Is the world going to end in 2012?

[MindBlast]

Will the world end in 2012? Maybe. Who knows?

But sometime, someday the earth's polarity will shift, and at that point it would be over.

Nope. A magnetic polarity change is not the end of the world. Take my point of view as a geophysicist for a second. First of all, the most compelling evidence is in old rocks where the magnetic polarity has been locked in. The Earth's magnetic field has flipped over MULTIPLE times in the past. Earth is still here.

What happens when a magnetic dynamo switches polarities? Well, the total amplitude of the field decreases slowly until it reaches zero, and once it hits zero, the polarity reverses and the field is almost instantly at full strength in the other direction.

The Earth's magnetic field is an infinite sum of multipoles. In other words, adding up the dipole moment, the quadrupole moment, the octopole moment, and so on for infinitely many multipoles adds up to 1 (where 1 is the the total magnetic field, I've normalized it so that it doesn't matter what the actual numbers are). As the Earth's total magnetic field intensity decreases, the dipole part of the field gets weaker. As the dipole gets weaker, we start to see and experience the quadrupole and octopole parts more and more.

Look at this map of the total magnetic field intensity of the Earth. You can CLEARLY see the magnetic field starting to approximate a quadrupole. It won't be long (geologically speaking) before it starts to resemble and octopole.

 

[CudDULL]

I don't really care.

Instead of worrying about the future i'm going to worry about the present.

I living a good life and it will be what I make out of it.

 

[The_Reaper]

Not unless I complete my...'device'.

Otherwise, we're all fine.

 

[MindBlast]

Not unless I complete my...'device'.

Otherwise, we're all fine.

Is this your device by chance? I could see how this could end the world.

 

[gsdx]

Honestly, I think the guy making the calendar just went "Shit, I'm not gonna live this long. I'm just gonna stop here."

Once again, the 'calendar' doesn't end. Only the 'cycle' ends. A new 'calendar cycle' will begin.

Millions of people are going to wake up on Christmas Eve in 2012, realise that the world is still here, and go into a serious panic because they haven't done their Christmas shopping yet.

 

[Donovan]

Gosh, I'm tired of this. The Mayans said so themselves (on some news report), that nothing is going to happen on December 21, 2012. Get it? The world is not going to end. But if you really want the world to end, get Iran or Russia to fire a nuclear missile anywhere in the direction of North America, then the world will really end.

 

[Sequencellariot]

[Big huge post]

I think what he meant is that it'll all be over for life on Earth, not the actual planet itself.

Once again, the 'calendar' doesn't end.

The Mayan calender did end. There's no more Mayan calender after Dec 21, 2012.

Only the 'cycle' ends. A new 'calendar cycle' will begin.

But cycle of what? What makes this new cycle different? What if the day the dinosaurs perished was the end of one cycle and the beginning of another cycle? Meaning life on Earth could be wiped out somehow during 2012.

 

[MindBlast]

I think what he meant is that it'll all be over for life on Earth, not the actual planet itself.

I know what he meant. The dipole polarity has reversed multiple times while LIFE was already on Earth. Life is still here.

At worst it would be a little while where people would have to stay indoors if they didn't want cancer, but other than that, most things would live. Once it reverses, the entire reversal would happen within a day.

 

[Sequencellariot]

I know what he meant. The dipole polarity has reversed multiple times while LIFE was already on Earth. Life is still here.

When? And while what life on on Earth? How often does this happen if it's a regular occurrence? You got some sources because I'm skeptical.

Um, I'd like to point out that if the Mayan people were so good at predicting the future, how the fuck did they miss the little bit where they were fucking p0wned by the Spanish?

They had a prophecy on their calendar of the day the Spanish arrived, and that prophecy turned out the be correct.

 

[fetaby]

Well, I did read in another thread, that Palin was running for president that year... teehee.

 

[Sequencellariot]

^ It's just speculation right now. She hasn't said for certain. Let's hope she doesn't.

 

[MindBlast]

When? And while what life on on Earth? How often does this happen if it's a regular occurrence? You got some sources because I'm skeptical.

I'm not going to track them down, but any ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) record will show you in a geological textbook.

 

[gsdx]

They had a prophecy on their calendar of the day the Spanish arrived, and that prophecy turned out the be correct.

No. They predicted the return of Quetzalcoatl (just as Christians predict the return of Christ). The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors was pure happenstance.

 

[Telstra]

I watched some of the videos on post 18.

It didn't [STRIKE]say[/STRIKE] see anything about how to survive but the title say:
"2012 Survival Guide".

 

[gsdx]

It didn't say anything about how to survive but the title say:
"2012 Survival Guide".

You cannot survive something that isn't going to happen.

Seriously, it's frightening when you think how many people are probably getting rich by feeding off the fears of people who believe this stuff.

 

[rareboy]

omg after barely surviving the Y2K, with all the collapse of all of our computerized equipment and planes falling from the sky and having to sit in the dark and cold with a rifle across my lap, it is just too much to ask that we all have to persih in 2012.

Can someone give me the exact date so I can pencil into my calendar?

 

[Telstra]

You cannot survive something that isn't going to happen.

Seriously, it's frightening when you think how many people are probably getting rich by feeding off the fears of people who believe this stuff.

because of the title,
i expect to hear some instructions on how to survive certain events which i didn't get.

 

[fetaby]

watch them again Telstra... maybe you blinked and missed the instructions, ya?

 

[Telstra]

watch them again Telstra... maybe you blinked and missed the instructions, ya?

lol, i watched the last clip but didn't see anything useful. Oh well ...

 

[Sequencellariot]

I'm not going to track them down, but any ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) record will show you in a geological textbook.

Okay. This is the pole shift that really matters anyway.

No. They predicted the return of Quetzalcoatl (just as Christians predict the return of Christ). The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors was pure happenstance.

What makes you say that?

You cannot survive something that isn't going to happen.

Seriously, it's frightening when you think how many people are probably getting rich by feeding off the fears of people who believe this stuff.

There is even has a steel structure something like a building built into a giant Arctic mountain somewhere on an island in Norway where it's freezing cold with tons and tons of plant seeds wrapped in boxes inside just in case something does happen, so there will be seeds to plant and food to grow "if there are any survivors" (which probably means they'll be trying to save their own butts).

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/25/tech/main3874565.shtml And also scroll down and read the comments, everyone is talking about 2012, lol.