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Post by postmortum on Dec 8, 2008 10:30:57 GMT -5
i dont believe it. i mean, seriosly, why are we going to base our lives off of the tales told by pot-smoking crack-snorting heroin-injecting booz-drinking womanizing ignorant racist slobish snobish people that, because of evolution, would probobly have an IQ of 23? (george bush is 108! can u believe it!)
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Post by artik on Dec 10, 2008 19:27:47 GMT -5
Maybe the Mayans were too lazy to make the calendar go on after 2012.
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Post by Sandmaster on Dec 10, 2008 19:38:27 GMT -5
Or maybe were just in denial!
YAY-*dies*
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Post by General Veers on Dec 10, 2008 19:56:37 GMT -5
Actually, the mathematics of the Mayans were very impressive, as well as some other native mesoamerican maths.
I do believe that the Mayans were the ones who could (and did so far) predict the position of Venus with an error of one second for every 5000 years, according to a video I saw.
That doesn't mean that I believe the world will end on any predetermined day, however, unless they provided some explanation to the Earth's end such as global warming...
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Post by Sandmaster on Dec 10, 2008 20:00:25 GMT -5
I had the theory that people would be so nervous that the world will end so they destroyed the world believing they should live like it's the last day of their lives.
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Post by ~Memzak~ on Dec 22, 2008 18:29:33 GMT -5
lol, thats a good idea...
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Post by Sandmaster on Dec 22, 2008 22:19:50 GMT -5
2 years, 364 days to go!
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Post by saza on Dec 24, 2008 18:31:42 GMT -5
Its not gonna happen. Mayans thought it would happen in 1999! We're still here, or they meant Bush was gonna be prez. XD
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Post by SilentWaves on Dec 28, 2008 21:43:30 GMT -5
well i dont believe in it this guy predicted events would happen but never what they were he predicted a city would be bombed in 9 11 but it was london he thought would be bombed not new york getting hit by a plane hijacked by terrorists. Also today how far does your calender go idk about yours but mine ends this new years does that mean im going to die next year, NO!
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Post by theultamate on Jan 1, 2009 5:33:35 GMT -5
or will you?
(hires assasin)
>.> <.<
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Post by General Veers on Jan 1, 2009 14:30:41 GMT -5
Our calendars end so the bourgeoisie can make money and so we don't use up too much space for a single calendar.
Their calendar ended because they figured that recording time without humans present to record it would be pointless.
Our world will end when our world will end. Another world will end when it will end.
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Post by theultamate on Jan 1, 2009 14:33:05 GMT -5
good point
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Post by Qwerty333 on Jan 10, 2009 12:10:07 GMT -5
According to scientists the Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years . The magnetic poles are different from geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of Earth's rotation. The shift could mean that Alaska will lose its northern lights, or auroras, which might then be more visible in areas of Siberia and Europe. Magnetic poles have been known to migrate and reverse. "This may be part of a normal oscillation and it will eventually migrate back toward Canada," Joseph Stoner, a palaeomagnetist at Oregon State University, told a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. Wandering poles Previous studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10% over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 1,100km (685 miles) into the Arctic, according to the new analysis. The rate of the magnetic pole's movement has increased in the last century compared with fairly steady movement in the previous four centuries, the Oregon researchers said. The Oregon team examined the sediment record from several Arctic lakes. Since the sediments record the Earth's magnetic field at the time, scientists used carbon dating to track changes in the magnetic field. They found that the north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but has occasionally moved in other directions. Rate of change At the present rate, the north magnetic pole could swing out of northern Canada into Siberia. If that happens, Alaska could lose its northern lights, or auroras, which occur when charged particles streaming away from the Sun collide with gases in the ionosphere, causing them to glow. The north magnetic pole was first discovered in 1831 and when it was revisited in 1904, explorers found it had moved by 50km (31 miles). For centuries, navigators using compasses had to learn to deal with the difference between magnetic and geographic north. A compass needle points to the north magnetic pole, not the geographic North Pole. 2012 Doomsday Mayan Calender Pole Shift Pole Reversal Doomsday 2012 Doomsday. If you are reading this you are living in one of the most interesting times. From the Mayan perspective and from many other perspectives: These are the End Times. This is the time of prophecy about a 2012 Doomsday. Just about everybody has heard of the date 2012 and read about 2012 doomsday predictions. Most people hear about Dec 21, 2012 and say, “Hmm, isn’t that when the Mayan calendar ends? Isn't that 2012 Doomsday date? Accoding to some scholars the Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012. The Mayan calendar is based on cycles within cycles within cycles. What happens in 2012 is the ending of a major cycle. For the Maya 2012 is the ending of what is known as the Great Cycle. The GreatCycle is a 5,125 year cycle that began at the date 13.0.0.0.0 on the Mayan calendar. Modern day media has tagged this date as "2012 Doomsday" The present Kali Yuga cycle of the Hindus began just 11 years later in 3102 B.C., this is supposedly when Lord Krishna disincarnated and then the Kali Yuga began. Kali Yuga is the final and darkest age. For the Maya, history did begin at 3113 B.C. The first dynasty of Egypt was established circa 3100 B.C. The first city in history was founded circa 3100 B.C. That was the city of Uruk, from which the name Iraq is derived. Uruk was founded by seven wise men at the beginning of history in Mesopotamia. If you look at the history books you will see that virtually everything we think of as the history of civilization began at that point and slowly builds up from there—this is the Babylonian/Mesopotamian origin of civilization. Mayans say that this whole cycle of civilization 5,125 years comes to an end on the Winter Solstice December 21, 2012 A.D.
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Post by General Veers on Jan 10, 2009 12:48:14 GMT -5
Interesting.
Sorry, but what do moving magnetic poles have to do with the end of the world, again? I had troubles reading that paragraph without indentations in key places...
Thank you.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 10, 2009 15:58:56 GMT -5
So, your previous point is when X then X, therefore when X then X.
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Post by Qwerty333 on Jan 11, 2009 14:49:01 GMT -5
Interesting. Sorry, but what do moving magnetic poles have to do with the end of the world, again? I had troubles reading that paragraph without indentations in key places... Thank you. As you know, the Earth tilts on its axis. Supposedly, on 12/21/12, the Earth will stop its wobbling tilt and realign with the Sun perfectly. Right in the path of our little asteroid.
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Post by General Veers on Jan 11, 2009 15:04:58 GMT -5
Oh, alright, then.
Thank you again.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 11, 2009 16:12:01 GMT -5
it can't perfectly realign. bsides, we have the moon
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Post by General Veers on Jan 11, 2009 16:36:07 GMT -5
It can perfectly reallign; however, the chances of it doing so when an asteroid comes for us in the near-future are extremely astronomical.
Unless he means something else by reallign...
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 11, 2009 18:00:19 GMT -5
We can't, because such a quick allignment requires an extreme distrubance of lunar orbit
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