I'll be soo glad when Friday comes and goes, i'm soo sick of this stupid-ass shit.

The Mercury staff is fucking dumb. I wish the Mayan calendar would just end you guys.

These articles were great. Funny shit.

How about attribution? There is no such story by the Mayans. The myths are completely urban in origin. The myths got started out of specualtion as to why the Mayan calandar ends on the Winter Solstace of 2012.

12/21/2012 is the date when planet Earth reaches the apex of it's elliptical 26.000 year path of Precession around all the signs of the Zodiac in our Solar system. It's a perfectly natural date at which to end and begin a cycle. The real mystery, is how the Mayans had such advanced knowledge of astronomy.

On a more ominous note, however, this is the most distant position of planet Earth from the Sun. If all of the factors of the Millankovitch theory were currently present, which they are not, we would be entering an ice age. Coincidentally, this is Russia's coldest Winter since 1938.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_…

http://rt.com/news/russia-freeze-cold-temp…

Age of Aquarius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE…

Of course there is still the Earth Crust Displacement Theory to have to worry about.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm

Charles Hapggod, in 1953, wrote a book called "Earth's shifting crust: a key to some basic problems of earth science", where he made up a theory to explain how Antarctic had been ice-free until year 4000 BC

The theory summing up is as follows:
The reason Antarctic was ice-free, and therefore much warmer, it is to be found in the fact that, at one time, its location wasn't the south pole. It was located approximately 2000 miles further north. Hapgood says this "would have put it outside the Antarctic Circle in a temperate or cold temperate climate".

The reason why the continent moved down to its present location has to be found in a mechanism called "earth-crust-displacement". This mechanism, not to be confused with the plate-tectonics or the continental drift, is one whereby the lithosphere, the whole outer crust of the earth "may be displaced at times, moving over the soft inner body, much as the skin of an orange, if it were loose, might shift over the inner part of the orange all in one piece". (Charles Hapgood, "Maps of the ancient sea-kings", cited, visit the Bibliography for more info).

This theory was sent to Albert Einstein, which answered to Hapgood in very enthusiastic terms. Though geologists did not seem to accept Hapgood's theory, Einstein seemed to be as much open as Hapgood saying:
"In a polar region there is a continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces a centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth's crust over the rest of the earth's body...." (Einstein's foreword to "Earth's shifting crust" p.1)

http://pirireismap.tripod.com

Again, 12/21/2012 is where the Earth rounds the bend of the apex of it's elliptical path. The significance in context of this date to Earth Crust Displacement Theory, is that this sharp turn could be like putting English on a cue ball, thus causuing the outer layer of the planet to shift loose of the inner mass. This perhaps could even yet happen anytime during the next few years.

@ Single Bullet
You are the apocalypse of "fun".

Furthermore, Earth has now entered an asteroid crossing zone. This is the neighborhood of the Solar system where Earth most often gets slammed with bolides.

The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
By Graham Hancock
http://books.google.com/books?id=jTcg9F_jo…


Earth is also now as close as it gets to Orion. Maybe a window of opportunity for visitors for the hollidays.

The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
By Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval
http://books.google.com/books?id=lbvUJwWpx…

So, to recap, the real superstitious wingnuts are not the Maya people; they're English-speaking people who abound on the internet and provide links in an attempt to shore up obscure and dubious rhetorical points of discussion.

@ Single Bullet
"Furthermore, I am still not fun."

single bullet/rollergirl/minsk/multnomahn:

for fuck's sake, man -- TAKE. YOUR. MEDICINE. -- you're getting all riled up again -- RELAX. take a deep breath. and again. in through the mouth, out through the nose. and again.

you've been doing so well -- this must be a record for you: almost a whole week as a commenter and you haven't been banned yet -- don't blow it again.

Is Single Bullet available for hire for children's birthday parties?

Now that people are done worrying about this date, bear in mind that Earth Crust displacement could still occur as we exit the apex of the elliptical path of Precession. There has recently been discovered to be several MILLION undersea volcanoes currently erupting. Volcanic gasses have overloaded the oceans and green house gasses overflow into the atmosphere, as the gases and lava heats up the sea water. Considering how Earth is presently at it's farthest most distance from the Sun in the 26,000 year cycle, these green house gasses may well be insulating the planet from resultant colder temperatures, and since most densely human populated areas lie along coast lines, the warmer ocean temperatures create warmer weather in those micro climates. As the oceans heat up, sea water evaporates and falls as precipitation inland. As hundred mile long ice bergs break off of Antarctica and drift past New Zealand, glaciers grow deeper in the central part of the continent. You don't need colder temperatures to start an ice age. Increased precipitation will eventually lower the temperature. Russia, for instance, has been experiencing successively colder and colder Winters each year for decades now. As the undersea volcanoes heat and evaporate the oceans, sea levels are dropping, as measured at the most stable land mass on the planet, on an island just off the coast of Tasmania. Venice is sinking. The ocean is not rising. This reduces the weight of water from the Tectonic plates. the Jakarta 9.2 quake was the result of mile high uplift from the reduced pressure, like a jack-in-the- box when the lid is lifted off of the spring. With all of the melting of ice along the coast lines, and the build up of ice on inland glaciers, the ice becomes unsymmetrically deposited as in the scenario described by Albert Einstein in his response to Earth Crust Displacement Theory.

And yet you neglect to discuss Pizza Hut's Crust Displacement Theory.

This crust thing sounds fascinating, let's see your briefs.

It was the near instantaneous mile high uplift of the ocean floor which caused the Indonesian tsunami. Only half the length of the fault line rose at that time. The other half remains likely to spring up as well. Increased Earthquakes, volcanism and el El Niños are always precursors to cyclical ice ages at each apex of the ellipse in frequencies of 13,000 years.

It's not as if I've invented some sort of doomsday device.

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!
Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
--Dr. Strangelove