Rumors...

[Tex]

I just posted a poll on the subject. :lol:

Link: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3601

One thread per topic please. I merged your 2012 thread/poll with the original Rumors... thread by Pilot7893.

 

[n0mad23]

It won't be harmugeddon...

It'll be like unto a thread merge. Context is everything.

 

[Andy44]

Come on the Mayans just listened to Rush and messed up the date it is really 2112.

I thought that's the date the Elder Race comes back to the Solar Federation? Or did I misinterpret the ending?

 

[adamb193]

I thought that's the date the Elder Race comes back to the Solar Federation? Or did I misinterpret the ending?

I don't know I think that's were they lost the Mayans, I'm going to go listen to it after I get done with Echoes, if I remember the mayans were not to good with their english. I have an image in my mind of mayans sitting around a record player listing to 2112, wow. Holy anacronism Batman!

 

[Deke]

Well according to my prophecies... we've been dead for over 8 years as the Y2k bug has infected our computers, crashing all planes, launching all nuclear missile silos and throwing the world into a nuclear winter. And John Conner has come to save us from SkyNet. Therefore these conversations and horrendous acclaims of 2012 are infact false. Because we're already dead.

 

[Mafuskas]

I vote for the Earth to end in 2012!

Democracy in action.

 

[adamb193]

Good point Deke but I belive we are a conspiracy us life and the whole Human race.

 

[Hashy]

A planet of that size.. Under normal, currently know conditions, would tear us up before we collided with it wouldn't it??!!

We would be long dead from either radiation or ""G EXCESS"" before it actually collided with us.. Soo like.. Why would it matter at that point? Were all already dead.. Half the planets crust is torn up and the surface flowing with lava.. What the FRACK would it matter if 5 minutes later, we were going to collide with this thing..? =)

What, am I like crazy or something, or is everybody else? =\

Makes me fee like Capt.Obvious for a change.. =\

 

[James.Denholm]

Jez, haven't you guys worked it out yet? The whole universe is a conspiracy! One lucky one of us is just a brain in a vat, with wires leading in and out of it, and a whole bunch of aliens coding sensory input. The rest of those people are just that, coded input.

Really. Think about it. Who's to say that's false?





EDIT: NONE OF YOU ARE REAL!!! *suicide*

 

[jedidia]

I have studied supertitions a lot to find what's right and wrong, and I can tell you that no superstition (astrology, mayan astrology, egyptian cycles, numerology, esoteric cosmology, etc), except for western urban legends promoted by media, refer to end of the world on 2012.

Well, there's an American TV-preacher that foretold the end of the world in 2012, but it's not his first guess... I wonder why they let such preachers preach on?

Anyways, I know this load of scrap under the "Planet X hypothesis", and I'm sure it was developed by someone having fun to fool people. For all we know, Andy Kaufman could have unleashed the rumor...

 

[Moonwalker]

I can't vote because there is one option missing. Nobody knows if or when the Earth is going face an Armageddon.

In human history we can find a lot of doomsday hypothesis. In the 1990's and i think way earlier in history too the year 2000 often was called to be a doomsday year. We also had theories that economy and infrastructures might collapse after 01/01/2000 because people believed it would be caused by BIOS clocks all over the World not changing to the year 2000. We had global cooling scare tactics a few decades ago while today we have global warming and catastrophic climate change scare tactics.

In my point of view the cause of the most hypothesis is based on human fear of the nature as well as of things humans have almost no influence on. And beside that it is also possible to make money by books and media. Also, some scientists as well as the industries and movements behind that can be sure not to lose jobs and money (especially climate science, environmentalism and its politics).

I don't care about hypothesis. I like facts. If the World is going to face an Armageddon or rather bad times, where are the facts? Honestly, i can see that the World even is going to be better and better when I look at history and i also don't know any sign which points to an Armageddon

:beach:

 

[James.Denholm]

And you know what? If a nuclear winter comes, or the world freezes over like in The Day After Tomorrow, well, a lot of people are going to die. But there's nothing we can do about that. What we have to do is attempt to survive, and move on. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[GregBurch]

Is there really no limit to human stupidity?

