Scientists debunk 2012 as doomsday date

[Jim]

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic
questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec.
21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

Or is it?

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from
England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in
cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping
an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an
Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are
saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother
of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them
grow up."

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from
Western, not Mayan, ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and
enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say
coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every
25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing
likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop
astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the
History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Mayas
and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to
zero days, zero hope?"

It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent
decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or Planet
X. But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.

One of them is Monument Six.

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[BOBSTRY...@aol.com]

Well, I'm certainly glad to get THAT straight!!!!   It seems like I've been worrying about the end of the earth forever !!!!!  :-)   

 

(yeah right!)

 

It's my theory that I'll go along with G-d's plan, WHATEVER it is - as soon as He reveals it to me!

 

Bob