A
response to the "7 Reasons" post and email |
Seven
Reasons |
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Seven reasons
why 2012 is not the end. |
An email / message post has been making the rounds for a while now,
claiming to show several reasons why the world will end in 2012. We break
the post down and show why each claim is bogus. Somewhere along the line an
additional header portion was added to the original "7 Reasons" post, and we
also address the claims made in it.
interesting factssss
Albert Einstein said if the honey bees were suddenly gone
mankind would have about 4 years left to live. Well, the honey
bees are going extinct now and at the present rate in another
year or so there will be no more honey bees left on earth. 4
years from now gives us the year 2012
There are exactly 2012 days between the June 20 2007 Summer
solstice and the December 21 2012 Winter solstice.
Jesus said that no man knows the hour or the day of the End
of Days. Even Jesus didn't know. Only his father did.
But Jesus added that he hoped that those who will live in the
Final Generation would look for the signs in the hope their
suffering would not be so great.
NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic
poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of current
11-year sunspot cycle. Some believe this will amplify the
effects of retarding magnetic field on earth, as harmful charged
particles blasted away from the sun would more easily penetrate
the earth's atmosphere.
The Vatican holds very closely to the Prophecy of St.
Malachy. This Medieval Monk had detailed visions of 112 Popes
until Doomsday, also known as The Biblical Apocalypse. The
current Pope, Benedict XVI is the 111th named Pope, only one
Pope remains.
7 reasons the world will end in 2012
Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely
predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could
well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off.
Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And
the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses
the stop button…
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were
the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone
and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length
of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The
Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21,
2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the
lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right
as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have
made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The
energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic,
and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative
stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the
Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out
power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is
predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its
deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest
particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to
smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick.
However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some
scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn
it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of
deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine
is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world
could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a
basketball.
4. The Bible says…
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world
isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act
aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the
date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has
been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese
book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of
the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for
its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this
is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano,
and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The
Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000
years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that
will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging
the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000
years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily,
and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists
at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've
determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major
catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their
calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon -
while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99
percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when
it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that
sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not
know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a
nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and
right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have
noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each
year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift
being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway,
the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear,
sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors
to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
We believe the original version of this post is found at
http://www.msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=74463
7 reasons the world will end in 2012
Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely
predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could
well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off.
Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And
the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses
the stop button…
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were
the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone
and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length
of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The
Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21,
2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the
lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right
as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have
made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The
energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic,
and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative
stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the
Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out
power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is
predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its
deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest
particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to
smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick.
However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some
scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn
it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of
deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine
is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world
could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a
basketball.
4. The Bible says…
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world
isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act
aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the
date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has
been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese
book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of
the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for
its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this
is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano,
and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The
Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000
years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that
will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging
the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000
years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily,
and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists
at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've
determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major
catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their
calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon -
while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99
percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when
it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that
sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not
know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a
nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and
right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have
noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each
year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift
being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway,
the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear,
sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors
to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
Note: This was posted just for a general chit
chat. The thread was not meant to scare anyone and I personally
believe that the world is not going to end in 2012. Anyone that
posts abuse towards me because of it or spams in my thread will
be given negative rep.
This post was edited on 02-16-2008 at 04:21 PM by Phillip.
Albert and the Bees
Albert Einstein said if the honey bees were suddenly gone mankind
would have about 4 years left to live. Well, the honey bees are going
extinct now and at the present rate in another year or so there will be
no more honey bees left on earth. 4 years from now gives us the year
2012
This quote is also
covered at
Snopes.com.
Albert Einstein died in 1955. The quote above first appears in 1994. Do
the math.
This claim first appears in literature handed out during a 1994 protest
by European bee-keepers who were demonstrating against greater imports of
honey. As such, it appears to be a mis-quote of Einstein. Einstein's few
known references to bees and other insects were made by way of a comparison
of mankind with insects.
Solstice Silliness
There are exactly 2012 days between the June 20 2007 Summer solstice
and the December 21 2012 Winter solstice.
