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2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

12.22.11

Scenes from the motion picture "2012." Courtesy Columbia Pictures. Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice.

Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and the science of the end of the Earth thoroughly studied. Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the science behind the end of the world quickly unravels when pinned down to the 2012 timeline. Below, NASA Scientists answer several questions that we're frequently asked regarding 2012.

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. 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.

Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?
A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.

Q: Could phenomena occur where planets align in a way that impacts Earth?
A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.
› More about alignment

"There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there..."
- Don Yeomans, NASA senior research scientist Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.

Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours?
A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway.
› More about polar shift

Earth, as seen in the Blue Marble: Next Generation collection of images, showing the color of the planet's surface in high resolution. This image shows South America from September 2004. Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012?
A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.

Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of pending doomsday?
A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.
› Why you need not fear a supernova
› About super volcanoes

Q: Is there a danger from giant solar storms predicted for 2012?
A: Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.
› More about solar storms

Addition information concerning 2012 is available on the Web, at:

• NASA Astrobiology Institute: "Nibiru and Doomsday 2012"
• Bad Astronomy: "The Planet X Saga: The Scientific Arguments in a Nutshell"
• Sky and Telescope Magazine: "2012: The Great Scare"

·         MedanBisnis – Washington

·         Demam film bertema kiamat, “2012″, tengah melanda masyarakat dunia, khususnya Indonesia. Apalagi, saat ini film tersebut mulai diputar di sejumlah bioskop di Tanah Air. Banyak pertanyaan muncul terkait ramalan kiamat tahun 2012 itu. Salah satunya mengenai kisah munculnya prediksi kiamat tersebut. Awal prediksi kiamat tersebut bermula dari klaim bahwa Nibiru, planet yang diduga ditemukan bangsa Sumeria tengah melaju menuju bumi. Bencana awalnya diprediksi datang pada Mei 2003. Namun karena tidak ada yang terjadi pada hari yang ditentukan itu, prediksi kiamat beralih ke Desember 2012. Kemudian dihubungkanlah dengan kisah berakhirnya sistem penanggalan suku Maya kuno pada musim dingin 2012 dan diprediksi tanggal kiamat jatuh pada 21 Desember 2012. Tapi benarkah ada planet bernama Nibiru atau Planet X atau Eris yang sedang mendekati Bumi dan mengancam planet kita dengan kerusakan luas? Menurut NASA dalam situsnya, Nibiru dan kisah lainnya mengenai planet yang tengah menuju bumi hanyalah hoax internet. Tak ada dasar untuk mendukung klaim tersebut. Lebih lanjut dinyatakan NASA, jika Nibiru atau planet memang ada dan tengah akan menuju bumi pada 2010, maka para astronom pasti sudah akan mengetahuinya setidaknya pada satu dekade terakhir. Dan planet itu harusnya bisa terlihat dengan mata telanjang saat ini. Jelas sekali itu tidak nyata. Sedangkan Eris meski nyata adanya, namun itu merupakan planet kecil mirip dengan Pluto yang akan tetap berada jauh dari bumi. Jarak terdekat dengan bumi yang mungkin adalah sekitar 4 miliar mil. Banyak pula yang menanyakan tentang teori pergeseran kutub. Mungkinkah itu terjadi? Menurut NASA, pergeseran rotasi bumi mustahil terjadi. Memang ada pergerakan lamban benua-benua (misalnya Antartika yang dekat dengan ekuator ratusan juta tahun silam), namun ini tidak relevan dengan klaim pergeseran kutub. Lantas apakah bumi terancam ditabrak oleh meteor pada 2012? Menurut NASA, bumi memang akan selalu bisa mengalami tubrukan dengan komet dan asteroid, meskipun tabrakan besar sangat jarang terjadi. Tabrakan besar terakhir adalah 65 juta tahun lampau. Dan itu menyebabkan musnahnya dinosaurus. Kini para astronom NASA sedang melakukan survei yang disebut Spaceguard Survey untuk menemukan ada tidaknya asteroid-asteroid besar dekat bumi sebelum menabrak bumi. “Kami telah memastikan bahwa tak ada ancaman asteroid sebesar asteroid yang memusnahkan dinosaurus,” demikian NASA dalam statemennya. “Semua pekerjaan ini dilakukan secara terbuka dengan temuan-temuan diposting setiap hari di situs NASA NEO Program Office. Jadi Anda bisa melihat sendiri tak ada yang diprediksi akan menabrak Bumi pada tahun 2012,” tandas NASA. (dcn)

·         NASA 2012 Calculations for a Big Disaster on Earth!

