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what can you say about 2012 galactic alignment?

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9 Responses to “what can you say about 2012 galactic alignment?”

  1. poetry and cigarettes on June 19th, 2010 at 6:06 am

    the world will not end

  2. The “galactic alignment” in 2012 that is no different from the “galacitic alignment” that happens every year in December. It’s of no dynamical significance.

  3. seriously….

  4. The true galactic alignment happened several years ago!
    The world might end in 2012 but probably not

  5. fifthwheel948 on June 19th, 2010 at 8:21 am

    Boring.

  6. bikenbeer2000 on June 19th, 2010 at 9:08 am

    Galactic alignment is an invention by a bunch of crackpots in order to conjure up some sort of ‘event’ for 2012. Since they seem unable to provide a concise definition, we’ll have to try and guess what they mean.
    Could it be the Sun aligning with the centre of the Milky Way galaxy? Well, no because the centre of the Milky Way is not in the plane of the Earth’s orbit, so the Sun can never line up with it.
    Could they mean the Sun crossing the equator of the Milky Way? The Sun does a complete circuit of the sky every year and therefore appears in line with the Milky Way in June and December every year. So that can’t be right.
    What about the once in 26,000 year alignment of the solstice point with the galactic equator? Nope, that took place in 1998. No-one noticed.
    All the preceding are merely line-of-sight effects as seen from the Earth’s perspective. An observer on Mars would see something completely different. Some of the cranks have become confused and decided that galactic alignment must be something to do with the revolution of the whole solar system around the galaxy, taking 225 million years. During this orbit, the solar system bobs up and down a few times and measurements taken from the Hipparcos satellite reveal that the solar system is currently moving away from the central plane of the galaxy and won’t pass through it for another 30 million years or so. That can’t be what they mean then.
    So we have: 1) Can’t ever happen 2) Happens every year 3) Happened in 1998 or 4) Won’t happen for 30 million years.
    Take your pick.

  7. First off, no. On December 21st 2012 the planets do not all align fully. That is just a myth. And even if they did it wouldn’t do anything. But, just playing devil’s advocate, maybe the planetary alignment may not be what causes the end of the world. It may simply be a sign or symbol. But, that’s not what I think. Truly, the world isn’t going to end on 2012. There have been so many end of the world predictions, that you can’t simply pick the nearest and use it as a movie franchise/ fear campaign.

  8. The planets will align, people will say the world will end, terrorists will use it to set off a nuke in every country, killing everyone making people think everything was ture. the end, the galactic allignment means nothing

  9. There are no unusual alignments predicted for 2012. The solstice alignment that will happen on December 21 is a yearly event that poses no threat to anyone.

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