Daniel

Much has been said about the events of 12-21-2012 and the perceived end of the long form Mayan calender. This has given light to many end of the world theories an predictions, but mostly from profiteers who want to take advantage of public fears. This doesn’t mean that we can not take a practical look at possible scenarios and what we can do to survive 2012.

Ironically enough Michel De Nostradamus was said to be born on December 21, 1503. Throughout his life Nostradamus was a renowned seer and in 1555 published a book of  entitled “The Prophecies” where he gave his predictions of different major world events that would occur.

Since this time the writing of Nostradamus has been used by those looking to predict future events ranging from major world wars to natural disasters.  Seldom has one book caused so much divisiveness and controversy among believers and skeptics.

Many people have been curious about the Nostradamus 12-21-2012 predictions and how he saw this conceived “end of the world” scenario. While there are no direct predictions for this date in his works many people believe that his prediction of a comet hitting the earth can be related to a realistic 2012 doomsday scenario.

Several excerpts many link to a Nostradamus 12-21-2012 prophecy include

Quatrain II.46

After great misery for mankind an even greater one approaches, when the great cycle of the centuries is renewed. It will rain blood, milk, famine, war and disease. In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks.

Quatrain II.41

The great star for seven days will burn, The cloud will cause two suns to appear: The big mastiff all night will howl, When the great pontiff changes countries.

Quatrain II.70

The arrow from heaven will make it’s journey. Dead while speaking; a great execution. The stone in the tree, the pond nation brought down. The rumour of a human monster, purge and expiation.

These words have often been used to describe a doomsday scenario where a comet from space would strike the Earth causing massive devastation and the extinction of the human race.

How plausible is a Nostradamus 12-21-2012 comet scenario?

Many people may think that with December 21, 2012 fast approaching  this scenario would not be possible. If there was a giant comet of asteroid on a collision course with Earth we would have seen it already, right?

This may be the scariest part of all. Currently it’s reported that NASA and several different independent agencies monitoring efforts are falling short of their goal to track 90 percent of all near earth objects between 140 meters and 1 kilometer in length. While these objects are too small to cause planetary damage, they’re still large enough to cause devastating damage to a local region, especially if they were to hit near a populated urban area. However, they are on track to meet their goals for tracking objects 1 kilometer or larger. These objects are massive enough that they could inflict major catastrophic damage on a planetary scale were they to impact the Earth

Wait, 2020? This means that currently NASA is currently way below this number if they’re not even on course to meeting the 90% mark.

What this could potentially mean is that an object with the size to cause massive devastation to major cities, infrastructure and the economy could sneak by without us even knowing. While there is no way to know for certain this has left many to ponder whether the Nostradamus comet predictions and 12-21-2012 are linked.

We’ll be delving further into this link in future posts as we go over different plausible doomsday scenarios.