·         Posted by: krisjohnco in Personal.- I have been receiving information and reading a lot of news and stories online regarding the possibility of having a BIG shift on earths events, possibility of slowing the earths rotation.

·         Let me give you a bigger picture regarding these findings, Are you familiar with the so called “Planet X” or “Nibiru” ? They said that this big mass of accumulated elements or rocks could be another planet aside from the 9 planets we currently have, but recently declared we only have 8 planets in our solar system after they removed Pluto from there. Through the years they are studying the possibility of Planet X being a real planet, element and chemical content and alike. after undergoing massive research about this, they have found out that there is an enormous force in that Planet that could make affect the near by planets. The Planet X does the same pattern rotation for all of the planet circulating around the sun.

·         How will this force affect the the Earth? there are a lot of speculations, articles, point of views that are coming out, that the earth will stop its rotation for 3 days, for some it will just decelerate and for some it will tilt by 90 degrees. Which is which?

·         Below is a news from NASA that shocked me a lot…
NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012

·         March 10, 2006: It’s official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.

·         Like the quiet before a storm.
This week researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.

·         That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn’t tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn’t exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.

·         Right: Intense auroras over Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1958.
Dikpati’s prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima—and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.

·         The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.

·         We have something similar here on Earth—the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean–see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world’s weather into chaos.

·         The sun’s conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun’s equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.

·         Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space science & Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: “First, remember what sunspots are–tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun’s inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a ‘corpse’ of weak magnetic fields.”

·         Enter the conveyor belt.
“The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The ‘corpses’ are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun’s magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface.” Presto—new sunspots!

·         Right: The sun’s “great conveyor belt.”

·         All this happens with massive slowness. “It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop,” says Hathaway. The speed varies “anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast).”

·         When the belt is turning “fast,” it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: “The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996,” says Hathaway. “Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011.”

·         Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati’s forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.

·         “History shows that big sunspot cycles ‘ramp up’ faster than small ones,” he says. “I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.”

·         Who’s right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.

·         Now, read the article? what do you think? here the add-on:

·         “According to NASA scientists, the earth will stand still for about three days and then, in one hour, rotate a full 90 degrees (the geographical pole shift) during which time winds will be an average of 200 miles per hour. Every volcano on earth will erupt and of course there will be many earthquakes, so two thirds of earth’s population will die in that one hour surprise. Then another 20% will starve to death during the next six months because the volcanic ash will cover the earth and keep out sunlight for six months. About 10% of the [world’s] population (about 600 million) will survive. 

·         “NASA’s top scientists wanted to go to Mars and survive but that didn’t work out. So they are making a space station which will be able to maneuver itself on the other side of earth, using earth as a shield between the space station and Planet X. This way the top scientists will live. He said it is already affecting Neptune’s gravitational pole and once it gets close to Pluto, it will take only three months to get here. Once near Pluto it will be a “red dot in the sky” which will gradually get bigger during several months, and can be seen with the naked eye six weeks before the pole shift. The northern inland part of the States is good; it is where the scientists are going. This will be near the equator after the shift.” 

·         Now? what do you feel now? shocking isn’t it? Imaging this would happen, what do you think will happen to us? here are the possibilities,

·         1. Water will rise up as high as a mountain like Noah’s Arc event in the Bible.

·         2. Land will be covered by water. ( water will be moving to land and what is left by the water will be the new land)

·         3. Occurrence of Strong magnitude of Earth Quake.

·         4. Weather disturbance ( tornado and cyclones)

·         5. Death of almost 90% of earths Population.

·         These are just some of the many possibilities.. there might be more… what we could only do is to PRAY.

·         These days we are scaring about that our human existence is going to finish in coming 2012, December 21. There are lots of things that people are saying about this day; it is also said that this will be the end of the Earth. But did you remember Y2K scare which cam and went without the much of whimper due to adequate planning and the analysis of situations. As we know that 2012, December 21 will not be the end of the earth. As similar to Y2K scare 2012 also have been analyzed & science of end of Earth thoroughly studied. Contrary to some of common belief out there, science behind the end of the earth quickly unravels when pinned down to 2012 time line. Followings are the interview taken with the scientist of NASA about the ending the world with the several questions which are frequently asked regarding to 2012, December 21.

