The 2012 Doomsday prediction is a present-day cultural meme proposing that cataclysmic and apocalyptic events will occur in the year 2012. This idea has been disseminated by numerous books, internet sites and by TV documentaries. The forecast is based primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December 21, 2012, and incorporates warnings from climate experts and other environmental scientists that the Earth has reached a tipping point that could generate mass extinctions, as well as interpretations of assorted legends, scriptures and prophecies.
A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation rather than an armageddon.
Historian Richard G. Kyle notes that predictions of the imminent end of the world have a very long history, with hundreds of documented examples, some associated with religious prophecies, others with astronomical events such as comets or eclipses, and others with calendar events such as the millennium.
The Orion Nebula, as captured by the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes using false-color imaging. Patrick Geryl's Orion Prophecy is among the many books that suggest the Earth is on the verge of an apocalypse.******************************************
HOW THE EARTH WILL END?
9 ~POSSIBLE~ WAYS
The universe is trying to kill us. In earth From the Skies! our own Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, counts the ways the world will end. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
- asteroid impact
Local for a small rock, global for a big one
1 in 700,000
Almost 100% preventable,Identify potential impactors, then blow them up or push them out of the way
- solar flare/cme
Collapse of power grid, potential ozone depletion
0*
Non-preventable, but mitigatableBuild robust power grids
- supernova
Ozone depletion, radiation
1 in 10,000,000
Not preventable
- gamma-ray burst
Ozone depletion, radiation, setting planet on fire
1 in 14,000,000
Not preventable
- alien attack
Humanity wiped out by aliens, space bugs give us runny noses
?
Preventable, assuming we colonize the galaxy first.Otherwise, forget it.
- galactic doom
Ice ages, radiation, eaten by supermassive black hole
0 †
Not preventable, but again, none of these will happen on a human timescale
- death of the universe
Decay of all matter, collapse of false vacuum
0 †
Not preventable, but dwarfs any timescale we can imagine
* Fatalities are very unlikely from a solar event, but they can still cause extensive damage.
† These events all take billions of years (at least!) to unfold, so the chances of them happening? during your lifetime are zero, but are inevitable over longer times.
THE EARTH IS HOPELESS NOW........RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! but we can run to where??? LOLZZ...
