How Will the World End?

Megan Terry

The end of the world is not something that I think about on regular basis, but it is something that may cross my mind on occasion. It kind of sends a shiver of my back to think about our world as we know it ending and not existing anymore. But me being a very realistic person don’t believe in the big comet crushing Earth, or the world colliding with the sun, or even what the Mayans are predicting in 2012. I do on the other hand believe in the potential for there to be a hole in the ozone layer, the icecaps melting, and, me being of Christian faith, God ending the world.
I mean think about it, how much pollution and stuff do us humans put in the air everyday. And with all the nuclear smoke and chemicals that go up in our ozone why couldn’t there be a possibility that one day the ozone will wear away. Although the ozone is tough, tough enough to protect us from the sun’s rays, it can only take so much. So a possible hole in the ozone layer would be one of my predictions of our world ending.
The second one I have considered it the polar icecaps melting due to global warming. If you think about it where would all this water go if the icecaps were to melt. I mean yes the oceans and seas of Earth are huge but they can only hold so much and are full already. What if the ice in the arctic seas of our world melt? Where would all that excess water go? Only so much of it could fit in the oceans before it begins to flood the Earth. And this is only the water from the ice, what about rain? That has to go somewhere as well. So the melting of the icecaps and the flooding of the Earth is also one of my end of the world predictions.
The final one that I believe could happen is God bringing the world to an end. In the book of Revelations, which is the last book of the bible, Jesus tells of all the things that will happen before the end of the world. And if you read it carefully you can see that some of the things in this book of the Bible have happened or are predicted.
Nobody really knows when the end of the world will come or what will cause this to happen. But one thing is for sure, when that day is upon us there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Potential Disaster in 2012?

Megan Terry

During this current year of 2012 I have heard many theories for the big “apocalypse” of 2012. Even though all of the hype about the world flooding and volcanoes burning everything up was very interesting, I found the “Dark Comet Theory” the most interesting.
A researcher from Melbourne, Australia named Robert Bast has come up with a possible catastrophe for 2012. He has been following a comet by the name of Caesar. So the theory is based on the sighting of Comet Caesar, or the dark comet, by the Mayans in 44BC. They recorded this sighting in the Mayan Long Count Calendar which is believed to end in 2012. Just so happens the return of Comet Caesar falls right in with the Mayan’s predicted apocalypse in 2012. This estimated orbital period differs from the 44BC sighting by only 6 years, or 3 years per thousand year orbit. Given that the periodicy of Halley''s comet can vary by 2 years within a 76 year orbit, due to the gravitational influences of the planets, the connection could be precise”. “With Bast''s hypothesis of 5 orbits averaging 1025 years, the 44BC passage fits in well with the 2012 end date, and just as importantly the 3114BC start date, of the Mayan Long Count calendar. This estimated orbital period differs from the 44BC sighting by only 6 years, or 3 years per thousand year orbit.” Researcher Bast also believes that if any disaster that is predicted to happen in our era predicted by ancient civilizations actually occurred it would probably be a comet.
Hopefully if we Earthlings see Comet Caesar again it won’t be colliding with Earth. If it can be proven one hundred percent we will be able to prepare before it blasts into the Earth. But on a more positive note the comet may be harmless if it has lost its ice during its orbit around the Sun.
There are not any scientific evidence of the comet crashing into Earth. The only thing Researcher Bast is going on is the predictions of the Mayan calendar.
I honestly don’t think there is anything to any of these theories because different people also said that the world was going to end in the year 2000 and nothing happened! I mean listening to the stories is very entertaining but I don’t feed into the hype. I am not going to be one of the people who go into complete chaos. I am just going to live my life and wish for the best!

