My friend claims he saw on the history channel that in 2012 theres a 50% chance we get hit with an asteroid and the world explodes. Does anyone know if this is true or not?
2007-03-21 11:41:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, 2012 is when the world will end due to the Mayan/Aztec calendar cycle coming to its end.
2035 is when the world could be hit by an asteroid. It will have catastrophic effects, but it will not be a planet exploding impact, because it is too small (about 1000 feet across).
Your friend should get his facts straight, before he scares someone.
2007-03-21 11:51:00 · answer #1 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2012 has alot of significance as the day the world might end...
supposedly its the end of the Mayan calendar as well, although some say that it is just beginning a new cycle... we are now in the 12th cycle and 2012 is supposed to bring about the 13th cycle...
The Bible Code says that LA will have a giant earthquake in 2012...
There's also the theory that the earth is a giant magnet and the sun recharges that magnet every 12,000 yrs. And guess when we are due again, 2012. So the sun will have crazy solar storms and possibly engulf part of the earth and recharge the earth's inner magnet. Supposedly when this happens, the earth will also stop spinning. And one side will be dark for a whole day, and the other side light. Then the earth will start spinning the other direction, and the poles will switch. Causing massive earth and ocean upheavels.
But you must realize, these are all theories made by scientists. And scientists told us 20 years ago, that protons, neutrons and electrons were the smallest particle EVER.
The only thing I truly believe in is the Bible Code. Because I know God exists.
Look, honey, live your life. And don't be irresponsible because you think its gonna end soon. Your time here is short... theres no use in trying to count the days.
I don't think it will end in 2012 but I think this time period is ushering in the end of the human race... we just can't sustain past another couple of generations.... if that long...
As horribly horribly shitty as it is, the war in Iraq and genocide in Darfur is one of the only ways we are depleting our population.
Thanks to modern medicine and the concept of being civilized, EVERYONE is getting to live. And that is just not the way the world is supposed to be. Sadly.
2007-03-21 11:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by the nothing 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even if there was any truth in the 2012 hit, you have again proved that people have no idea of the scale of the planets and the solar system.
It could take a 10 km wide asteroid to cause mass extinctions, but the Earth itself would hardly notice it.
Do you not realise that we all live in a little skin of gas on a huge solid ball that weighs 6 with 21 zeroes on the end, tonnes. We live on the surface of a ball that is 13000 kms wide - in scale about like bacteria on a large apple.
It is the thin gaseous envelope of the atmosphere that provides our existence. That is what is vulnerable to impacts from the small asteroids that sometimes approach Earth.
It would take a Mars size (7000 kms wide) body to explode the Earth, and nothing that size has come close to the Earth for 4 billion years - why should it now?
Hey, there's plenty of good stuff to read about astronomy and space - stop reading and listening to garbage.
2007-03-21 11:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I've heard about is a scientist doing a lot of bad math and claiming that an asteroid would hit us in 2059. There is nothing that will hit us that we can see. BUT, we can't see a whole lot. The govt. will not fund the people who can track these things fare enough in to future for us to do anything about them.
Despite what you may think, we can't send Bruce Willis up with a Dremel and a bomb two weeks out.
P.S. You friend is an idiot.
2007-03-21 14:14:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some day, an, as yet, undetected asteroid will impact with Earth and cause major destruction, perhaps even an end to mankind. As yet, we don't know of such an object and a date when it will hit, only that it will happen someday.
2007-03-21 12:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by SteveA8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's not true. Don't believe your friend. They can watch History Channel all they want but nothing on the History Channel is true because it's the most boring channel ever.
2007-03-21 11:44:56 · answer #6 · answered by Josh D 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Think about it honey. There's a 50% chance that the world will end in 5 years. Don't you think you'd have heard something about it by now?
It's all crap.
2007-03-21 11:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Unless you mean explode into warfare to defeat world wide terrorists.
No wait! That's already begun to happen.
2007-03-21 13:54:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not true. Scientists could see something like that coming way before then, and would try to diffuse any future disasters if it were true.
2007-03-21 11:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by Blue Bear 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's going to be within 210,000 miles, but it'll miss.
Unless....
2007-03-21 12:01:41 · answer #10 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