Point is to get you all started about random shi.

Plus i wanna see what ppl think on this matter, bring in religous aspects, scientific.
DO what you must.. educate me

the world will end that year because that is the year i turn 30

coincedince? i think not

thats some theroy.. all along i thought it was cause the myan caladender said so

nope

it is because i turn 30

the myans didn't even get the distruction of there own civilazation put on there calander

I predict the Chaos gods revealing themselves and epic wars appearing.

I will place money on me doing something on the grounds that the Mayan calender ends on my 22 birthday, my 22nd birthday has always been an important birthday for me whenever I would lie about my age I would say I was 22 and stuff like that. Plus I have always had the number 7142 stuck in my head an when I looked it up I discovered it was most of the name of a nebulae that will align on my 22nd birthday with earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy.

That is a lot of coincidences.

ive heard about that.... dont know what to make of it though...


i predict that at least some of us will die. if u join the undead army u might stand a chance.

I predict that it will be the end of the next presidents first term

I think the whole world will implode, but hopefully aliens will come along and save us all just in time. That would be so cool.

why would aliens SAVE us? They never did anything good for us!!

that we know of...who do you think taught us how to build the pyraminds...considering they all showed up around the same time (and were continuosly made for thousands of years to come) in different cultures and on different countinents........oooooh

It's gods way of saying, "awww crap I screwed up life again."



And different shapes and sizes oooooh.

I thought it was the Aztecs not the Mayans? I always get them mixed up.

Nope. It was aliens. All aliens.

PIE will destroy the world!!!

Eradication of Homo Sapiens != end of existance of the planet it's on, mind you. So I kinda dislike the phrase "end of the world", it's decieving and too pompous.

Besides all the prophecy stuff is just mumbo jumbo in my opinion.

Yay.


Y'know, when 2012 does arrive and bugger all happens, I will laugh. Quite alot.

No one belives in peace on earth?
theres a theroy that there will be...
after more then half the population dies or disapears

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No one belives in peace on earth?
theres a theroy that there will be...
after more then half the population dies or disapears

More than likely, the other have would need to be annihilated also because they can find ways start wars with themselves also.

Even if all humans were to perish. Animals still fight and kill each other. It's nature.


But yes, peace would come to either if humans were not on it.

The roach army takes over the world! Or maybe that happens AFTER everybody gets nuked...
But I still predict the COCKROACH ARMY. I don't like roaches.
Only kidding. You will most likely never know how you're going to "Kick the Bucket"
...unless it gets on the news. Then only believe 20% of it.

*cough* *cough* *points to I am Legend*

Big virus? It could happen...

*cough* *fiction* *cough*

oh really? I didnt notice.

You clearly don't understand the real moral behind Zombie movies.

It's a big triangle made of stone.

It's not exactly complex.

The ones in Giza have a near perfect cardinal directional alignment we would be hard pressed to match today and they will reach perfect alignment with the stars on Orion's belt and the center of the Earth in 2012.

atlantis rises from the ocean floor and we all get raped by fish people

They understood mathematics and they were obsessed with astrology.

It's hardly surprising. Mathematics is one of the few fields where a genius born in any time comes to the same conclusions. I'm simply not impressed.

Zombies.... plain and simple... Z-Day is going to come upon us in 2024.... on that day, the living dead shall rise from the earth and slaughter the masses forming one massive dead mob... There will be a resistance most likely.... And that up to the survivors if the remainders of us make it.

you've never actually been in one then have you...

And the people who made that have never been inside a sky-scraper made out of glass, plastic, concrete and bits of metal.

They had years and years to build those things and nothing else on their minds. Who cares? It's all terribly dull and pointless now.

You know, in places in the past decade the earths temperature has decreased by nearly a degree, and according to core ice readings there is little or no correlation between heat increase and carbon percentages. In a recent showing it revealed that a high carbon percentage in the atmosphere was followed by drastic heat increase globally...

800 YEAR LATER!

But those "Scientists" have forgotten to mention that

i lol-ed at that!!!! would there be fish/people babies?

have you read the book "state of fear"?

very interesting take on global warming

Yes, read it, very good story and interesting data. Though its no longer possible to say global warming isn't happening without needing to have your head CAT scanned afterwords. But most scientists are unsure what global warming will cause, but if Earth climate is changing in a way its not supposed to, then we can assume its bad.

Some parts will heat up, others will freeze, others will be flooded, others will dry out.


As for the piramids, it really isnt all too surpising that the same basic structure appeared in several distant civs

For example all civs believed in geocentrism at a given time, because even looking at it logically, the earth has no perceptible movement, but the sun clearly rises and falls in circles around it.

