DOOMS DAY!

The Long Count Calendar of the Ancient Mayans ends on Dec 21 2012. There isn't much information regarding what the Mayans thought would occur in 2012, but the consensus of opinion is that there will be great change. To some people this means a positive, spiritual change. Others, consider that a catastrophic event may have been predicted. There is zero scientific evidence that anything will happen, but if the dinosaurs can make it, we can too. And yes to confirm, the dinosaurs did not make it....


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Predicted and scheduled events of 2012:

January

* January 1 - Poland is set to adopt the Euro.
* January 15 - Presidential elections in Finland.
* January 13–22 - The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
* January 31 - 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019 km; 16,639,090 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on 1996-02-17.[1]

February

* February 5 - Super Bowl XLVI will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
* February 6 - Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. A series of festivities across the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations will likely run throughout the year.

April

* April 1 - The United States Census of 1940 data is released to the public.
* April 17 - The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.

May

* May - French Presidential election (if the incumbent's term had normally finished in May).
* May - Irish general election is due to be held if the current government remains in office for a full term.
* May 20 - Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday. Path of totality runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.

June

* June 6 - The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
* June 9 – July 1 - The 2012 European Football Championship will be played in Poland and Ukraine.

July

* July 1 - Presidential Elections in Mexico.
* July 18–21 - The 2012 World Rowing Championships will be held at Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
* July 27 - Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 7:30 pm UTC, 8:30pm BST.[2]

August

* August 12 - Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a Sunday.
* August 29 - Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

September

* September 9 - End of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

November

* November 6 - The United States Presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives elections.
* November 6 - Puerto Rico general election.
* November 13 - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
* November 28 - Penumbral lunar eclipse.

December

* December - Presidential elections in South Korea to elect the 18th President.
* December 1 - The next President of Mexico will be inaugurated.
* December 3 - Jupiter oppositions.
* December 21 - 11:11 UTC. Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.[3]
* December 21 - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).[4] The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.[5] This date figures prominently in the religious syncretism of New Age Mayanism.
* December 23 - The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "astronomical" or "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.[6]
* December 31 - The Kyoto Protocol will expire.
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2012 geophysical and cosmological speculations

John Major Jenkins and others claim that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center. It is claimed that this event will cause numerous changes on Earth. However, the event is only a visual phenomenon from the earth's perspective, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes or the 26,000 year wobble of the earth, and thus only changes our perspective, not the actual position of the earth in relation to the galaxy. In short, there is no gravitational force or radiation to be expected from this event because other than the tilt of the earth, nothing will be any different from what occurs in any other solstice.

There are also claims such as those of Michael Tsarion that an actual physical alignment of our entire solar system will occur with the horizontal plane of the Milky Way Galaxy on that day. The solar system is moving around the center of the galaxy every 225 million years or so, and while doing so is moving up and down in a cycle crossing the plane every 33 million years. According to the Journal Nature, however, there is evidence of the solar system crossing the galactic plane 3 million years ago. This would mean that we are moving away from the galactic plane, not toward it, and we will not be due to cross it for another 30 million years.

There are also theories that a currently unknown planet, sometimes referred to as planet x or Nibiru, which supposedly has an odd orbit that only enters the local solar system every 3600 years will return in 2012 causing many problems. The idea is traced back to Zecharia Sitchin's translations of Sumerian texts, and specifically to his interpretation of the VA 243 cylinder seal, which he says shows that the Sumerians knew of 12 planets (sun, moon, and ten others). This idea has been challenged by his peers, most notably Michael Heiser.

Among other possible scenarios is that a shift of the Earth's magnetic poles may occur, and that this will leave the earth vulnerable to harmful radiation from the sun. According to NASA magnetic pole reversal does not occur on a particular day or year, but over the course of thousands of years. Furthermore, the magnetic field does not vanish during this natural cycle, but becomes more complex as it makes the transition.

Some proponents of the pole shift scenario claim that this shift would be a physical movement of the poles of the earth, and not simply a magnetic shift. This event is called a true polar wander. Earth has experienced a few degree shift in the past, but nowhere near a reversal, and there is no reason to suggest this is likely or even possible. According to William Sager, a Texas A&M Oceanographer, a slight shift in the physical pole occurs at a rate between 5 and 10 degrees per million years, which means that this event could not happen on a particular day or year but only over a long period of time.