End of the World: Is the Apocalypse Really Coming on Dec. 21?
The Mayans may or may not have predicted the apocalypse will occur on Dec. 21 -- just less than two weeks from now. Do you buy it?
Do you expect the world to end on Dec. 21, 2012?
As the day draws near, NASA is getting in on the action. The agency created a page on its website devoted to debunking the Mayan apocalypse idea—not least because the Mayans never predicted any such thing. The date is simply the end of one time period that simply starts over.
“Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012,” NASA wrote.
But maybe they're just fun-haters: there are a number of parties planned for Dec. 20 or 21 this year, just in case the Earth explodes, or zombies run amok. With the "long count" calendar of the Ancient Mayans coming to an end that day, some people are a little pessimistic about any calendar continuing past that date.
However, experts on the matter, like the NASA thing above, say we've got nothing to worry about. According to an article on nbcnews.com, "Experts estimate the system starts counting at 3114 B.C., and will have run through 13 baktuns, or 5,125 years, around Dec. 21. Experts say 13 was a significant number for the Maya, and the end of that cycle would be a milestone — but not an end."
Some people believe the Maya may have predicted "impending astronomical disasters that would coincide with 2012, ranging from explosive storms on the surface of the sun that could knock out power grids to a galactic alignment that could trigger a reversal in Earth's magnetic field."
But according to the article, that is not the case. In fact Mayan predictions go way past our present-day, indicating that they expected a future to come even after their long count calendar came to an end.
So what do you think? Are we doomed? Or not so much? Let us know!
Editor's note: This article initially ran on Cummings Patch.
Walt Hines
4:07 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
One way of getting out of debt I guess.
Maranda
5:33 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
now think of an end and a beginning, does it have destruction or peace, i have read tons of information about this occurred and either way it ends in 11 days or 10 yrs when we have completely wipe out our next generation with our destructive ways with our climate, it that moral when we have tons and tons of laws to protect our poeple that we completely ingorne the fact that natural weather is the ultimate killer above all things, now our galaxy is emormous, we r still learning today so by that fact how do we not know it will turn even worse, more billion of dollars wasted everyday because our friends and families AND ALL OF THE ABOVE THAT INCLUDES YOU cant see that we should take immediate action to stop everything for (it doesnt matter how long) for the survival of human kindfor hundreds of years later
Me
6:02 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
Really? It's hard to even consider your comment intelligent seeing as though its riddled with grammatical errors. Tell me, what do you know of climate change? Are you a scientist? I'm a chemist and, personally, I've not seen concrete evidence of climate change. That's not to say that we shouldn't take proactive steps to keep our air clean, but it shouldn't be a subject of political debate or comments by illiterates.
Maranda
5:35 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
so our great great great grand kids can have the chance to see this life, it that not worth it , our great great great grandfathers did why cant we
Maranda
5:37 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
by the way everything means everything! We are highly intellengent and can figure this out together! The end to old ways and a beginning of new ones
Sean
6:49 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
Ive been telling my 84 year sick grandmother that on the 21st we are all gonna die but that the media and govt is just trying to keep everyone calm to prevent riots. She is horrified!
Mike B.
3:04 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Shame on you!
Maranda
8:07 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
see what i mean, poeple argue with other poeple( critizing if im intellengent or not) instead of arguein with the probelm, and no im not the smartest, not a scientist, not a brainaic, or anything but i know when something to wrong! and sorry i rushed to write this because i didnt want to waste my time correcting my grammatialic errors mister/maam because we as human can read with letters like this mind, mnid. face the probelm not other poeple
Maranda
8:27 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
and please i dont want to debate with you, i want poeple to open their minds and start our next century on the right road together side by side instead the one where poeple r filled with fear and anxiety and hide behind others, and poeple like you who tell them they r too illiterate to understand or because you scare them down with your theories. next time vioce ur opinion, not ur critizism, cause thats what we need in the world, new opinions and new ideas. get it!
Maranda
8:30 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
..scare them down with your opinions* of the chemistry :D and contrete edvidence? really
Sean
8:48 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
What Maranda said!
Melissa
3:14 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
"seeing as though its riddled with grammatical errors" by the way you need to work on your punctuation before putting others down in literacy. it's
Mario
4:05 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
No need to worry! Jesus clearly said that no one knew the day or the hour that He would return.
Jesus says in Matthew 24:36-44
"36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."
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