Catastrophic Event 2012

Annmarie Edwards

There are a couple of theories stating that the Mayans predicted that the world was coming to an end on December 21, 2012. According to this theory, a planet, Nibiru, force will cause the earth to collide with the earth. The assumption is that there will be a magnetic shift between the North and South Pole and for this reason; there will be massive destruction that will end of our lives. According to the theorists, the earth will be destroyed by earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear meltdown. Some of these concepts began from a priest named Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourboug. This Frenchman got his theories from studying the Mayan and Aztec, but he was discredited. Zecharia Sitchin, writer and Nancy Lieder, psychic started the rumor that the catastrophic event would be happening May of 2003 and later changed to December of 2012, when nothing happened in May 2003.
Mayan Indian elder, Apolinario Chile Pixtun of Guatemala, does not agree that the world is coming to an end. Per Ann Martin, “the Mayan calendar has no consequence; ‘it is the end of a great calendar cycle in Mayan society,’ like our modern society celebrated the millennium.” (Martin, 2009) This day is just a very important time in Mayan history. What’s happening is theorists are taking a chain of events and using it to interpret what they believe is going to happen. These astronomers, the Mayans, tracked time by a calendar. The Baktuns, which is a 394 year period, is a very sacred time for the Mayans.
NASA has never been exposed to Nibiru. David Morrison, NASA Senior Scientist, “Nibiru is simply fake, a hoax.” There is no scientific evidence found that Nibiru even exist. This planet has not been seen nor does it exist. If this planet truly existed, why haven’t anyone seen it yet? Why would the astronomers not tell everyone they would be killed? People can make up whatever they want especially if money is involved. Unfortunately, sometimes as humans we believe everything. Many scientists believe the people that are responsible for making these theories are in it for the money by scaring people. If no one can tell you what’s going to happen today, how can they tell you about four years ahead? Especially if these theorists claimed that the end of the world would be in 2003, believing them will be very difficult. Using a calendar cannot foresee the future much less foresee an exact date.

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Cornell University. (November 2009) Doomsday 2012 prediction explained: Mayan calendar was cynical. Science Daily. Retrieved on December 10, 2009 from, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091113122958.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News)

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How will the world end?

Cynda Crawford

How will the world come to an end? Well there are so many theories’ out there. Personally this is not something I pondered. So I find this a very difficult topic to write on. There is a possibility as you had stated in one of the chats that we could be hit by a massive meteor. There are those whom follow a religious teaching of the Revelations. There are also the many various beliefs that the world will come to an end in 2012. I guess I must admit that this is something I really do not wish to focus on. Well what I can share is what I see in the world at this time. We have become consumers to the ultimate. Natural resources are used in mass quantities and in some areas it depleting the resources that are in the soils. The way I see it is people inhabit the earth just like a virus inhabits our bodies. First it travels through the system leaving a trail every where it has been. Then it mass produces in the body spreading all through the system. As it spreads through the system the various parts of the body often become achy and in many cases they stop functioning properly or at full capacity. This same story can be transferred over to humans inhabiting the earth. Natural lands are being dug up and forests are becoming smaller and smaller. There was even a discussion of taking over a natural habitat in Northern America where wildlife preserves are. What was the reason behind this? This was all to drill for oil a resource that is in constant use, more so in the United States of America then any other country! Ok so now that that is said I guess that my idea is that humans will eventually use up all of the resources available. Then when it is all gone, and unable to regenerate fast enough to keep things going it will become a long slow painful end to humanity. I guess it will become even more so like a lab rat experiment, when to many rats are put in a cage. People will be pressured there will be fights, starvation and anger beyond what we have now. Oh but wait in some ways we are already getting there Hmmm. Again there is the possibility of a mass sized meteor hitting earth and things ending even sooner. Even with all of this being said, I have know clue how it is going to happen and would much rather not even contemplate the whole thing.

End of Life on Earth

Vanessa Crespo

The way I think life on earth will eventually come to an end? Honestly I believe a lot of different things. There are several ways it can all come to an end. One by there being a big sickness that wipes out the whole human race. What has me thinking this the h1n1 flu. How did this flu come out of no where and start killing people? Don’t you find it odd? Then not even a year later the government comes out with a new vaccine to cure or prevent you from getting this flu. This vaccine came out so fast, what did they use to create this vaccine? I do not think anyone actually knows what is in this vaccine, and it hasn’t even been out long enough to know if it has any affects to the body after so long. What if in 5 years this vaccine turns everyone into something or you get this weird symptom. Well there has been a recall on this vaccine and people are dieing from it. Soon enough what do we know this vaccine has wiped of million of people of this earth? Could it happen? What I find interesting that can relate to this situation is the movie “I am legend”, in the movie someone came out with a cure for cancer so every one took the shot, it was really big they couldn’t believe that it was possible. Three years later this so called cure for cancer had turned every human in the world into this crazy zombie that wiped out human race. What I have found crazy to think Is that in I am legend everything went crazy 3 yrs later right now everyone is going crazy thinking they need this vaccine 3 years from now will be 2012 where in the Aztec calendar says the world is going to end. Crazy thought? Another way that I have thought the life on earth can come to an end is global warming. All this pollution that the humans on this earth is creating is ruining this earth all the glaziers in the ant artic are melting you do not think the earth will flood? Or even war! How many countries have nuclear weapons and bombs. What if one of these countries decide to actually explode one of them I am sure that will be the end of this earth. I find this subject kind of scary because there are so many things that can happen and it freaks me out because I am to young to go through any one of those things.

