Doomsday 2012 – are we all really doomed?
May 3rd 2009 15:26
According to the Doomsday Scenario, the year 2012 is THE END... with forecasts that range from killer meteors hitting the Earth to a takeover by super-beings from another universe.
Bearing in mind that apocalypse predictions have been going strong for hundreds, if not thousands of years, how likely on the TechnixZone DSR or DOOM SCALE REGISTER (1-5, with 1 being 'nothing will happen' to 5 being 'game over') does the year 2012 rank?
Bearing in mind that this blog is titled TechnixZone, we'll leave aside some of the more outlandish ideas and concentrate on a few that we can look at from a technical standpoint. The 2012 Doomsday prediction itself is a cultural MEME – an idea passed by word of mouth and media sources – that proposes that cataclysmic and apocalyptic events will happen in the year 2012.
The 2012 DOOMSDAY FORECAST seems to be based mostly on the end-date of the Mesoamerican (central America including the Mayans) Long Count calendar. This has lasted 5125 years and comes to an end on December 21, 2012.
So what are the predictions? Well, there's Global Warming of course, which could well generate mass extinctions, though whether such events are likely in just three years is a matter of debate. DSR, let's say 3.
The nearest large SPACE OBJECT we know about is the asteroid Eros, a chunk of rock some 34 km long, but its nearest pass in 2012 will be much further away than the Moon, so we can cross that off the danger list. DSR, perhaps 1.5.
Another theory suggests that an object 20 times bigger than the planet Jupiter is on the way. However, there's no evidence as yet, so for the moment the DSR on this one is another 1.5.
However it's a fascinating theory – and TechnixZone will put it under the microscope very soon.
Bearing in mind that apocalypse predictions have been going strong for hundreds, if not thousands of years, how likely on the TechnixZone DSR or DOOM SCALE REGISTER (1-5, with 1 being 'nothing will happen' to 5 being 'game over') does the year 2012 rank?
Bearing in mind that this blog is titled TechnixZone, we'll leave aside some of the more outlandish ideas and concentrate on a few that we can look at from a technical standpoint. The 2012 Doomsday prediction itself is a cultural MEME – an idea passed by word of mouth and media sources – that proposes that cataclysmic and apocalyptic events will happen in the year 2012.
The 2012 DOOMSDAY FORECAST seems to be based mostly on the end-date of the Mesoamerican (central America including the Mayans) Long Count calendar. This has lasted 5125 years and comes to an end on December 21, 2012.
So what are the predictions? Well, there's Global Warming of course, which could well generate mass extinctions, though whether such events are likely in just three years is a matter of debate. DSR, let's say 3.
The nearest large SPACE OBJECT we know about is the asteroid Eros, a chunk of rock some 34 km long, but its nearest pass in 2012 will be much further away than the Moon, so we can cross that off the danger list. DSR, perhaps 1.5.
Another theory suggests that an object 20 times bigger than the planet Jupiter is on the way. However, there's no evidence as yet, so for the moment the DSR on this one is another 1.5.
However it's a fascinating theory – and TechnixZone will put it under the microscope very soon.
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