By the way, i seem to recall that the Giza pyramids USED to align with Orion's belt when they were built but that they no longer do, considering that both earth's axis, the solar system and each of orion's stars is moving independently from one another, i don't think its likely they'd realign ever, much less in the 4 years

Now the base geometrical figures are the square, triangle and circle. Once a civ had mathematics it had around a 30% chance of using one of them in their construction, and they did (Romans and Greeks used the square, Arabs and Celts the circle, Egypt and Maya the triangle).


As for my own personal opinion, i think that this whole "END OF THE WORLD!!" mania is due to human pride, were just FAR too important to go down quietly or in some slow, passive way, or whatever, No we go down with a BANG! with trumpets, screaming, bombs exploding and the Titanic orchestra playing "nearer my god to thee"
Human pride is in my opinion one of the most dangerous things we have to overcome.

Indeed, the Earth's precession alone is 26.000 years.

As for that we would be hard pressed to do the same today...sorry dude i completely disagree. Now I'm not discrediting the ancients (just see the history channel ancient tech to see how awesome they were) they used what primitive tools they had at their disposition to a very advanced level, while still being simple in concept. Modern day tech doesn't work that way, but should a rich enough government ever want to they could easily make a pyramid ten times bigger and far more "perfect" geometrically speaking, i bet they could even build huge artificial islands shaped like palm trees...*cough*

Hmm...been reading on a few stars that are known to be "about" to go supernovae or pulsar on us, i wonder, what are the chances earth will get caught in the blast?

Oh, you mean the Gamma Ray Burst? That's about the only thing a supernova can mess us up with...because generally the stars that are about to go supernova (or for that matter, those who already have but the light from them hasn't reached us yet) are kinda too far away to blast us.

I just hope Eta Carinae has blown up long ago enough for me to see it soon.

Shh, don't spoil their glorious symbol of a greenhouse.

I mean, clearly the only effect a greenhouse has is to trap gases in. It's not like they're designed to provide total shelter from wind and rain. And I sincerely doubt any of the new ones are carefully fitted with artificial lighting and heating to maximise the growth-rate.

That'd be silly.


Yeah, we even have the fancy rulers now.

Now, I'm not saying the world wasn't heating up or that carbon levels are very high, I'm saying that we as people are much too self-important. Back when the industrial revolution was in full swing and we were pumping as much waste into the air and water as we could for a hundred years here in america we still didn't pump as much carbon dioxide into the air as a single volcanic explosion. And speaking of the end of the world as we know it, should a methane bubble at the bottom of the ocean decide to surface at any moment the atmosphere could light up and drain all our oxygen. Recently there was a lake where a bubble of carbon monoxide surfaced and killed everything that breathed in a mile radius. Then there are surprise meteors and solar flares and gamma ray explosions. I mean seriously, we could be wiped out at any second.

Don't count on it.

What? Don't be silly.

Clearly human beings are in complete control.

Ahh the illusion of Control...man's most beloved madness.
But not trying to control things would be impossible, its part of human nature....hmm, say, maybe all this Doom's Day theory is also because humans want to control EVERYTHING including their own demise?

Oh.

I thought that was clear in my ironic utterance above. Was it not clear? Or are we stating the obvious today? If we're stating the obvious, I feel someone ought to actually do us all the courtesy of saying so.

That aside, human beings clearly are in control. We're sprawling across the planet and poisoning large parts of it to death. We're ripping big chunks of minerals out of the earth to build towering buildings above it. We move rivers, build lakes, cut down forests, occasionally put a stopper on the ocean.

If we're doing that without control then I'd very much like to see what could be accomplished with control.

dont forget to mention removing the everglades and then deciding to put them back but if we were in contol i would think we would literally ddrill to the center of the earth and use the molten core as both a energy source and as a mineral deposit.

Don't be ridiculous. That would be incredibly expensive and difficult for such a little, possibly dangerous gain.

Those kind of pressures would turn any mining shaft into a volcano long before we reached the core.

Speaking of volcanoes, wouldn't using geothermal power in Hawaii be very efficient?

Scientifically speaking, we don't know. 2012 is a religious theory brought about by the Bible Code, the system used by Nostradamus to predict the twin towers falling and Saddam Hussein's rise in the East. But I think it's a bunch of bull****. If anyone really thought 2012 would be the end, we wouldn't be sitting here right now. We'd be preparing for whatever sort of crap's gonna go down. We'd be calling relatives, building bomb shelters, going crazy. Yeah, it's three years from now, but still. By the way, Nostradamus's predictions weren't always accurate. On another note, that part about drilling to the center of the Earth, crap. Can't happen. Below the crust is hot, molten iron. You'd melt. Then the outer core is pretty much lava, and any known form of metal would be melted while simeoltaneously being flattened. No chance.

ok lets just assume im not stupid and that the whole system would be mechanical technicly we wouldn't haveto g oto deep to get to molten levels and if the pressure is equalised then the lava won't shoot up and if the tube/mining tool if made from rifined carbon steel then it might be possible to support the shaft and get the minerals.