Adam D's List: op-ed

• None of it is true
• Millennium of Jan. 1, 2000
• earthquakes, plagues, polar axis shifts, continents sliding into the sea
• The "Jupiter Effect" cataclysm predicted for March 10, 1982 (named for the 1974  book about it by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann) commanded headlines but  never materialized.
  
• The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one  of them
• end date right: Dec. 21,
• winter solstice
• impalpable "beam" from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam.
• , the winter-solstice point and the centerline of the Galaxy will line up  exactly on Dec. 21
• In fact, astronomy cannot pinpoint such a "galactic alignment" to within a year,  much less a day
• The advocates both admit and ignore this discrepancy.
  
  
• There is no evidence that they saw the calendar and a world age ending in either  transcendence or catastrophe on December 21, 2012.
• Some advocates for the 2012 catastrophe say that what will actually cause the  devastation is an alignment of planets. There is no planet alignment on the  winter solstice in 2012. Nonetheless, advocates of doom connect the fictional  alignment to astrological predictions or groundless claims about a reversal of  Earth's magnetic field and unprecedented solar storms. Many internet postings  and guests on all-night apocalyptic radio have elaborated on these  themes.
  
  
• • sarcasm

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• recently drove five hours to attend one of Geryl's meetings in Antwerp.
• said he has lost friends over 2012
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  "I don't really contemplate that possibility," he said. "[My predictions] are  so spectacular, they can't possibly be wrong."

   

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• quit his job
• enough money to last him until December 2012
• "survival group"
• "You have to understand, there will be nothing, nothing left,"

• "We will have to start an entire civilization from scratch."

   
• • nasa disclaims this claim
• NASA predicts a sharp increase in the number of sunspots and sun flares for  2012
• Only the prepared will survive, Geryl said, and not even all of them.
• ravings of a madman
• Thousands of people worldwide seem to be preparing, in one way or another, for  the end of days in 2012
• "the end of the world" brings up nearly 300,000 hits

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• "I'm not a firm believer in one specific prophecy,"
• "But my No. 1 customer is the U.S."
• Mo. Lehmann said he started researching 2012 when he was 12 years old, and  still spends about two hours a day reading about the topic both online and in  books.
• People that can't provide for themselves."
• "We've got major flooding in Iowa. We're always going to have natural disasters.  But they are picking up quite frequently now."
• They are looking to buy a plot of land high up in African mountains, where  they'll be able to withstand the monstrous tidal waves and wait out the cloud of  volcanic dust that they said would block out the sun.
• tipping off rival survival groups

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• Obviously, it does not exist
• 11.06.09
• It will, however, be another winter solstice.
  
• Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012
• 4 billion years
• • The person answering the question seems quite bias, however he knows what he is talking about.
• • Two separate dates, then change to make one date, kind of suspicious
• but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012.
• December 21, 2012
• This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your  calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the  Mayan calendar.
  
• next few decades
• their effects on the Earth would be negligible
• • This guy shows no doubt
• Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to  Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to  Earth is about 4 billion miles.
  
  
• Obviously, it does not exist
• reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible
• However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people
• • other websites are wrong
• : The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids,  although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago,  and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are  carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth  asteroids long before they hit.
• • happened to dinosaur why couldnt it happen to us
• where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none,
• in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no  different than previous cycles throughout history.
  

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