Apocalypse not now? 2012?

[Reaves]

Originally Posted by Peto

Actually, the polarity does reverse itself on earth from time to time. A tidbit I learned in Geology. According to the Geologic record though, it has no major extinctions linked to it. But your fan might run backwards .

That's the part i'm kind of interested in. I know it's all just another revelations omg y2k thing but i've read many places from people who arn't nut cases that the earth will be in an alignment with the sun (and apparently some black hole in the centre of the universe ) and it's possible that this will cause polarity to reverse.

We live in a world full of magnets and electricty, if North turns to south will positive swap with negative? That will screw everything electronic on a larger scale than going back to 00 would have with y2k.

It's not the first end of world theory i've gone through but this one has at least SOME credibility to it imo. I'm not about to stock up on water and duct tape though.... I've just always been interested in philosophies and the hole 'golden age' that comes with them.... A certain country in WW2 used to preach about the hole 1000 years of peace, strange for such a murderous evil bunch...

Maybe too many beers. :rotfl:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by Chock

If you think that's bad, can you imagine what it must have been like in 1337, with everyone going on about how elite they were going to be when the computer was eventually going to be invented?

Chock

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Skybird]

Make sure your Windows has the proper updates installed before Decembre 2012.

Simply, I do not know if the earth's poles may switch anytime soon. It has happened before, though, and that seem to have been no pleasant experiences for dear old Earth's surface. If it happens now again, and so soon in the future, I think there is little or nothing we could do abut it anyway, and cannot avoid to suffer whatever is to be suffered from it. Since there is nothing we could do about preventing it, we could stay calm and stoic and wait and see without panicking and without going hysteric.

[Prof]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that what we will see in 2012 is the Summer Olympic Games in London.

I admire your optimism

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Chock

If you think that's bad, can you imagine what it must have been like in 1337, with everyone going on about how elite they were going to be when the computer was eventually going to be invented?

Chock

Let's see if I can punch through this monitor :p

[August]

If the earths magnetic poles do switch it's not like we'll wake up one fine day and find all our compasses pointing to the south. The switch is a process that takes anywhere from 100 to a few thousand years to complete.

One cool thing about a pole switch is that we may see things like the Aurora Borealis on the equator.

[TteFAboB]

The central american black plague > Mayan calendar.

[Chock]

Is the Mayan Calendar the one with the pictures of cute kittens on it? Or am I thinking of another one?

Chock

[DeepIron]

Will windows still work or will it be another Y2k meltdown again?

LOL! What non-event!
Back in 2000 I was an IT consultant and boy! did I make a LOT of $$$ leading up to the "New Millenium" crossover... and I did it honestly. I tried to advise my clients concerning the irrational fears regarding mass computer failures on 1/1/2000 that were being propagated in the media and otherwise but people hear and fear what they want.

I did a lot of "upgrades" (mostly MS patches) for my clients and didn't have a single instance of "meltdown"... All my LINUX servers BTW, just kept going....

As was pointed out earlier, the Mayan calendar "rolls over" in 2012. The Doomsayers however, will seize upon anything that even remotely looks "apocalyptic"...

[SUBMAN1]

Who is smoking crack about us being at 'The Center of the Milky Way' in 2012? If you've ever taken astronomy, you would know you are probably 100+ million light years from that center. You are so far from it...

Uggh! Conspiracy theories and and future prophecies. They make great scinece fiction, but are far far far from science fact.

-S

PS. Need I remind you and say you want no where near that center. Black Hole City.

PPS. With our reliance on GPS, I think a sudden magnetic switch would be of minimal disruptiuon if flying.

[STEED]

Conspiracy theories belong in the rubbish bin.

[mapuc]

Furthermore. if any of this should happen, there will not be a believer left to say this, to the disbeliever

-SEE! I was right

Markus

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Furthermore. if any of this should happen, there will not be a believer left to say this, to the disbeliever

-SEE! I was right

Markus

:rotfl: Typical conspiracy theorist.

-S

[Reaves]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Who is smoking crack about us being at 'The Center of the Milky Way' in 2012? If you've ever taken astronomy, you would know you are probably 100+ million light years from that center. You are so far from it...

It's not us that's at the centre. Apparently the sun will be passing the 'galactic equator' and we will be in some weird alignment.

This kind of explains it. Lot's of sites out there with little information. Understandable due to the crazy person nature of it.

Winter Solstice Animation 1992 - 2020. How to understand the Star Map: The line which goes top left to bottom right is the Galactic Equator. The Sun starts slightly to the left of the Equator at the time of Winter Solstice in 1992 and at Winter Solstice 1997 reaches alignment. By 2012 it's 15 years past alignment, and the disc of the Sun moves completely off the Galactic Equator by 2020. [The horizontal line is the Ecliptic and the other features are nebula which lie in this area of the Milky Way].

The first I read about this was on a Nasa site and it mentioned the possibility of a poles shift due to the sun passing the galactic equator.

[Peto]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

LOL! What non-event!
Back in 2000 I was an IT consultant and boy! did I make a LOT of $$$ leading up to the "New Millenium" crossover... and I did it honestly. I tried to advise my clients concerning the irrational fears regarding mass computer failures on 1/1/2000 that were being propagated in the media and otherwise but people hear and fear what they want.

I did a lot of "upgrades" (mostly MS patches) for my clients and didn't have a single instance of "meltdown"... All my LINUX servers BTW, just kept going....

As was pointed out earlier, the Mayan calendar "rolls over" in 2012. The Doomsayers however, will seize upon anything that even remotely looks "apocalyptic"...

LOL!!! I made a bundle on that too! Working new Years Eve alone netted me 4 days of paid vacation !