The 2012 movie is coming out soon and I think it might be a good movie (in my opinion of course). I'm a fan of giant explosions and disaster movies. As I watched the trailer, the same question pops up: is the world going to end?
Of course by now everyone has heard of 2012. Mayans predict it, Nostradamus predicts it. And so many other sources of doomsday predictions like the Book of Revelations say the end is nigh. I'm sure everyone has commented on it on one post or another, and everyone has their own opinion on when, how, and if our world, as well as our existence, will end. So I just want to know exactly your opinion on armageddon: the end of teh world.
In my opinion 2012 is possible, but very unlikely. no one can know for sure. However, i guarantee you one way or the other, Earth will be destroyed, wether it be by an expanding and exploding sun, or a 200-mile wide asteroid slamming into the planet. Even the very unlikely possibility that a black hole wanders into our system or a gamma ray burst from a quazar or pulsar just so happened to point in our direction. Earth will disappear, but humanity doesn't. One day Humanity will face a danger, either by the Yellowstone SuperVolcano, a meteor, or the final World War, that will test our ability to survive against insurmountable odds. If we are able to stop or survive a major catastrophe, then that proves that we are ready to face any danger the universe has to throw at us. And yes, we can probably survive a zombie apocalypse
Soo...what do you think?
Note: This kinda has to do with Sins because the Invasion of both the Vasari and Advent will prove wether humanity can fight an alien threat on two fronts.
-I am Noobis, GOD OF FAIL AND NOOBITRY!!!! BOW BEFORE MY FAIL! BOW!!
Edit: ok, it could be all the opposite. Depends of the point of view used.
The Mayans did NOT predict the end of the world in 2012. As any good Mayan historian will tell you, 2012 was simply the end of an 'age' in their calendar (BC to AD type thing). There are dates recorded after this (years for holy ceremonies etc), indicating that they certainly didn't believe the world was going to end then. The whole 2012 thing came from someone learning about this 'end of an age' thing and assuming that it meant the end of the world.
Anyway according to the Bible code the world should have ended a few years ago anyway (see the Moby Dick example for why the Bible code is nonsense).
2 words:
Zombie Apocalypse.
I for one welcome this outcome, i'm already prepared, I only took up working out just incase a zombie apocalypse ever happened. I have a tidy selection of ornamental weapons that are still useful for fighting zombies, and I know what to do in zombie situations thanks to TV, films and games.
Slightly off topic though: Your question about Sins, yes I do believe that the TEC can battle alien assaults on 2 fronts, becayse the Vasari are on a time-deadline anyway, and though the advent have advanced tech, communication, etc, TEC have money, and money wins wars.
Fairly close, yes. In 2012, the galactic rotation reaches it's 'halfway' point. This is one of the rare times that the 13th sign of Zodiac is visible. Nostradamus' predictions were that the world as we know it would come to an end when the 8 spokes of the wheel disappear - this is believed to be a reference to the axis of rotation between the Earth and the Milky Way which align on - approximately - December 12, 2012.
Out of all the things we know about astronomy, this is by far the least threatening thing out there... As far as we know, there is no immediate threat to life as we know it in space.
People love using space as an example because there IS so many things out there that could bring existance to an end for humanity, but the odds in itself are often astronomical. If you truly understand these events i.e. Supernovae(we are so so very far from stars), black holes(the distance to reach non escape velocity of a black hole is very small, a HUGE star would have to collapse NEAR/in earths orbits for this to be a concern., gamma ray bursts(Direct Line of Fire, GRB's shoot straight), you would see we are in little danger. I would be more worried about betelgeuse than anything else out there, but you never see people talking about it for some reason. All in all, I see nothing significant about the year, you can quote me on that on dec 12.
I never said it was a predicted end of the world, nor did I say I believed the date carried anything other than astrnomical significance. It's merely what has been said.
Truth be told, I'm far more terrified by the people on the Earth than by things that may or may not be lurking in space. You need only read internet forums to be reminded of why
Ummmmm...... a magnetic pole shift might make some nice fireworks, and cnacer rates might rise a little in the area the field travels over, but I think it's safe to say that it could never destroy the planet or make it's surface uninhabititble.
