why aren't we hearing more about 2012 and the effect on our planet?

Question

the mayans have fortold the end of civilization in 2012 when our planet lines with the milky way they have never been wrong in their predictions yet including naming the exact hour of their invasion and demise, scientists know this is going to happen and the effects on life itself why isn't there more information available?

Answer 1

Scientists know no such thing, Nobody citing the Mayan predictions has managed to produce a single shred of evidence of a specific calamity that is allegedly about to happen.

Is an asteroid about to impact? Fine. If so, what is its name and what is its orbit? Then we can get NASA to check and allocate it a position on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale.

Is a non-periodic comet about to enter the Inner Solar System? Fine, if so, where is its now and what is its trajectory? Then again we can ask NASA to check the facts and follow it.

Is a volcano or earthquake about to happen? Then we can get seismic readings and if necessary evacuate the areas likely to be affected,

Science works on predictions based on observable data not on superstitions and beliefs. And the reason why no information is being given out is because there is none to give out, because the doom-and-gloom club have not provided any hard facts whose truthfulness can be verified.

And what exactly does "lines with the milky way" mean?

The Sun and its entourage of planets has been happily orbiting within the Orion Arm for nigh on 5 billion years and completes a "galactic year" about once every 225-250 million years: it has done 20 or so such orbits during its lifetime. Why should the 21st such orbit be any different from the other 20?

And hpw on earth could the Mayans conceive of our current knowledge of the Milky Way to be able to identify the co-ordinates of the Sun on Dec 12 2012?

I somehow doubt they had a heliocentric model of the Solar System, let alone one in which the Solar System as a whole rotates around the Milky Way. Either the Earth was stationary or the Sun was stationary in primitive beliefs, so therefore we would be bound to line up with whatever you choose to say we line up with, because we never moved from the spot.

Lining up (getting into a position of lining up from not having been in such a position) implies a level of galactic movement that the Mayans simply did not know about and regarding which they could not therefore make predictions.

Sounds to me like a gloss that has been added onto Mayan writings later by a contemporary commentator that was not in the original. I take it the Mayan legacy is massaged like this to try and lend it some spurious scientific-sounding credibility that it plainly does not possess. They were not a civilisation renowned for their scientific progress, were they? So let's not pretend they were.

Answer 2

Because nothing like that is going to happen. 2012 is simply when the current baktun of the Mayan calendar ends. A baktun is a 400 year period, and we are in the twelfth baktun. It is true that the Mayan calendar effectively ends on December 21, 2012, because for whatever reason the Mayans didn't extend the calendar beyond the end of the twelfth baktun. This doesn't mean that the Mayans believed the world would end at that point. I mean, during the 20th century, the civilized world created a computer timekeeping system that was incapable of recognizing dates beyond December 31, 1999. It doesn't mean we thought the world was going to end that day! Maybe the Mayans would have extended the calendar centuries ago if their civilization hadn't collapsed. And even if the Mayans did believe the world would end in 2012, that doesn't mean it actually will. Remember, every predicted date for the end of the world so far has been wrong! In any event, the termination of the Mayan "long count" calendar on December 21, 2012, is the main reason why that year has been singled out as the supposed date of the apocalypse.

Answer 3

"I ask this question through fact I easily have somewhat replace into prepared approximately this entire 2012 end of the international undertaking.i'm no physicist " this is okay. Neither are the individuals making such predictions. in the event that they have been, that they had understand this is trouble-free to ascertain the area of the planets in 2012 and understand that they gained't be everywhere close to alignment. that they had additionally understand that the blended gravitational effect of each and every of the planets might only boost the tides by way of a million/25 of a millimeter. So no, that could desire to no longer reason any failures whether authentic. And what does "starting to be in the middle of the galaxy" advise? What distinction does it make what's in the sky 30,000 easy years away? That black hollow would be only as far in 2012 because it truly is now, and its gravitational effects only as irrelevant.

Answer 4

Quit dreaming. Our planet orbits the sun and the sun orbits the center of the galaxy. There is no "galactic" thing to align with. The Mayans never knew of their demise and it is now thought that they slaughtered each other during a series of droughts. The disappeared 500 years before Europeans got here. They were not invaded. It seems like you're picking little rumors and BS from everywhere and putting it all together in a bit of a twisted tale. By the way, theire new era calendar was supposed to pick up where the old one left off. They just dies out before they could do it.

Anyways the world ends at the end of February 2008. That's when my calendar with the dogs in it from Barnes & Noble runs out.

Answer 5

The Mayans have NOT foretold the end of civilization.

You will see for yourself in 2013. I can hardly wait, because I am really getting sick of all these 2012 questions.

Alas, there will be some other prediction that will surface that says the end will be in some other future year, and it will start all over again. People are such gullible fools! Sigh...

Answer 6

The Maya died out a very long time ago -- if they were so smart, you'd think they'd have found a way to survive, right?

Get this straight: nobody can predict the future. The "prediction" you speak of first of all does *not* predict the end of civilization. Second, no "scientists" believe it (and certainly don't "know" it's going to happen). And finally, there's not more information available because it's a superstitious myth.

See you in 2013.

Peace.

Answer 7

The reason you don't hear anything about this in the media is because this Mayan / 2012 / end of the world stuff is pure bunk. 2012 for the Mayans meant nothing more than the end to one of their calendars. There's not a thing from the ancient Mayans talking about or foretelling the end of the world. All that comes from the kind of people who watch clouds in the sky and can pick out bunnies and whales and other stuff concocted from their imaginations.

Answer 8

Because the is a very small percentage of the population (and I do mean small) that believe that prediction is true, that is going to happen. You have to understand that throughout history of man almost every civilization has predicted at one time or another when the Earth will did and all life will be destroyed and none of it has ever came true. You ask why there isn't more information available? Because the demand for such information is not there. No body really cares if you ask me. Some people may even welcome it. Sad, but true.

Answer 9

If it is the end of civilization, why are you bothered - just get some living done before then - you cannot change what the Mayans have fortold

Answer 10

My bet would be that scientists don't want to look like the total goobers who went nuts over Y2K. Think of Geraldo and Al Capone's vault. It's the same thing. Nobody really knows what will happen, if anything. I mean do we really think that this is the first time in history that everything will line up?