[DiscoBBQ]

My friend told me about this and I pulled it off google so I though i'd share.

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:

Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms



Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano



Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

[hazard1337]

So lets just erase 2012 from the calender...there we go! no end of the world.

holy shit we're all doomed!

[v3x]

Yeah, we're all doomed I guess. I'll make sure that I'm plenty drunk when I go. I try not to think about it, though.

[hoboman]

I don't wanna wait another 4 years for this shit to go down. The anticipation is killing me.

Aight aight. I got nothing to do this Saturday from 3 to 9 pm. Is it cool with everyone here if I call up some people and see if we can just have this thing on Saturday?

[stupok]

What about the government's overuse of the star-warp-hole-worm-black-hole machine, called Project Looking Glass? That's the real reason we should shat our pants.

But I think we'd all rather die then have to see this monstrosity:

[bonbon]

how 'bout sunday, saterday is a good sub of the day at subway

[Roach]

The large hadron collider (LHC) is nothing to worry about.

The size of a mini-black hole is so insignificant that the gravitational pull of the black hole would cause it to fall in on itself. That's just a scare tactic drummed up by retards going for wonderful conspiracy theories.

Link me to this retarded site, as well as the "proof" to these claims. These are absolutely retarded. The Mayan calendar has made lots of other stupid ass claims too that never came true.

[stupok]

Roach, brace yourself for a massive steaming pile of conspiracy:
http://www.divinecosmos.com/index.ph...tpage&Itemid=1

[v3x]

Originally Posted by Pinkfairie The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things: Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins.

I do that all the time in CS

[purple_pixie]

What I find funny is this ...

... swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue

So we already predicted "the end of the world" and were off by at least 30,000 years.

We're talking geological events over a 650,000 year cycle, and we honestly believe that you can pinpoint this shit to a specific year? Why not go the whole hog and claim it's gonna be 125:24 10/04/2012?

And IIRC the bible has *a lot* of supposed end-dates for the world - didn't Newton claim it would be 2060?