Earths Final Day

[Lumpy 1]

Just an interesting little thing to think about.

The Maya believed the Earth's final day will be December 21, 2012. The Egyptians, native Americans and the Chinese had a similar conclusion.

The ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!

Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012

 

[Modbert]

Terral's going to be mad at you for cutting in on his action.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Terral's going to be mad at you for cutting in on his action.

Terral? never heard of him/her? I'm kinda new.

 

[Modbert]

Terral? never heard of him/her? I'm kinda new.

Go take a peek in the Conspiracy Theory section.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Terral? never heard of him/her? I'm kinda new.

Go take a peek in the Conspiracy Theory section.

Interesting fellow in a cookie putts sorta way

 

[Bootneck]

Just an interesting little thing to think about.

The Maya believed the Earth's final day will be December 21, 2012. The Egyptians, native Americans and the Chinese had a similar conclusion.

The ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!

Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012

That will be the day the cow jumps over the moon and the dish runs away with the spoon!

 

[Ringel05]

Earths Final Day

Party time!!!!!

 

[Skull Pilot]

TS Eliot - The Hollow Men

A penny for the Old Guy

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.


II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer -

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

 

[007]

A scientific look at the 2012 Mayan doomsday prophecy



by Thomas Lee

The Long Count calendar used by the Mayan people in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica "turns over" in the year 2012. Some have taken this to mean that the Mayans believed that the world would end on that date. However, there is no evidence that they actually held such a belief.

Many ancient civilizations had their own unique calendar systems, but only a very few remain in use in modern times. Some we know of only from archeological evidence, and in many cases we may not know much about them. There may have been many civilizations that made doomsday predictions based on their calendars, predictions that we no longer know about or cannot interpret because our knowledge is incomplete.

The Mayan calendar, however, is one ancient calendar system that we are fortunate enough to have fairly good information about. In fact, they effectively had two calendars that they used simultaneously: the Calendar Round and the Long Count. It is only the Long Count that seems to concern those who believe in the prophecies of doom.

The Calendar Round consisted of a 365-day cycle and a 260-day cycle. The Haab' cycle consisted of 18 months of 20 days each, followed by 5 intercalary days that were considered unlucky. The 260-day cycle was a little different from what we're used to in the modern world; it combined a repeating sequence of 13 numbers with another repeating sequence of 20 day names to produce a pattern that repeated every 260 days. Each day would be labeled with a Haab' month and day number (or be one of the Haab' cycle's 5 intercalary days), along with a day number and name from the 260-day cycle. A little math will tell you that this scheme will repeat every 52 Haab' "years." This article won't go into more detail about the Calendar Round, but as you can see, one of the two calendars the Mayans used was fairly complex.

The other calendar, the Long Count, was strictly numerical. The Long Count used special units of time measurement, all based on k'in (which means "day").

1 k'in = 1 day
1 winal = 20 k'in (20 days)
1 tun = 18 winal (360 days)
1 k'atun = 20 tun (7200 days)
1 b'ak'tun = 20 k'atun (144,000 days)

There were also longer units, but they were not used as frequently, so we have less information about their lengths.

Long Count dates are represented by a sequence of numbers, starting with the number of b'ak'tun and continuing to list the number of k'atun, tun, winal, and k'in. The Mayans and other Mesoamerican groups did not use the Arabic numerals we commonly use today, of course, but when talking about Long Count dates now, we mostly just list the numbers separated by a period. For example, 1.2.3.4.5 would mean 1 b'ak'tun, 2 k'atun, 3 tun, 4 winal and 5 k'in (or 159,565 days) after date 0.0.0.0.0. But this brings up the question of how to correlate the dates with the Gregorian calendar that most of the world uses today. What is today's date in the Mayan calendar?

Most evidence seems to point to a date of August 11, 3114 BCE as the start date for the Long Count (corresponding to 0.0.0.0.0), although there is no evidence to suggest that the Long Count was actually used so long ago. However, this places 12.0.0.0.0 on September 18, 1618 CE, and it places 13.0.0.0.0 on December 21, 2012.

Mayan legends say that the gods have created the world four times, the first three attempts having failed in one way or another. Each time, the gods would wipe the slate clean and start again. The previous creation ended, according to legend, with the start of a 13th b'ak'tun in the Long Count. There is no mention of when the first two creations ended. But some modern-day readers have used this to imply the existence of some sort of prophecy that the current fourth creation will also end with a 13th b'ak'tun.

The Mayans themselves do not seem to have believed that the world would end on such a date.

