December 21, 2012 – Change of Earth

Andrea Sell
December 21, 2012 – Change of Earth

There is so much debate and discussion about December 21, 2012 being the end of Earth as we know it. This is all so confusing and controversial that you are really not sure what to expect or believe for that matter. I watched a show on SYFY (Nov. 7, 2009) they were talking about the end of the Mayan Calendar; they spoke of all the cataclysmic events that were going to take place on December 21, 2012. They were saying there would be volcano’s erupting like we have never seen, massive hurricanes/tidal waves, earth quakes that would be so horrible they would jump off the chart/rector scale, and meteor showers like rain. I guess I am a little apprehensive to believe that this will really take place simply because of a calendar ending. Do you remember when we went (or did not rather) go through the Y2K scare when we began the year 2000? Supposedly all computers were going to crash because someone somewhere predicted this event affecting people around the world. There is discussion that the poles in the North and South are going to switch places causing severe climate changes.

Naturally this is all speculation because there is not any scientific proof that this will even occur. All of this is being based off of the Mayan calendar ending; because they were good mathematicians for their time and scribed events taking place into stone. Carving into stone was their means of documentation obviously because paper did not exist then. Predictions are being drawn off of those scribes done. The Mayans based all events off of the stars along with the cycles of the sun and the moon. This could very well be a case of them not thinking that the Earth could not survive all of these years. The Egyptians and Romans were also great civilizations with master carpenters, artists that carved and painted events from the time for future reading, as well as ones who could read the stars. Certain games (or sacrifices) were played (done) facing the sun only when it was at a certain direction because in essence they were playing for the God’s.

If this prediction that dates thousands of years back is to in fact happen and the Earth will cease to exist as it does now, there really is not much we can do to prepare. A video I watched said that there are people actually building underground safety shelters for a place to go and live. They had mentioned that in order to “overcome” the end of Earth they would have to stay underground for ten years. I think this is all hype and if we are meant to die then that is the will and you can’t change destiny. There are so many people all of a sudden becoming so aware of the global warming issue, they should have been thinking of the damage to the ozone before it started happening not after it is too late to really make a difference. Naturally anything you do now may minimize the effects but the damage is so far gone it can not be reversed in our lifetime.

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http://www.timeline2012.net/index.php/prepare/geophysical-events#intro
http://www.december212012.com/M-The_Mayan_Prophecy.htm

2012 Solar Storms

Krista Huggins

Solar storm cycles are predicted about every 11 years. The next cycle was predicted to likely start in March of 2008 and reach it's peak at the end of 2011 or in the middle of 2012. that is almost a year later than expected according to a forecast that was given by the NOAA Space Environment Center and some solar experts. While there is an active solar period, harsh eruptions happen a lot more often on the sun. explosions and solar flares, which are known as coronal mass ejections, shoot photons and matter, which are highly energetic and very highly charged, towards the Earth. When this happens it messes up the Earth's ionosphere and geomagnetic field, which in turn will affect satellites, GPS signals, airline communications, power grids, and can even threaten astronauts with radiation. Even though the effects of a solar storm can look beautiful, looks can be deceiving. These storms have tremendous power and can travel at speeds up to five million miles an hour. These solar storms have been known to knock out sattelite, power supplies, navigation systems, and communication systems. A lot of the effects of solar storms are basically invisible, but they are very disruptive and dangerous to the systems that they knock out and to the economy of the nation. Also the damage to these systems can disrupt every infrastructure that depends on them. For instance, emergency response systems, transportation, security systems, wireless networks and other electronic equipment. These solar storms can even pose a biological threat to people flying in air crafts at high altitudes and latitudes and also to astronauts. Even though a prediction forecast is being used by industries and government groups, our vulnerability to these solar storms will increase as we become dependent more on these technologies. The intensity of a solar cycle is measured in maximum number of sunspots, which are dark spots on the sun that mark the areas of magnetic activity that is heightened. The more sun spots that there is, the higher the chance of a major solar storm occurring. The forecast of the intensity of the next solar storm is half of forecasters saying it will be strong and the other half saying it will be weak. I think that most of the information about solar storms are just predictions, and very little, if any, being facts. The pictures that I have seen of these storms and other earth threatening events can be very beautiful and to catch a peek at one of them would be awesome, however with all the reading that I have done I also know that they can be very harmful to us, possibly even devastating. (Word Count 445). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070427131848.htm