Actually there are 2011 days between those two dates, but we'll say that
it is true anyway: What does this have to do with anything? Why pick the
June solstice 2007, other than to make the number of days work out? What
relevance does this have? In addition, the June 2007 solstice occurred on
June 21, at 18:06,
and there are actually only 2009 full days, plus about 3/4 of a day, between
those two dates. So not only is the number of days cited irrelevant, it is
wrong.
Jesus said that no man knows the hour or the day of the End of Days.
Even Jesus didn't know. Only his father did. But Jesus added that he
hoped that those who will live in the Final Generation would look for
the signs in the hope their suffering would not be so great.
While ignoring the religious aspects of this comment, we point out that
this paragraph is self-contradictory. First it claims that "no man knows the
hour", but then claims that those who will live in the final generation will
look for signs, implying that since some people claim that there are "signs"
that this is the final generation. A nice collection of prior, failed
doomsday predictions can be found at A Brief
History of the Apocalypse.
NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles
during 2012 as result of reaching the end of current 11-year sunspot
cycle.
The magnetic field of the earth is fairly simple, we have a north pole,
and a south pole that are fairly close to the geographic poles of rotation.
The Sun, on the other hand, does *not* have a simple magnetic field. The
magnetic field lines of the sun are twisted, and tangled, and constantly in
motion. The magnetic field of the sun does have a predominant north/south
orientation at the poles as seen in
the magnetic
"butterfly" diagram. However the most intense activity is at the
sunspots themselves.
See our page on solar
flares for more information.
The prediction that the Sun will reverse its predominant north/south
orientation is a no-brainer. This overall magnetic orientation reverses
every 11 years or so, and is part of the sunspot cycle.
So the question becomes "Why is this significant this time?". The only
answer we can find seems to be the coincidence of the solar cycle with the
2012 date.
But, the most recent solar cycle predictions are indicating that the
solar cycle will peak in 2013, not 2012!
Some believe this will amplify the effects of retarding magnetic
field on earth, as harmful charged particles blasted away from the sun
would more easily penetrate the earth's atmosphere.
As is common throughout this quote, the author gives incorrect
information with no attribution. Whoever these "some" are, they are wrong.
The Earth's magnetic field is in decline presently, but that is because
it is presently stronger than the historical average. It
has experienced wide swings strength and reversals in the past. Guess what?
Life is still here.
The Vatican holds very closely to the Prophecy of St. Malachy.
Does it? Is there a citation for this claim?
This Medieval Monk had detailed visions of 112 Popes until Doomsday,
also known as The Biblical Apocalypse. The current Pope, Benedict XVI is
the 111th named Pope, only one Pope remains.
Regardless of the status of the truth of the claim that the Vatican
"holds very closely" to the writings of St. Malachy, we have to question the
relevance. What special knowledge did this medieval monk have? Did he make
other predictions?
The prophecy was first published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon, a Benedictine
historian, as part of his book Lignum Vitæ. Wyon attributed the
list to Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century bishop of Armagh in Northern
Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Malachy was summoned
to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Malachy purportedly experienced
a vision of future popes, which he recorded as a sequence of cryptic
phrases. This manuscript was then deposited in the Roman Archive, and
thereafter forgotten about until its rediscovery in 1590.
On the other hand, Bernard of Clairvaux's biography of Malachy makes no
mention of the prophecy, nor is it mentioned in any record prior to its 1595
publication. Some sources, including the most recent editions of the
Catholic Encyclopedia, suggest that the prophecy is a late 16th‑century
forgery. Some have suggested that it was created by Nostradamus and was
credited to Saint Malachy so the purported seer would not be blamed for the
destruction of the papacy. Supporters, such as author John Hogue, who wrote
a popular book titled The Last Pope about the claims, generally argue that
even if the author of the prophecies is uncertain, the predictions are still
valid.