A scientific look at the 2012 Mayan doomsday prophecy - by Thomas Lee - Page 2 - Helium

If ANYTHING deserved to be moved to the 'conspiracy theory' section, this doomsday crap does.

 

[Care4all]

Here's the thing, all the planets in our universe do line up perfectly with the center of the milkey way on that date, at 11:11 am universal time.

Some Scientists believe that this could cause havoc, great earth quakes, due to gravitational pulls that are not normally present....also this could cause pole shift, which they have proof this has previously happened to the /earth....where the North poll was actually at the equator...this could cause all crops to fail... Also, some scientists say this also coincides with Solar flare peak that is suppose to happen the year of 2012 which virtually can bring us all down...with our electronics... Another threat mentioned is that out protection around the earth may not be as strong in this period and more asteroids could hit the earth, also causing havoc and tidal waves and dust circling the earth...

there is a black hole in the center of the milky way....no one knows how this will affect all of us aligning with it...

there will be a total eclipse of the sun that day as well....

There are so many scientific unknowns about this alignment that occurs only once every 26000 years.

 

[random3434]

11

 

[candycorn]

Just an interesting little thing to think about.

The Maya believed the Earth's final day will be December 21, 2012. The Egyptians, native Americans and the Chinese had a similar conclusion.

The ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!

Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012

Meh! We had a good run.

 

[dilloduck]

I'm going to hang around a few days after the earth is gone--just for kicks and to take a few photos

 

[007]

Here's the thing, all the planets in our universe do line up perfectly with the center of the milkey way on that date, at 11:11 am universal time.

Some Scientists believe that this could cause havoc, great earth quakes, due to gravitational pulls that are not normally present....also this could cause pole shift, which they have proof this has previously happened to the /earth....where the North poll was actually at the equator...this could cause all crops to fail... Also, some scientists say this also coincides with Solar flare peak that is suppose to happen the year of 2012 which virtually can bring us all down...with our electronics... Another threat mentioned is that out protection around the earth may not be as strong in this period and more asteroids could hit the earth, also causing havoc and tidal waves and dust circling the earth...

there is a black hole in the center of the milky way....no one knows how this will affect all of us aligning with it...

there will be a total eclipse of the sun that day as well....

There are so many scientific unknowns about this alignment that occurs only once every 26000 years.

Well the earth is still here and doing fine care, after BILLIONS of years. So this 'every 26,000 years' stuff just doesn't cause much excitement.

 

[Care4all]

11

NO KIDDING...it wasn't until i read the Mayan prophesy and then Nasa's site on the winter solstice that day and what time it occurs...at 11:11 am....i hadn't been concerned about the elevens that i kept seeing....

 

[dilloduck]

11

NO KIDDING...it wasn't until i read the Mayan prophesy and then Nasa's site on the winter solstice that day and what time it occurs...at 11:11 am....i hadn't been concerned about the elevens that i kept seeing....

Fall for your own shit a lot ?

 

[007]

I'm going to hang around a few days after the earth is gone--just for kicks and to take a few photos

Yeah the 'next' earth will along shortly anyway. You can show your pics to the 'new' people.

 

[Care4all]

Here's the thing, all the planets in our universe do line up perfectly with the center of the milkey way on that date, at 11:11 am universal time.

Some Scientists believe that this could cause havoc, great earth quakes, due to gravitational pulls that are not normally present....also this could cause pole shift, which they have proof this has previously happened to the /earth....where the North poll was actually at the equator...this could cause all crops to fail... Also, some scientists say this also coincides with Solar flare peak that is suppose to happen the year of 2012 which virtually can bring us all down...with our electronics... Another threat mentioned is that out protection around the earth may not be as strong in this period and more asteroids could hit the earth, also causing havoc and tidal waves and dust circling the earth...

there is a black hole in the center of the milky way....no one knows how this will affect all of us aligning with it...

there will be a total eclipse of the sun that day as well....

There are so many scientific unknowns about this alignment that occurs only once every 26000 years.

Well the earth is still here and doing fine care, after BILLIONS of years. So this 'every 26,000 years' stuff just doesn't cause much excitement.

yes, tis true...and even if an astronomical disaster does happen, humans are resilient...they have been so far and they will be in the future.

 

[dilloduck]

I'm going to hang around a few days after the earth is gone--just for kicks and to take a few photos

Yeah the 'next' earth will along shortly anyway. You can show your pics to the 'new' people.

Thats what I figure----if the new people are lizards they will really be impressed. I'll be like a god.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You want to watch something really interesting on this?

Check out History Channel's "Nostradamus Effect".

Makes ya think!