2012 Sun Cycle

Ashly Watt
In 2012 the sun will reach its 11th cycle which is called "solar maximum". That is when the sun is its most active stage. It is just prediction that an explosion will occurred with the energy of 100 billion atomic bombs. This type of explosion is called a solar flare. This can cause some serious problems on our planet earth. In 2009 a new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines a grim possibility for Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Some of the damages that they predicted are: Damage to the power grids and other communicated systems, which could effect leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the whole situation. 2012 information can be heard of in many places, even the bible. The prediction though is based on the major solar storm that occurred in 1859 which made telegraph wires to short out in the U.S and even Europe starting a huge widespread of fires.Power grids are can be greatly affected because they could cause a chain reaction of failures that would go across the entire U.S, even causing over 130 million people to lose power.-According to the new report in 2009. It was the worst storm in over the past 200 years. Because of the modern power grids and satellites that we have now scientist say that much more is at risk today. A lot could be interrupted because of this huge predicted storm in 2012. The water distribution would be affected only in several hours, foods and even medicines could be lost in only a short 12 to 24 hours, even eventually people will lose the heather and air condition, sewage's will be damaged, the phones will no longer work, and of course no gas which means no transportation. Researchers say that these effects could take several months to fix. A lot of people say they will be believe it when they see it because it is impossible to predict the future. Although some people in the world do not believe that this huge solar storm is going to happen their are researchers everywhere and firm believers that it is going to happen. All over the Internet, bible, and books their are different reasons behind the prediction itself. It all involves the sun of course, but the predictions comes from different sources.Some people believe the facts about the sun coming to its 11th year and yes it will be having a solar storm but they don't believe that it will come down to us having nothing left in the world to go on with our daily activities. Only time will tell what will really happen in the year 2012 in the mean time researchers are still looking and researching it daily.


cites
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.html

2012

2012
Courtland Chilcott

Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or form, the Earth (or at least a large portion of humans on the planet) will cease to exist. Stop planning your careers, don't bother buying a house, and be sure to spend the last years of your life doing something you always wanted to do but never had the time. Now you have the time, four years of time, to enjoy yourselves before… the end. So what is all this crazy talk? We've all heard these doomsday predictions before, we're still here, and the planet is still here, why is 2012 so important? Well, the Mayan calendar stops on December 21, 2012, churning up all sorts of religious, scientific, astrological and historic reasons why this calendar foretells the end of life as we know it. The Mayan Prophecy is gaining strength and appears to be worrying people in all areas of society. Forget Nostradamus, forget the Y2K bug, forget the credit crunch, this event is predicted to be huge and many wholeheartedly believe this is going to happen for real. Planet X could even be making a comeback. (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/)
In 1999 all we heard about when 2000 came we were in some computer glitch and what happened nothing at all the computers flipped over, so what is 2012 make it any different it is all the same, STUPID, I do not believe in the 2012 cramp that will not happen. After reading all these stupid websites about 2012, sersiously do people not have anything else to talk about???? This is so stupid and I do not believe in a thing people are saying and what they are talking about. I will see you all in 2012 just like I did when I saw 2000, it will be like any other NEW YEARS; expect I am older now and able to drink when this one comes through. I will see all you people in 2012 and guess what nothing is going to happen and it will be the same as 2000.
Two years ago, Patrick Geryl, then 51, quit his job as a laboratory worker for a French oil company. He'd saved up just enough money to last him until December 2012. After that, he thought, he wouldn't need it anyway. Unprecedented catastrophe will precede the end of the world in 2012, believers say, such as massive earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions, among other calamities. Instead, Geryl, a soft-spoken man who had studied chemistry in his younger years, started preparing for the apocalypse. He founded a "survival group" for likeminded men and women; aimed at living through the catastrophe he knew was coming. He started gathering materials necessary to survive — water purifiers, wheelbarrows (with spare tires), dust masks and vegetable seeds. His list of survival goods runs 11 pages long. "You have to understand, there will be nothing, nothing left," Geryl told ABC News from his home in Antwerp, Belgium. "We will have to start an entire civilization from scratch." (http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=5301284&page=1&page=1 )
Seriously, people need to get a life and not worry about this so much, because it is going to turn out just like 2000, and then they will look so stupid for what they where trying to do. Well guess what you look stupid now and you will look even stupid when 2012 comes around and nothing has changed. I will be laughing (hehe).

2012 Solar Storms

Ashly Watt
In 2012 the sun will reach its 11th cycle which is called "solar maximum". That is when the sun is its most active stage. It is just prediction that an explosion will occurred with the energy of 100 billion atomic bombs. This type of explosion is called a solar flare. This can cause some serious problems on our planet earth. In 2009 a new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines a grim possibility for Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Some of the damages that they predicted are: Damage to the power grids and other communicated systems, which could effect leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the whole situation. 2012 information can be heard of in many places, even the bible. The prediction though is based on the major solar storm that occurred in 1859 which made telegraph wires to short out in the U.S and even Europe starting a huge widespread of fires.Power grids are can be greatly affected because they could cause a chain reaction of failures that would go across the entire U.S, even causing over 130 million people to lose power.-According to the new report in 2009. It was the worst storm in over the past 200 years. Because of the modern power grids and satellites that we have now scientist say that much more is at risk today. A lot could be interrupted because of this huge predicted storm in 2012. The water distribution would be affected only in several hours, foods and even medicines could be lost in only a short 12 to 24 hours, even eventually people will lose the heather and air condition, sewage's will be damaged, the phones will no longer work, and of course no gas which means no transportation. Researchers say that these effects could take several months to fix. A lot of people say they will be believe it when they see it because it is impossible to predict the future. Although some people in the world do not believe that this huge solar storm is going to happen their are researchers everywhere and firm believers that it is going to happen. All over the Internet, bible, and books their are different reasons behind the prediction itself. It all involves the sun of course, but the predictions comes from different sources.Some people believe the facts about the sun coming to its 11th year and yes it will be having a solar storm but they don't believe that it will come down to us having nothing left in the world to go on with our daily activities. Only time will tell what will really happen in the year 2012 in the mean time researchers are still looking and researching it daily.