Spanish writer father Benito Jerónimo Feijóo wrote in his Teatro
Crítico Universal (1724-1739), in an entry called "Purported
prophecies", that the ones by Saint Malachy were a shameful forgery,
claiming that they were created ad hoc during the 16th century. As a proof,
he offers an accurate fact: that the first time the prophecy is mentioned is
on a handwritten account by patriarch Alfonso Chacón (a.k.a Alphonsus
Ciacconus, 1540-1599) in 1590 (this account would be later published, in
1595, by the abovementioned historian Arnold de Wyon); in this account,
Chacón only comments the prophecies until the papacy of Urban VII (whose
papacy only lasted September 1590, and was the current pope at the time
Chacón wrote the comment). According to Feijóo, Chacón, who held a great
intellectual prestige at the time, was lured to comment the prophecies by
someone who wanted to help cardinal Girolamo Simoncelli (1522-1605) reach
the papacy. By showing them to be accurate till Urban VII, it was expected
people to believe the next ones; that way, Girolamo Simoncelli could be
easily elected pope, since the prophecy after Urban VII's one tells about a
pope Ex antiquitate urbis (from the antiquity of the city), a fact that
seems to fit him, who was cardinal of Orvieto (literally "old city", urbs
vetus), or at least better than Gregory XIV, who was elected pope after
Urban VII.
Thus, the forgery appears to have been useless, since Simoncelli was not
elected pope. Jesuit father Claude-François Menestrier also claimed that the
prophecies were forged in order to help the papal candidacy of Girolamo
Simoncelli, offering similar reasons to those of Feijóo. Spanish historian
José Luis Calvo points out that the prophecies seem to be very accurate till
Urban VII, fitting perfectly even the antipopes, but that afterwards great
efforts have to be made in order to make the prophecies fit their pope.
Feijóo's explanation is usually regarded as being the most probable proof of
the forgery.
Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting
that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish.
No. Some new age woo-woo's are saying that, as well as the authors of
'doomsday' books and some religious nutcases. 'Scientific experts' are
saying the exact opposite.
Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that
a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are
saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button…
Quite a few religious predictions of the end of the world have been made
over the years. Let me introduce you to "A Brief History of the Apocalypse"
at http://abhota.info
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the
Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the
lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar
predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they
were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've
got the end of the world right as well.
Let's get some things straight:
- The Mayans never said that
the end of the world would occur on December 21st, 2012.
- The impressive calculations of various cycles is
not unique to the Maya. You may recall a group of
people called the "ancient Greeks"? They did it first, and better.
- The Mayan calendar the author is referring to is the
"Long Count" calendar. It is a count of days from a given starting
point. IT DOES NOT END.
- The calculation of the end of the current Baktun is
based on the "GMT" correlation, which is the most widely accepted
correlation between the Mayan calendar and the Gregorian calendar.
However, it is not the only correlation out there!
Recently there has been some stuff in the news about how one researcher
thinks that the GMT correlation is off by about 200 years.
See our pages on Why 2012?,
the Mayan calendar and
the Mayan Prediction
for more information.
The "length of the lunar moon" is meaningless in the above text. Does the
author mean the length of the lunar month? There are various ways of
measuring this. The correct figures are:
- Sidereal: The time it takes for the moon to pass a
fixed, non-rotating point such as a distant star: 27.32 days (27 days, 7
hours, 43 minutes, 11.6 seconds)
- Synodic: The period from new moon to new moon:
29.53059 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.8 seconds)
- Anomalistic: The period between successive perigees
(the point at which the moon is closest to the Earth): 27.55 days on
average.
- Tropical month: The period that it takes the moon to
reach the same position on the ecliptic: Slightly shorter than the
Sidereal month
- Draconic or Nodic month: The period that it takes the
moon to reach the same node (the crossing point between the Earth's
orbit and the Moon's orbit). About 27.21 days on average.
We assume that the leading "3" in the author's text is a typographical
error, and that he meant 29.53020 days, which is indeed very close to the
synodic month.
However, the length of the synodic month is not fixed; It can vary by up
to 13 hours over the course of the year! This is due to the fact that the
Earth and Moon are traveling around the sun in an ellipse, and the moon is
also traveling around the Earth in an ellipse. At some times of the year
these ellipses align, and at other times they are crossed. As the Moon
travels around the Earth, the Earth and Moon travel around the sun, so that
the moon must traverse more than a full sidereal orbit in order to reach
conjunction again. These motions affect the length of time between
conjunctions, and the value of the synodic month is an average.
