Critically examining the "End of the World"
Galactic alignment?????????????
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Question:
okay, many people say that this will happen in 2012 and the “end of days” I dont beleive this, but i just want to know how will this be a huge deal for nasa, how often does it happen, and will the solar system be affected anyway?
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about 1 year ago
Who the hell cares?! I can worry about that when the time comes! We got three years!
about 1 year ago
NASA does not believe in folklore or superstition. They are some of the most brilliant scientists in the country.
about 1 year ago
Some say a magnetic shift of the poles, some say god is coming to earth, some say we will be turned into balls of nothing but awareness floating through space-time. But who knows…
about 1 year ago
there is no alignment. there is no effect. it’s all nonsense.
please do us a favour and look at some star charts before you bombard us with any more of these inane questions. observe that the sun, earth and galactic plane align twice a year. observe that where the ecliptic crosses the galactic plane (18h00 ra, -23.5 dec) is a long way (6 degrees) from the centre of the galaxy (17h45 ra, -29 dec).
about 1 year ago
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a band of stars all around the sky. The Sun completes a circuit of the sky every year. It therefore follows that the Sun will appear in line with the Milky Way twice a year. It last happened on 21st December 2008. Did you notice any cataclysmic events on that day? I thought not.
“Ah!” say the 2012 doommongers. “In 2012 there will be an exact alignment between the Sun, the solstice point and the central plane of the Milky Way”. Err.. actually no. The solstice was in line with the Milky Way’s central plane back in 1998, when nobody had thought of any of this 2012 nonsense. Any cataclysmic events back then? Of course not.
Some 2012 doommongers confuse the aforementioned alignments, which are purely unimportant line-of-sight effects, with the real physical passage of the solar system through the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy. In the course of our 225 million year orbit of the galaxy, we bob up and down a few times, but the next central plane passage won’t be for another 30 million years or so.
about 1 year ago
Did you watch the History channel?? I hate the history channel! Scares the hell out of me!! Especially “doomesday week”. I guess if anything does happens, we all go together at once with our loved ones. Hope for the best!
about 1 year ago
What Will Not Happen in 2012: http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/ => the end of the world (NOT!)
What will happen?
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm
-Magnetic pole inversion => Big Thing (but not The End of The World!) : )
about 1 year ago
….lol same thing i just asked, im not sure because Nostradamus also predicted hurricane katrina and 9/11 also the mayans and several otehr ppl have predicted this same thing, so….idk but i sure hope it doens’t happen cuz i will only be 19.
about 1 year ago
some say this alignment occurs every 25,000 years..
about 1 year ago
only thing ive heard of any alignments are the cross points from the earth and the cross points in the milky-way intersect in 3 years
this happens once like some big number in years.. like 16,000 year
man was still running around naked with clubs when it happened last time and here we still are