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Is the world going to end in 2012? I saw the movie and now I am scared!
Hey, we all know that december 21, 2012....12/21/12 is a very well known date. i dont understand this that well.. i have been researching on it, i talk about my friends with it and i saw the movie 2012 already...whats your viewpoint on this? Do you think the world is actually going to end of is this a myth?
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I've watched the movie, as well. However:
1) In the film, the increase of the earth's core temperature and shifting tectonic plates are blamed on mutated neutrinos. Mutations only occur in living things, as any simple biology class will teach you. Neutrinos are subatomic particles and are unable to mutate.
2) The movie also mentioned that a group of Mayans has performed ritual suicides due to this day. BUT Mayans don't even believe in the end of the world on this date. Their calendar doesn't stop at 12/12/2012; they believe that the world enters eras every couple thousand years or so and this date will bring in a new one. But you don't see Mayans today running around panicking that the world will end. If they don't believe it, why should you?
3) Although it is true that the sun's flares can have effects on the earth's surface temperature, even the most powerful flares have had minimal effects. Furthermore, the surface temperature isn't really relevant to the core temp.
4) It wouldn't happen so quickly. If you've watched the Day After Tomorrow (same director as 2012), what both movies have in common is how accelerated the events are. The earth drops to subzero temperatures in a matter of DAYS. The world ends in a matter of HOURS. Really, now.
5) There's hundreds of apocalypse theories that aren't mentioned in the movie but are always shot down by scientists. Another popular theory is that on that day, earth will collide or be passed by Planet X (some madeup planet traveling through the universe). If this happens, the effects on the earth could be devastating. BUT, the good news is that this planet doesn't even exist, and if there were some crazy planet hurtling toward earth, we'd have detected it by now.
6) Everyone's stressing about the world ending on 12/12. However, the reality is that the chances of the world ending on that day are the same as it ending tomorrow, a month from now, or 10 years from now. What you saw in the movie with Yellowstone's eruption is fairly true - if that volcano were to erupt, the entire western hemisphere would be wiped out in a matter of hours. What the movie didn't tell you is that nobody would survive, even if we were to get on cute little arks like Jackson and crew did. Yellowstone would launch so much soil and dust into the air that we'd find ourselves in a nuclear winter. Nobody knows when (or if) this volcano will erupt. Everyone just assumes it's 2012 because it's such a famed date.
So you shouldn't be scared. Nobody can say for certain that the world will end on that date. Besides, the last apocalypse scare (Y2K) came and went, and NOTHING HAPPENED.
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I've watched documentaries about it and researchers say that either something good or something bad will happen. It will mark the end of the Mayan calendar, but I've heard theories before that the world was going to end in 2006 but nothing happened. Right now, we can just say that it's just a theory.
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I'm so sick of people thinking the world is going to end in 2012, and Hollywood making a movie to justify that damn fear isn't helping.
I know for a fact the world isn't going to end in 2012. I don't need websites, or books, or any type of resource to tell me that I'm right. I just know.
The Mayans are not around anymore. This whole "end of the world" prediction is a faux. It's false, not gonna happen, etc. They stopped the calender at 2012 because they figured the world wouldn't go on after that. But a prediction or an estimate isn't always exact and that's what people need to realize.
Just think of it this way: The world was supposed to end in the year 2000. Did it? No. We're still here 9 (almost 10) years later. It was also supposed to end on 06/06/06. Did it? Nope. Still here. So, everytime the world is supposed to end, just remember all the times in the past that it was said to be ending, and we all survived. :)
So no, it isn't going to end, and that stupid movie shouldn't have been made because now it's scaring everyone even more than before. This whole situation is stupid. You'll live to see 2013 and so on. Chill the hell out.
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Myth. All this supposedly because of the end of the Mayan calendar? Best one I've heard is my calendar ends December 31st. Is that the end of the world?
Basically this is putting some magical spin on the Mayans being able to predict the end of the world. Wonder why they didn't predict the end of their own since they are so all knowing?
Makes an awesome movie though. :)
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Oh for fucks sakes the world is not going to end. their calendar has periods, similar to our B.C. and A.D. otherwise known as "before common era" and "common era". that date just happens to be about as significant as december 31, 1 BCE. nothing's ending, just a different era is beginning. simple as that. the chinese have a different calendar from us, they thought we were retarded for freaking out about the millenium, course thats because their 21st century was back in our sixteenth. they probably think we're retarded about this one too.
-Gunner
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NO I do not. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that this could happen. The movie and the concept made me curious and there have been lots of stories on public TV and science channels like discovery, that are proving that this movie is all just bunk. Designed to sell, (what else?) movie tickets!
If you watched more scientific programs, you would learn this. So if you really want to get to the truth. Expand the list of places where you get your information from, and learn the truth. I have a great idea. Why not tell your science teacher in school that you saw the movie, and you would like him to tell you and everyone else....what is really going on.
Michele
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