Finally the last argument is laughable. Because their calculation was
close to the actual lunar cycle, then they're right about
2012? We have super-accurate atomic clocks, and can tell you the average
lunar cycle down to the millisecond. But because the Maya were only
34 seconds off, 2012 is the doomsday?
In addition, there appears to be some racist overtones to the above
passage. Archaeologist Johan
Normark points out:
The 2012ers are also ethnocentric if not just plain racist.
and
Characterising people as a bloodthirsty race or as a mob is not
unusual, particularly amongst the creationist minded 2012ers. As for
sacrificing virgins, that is more or less a myth created by Catholic
friars (they did sacrifice people though).
So far I have covered 22 hoaxers and topics on my blog Archaeological
Haecceities:
http://haecceities.wordpress.com/
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a
startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of
the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be
in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar
storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy,
it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This
activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach
its deadly peak sometime in 2012
Complete nonsense.
At the time that this post was written (January 2006) the sun was well
past its maximum, and was sliding toward its minimum in 2008. The claim that
the solar storms were getting worse was simply incorrect.
The term we typically use in astronomy is "coronal mass ejection", which
are somewhat associated with "solar flares". However, a CME can occur with
or without a 'solar flare'.
A CME is basically a big lump of solar material that has gotten blown off
of the sun. It consists of highly ionized particles, and carries a fairly
significant electrical charge.
CMEs can occur at any point in the solar sunspot cycle.
They occur more frequently during "Solar Max" (the peak of
the sunspot cycle), but they can also occur during a solar minimum.
Solar astronomers will tell you today (in 2009) that the current cycle is
unusually weak! Quite the opposite of what the author says!
Day-to-day solar weather is unpredictable. What we can
predict are the overall trends (such as the 11-year sunspot cycle). Right
now the solar scientists are predicting that the peak will be weak, and will
occur in the spring of 2013, and *not* in 2012!
A good place to find real information on sunspots, solar
storms and coronal mass ejections is
Dr. Sten Odenwald's site.
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle
accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms
together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the
mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting
that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place.
They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black
holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment
in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of
a basketball.
The LHC has been the subject of much hysterical pontificating on the part
of various doomsayers. Here's the thing: the energies in the LHC at full
blast are going to be a fraction of the energies of cosmic rays smashing
into the upper atmosphere.
Every day our planet is bombarded with high-energy particles. If the LHC
startup was going to cause a problem, the doomsayers need to explain why the
problem hasn't already occurred in the upper atmosphere.
4. The Bible says…
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad
enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations
of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final
battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012.
Huh? It has? Set by whom? When did they "set" this date? What evidence
did they use to support this claim?
The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same
thing
No, it doesn't. The I Ching describes a system of casting signs in order
to make predictions. It makes *no* predictions itself.
…, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
Not according to the Hindu scholars. For example, see this commentary at
hindu-blog.com:
So connecting 2012 to Hinduism and Vedic astrology is done by those
people who want to create fear and optimism at the same time among
people – and earn a living by predictions and writing books[4].
Gee, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its
thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple -
it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological
experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has
a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years
overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash,
blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could
last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building
steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big
bang.
The Yellowstone caldera is a fact. It has erupted several times. However,
*no* geologist is setting 2012 as the likely date. They *are* saying that
"sometime in the next several thousand to several tens of thousands of
years" it may erupt again. A yellowstone eruption is *not* imminent.
Here once again we see the concept of natural processes as some kind of
clockwork mechanism. This is not the only place where terms like "overdue"
are used. While some natural processes are cyclical, many are chaotic and
unpredictable. It is impossible to tell when the next eruption of
Yellowstone will be.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at
Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined
that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even
worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going
to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a
certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as
to when it occurs.
Completely bogus.
First of all, there is no "Berekely Uni"… the proper name of the
institution is "University of California, Berkeley" or "Cal Berkeley". More
importantly, this is an excellent case of a real scientific paper being
completely misunderstood when passed through the filter of pseudoscience.