I believe he is actually talking about a shift in the Earth's rotationaly axis. I thought he ment magnetic poles at first, too, but I looked it up just to be sure. Supposedly the Eath's axis changes every now and then, which could have the potential for mass disaster. But since pole shift hasn't been proved yet, no one really knows.
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Oh. Still, although I don't have any math behind it, it doesn't seem like that would destroy much of anything. You might get some economic nastiness as latitudes and seasons (and thus climate, agriculture, and tourism demand) change, but other than that, not much would happen. Besides, surely we've had these shifts occur at SOME point during the 4.3 billion years Earth has had life.
Oh I tend to agree Whiskey, however as I mentioned in my post I can see both sides of the coin here. It's a "what if" kind of question to me, rather than discussing actual possible outcomes. I like to think of us Christians as those kids in math class who cheated by reading the back of the book first; we know whats coming.
I read an interesting book entitled "The Seven Daughters of Eve" which details the efforts of the auther, a scientist in the field of genetics, who - using DNA sampling - built a blue print of Human growth and migration and, with assistance from the other scientific fields, traced us all the way back to Africa some 50,000 years ago. This wasn't a theoretical deduction rather a deduction based on the joint works of many fields.
How old the Earth actually is, however, is one of the questions I intend to ask the Big Guy once I get there. Anyway, we can take this to Private Messages if you'd like, I'm sure the others don't want to read our ramblings when we can talk about ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSES!!
No no no, keep this discussion here, its quite interesting, even to those of us that prefer a zombie orientated apocalypse rather than being eaten by a star.
Well, doesn't it seem a bit unrealistic that the earth has only existed for 10k years? However at the same time, its a bit awkward that if the earth has been here for so long that we are the only properly intelligent species.
How would you explain dinosaurs, other fossils and other ancient relics that have been dated to X amount of years old?
I do find it hard to believe that man can effectively measure how old the earth is whether it be 10k years or 4 billion years old, I think most things are subject to theory.
Uhhhhh...... people...... I said life first arose 4.3 billion years ago (it's something like that number, my recollection of the exact supposed date is a bit hazy). The Earth itself formed 4.6 billion years ago. This data is fairly reliable, and was not gained through carbon dating. And the fossil record proves that humans and dinosaurs were millions of years apart. (Again, this was calibrated using rock layers, as opposed to carbon-dating).
Yeh but my point is, how the hell do you acurately predict something that happened 4.6 billion years ago? I mean thats a really fecking long time, the only way you'd be able to actually prove it, is if you travelled 4.6 billion years away from earth, and looked back at it.
4 billion years is a really fecking long time.
Dec 21st 2012 is a hoax; most probably a valid astronomical discovery by the Mayans turned into a complex scam to generate collective attention by the masses on a series of intellectual concepts aimed at cashing in on the "Mystery".
Human minds are that weak (about anything, btw).
You should be more worried about these upcoming **inevitable** events;
- Nuclear arsenals use for any reasons (Civilian societies paying the heavy price for military or religious freaks)
- next Ice age (cyclic, variable degrees of intensity, potential for huge extinctions)
- Asteroid_S or Comet_S striking Earth (can actually reset the clock on evolution of whomever survives)
- Magnetic tilt, shifting the whole technological devices to waste (+/-, electricity, production stops, agriculture vanishes, chaos -- possibly for decades or less)
- Biological epidemics, mutation of bacteriologic "competition" aiming to eliminate the human species or more (reproduction fails - for example)
- Politics, Economics, Mythics, Prophetics (influence can go a long way towards hiding the truth from the most in order to PROFIT or abuse whatever power any groups have)
None of which can actually destroy our planet or the ENTIRE population.
Right now the odds are waaaaayyyyyyy against us... but we can VERY easily spin these tables to our favor, if only to escape Earth itself if & when necessary since the galaxy is vast enough. I'd say we're about a millenium or two behind a rational target for inter-stellar colonizations too busy that we were staging (and spending energy, money, time, etc) wars against anyone else here.
ETs are watching & laughing; they're even on their way to conquer us polluters.
And, you're worried about some Galactic scale transition or coincidental relative locations of anything? Yep, we move in space -- or remain static & dumb.
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