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·         End of the earth

·         Question: Are there any kinds of such threats to Earth in December 21 2012 because many websites in internet are saying this world is going to end on that day?

·         Answer: nothing is going to happen in December 21, 2012. Our planet earth has been getting along just fine for more than four (4) billion years & the credible scientists world wide know of the no threat related with 2012.

·         Question: what is the origin of prediction that the Earth will end up in 2012?

·         Answer: this kind of story was started with the claim thatNibiru a supposed planet discovered by Sumerians which is heading towards the earth. But this catastrophe was already initially predicted for 2003 May and when nothing come to happen than the doomsday date was moved to 2012 December. This two fables were linked to end of the one of cycles in ancient Mayan calendar at winter solstice in 2012 and hence predicted doomsday date of 21 Decembe, 2012.

·         Question: do the historic Mayan calendar end in 2012 December?

·         Answer: it is just the calendar which you have kept in your kitchen room wall does not cease to exist after 31 December, Mayan calendar doesn’t cease to exist on 2012, December 21. This date is the end of Mayan longcount period and similar just as your calendar start again on January 1… another long count time begins for Mayan calendar.

·         Question: could some of phenomena occurs where the planet align in a way which impact the Earth?

·         Answer: there are not any planetary alignments till the few decades, and the earth will not cross any galactic plane in the year 2012; but if these alignment occurs than their effects on Earth will be negligible. Every December Earth and the sun align with approximate center of Milky Way Galaxy but that one is annual events which have no consequence.

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·         end of the earth

·         Question: are there any such planets or the brown dwarf known as Nibiru or the any Planet X or the Eris which is approaching Earth & threatening our Earth with the widespread destruction?

·         Answer: all other kinds of stories and the Nibirus stories about the wayward planets are only the internet hoax. There are not any factual bases for these claims. And one thing if any Planet X or the Nibiru were real and heading to encounter with the earth in 2012 than all of the astronomers would already have been tracking it at least past the decade and till the moment this will already visible with your naked eye. But in reality this doesn’t exist. Yes Eris is real but this is a dwarf planet similar to the planet Pluto which will remain in outer solar system; closest it can come to the Earth is about 4 billion miles.

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·         end of the earth

·         Question: what is polar shift theory? Is that true that Earth’s crust does a 180 degree rotation around core in a matter of days if not hours?

·         Answer: reversal in rotation of the planet earth is impossible. There are very slow movement of the continents (let’s take example: Antarctica was near to the equator hundreds of million of the years ago), but that is a irrelevant to claims of reversal of rotational poles. Many of disaster websites pull bait and shift to fool people. They simply claim a relationship between the rotation & the magnetic polarity of the planet Earth; which does change irregularly, the magnetic reversal takes in every 400, 000 years in average. And as far as we know such kinds of magnetic reversal does not cause any kind of harm to human life on the Earth. This magnetic reversal is very likely to happen in next few millennia.

·         Question: does the earth have any danger of being hited by meteor in 2012, December 21?

·         Answer: our planet Earth has always been subject for impacting by the comets and the asteroids but the big hits are very rare till many decades. Before 65 million years ago it has last big impact & which led to extinction of Dinosaurs too. But today all the astronomers of NASA are carrying out survey known as Space guard Survey for finding any kinds of such large meteor or asteroids near to the earth before they hit it. We have already found and determined that there are not any kind of such threatening asteroids as large as that extinct dinosaurs. All these work is done openly with discoveries posted everyday on NASA NEO Program Office website and you also can see by yourself where nothing is predicted to hit in December 21, 2012.

·         Question: how do the NASA scientist feels about the claims of pending the doomsday?

·         Answer: For the any claims of disaster or the dramatic changes in the year 2012, where is the science? Where is the proof? There’s none & for all fictional assertions, whether they are made in movies, documentaries, books or over internet web, we can’t change that simple fact. There are no credible evidences for any of the assertions made in  a support of  the unusual events  taking place in the year 2012, December 21.

·         Question: Are there any such danger from the giant solar storms predicted for the year 2012?