cites
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.html

2012

Elizabeth Cotto-Nieves

In my opinion out there is no scientific evidence to really believe that in 2012 a catastrophe will occur. For me these predictions are based on the Mayan Calendar. And right now this revolution is causing that the people are getting scare about it. Cinematographers are seeing the opportunity to make money with the movie 2012, some people are scare to watch it and other are exiting that the movie comes out to go and find out what is all about it. Prophecies about the end of the world are been out there forever, I remember all the speculations about that something big it was going to happened after 12:00 PM, by the end of the year 1999 turning to the year 2000, and anything never happened.
NASA predicts that a polar reversal it will happened on the Sun by the year 2012. Scientist are been concerned about are the effects of solar wind, solar storms, and solar flares in our planet. The scientist are alarmed because the magnetic the earth magnetic fields is decreasing and that magnetic field is what protect the earth from the sun’s harmful rays. Without protection the sun rays and radiation will enter the earth atmosphere, and this it will be enough to kill plants, animals and human life. In the case that this will happen, I think that just will cause damage to technology.
The (UCAR) are been researching about the sun cycles. Sun cycles happened every 11 years, and the sun pole shift back and forth every cycle, the solar cycle 24 it will be in 2012. The scientists are predicting that in cycle 24 the activities on the solar storms will increase for some reason. They don’t have any specific reason that they could explain why exactly this will happened. Trough the year are been a lot of prophecies and speculations about other events that never happened. The movie Knowing is about the idea that the end of the world it will be by solar storms that will affect the earth, but they all are speculations.
Nobody can predict the future. The earth survive other solar storms that are been happening trough the years, and I don’t think that this one are going to be different. The scientists are researching the possibilities that in December of 2012 the earth will be affected by solar storms, but there is not scientific evidence that can affirm that this catastrophe it will happen. In my opinion not matter what the only way to know if we are going to be affected by solar storms is waiting until the December of 2012.
Reference: (http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/10mar_stormwarning.html

2012 What is all the hype about?

Evangelyn Phelps

2012, what is all the hype about? Why is 2012 dubbed as the year of when the world and everything on it will cease to exist? I am not sure why or how it started until now. According to the Mayan Calendar the world will come to an end and why would you say? I have done some investigating to hopefully prove the Mayans wrong. I have also discovered how some people of the American society are making this bigger than it really is. Personally, I don’t think anything is going to happen and life will go on but here is what I have found.
Doing some research, I have discovered that there were many different Mayan Calendars. Some were used for social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks but had a heavy religious element to them (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/). Although our calendars today are only for social, agricultural and economic views – the religious part is not a priority in our calendar system. The Mayans then combined two calendars to make one, The Calendar Round. The Calendar Round was based on thirteen and twenty base units. The purpose of this calendar was to make it a long term calendar that had 365 days in one solar year and would last for only 5126 years (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/). The reason why the Calendar Round is so significant in the year 2012 is because the 5126 years ends on the date of December 21, 2012. This is where all the hype of the world ending is coming from, this one date of the Mayan Calendar Round.
Another phenomenon that is making society more conscious of the date December 21, 2012 is the movie 2012. The movie comes out next week and people are talking about it all over the place. Internet searches of 2012 are popping up as a search engine favorite. As soon as a person types in 2012, the words “2012 movie” automatically appears. I clicked on the link and guess what appears, the Mayan Calendar Round spinning as it would work in real life. By viewing the previews it looks like the end of the world really does happen. Only time will tell the truth but hopefully it is another day in the calendar.
Can you believe all the thoughts and outcomes of one specific date? How did this one Mayan prophecy make people think of what is to come? Now, a movie has been made and waits to be seen the thoughts of all societies to be told. I bet many people’s opinions will be different and some people may even change the way they live their lives. This brings me to a simple yet suggestive opinion. 2012 is a Mayan theory and a theory is what it is. The only basis that seems to be true is the fact that their prehistoric calendar does not match our modern method. Many other sources have deemed 2012 and other dates of importance. The dates have failed to follow through. Media and an urge for excitement in humans make this date a major event.