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2012. Yes or No?

Fact: Sun aligns with galactic equator on year 2012
Fact: Mayan civilisation predicted that celestrial event
Fact: The mayan calander (which outlined celestrial events for past 5000 years) ends on the year 2012
Fact: Earth is gradually heading to destruction (Global Warming, population overgrowth, limited resources)

Is the world going to end on the year 2012?

>> No.1091371

the sun aligns with the galactic equator EVERY YEAR

>> No.1091365

No. Planets can't be aligned with each other because of slight differences in the plane of the ecliptic.

The Sun can't be aligned with the plane of the Galaxy because we don't even fucking know the exact position of the Central Black Hole, so we can't determine the Galactic Plane.

>> No.1091377

Fact: Nothing will happen

>> No.1091391

False
False
True, but it's no different from our calendars changing over at December 31st
False, we'd have to do something pretty stupid to exterminate ourselves in 2 years.

>> No.1091398

The mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012. It starts a new cycle... like a regular calendar. December 31st isn't the end of civilization either. Grow up.

>> No.1091401

>>1091391
>True, but it's no different from our calendars changing over at December 31st
Better analogy would be Dec 31st 9999.

>> No.1091409

the mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012, it just starts a new cycle

>> No.1091414

1. so?
2. so?
3. so?
4. why does that correspond to 2012 being our d-day
5. sage

>> No.1091421

the aztecs predicted that their god quetzalcoatl would return in 1519 and hernan cortes just happened to show up that year and pillaged their shit to bejezus and back. coincidence?

>> No.1091423

>>1091343

No.

Mayan experts say the mayans didn't predict the end of the world, they just weren't around to outline the next cycle.

Besides, you really trying to say that these people were so intelligent and knowledgable that they could predict the end of the Earth and yet were completely wiped out by a handfull of greasy spanish dudes...

>> No.1091427

God I can't believe there are people who actually believe this shit, just like Y2K.

Why are so many people in the world this fucking retarded?

>> No.1091434

>>1091421
They probably had someone saying that every year, and someone was finally right.
Like the world was supposed to end in the year 2000 etc.

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1091436

>celestrial

>> No.1091438

>>1091423

This

>> No.1091520

hope I get laid before then

>> No.1091536

>>1091421

actually cortez had no chance of doing this by himself. He played the dum indians against themselves smartly and that's why all that shit has gone down and also pox.

The aztecs actually whooped his ass during la noche triste when he had to run from tenochtitlan.

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>> No.1091565

1. Actually, the alignment took place a couple of years ago.
2. The Mayans had no concept of galaxies, galactic equators, or equators.
3. The modern calendar ends on December 31st of this year.
4. Earth will be just fine.

>> No.1091577

>>1091343
1. And...?
2. Understandably possible.
3. Yes, because of #1. Again I say, and...?
4. ...
>gradually
>less than two years from now
>implying global warming, population overgrowth and limited resources can "destroy the world"

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1091590

>Fact: Sun aligns with galactic equator on year 2012 EVERY YEAR, ALL YEARS

>> No.1091595

There are a frightening number of events happening in 2012, solar/galactic cycles reaching their peak, fairly regular potentially cataclysmic events becoming due. I don't put much stock in the Mayan shit, but the next 20 years at least are looking pretty grim.