Monday, October 26, 2009

Unpack your survival gear

The world isn't ending in 2012....
"News is spreading quickly here that scientists writing in a popular science periodical (Dutch) have debunked the 2012 date (google translation linked) featuring so prominently in doomsday predictions/speculation across the web. On 2012-12-21, the sun will appear where you would normally be able to see the 'galactic equator' of the Milky Way; an occurrence deemed special because it happens 'only' once every 25.800 years, on the winter solstice. However, even if you ignore the fact that there is no actual galactic equator, just an observed one, and that the visual effect is pretty much the same for an entire decade surrounding that date, there are major problems with the way the Maya Calendar is being read by doomsday prophets."
Isn't that always what happens? You misread your Mayan calendar and everything gets out of whack....

2 comments:

Mike Goldman said...

Clueless. The lunisolar precession theory doesn't even make sense, nor accurate predictions, and the current non-rotating model of the universe fails to account for almost all of its energy.

Mike Goldman said...

Start here.