Comments on: 2012 predictions, yes another one of those but seriously?

By: GeoffG

GeoffG — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:33:36 +0000

Unless there is some freak coincidence, NONE of these things are going to occur in 2012. Bad things happen EVERY year, so any little thing that happens, someone will mutter, “Oh, it’s 2012 again.” It’s started already, with people muttering “2012 is coming, starting early.” It’s well known in psychology, called “confirmation bias.” Look it up!

By: Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard.

Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:59:28 +0000

Riiiight. So, what makes you think each of those things?

By: Magic Square

Magic Square — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:28:59 +0000

You have way too much time on your hands.

By: Patrick Sy

Patrick Sy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:58:50 +0000

on 2012 what will happen is Solar Maximum, it’s the period of greatest solar activity in the solar cycle of the sun that happens within 12 years or so. Solar flares would burst out of the sun continuously and rampantly that it might fry our satellites and other electronic communication devices. NASA predicted that this time it could be devastating unlike what happened decades ago. A billion dollar industry could be at stake when worst case scenario happened. Short term effects, people who bathe under the sun is more prone to skin cancer. Long term effects? prolonged recession of the economy.

By: Yikes

Yikes — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:41:56 +0000

My prediction is that absolutely no polar shift will happen in 2012.
(not to be confused with the wandering magnetic pole)

I also predict that the planetary orbits are very stable and will continue orbiting this way well past the death of the sun itself.

I also predict that new technollogy will come that will prevent any such slip back to a stone age.

[It is obvious we don't see eye to eye, and you are not going to give me a best answer, but give it to somebody who agrees with you - but I will have the last laugh on this page on January 1, 2013!]

By: Erica s

Erica s — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:50:16 +0000

That is a pretty rambling set of statements, for which you really should provide evidence. Because as a scientist, I know you won’t be able to do so, let’s just take a look at a few of your ideas. Pole shifts, better described as magnetic field reversals, occur over thousands of years, and not over night. They have happened many many times in the Earth’s history without causing harm to anything. Next thing, you say our Solar System rotates on a perfect axis. It doesn’t, and it cant “slip” anywhere. There is no such thing as a “perfect axis”. It is flattering to be called smart, I guess, but as far as Armageddon is concerned, we have no foreknowledge that you accuse us of. Any underground facilities the Government has are for reasons of national security, and would be useless for the purposes you describe. I don’t know how old you are, but you clearly have little schooling in the sciences. Perhaps you should be rather more selective in your reading matter, and avoid the more extreme ends of You Tube. My (really) scientific predictions for 2012? Other than a transit of Venus, nothing astronomically exciting is going to happen, other than a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Beijing China, which I will be attending. At the end of it, 2012 will fade gently into 2013, and all the silly predictors of doom and despondency will have to find a new date to frighten children and the uneducated with.

By: Da Orky Man

Da Orky Man — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:25:56 +0000

21st Dec 2012 will be a sad day because I suspect a large number of people will commit suicide rather than face the supposed apocalypse. Those who don’t will be left with a massive amount of supplies as the end of the world fails to occur.

By: Katt

Katt — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:39:57 +0000

Honestly, I don’t believe anything is going to happen. Not any time soon anyways. Weren’t we all supposed to die like how many times? xD but anything could happen. 2012 is just another “i’ll believe it when i see it” kind of things (: