Myths+on+The+End+Of+The+World


 * //Maya Mystery of 2012// **

Archaeologists say that the Maya calendar doesn't end in 2012 and the anxcients never viewed that year as the end of the world, but the date December21, was momentous to the Maya. The Maya kept time on a scale few culture. Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and archaeoastronomer said "its the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar overturns and a new cycle begins." In December a lenghtly era ends and the complicated, cynical calendar will roll over to Day zero,beginning another enormous cycle. The idea is that time gets renewed which means the world gets renewed all over again often after a time of stress or the way we renew time on New Years day.

**//No indication of Planet X//

No body can see planet x, if it was there than it can't be more than a billion kilometers away. At that distance it would have to be one of the brightest objects in the sky. Even if we couldn't see it with the naked eye, it would easily be seen easily even if it were billions of kilometers away. Pluto is 5 billion Kilometers out but can easily be detected using modern technology. There is simply no way a big planet so close to earth could have escaped astronomers detection, even amateur astronomers. A big planet has giant gravity. Neptune was discovered because of its gravitational effects on Saturn and Uranus. If there was a planet X it would pull on these planets and would effect their orbiits which we would see Planet X in short has no physical effects has never been seen and therefore doesn't exist.

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//Weirder Weather// ** PXP's claim that there has been alot of weird weather going on; tornadoes, droughts, storms, eartquakes, and solar flares. The weather isn't all that weird. We are coming off an El Nino, which is a weather pattern that disrupts climates across the world.I Know can you believe it, that the weather isn't all that weird! Also its almost springtime, when things like tornadoes are common. Records have been broken this year, but weather records are always broken every year. Even if it was true how could this be tied to an incoming planet? If we assume that its electromagnetic forces, we'd see huge changes in our aurora before we'd see changes in weather, but since we don't see these changes this assumption is wrong. Long before the weather were disrupted, we'd see changes in the Moons orbit that were so big they would be unmistakable. They could throw off the timings of the eclipses.

 

//Galactic Alignment//  In this the path of the sun would appear to cross through the Milky Way, appears as a cloudy stripe across the night sky. Some fear that the lineup will somehow expose Earth to powerful unknown galactic forces that will hasten its doom through a "pole shift." Others see it as the new era in human consciousness. NASA Scientist Morrison explained that a type of "alignment" occurs during every winter solstice. They don't create changes in gravitational pull, solar radiation, planetary orbits,and anything else that would impact life on Earth. No ancient Maya text or artwork makes reference to anything like the Galactic Alignment.Maya astronomers built observatories and, by observing the night skies and using mathematics, learned to accurately predict eclipses and other astronomic events. The start date of the current cycle was likely tied to a solar apex passage, when the sun crosses directly overhead, and its terminal date will fall on a December solstice.

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