Website review: The significance of the year 2012 e...
apathor discovered this in Conspiracies
•21 reviews since Mar 28, 2008
conspiracies
•helium.com/items/460316-everyone-hears-about-...
People who like this website
- Jaz-DarkMemory
Los Angeles
- EGC07
California
- sararoberts
California
- frebird47
California
- Casejeep
California
- warr13rs
Nevada
- whiteheron
Sedona
- caseyb21
Idaho
- eembach
Spokane
- iamdeathforlife
Creston
StumbleUpon is the best way to discover great web sites, videos, photos, blogs and more - based on your interests.
Everything is submitted and rated by the community. Discover, share and review the best of the web!
Reviews of this website
Dourish rated 3 months ago- I don't believe in the end of the world but the information about the polar flips is something that was quite interesting. So, thumbs up for that alone.
- Darque rated 4 months ago
- This gives real conspiracy theorists a bad name.
Drawing from such sources as cosmological theory, fourth-grade history, and bad astrology to come up with a prediction for 2012 that reads more like a half-baked Dean Koontz book ("Polar Shift," by the way, really does sound much like this). Yes, the Mayans had a sophisticated calendar, very interesting to math geeks for its unusual way of tracking the date. But that doesn't grant them magical powers of prediction. If it did, they should have been more worried about the arrival of the Spanish.
Yes, the sun goes through polar shifts, every eleven years, like clockwork. It's fascinating stuff, but hardly spells doom for anyone. Remember what you were doing in February of 2001? No, neither do I, really. That's when the last one happened. Apparently, it messed with some communications satellites and some other sensitive equipment due to the coronal mass ejections, but nothing more than temporary glitches ensued. Yes, the Earth has had at least one polar shift in the past, probably about three quarters of a million years ago. There is no reason to think that the two are related in any way - this article doesn't even bother to try to link the two occurrences, other than to say that polar shifts happen. So why would a terrestrial polar shift happen to coincide with a solar one in 2012? Here's the answer that the article won't give: it would be a phenomenal coincidence.
The article also claims that the Mayans calculated this date as the alignment of our sun and the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This is positively laughable. First, the Mayans didn't have the sophisticated equipment that we needed to actually locate the center of the Milky Way. It wasn't until 2000 that there was enough evidence, thanks to a UCLA team using Hawaii's Keck Telescope, to say that the invisible source of radio waves known as Sagittarius A* is indeed the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Even then, it's using a lot of speculation. While the Mayan calendar is a nifty system, it's a long way from having radio telescopes. And even if there was some grand alignment, so what? There is zero evidence to suggest that it would have anything to do with a polar shift, for the galaxy, the sun, or the Earth. It just means things line up, yay, enjoy the view, and then on with our lives.
Besides, they missed their biggest selling point: a phony interpretation of a fake Nostradamus prediction! That sure would have completed the look. This astrology belongs with phrenology, graphology, and tarot cards: it's unadulterated bullshit dressed up as pseudoscience. Don't let fancy words fool you into thinking that there's any substance to these bogus claims. - This gives real conspiracy theorists a bad name.
- F3nr1L rated 4 months ago
- It's in the category "Astrology and Prophecy". That's Mayan for "You have to be tripping balls on LSD to believe this". I'm not.
To the person on the last page of reviews who thinks math is that precise, no, it isn't. You're trying to relate direct application of physics in a real-world use and an attempt to confirm an ancient doomsday myth as the same thing. They aren't. The latter would use a totally different branch of mathematics, among many other problems with that. Doomsday is bullshit until we get asploded by a meteor.
Note how this article has no sources and makes very large claims about celestial bodies and other things. Now, it could just be me and my damned liking for the scientific process and reality, but to me that in itself makes it a highly unreliable source for anything. - It's in the category "Astrology and Prophecy". That's Mayan for "You have to be tripping balls on LSD to believe this". I'm not.
- bonus-level rated 4 months ago
- The world won't end because some ancient Columbians said so (they can't possibly know something happens every 25,800 years). But the pole shifting is real.
- Faz465 rated 4 months ago
- the year 2000!
- z0mgx0r rated 4 months ago
- Not really sure why this is a conspiracy, but oookay.
- droe82 rated 4 months ago
- tl;dr
If anyone wants to give me all their stuff, I'm right over here. - tl;dr
- quicksilver0225 rated 4 months ago
- This is pretty much the same as the whole Y2K scare. Hype, hype, and more hype. Religious types and people who believe in the supernatural are absolutely sure it's going to happen and it'll turn out just another stupid reason for people to be scared and have something to worry about.
- dmcmaken rated 4 months ago
- blah, blah, blah
