what happens in 2012?

Answer 1

In 2012 our sun will temporarily become aligned with the Milky Way's equator, an event that's happened countless times in the past. It's also when the Mayan calendar ends. That's the same thing that we do every year on December 31st; the Mayan calendar was just a lot different than ours.

Answer 2

Let's see:
it's a leap year (February will have 29 days in the Gregorian calendar).

January 1 will be a Sunday.

The first of five Long Counts (over 5000 years each) of the Mayan calendar comes to an end. The Second Long Count will begin.

The position of the Sun at December solstice will be the closest it can be to the direction of the centre of our Galaxy (still 5.5603 degrees away from being a straight line = 11 times the apparent diameter of the Full Moon). This occurs every 25,800 years. In 2012, this will be on a Friday.
In 2011, the winter solstice will be 5.5607 deg. away from the direction of the centre of the Galaxy (same as in 2013). According to some charlatans, the big bad end-of-the-world monster will be able to tell that 5.5603 degrees is the closest we can get and that 5.5607 is still far enough away that we will survive 2011.

Most of us will be 5 years older than we are now. Some will not be wiser.

Answer 3

January - Finland presidential elections, asteroid 433 Eros expected to pass by Earth at around 16 million kilometers
February - Superbowl XLVI will be played
April - the US cedes control of the military of Korea
May - annular solar eclipse, French presidential elections
June - last transit of Venus this century
July - Mexican presidential elections, 2012 Summer Olympics open in London, England
August - 2012 Summer Olympics end, 2012 Summer Paralympics begin
September - 2012 Summer Paralympics end
October - human population of Earth estimated to hit 7 billion
November - US presidential elections, total solar eclipse (Australia), penumbral lunar eclipse
December - Jupiter at opposition, Mayan Long Count calendar ends, Kyoto Accord expires

Not a particular notable year.

Answer 4

Venus will pass across the face of the Sun on 2012 Jun 06, an event which won't happen again for over a century. I saw the last transit of Venus in 2004 and hope to see this one too.

Don't believe that end of the world crap!

Answer 5

Not much will happen, unless humans want it to or make it happen.

Great and transformative, and even destructive things could happen to humanity in the near future. I do not doubt that possibility for a second. But why in 2012? So the Mayan calendar ends? So what?

Here is a list of things (from a Wikipedia article) that are predicted by many people to be happening in 2012. NOTE: that some of these potential great happenings are matters of economics, science, and human behavior.

Here it is:

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

* The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
* The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
* The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
* The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
* The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
* The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
* The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
* The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.

Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:

* Terence McKenna's mathematical novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
* Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012. [13][14][15]
* Some alien-enthusiasts (e.g. Riley Martin), along with some new-agers, believe 2012 to correspond approximately with the return of alien "watchers" or "caretakers" who might have helped the first human civilizations with developing their technology and may have been waiting for us to reach a higher level of technological and/or social advancement. Beliefs range from the extra-terrestrials having benevolent purposes — such as to help human society evolve — to malevolent purposes — such as enslavement of mankind and/or manipulation.
* There is a Hindu following indicating the appearance of an Avatar (God in human form) with God-like powers who will herald a new age. A website to this effect appears at: End of the World 2012

Answer 6

a bunch of idiots that think something is going to happen will be very disappointed.

so far from everything ive heard: the sun, earth, and galactic center will be lined up causing the earths magnetic poles to switch. at the same time aliens will start to invade earth as massive earthquakes happen and volcanoes go off. then Christ will come back. while all that is happening a meteor will hit the earth because the brown dwarf nibiru will disturb the ort cloud. and then everyone will start bombing eachother and we will have nuclear winter. then everything imaginable to the human mind will come happen at once and everything will cease to exist. and all that happens in 1 day.

yea right.

first of all, the galactic center lining up with the earth and the sun happens every year and nothing happens. and magnetic poles switching would do nothing to the earth.

Answer 7

They say it will end on December 12, 2012.
becuase that is that day that is predicted in many differnt sources from all over the world.
I guess i kinda believe it.
scientists say that the poles of the earth might change even.
So my advice is to live like it was ending then. because you never know. no one knows. it just gives you an excuse to live your life to the fullest right?

Answer 8

New years

Answer 9

Holy Crap! There are two other 2012 questions on the very first page! At least do a cursory search before bothering real people with this crap.

Answer 10

in the year 2012 you will be diagnosed with having a learning disability