Doomsday Debunked: Nibiru is Nuts, False vacuum, Big Rip, Asteroid Impacts, Pole Shift, Blood Moons - Debunking Doomsday News

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That sort of pairing is probably something that appealed to the Maya in theory but certainly not something that they actually observed to happen because the span of time was just longer than they were around to see. These were quoted and expanded upon by Terence and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape (1975). Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia featured a plot in which a planet emerges from behind the Sun on a collision course with Earth.

Here, she explains what a potential end of days scenario would look like and why we should be more concerned about climate change.

Most scientific estimates say that geomagnetic reversals take between 1,000 and 10,000 years to complete, [118] and do not start on any particular date. As a believer in Jesus Christ, I didn't think that it would happen because God tells us that we don't know when the time will come. com and later referenced in the English-language edition of Pravda [137] claimed, citing a Second Digitized Sky Survey photograph as evidence, that SETI had detected three large spacecraft due to arrive at Earth in 2012. citing Hieroglyphic Stairway E7-H12 at Palenque, plate 104 in Karl Herbert Mayer, Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance, Supplement 4 [in which the Sajal Niil is depicted in his costume], and Stele 1 from La Mar. In Michigan, schools were closed for the Christmas holidays two days early, in part because rumours of the 2012 apocalypse were raising fears of repeat shootings similar to that at Sandy Hook.

There is a strong tradition of "world ages" in Maya literature, but the record has been distorted, leaving several possibilities open to interpretation. The ancient Maya had many scientific accomplishments: they tracked the Moon and the planets, knew a solar year was 365 days, and even invented the concept of zero. Of course, we’ve debunked this far-fetched hypothesis, as the Large Hadron Collider has been operating smoothly for years. The Internet abounds with warnings of disaster as the calendar year winds down, thanks to a variety of alleged apocryphal events supposedly set to occur Dec.Apart from the "galactic alignment" already having happened in 1998, the Sun's apparent path through the zodiac as seen from Earth did not take it near the true galactic center, but rather several degrees above it. At least one suicide was directly linked to fear of a 2012 apocalypse, [140] with others anecdotally reported. Burroughs, who first portrayed the end of the Mayan Long Count as an apocalyptic shift of human consciousness in 1960's The Exterminator. Evidence shows that the Sun passed through the plane bisecting the galactic disc three million years ago and in 2012 was moving farther above it.

Towards mid-December 2012, an internet hoax related to South Korean singer Psy being one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was widely circulated around social media platforms. These comments were later repeated in Morley's book, The Ancient Maya, the first edition of which was published in 1946. Jenkins said that precession would align the Sun precisely with the galactic equator at the 2012 winter solstice. The Turkish village of Şirince, near Ephesus, expected to receive over 60,000 visitors on 21 December 2012, as New Age mystics believed its "positive energy" would aid in weathering the catastrophe.Terence McKenna claimed that the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness. Climate change may not seize people’s attention in the same way as more implausible theories, because of its gradual nature. As NASA continues to make progress toward sending astronauts to the lunar South Pole region with its Artemis campaign, data from a NASA-funded study is helping scientists better understand this strategic part of the Moon.

Astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience, [11] [12] having been refuted by elementary astronomical observations. On 23 July 2012, a massive, potentially damaging, solar storm came within nine days of striking Earth.Questions Show: Alignment with the Galactic Plane, Destruction from Venus, and the Death of the Solar System". Two items in the Maya classical corpus do mention the end of the 13th bʼakʼtun: Tortuguero Monument 6 and La Corona Hieroglyphic Stairway 12. Here, indeed, is portrayed with a graphic touch the final all-engulfing cataclysm" in the form of a great flood. Academics in China attributed the widespread belief in the 2012 doomsday in their country to a lack of scientific literacy and a mistrust of the government-controlled media.