End of the World

Andrew Connor

The end of the world has concerned people since the dawn of our existence as people. If we as people can live and then die then the planet might work the same way. Basic logic is what makes people think the world will end. Life is the ultimate example that everything must come to an end. In our modern society the discussions for the end of the world surround the year of 2012. The Mayans made a calendar that predicted the world to end due to a major natural disaster in the year of 2012. This is a theory that is essentially caused by man made devastation of the natural earth. Things such as gases released into the air and littering are supposed to be the ultimate cause of this life ending disaster. I think that the Mayans are overrated in their calendar and their predictions. If the Mayans could make such predictions then they would not all be dead because they would have for seen their demise from foreign explorers and tyrants. Also, if they knew all this information why do they not tell what actual disaster causes the end of the earth. There are too many holes in this theory to get me to buy in. Another thing is that accepting such a timeline would mean that every person that I love and I will all die. I can not accept this as a fact for that reason. This would also mean that my life and the work that I am doing right now are essentially pointless. I can not accept that fact either. I do however think that world will one day come to an end. I believe it will not happen for thousands and maybe even millions of years. The earth is such a young and vibrant planet compared to what is in the universe that it should survive for this many years. The earth is like a person to me it gets sick from time to time and we feel the effects in things like tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes. The earth also requires nutrients like people and plants. In the earth’s case the sun provides the necessary light to provide an entire planet’s life source. The sun however, is the main weakness of earth. I think that eventually, just like other stars, the sun will burn out and no longer produce this light. Once, the sun is dead it will be a matter of some years before it even starts to take effect on the planet. The earth will die eventually without the sun and all of the life on will be gone as well. This is how the end of all life will come to be.

Prediction, Consequences and Scientific evidence that support that a terrible catastrophe could happen in 2012.

Isis Monteagudo

NASA recognizes catastrophes in 2012. NASA-funded study reveals the serious dangers of Space Weather.
Washington- A study funded by NASA, describes how extreme solar flares could have serious implications for communications, power grids and other technologies on Earth. In a recent report prepared for NASA and ESA for the National Academy of Sciences the report warns of a solar storm 2012. The National Academy of Sciences in Washington conducted the study. The resulting report provides some early economic data is now clear that effectively quantify the risk of extreme conditions in space-driven magnetic activity on the sun and disturbances in the near-Earth environment. Extreme cases of space weather are rare and are classified with other natural hazards that have low frequency but high impact. To mitigate the potential public safety problems, it is vital to better understand space weather extremes caused by solar activity. Besides emitting a continuous stream of plasma called the solar wind, the sun periodically releases billions of tones of matter called coronal mass ejections. These immense clouds of material, when directed toward Earth, can cause large magnetic storms in the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. Such space weather can affect the performance and reliability of space and ground technological systems. Space-time solar storm can produce electromagnetic fields that induce currents in extreme cables, disrupting power lines, causing widespread blackouts and that affect communication cables that support the Internet. The impact of the storm could topple the interconnected structures, with devastating effects: the distribution of drinking water will be quite impossible in a few hours, food will lose the cameras are in the area between 12 and 24 hours, transportation will be affected. Severe space weather also produces solar energetic particles and the dislocation of the radiation belts of Earth, which can damage satellites used for commercial communications, global positioning and weather forecasting. A catastrophic failure of the commercial and government infrastructure in space and on the ground can be mitigated through public awareness, improving vulnerable infrastructure and development of advanced prediction capabilities. Without preventive measures or plans, the trend of increased reliance on space-time might make sensitive modern society most vulnerable in the future. NASA requested the study to assess the potential harm of significant space weather over the next 20 years. National and international experts from industry, government and academia participated in the study. The report documents the possibility of a period of time has made the social and cause similar damage to natural disasters on Earth. Whether terrestrial or space disasters from extreme weather events, the results can be devastating to modern societies, which depend on a variety of ways in advanced technological systems. It is expected that solar storms increase in frequency and intensity toward the next solar maximum, expected to occur around 2012. No action or no plans for prevention, increased reliance on advanced technology, but sensitive to the phenomena of space can make our society so vulnerable in the future and send to the Middle Ages. (494wc)