A 2005 paper "Cycles in fossil diversity" was published in the scientific
journal Nature [volume 434, pages 208-210] by UC Berkeley scientists Robert
Rohde and Richard Muller (yes, the same Richard Muller of the "Nemesis - the
supposed red dwarf companion to the sun - causes a shower of comets which
causes mass extinctions every 26 million years" theory). They did a
statistical analysis of the number of marine genera (kinds of sea life)
during the past 542 million years and found an apparent statistical cycle
(with 99% confidence) of 62 plus or minus 3 million years. Note that this is
the source of the 99% "certainty" in the 7 Reasons viral email.
Interestingly, the cycle was not in extinctions per se, but rather in
"diversity". Although they had several suggestions as to what might cause
such a cycle (such as Nemesis), they were unable to come up with an
explanation which they could not just as easily knock down themselves. They
also admit that the cycle is "somewhat less regular and well developed
during the last ~150 Myr." So even if the cycle is real, there is no way we
could be 99% sure as to WHEN it will cycle again. If the dinosaurs marked
the last cycle, then 65 million - 62 million = 3 million. Either the cycle
isn't reliable, or we missed a dip in diversity. Either way, "2012" is not
mentioned in the Nature paper, and there is nothing to suggest that 2012
will suddenly mark a crisis in diversity.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds
us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the
magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping
places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000
years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart
roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points
to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is
underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear,
sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp
your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
Again, completely bogus. See our
Magnetic Pole Shift
page for a complete explanation.
Bibliography
4.
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Subject: Major Earthquake April 21st - 24th 2012 ??
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Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 10:06 AM
Watch the Short Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2w2f8sNeSs&feature=player_embedded
Earthquakes and Planetary Alignments with the
Earth
April 11, 2012: Earthquake of 8.7 on the Richter scale
Today Earth -- Mars and Neptune are nearly lined up... but
not perfect... See my questions below...
So after finding this... it was easy to make a connection
with the other ones...
Listed according to their strength
May 22, 1960: Earthquake of 9.5 on the Richter scale
May 21st: Mars -- Uranus -- Mercury lined up (not with the
Earth, all the others are with the Earth)
May 22nd: Neptune helio-centric connected with the Earth
(this is important because Neptune comes several times back,
so the helio-centric connection with the Earth is indeed
very important!)
All the following quakes have a Triple Line Up with the
Earth...
March 28, 1964: Earthquake of 9.2 on the Richter scale
March 23rd: Venus -- Earth -- Neptune in one line (few days
before the quake... but even bigger alignment coming...)
March 27th -- 4 planets lined up: Mars -- Mercury - Venus --
Uranus (4 planets lined up just before the quake)
March 28th: Jupiter -- Mars -- Neptune almost lined up
December 26, 2004: Earthquake of 9.1 on the Richter scale
December 27th: Earth -- Venus -- Mercury lined up
November 4 ,1952: Earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter scale
November 5th: Earth -- Mars -- Uranus lined up
March 11, 2011: Earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter scale
March 9th: Earth -- Mercury and Uranus lined up
January 31, 1906: Earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale
February 1 -- 2th: Neptune -- Earth -- Uranus lined up
February 27, 2010: Earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale
February 27th: Earth -- Mercury -- Neptune lined up
March 28, 2005: Eartquake of 8.6 on the Richter scale
March 29th: Earth -- Venus -- Mercury lined up
August 15, 1950: Earthquake of 8.6 on Richter scale
August 14th -- 15th: Earth -- Mercury -- Saturn lined up
We see Neptune, Mercury and Uranus several times coming
back.... I have only one remark.... The quake from today
April 11... doesn't fit completely on an alignment...
Normally the alignment with Uranus and Neptune is nearly
perfect around April 22... Could there be an even bigger one
lurking? Or was this one triggered by the complex alignment
that is coming?
Triple Line Ups: April 22, 2012:
Neptune -- Earth -- Mars
Earth -- Mercury -- Uranus
http://www.howtosurvive2012.com/htm_night/home.htm
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