Nah. Not true. We'll have a close encounter with a space rock in 2012, but that's about it.
Breathe easy. All we have to face is war, poverty, pollution, and overpopulation.
2007-08-02 04:09:55
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answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7
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It is true that NASA found a new planet, but it is very far away from us. It will not have any effect on Earth.
The date regarding December 21, 2012, is the end of the Mayan calendar. Remember the chatter about the millenium, and the end of the world in 1999 or 2000? It didn't happen right? Same thing.
The Mayans studied the stars. The had calendars that timed everything from human child birth to the rise of Venus. They figured out a scale for all this and it takes a long time for one long cycle to run its course.
Do you know the story of Chicken Little who ran around yelling "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!" The internet is a great place for modern Chicken Littles to do their thing.
;-D Just because a calendar has come to the last day of the year does not mean that the world will be an different the next day. Except that you will be one day older.
2007-08-02 04:08:03
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answered by China Jon 6
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December 21, 2012, is the last day of the present "Long Count" in the classical Mayan calendar. The following day will be the first day of the next Long Count. Happy New Long Count. Prepare gifts.
It will be announced by many as the end of the world, in the same way as (in our present calendar) December 31, 1999 was also the end of the world. Remember Y2k? That is the day all our computers blew up and we all died. I guess we are all zombies, now. (Sorry, some of us have decided that the world did not end)
There are plenty of minor planets that are in quasi-stable orbits that are linked to ours. For example, some go around the sun in an exact (integer) number of years, so that each time around, they pass at the same spot (relative to Earth) and get a gravitational nudge, from Earth, that stabilises their orbit for the next pass.
Others appear to share our orbit around the Sun. For a while, they are slightly closer to the Sun and go around a tiny bit faster. As they catch up to us, Earth's gravity pulls at them, putting them in an orbit that becomes a tiny bit further from the Sun: they now orbit slightly slower and Earth then plays catch-up.
When (after many years) Earth catches-up, our gravity pulls them into a new orbit closer to the sun and now, they go faster than us around the Sun -- and the whole cycle starts again.
Some have orbital periods very close to one Earth year:
Example: minor planet 3753-Cruithne, with an orbital period of 364.02 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
This has been going on for millions of years.
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youtube is a very poor source of information.
Nibiru used to be the name of the planet Jupiter in Babylonian astronomy (it was a name associated with the Babylonian god Marduk, who was associated with Zeus in Greek mythology who became assimilated into the Roman god Iuppiter later on -- Romans did not have a letter J).
Nibiru has so often been used as the name of a new planet by pseudoscientists and conspiracy theorists that the International Astronomical Union (they name planets, not NASA) would not use it as a name for a real planet.
The name Nibiru, for a fictitious planet, comes from a Sumerian creation myth (a book that is the Sumerian equivalent to our bible, with, of course, a different creator) which was interpreted by a linguist (not an astronomer) as saying that a collision between two planets (Tiamat and Nibiru) created Earth and put it in its present orbit.
NASA (and astronomers in general) discover thousands of new planets every year (more than one per day). There is a web site that keeps track of those that come (relatively) close to Earth.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
2007-08-02 04:20:29
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answered by Raymond 7
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I have heard of a dark star that passes by our solar system and knocks out comets from the Oort cloud.
There have been predictions for the world's end since the beginning of history. And we're still here. Sure, things will end someday but predicting anything in the future as never been abosolutly proven.
This proves that YouTube is the Internet's version of trash tabloids.
2007-08-02 04:20:14
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answered by dgreatunknown 2
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We have been hearing these kinds of fairy tales every now and then. I can assure you that the world will not come to an end on December 21, 2012.
2007-08-02 04:08:32
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answered by cidyah 7
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I've got a better question.
Why don't people asking about 2012 ever use the 'search' bar to find out if similar questions have already been asked?
2012- 2,471 similar questions- do you think maybe your answer has been given 2,471 times here already?
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&fid=38957
2007-08-02 07:24:59
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answered by Troasa 7
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who knows. I remember them saying that on may 5th 2000 that all the planets were to allign and stop the earth in its tracks and another ice age was to start. but that never happened thank god.
2007-08-02 05:25:45
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answered by Anonymous
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Yeah, don't u remember how 3,600 years ago, this exact same thing happened? The earth was practically destroyed? Remember that??
No!?!?
Maybe there's a reason you don't remember hearing about it....
2007-08-02 05:28:14
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answered by Anonymous
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a book name domain by Steve Alten mentioned the same thing, except that it was predicted by the Aztec thousands years ago. and knowing it doesn't make the problem any better. i think it's true.
2007-08-02 17:58:57
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answered by Lone Wolf 3
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quick forward answer for you the world was supposed to end 2000 and other years these are just aload of talk the worlds got better chance of ending by asteroid and floods earthquakes that will be the end dont worry enjoy your time
2007-08-02 06:23:03
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answered by Anonymous
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