Traveler 12 said:
Similar to our own, the Mayan calendar is based on celestial events. Our calendar has months for moon cycles and years for solar cycles. But the Mayans went beyond that and included Galactic cycles. The big date in 2012 is the completion of this large cycle, and after that the calendar resets. So one argument is to say that people get all whipped out of shape because the end of this long cycle calendar plays on their fears and insecurities, and their minds start to brainstorm for possible disaster, and they find evidence to support their brainstorms. Certainly there are people that go way to far. But are you so close minded that you've completely shut out any possible implications? I haven't decided, nor can any of us truly decide. There is not enough data.
What will happen in 2012 at the end of the cycle, is that all the planets of the solar system will be aligned with the center of our galaxy. Can you imagine what could happen?... You learned in elementary school that it is the gravitational pull of the moon that effects the tide cycles of the seas, right? Well don't you think there will be much stronger gravitational pulls if all the planets of the solar system line up with the center of the galaxy? Are you predicting NO EFFECT? Really?!
It's one thing for you to make fun of all the conspiracy tards. They're easy to put down. But now that you've done that, is it the end of the story? Do you feel safe now? Are you so good at physics that you can predict the effects of the rare gravitational forces that will exist during this time? It only happens about every 3500 years. There have been disasters. Civilations have been lost to disaster, it's a scientific fact. And none of the conspiracy tards' predictions have come to pass during a rare period such as this. Are you casting the first stone because of your superior intellect? Have you really done the math?
Let's talk about what we do know... Do you know why the Earth is not damaged by the solar winds?...
I haven't done the math, but that's partially because because the math doesn't account for entropy. Since it's highly debatable that the Earth truly is going in a full orbit with each exact 365.25 revolutions, or that those revolutions are in 24 exact hours, you can't possibly say, with the math, or the Mayan calendar (which also fails to account for entropy, considering even according to their calendar, July 22nd is not somehow longer than July 21st), that this complete alignment will occur on December 21st, 2012.
Instead there will be an extra week of awkwardness after everyone admitted their weird sexual desires to their loved ones and quit their jobs to live it up on the "last day," where everyone is honest yet embarrassed about being a freak (since they let it out already). Then the companies all try to rehire all their lost employees after a few days, it works...
And then the world ends on January 3rd instead.
EDIT: Also, I think after The Core got rave reviews, it's doubtful scientists are going to try to replicate the earthquake gun and shut off our natural electromagnetic shield so some ragtag group of heroes can restart it with a nuke sometime in the middle of the apocalypse.