Apparently not ...

 

[Jarvitä]

EDIT: NONE OF YOU ARE REAL!!! *suicide*

Do it

 

[Deke]

Yeah, to the three people who voted yes... Unless you were joking, you're idiots.

 

[bujin]

I want to know the contact details of someone who seriously believes that the world will end in 2012 in accordance with the supposed Mayan prophecy. (Actually, it's just that their calendar comes to an end, just like ours does every December 31st, and I've not actually noticed the world ending 30 times since 1977...)

If I had the contact details of someone who really believes it, I would like to see if they would sign over to me everything they own on 1st January 2013. If they truly believe the world is going to end, they shouldn't have any worries. I could become a very rich person!

Of course, I really, honestly doubt that anyone actually believes in the prophecy that seriously.

 

[Pilot7893]

That's no moon...it's a space station!

Two Soviet scientists actually think that

 

[Moonwalker]

If a nuclear winter comes, or the world freezes over like in The Day After Tomorrow, well, a lot of people are going to die.

And if you cross the street you may be hit by a car way sooner than you think Seriously, we already have seen Chernobyl, tsunamis, floodings, earthquakes, terrible epidemics, very terrible wars and much more. But all that did not prevent humankind from increasing up to 6.5 billions. And just look at Europe today after the two terrible wars of the last century...

I read that each day there are about 45.000 thunderstorms around the globe causing electrical discharges which correspond to energies of 900.000 Hiroshima-bombs. But apparently it doesn't have catastrophic effects to the climate.

Talking about The Day After Tomorrow: it's a phantasy movie. Such a rapid freezing (it even followed people like running water while they run away) down to –100 °C is rather unrealistic. There is no single sign that such things are going to happen.

But there's nothing we can do about that. What we have to do is attempt to survive, and move on. Nothing more, nothing less.

That's rather right i think.

Our adored and glamorized knowledge and technologies is nothing else than pinholes compared to natural forces and the universe. We may feel like the big boss, being able to "control" almost everything. But we are definitely not. We can't even prevent the next rain shower. But if we look back it is for sure that we are able to survive and to adapt to the nature way better than some scientists, journalists and politicians try to tell us these days.

 

[Urwumpe]

Talking about The Day After Tomorrow: it's a phantasy movie. Such a rapid freezing (it even followed people like running water while they run away) down to –100 °C is rather unrealistic. There is no single sign that such things are going to happen.

And speaking about TDAT - Emmerich is currently filming a movie about the world ending in 2012. Realism was never a problem for him.

Phoenix lately showed a great documentary about a massive comet impact on the Earth, on the scale of the C-T-Event. Was a co-production with Discovery Channel, with the title "Armageddon - .........". They did go great lengths explaining the mechanisms during such a impact, which will cause world wide damage. The damages did surprise me often, but finally, after some scientific explanations, it made sense. Like EMP being caused by the impact or how the ejecta is capable of heating the world to about 300°C for a short time.

 

[Moonwalker]

And speaking about TDAT - Emmerich is currently filming a movie about the world ending in 2012. Realism was never a problem for him.

And also not for his and others wallets

Phoenix lately showed a great documentary about a massive comet impact on the Earth, on the scale of the C-T-Event. Was a co-production with Discovery Channel, with the title "Armageddon - .........". They did go great lengths explaining the mechanisms during such a impact, which will cause world wide damage. The damages did surprise me often, but finally, after some scientific explanations, it made sense. Like EMP being caused by the impact or how the ejecta is capable of heating the world to about 300°C for a short time.

I like such documentaries. There are a lot of interesting things assumed by scientists and people. Some things already might have happened in the past. Some might happen in future. But no matter what happened already and how it happened, today we have 6.5 billion humans and a beautiful nature That's always the crux for me when watching, reading or listening some theories and hypothesis.