it all. 2000 myth = wrong. 2012 = not happening either.

    Lawl, there should be a sticky thread about this, since a new one gets made every two months. XD;
     
    Rekhyt said:
    I used to brush theories about the world ending in 2012 off as ridiculous, but then I heard that Palin was going to run for president in the same year. The theory could be valid!

    And yeah, I don't see much happening with your post, the website and the quote. It even said that no one knows why the Mayans decided to choose 2012 as the ending of the world. Maybe they just got bored writing dates in their calender.
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    It's supposedly the end of their calendar. It's a habit of the human race to predict catastrophic and even asinine things when we can no longer allot ourselves time. I'm sure that most of us are old enough to remember Y2K...

    Nutcase "prophets" have been proclaiming events like these for as long as we can remember. As a matter of fact, people claimed that the world would end on New Year's Eve of 2008... We're still here and we're still waiting with no fruitful results.

    In other words, there's no need to fear.
     
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    I doubt we're all going to die that year. At least I hope not, 'cuz that's close to the year I'll be graduating...plus I don't want to die young.
     
    Scarecrow1113 said:
    I doubt we're all going to die that year. At least I hope not, 'cuz that's close to the year I'll be graduating...plus I don't want to die young.
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    It's a good thing I'm going to graduate in the year 2011, then. I'm going to get a full year to party before we all die per mandate of the Mayans!
     
    Seems highly unlikely, I've heard that the Earth will simply cease to exist, that we will line up with the Milky Way and be devastated by comets and meteors, and now this.
    It is definitely far-fetched.
     
    lol. i just wanted to make a conversation. Anyway i think its folklore too. I'm graduating in 2013...just throwing that in there. Just wondering who voted it was true...just wondering
     
    Someone HAD to get tired of writing the whole Mayan calender for thousands of years later. >.>

    It's been said before, and I have chosen to believe it's all a myth, just like 2000 and 666.
     
    December 21 2012 is simply the date were the sunrise will seem to align with the heart of the Milky Way.

    It is based on a 25,000 year cycle, the Mayans had extreme faith in astrology.

    If the world ends, then I'll just try to survive and repopulate the human race...

    Wow, that'd be too much work even for me @~@.
     
    much like every other "doomsdate" it will be proven to be fake when it gets here, and a new one will arise, like 2035 or 2050, pick one.
     
    I think it is merely a coincidence..

    ....but on the off chance I'm wrong, I hope it is something we can physically fight. I'd much rather go down taking out remnants of Hell than a darn heatwave or something.(Greenhouse effect, right?)

    Which would be ironic. Because I love fire and heat.
     
    Rioku_Zanketa said:
    I think it is merely a coincidence..

    ....but on the off chance I'm wrong, I hope it is something we can physically fight. I'd much rather go down taking out remnants of Hell than a darn heatwave or something.(Greenhouse effect, right?)

    Which would be ironic. Because I love fire and heat.
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    And if you've played Doom 3, then you've already done that. :)

    If it were to happen, I'd imagine it being an asteroid slamming into earth for a colossal explosion. I doubt that's happening any time soon though.
     
    2012 is all just a bunch of hogwash made by fearmongers to make everybody panic and do crazy stuff so they can live.

    We lived through that Y2K crap and got out fine. I'd like to give my own apocalypse theory to those nutcase prophets!!
     
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