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View from the West |
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Will December 21, 2012 be the day the world ends? |
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By Thomas Terrio |
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Afterthoughts |
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. |
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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Now that 2011 is history, one begs the question: According to the Mayan calendar, will 2012 be the year the world ends or will December 21, 2012 simply be just another day? Many disagree what mankind should expect on December 21, 2012, when the Mayan “Long Count" calendar marks the end of its 5,126-years. The Maya Long Count Calendar was used by Pre-Columbian Mayan civilization. Dates are counted forward from a point encompassing a 52-year cycle. It is a very complex way of arriving at the end of the world—the end of humanity. However, if one follows the Internet conspiracy theories, there is no doubt, the world will end on that fateful day. No doubt, this year religious fanatics will come out of the closet; people will sell their homes, travel away from cities to avoid this great cataclysmic event that will involve the whole world in an apocalyptic catastrophe. Many believers will commit suicide in order to avoid the horrific pain that will be endured by the masses. And as it is written in the Christian bible: “The living shall envy the dead.” Now, get hold of yourself for a moment. Fortunately or unfortunately, from whatever point of view you are, religious denomination or doomsday cult, the world will not end on December 21, 2012. I guarantee it. Your life may end, but not the greater world. And if by chance I should be wrong, then I can always do what Alan Greenspan did at the Congressional committee meetings investigating the market crash of 2008, and say, “Yes… I was wrong.” As if it would matter. However, there is one specific non-earth event happening in 2012, and it’s called the Solar Max, it will peak this year. This non-earth event involves the sun, the basis of all life on Earth. The Mayans worshipped the sun with human sacrifices. It is strictly coincidental the Mayan calendar ends during a Solar Max event. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirms we are expecting a lot of solar activity in 2012, "Obviously, the sun is Earth's life blood," says Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "To mitigate possible public safety issues, it is vital that we better understand extreme space weather events caused by the sun's activity" (nasa.gov). The solar maximum is the period of time when the peak of the sunspot cycle and other activity such as coronal mass ejections are most frequent; this happens approximately once every 11 years. With coronal mass ejections, there may be power failures, digital television interruptions, and overall chaos with GPS and telephone communications; but this is not a world-ending event. To prepare the planet, NASA officials offer a public warning: “A catastrophic failure of commercial and government infrastructure in space and on the ground can be mitigated through raising public awareness, improving vulnerable infrastructure and developing advanced forecasting capabilities. Without preventive actions or plans, the trend of increased dependency on modern space-weather sensitive assets could make society more vulnerable in the future.” The sun is the key to life on Earth and without it we would not exist. But the sunshine is not going anywhere for another 6 billion years, and if the sun were to go supernova right now, we would have at eight minutes to say good-bye to each other. This is the time it takes for sunlight to reach the Earth. The sun is hotter than normal as the Super Max reveals and because of this, the Earth is getting warmer along with other planets in our solar system like Venus and Mars. There is much proof to defunct 150 years of human activity and the idea global warming is simply caused by man. Indeed, 150 years of human activity cannot compare to six billion years of solar storms and warming trends connected to the sun. Remember the panic humanity encountered with Y2K, better known as the Millennium Bug? The results will be similar. Once the numbers reach 99 they will simply rollover to zero. The Mayan calendar will work in very much the same way as our own calendar. On December 21st the old Mayan calendar will end, and on December 22nd a new one will begin. So now you can take a deep breath, laugh, cry, or celebrate. And this year don’t allow the doomsday seers to spoil your mood, because next December 21, 2012 will simply be just another day. Happy New Year. |
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