2012, what's it all about?

The Earth doesn't pass throught the galactic plane in 2012.
The period of that is a couple million years not 5000.

The Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit

It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy

And we're currently a good 20 light years above the galactic plane. And we're not going to cover that in 3 years.

As for the sun lining up with the galactic centre doesn't that happen every year?

And all research on the Mayan calender shows that they didn't put any significance on that date at all.
It's like when our calender went from 1999 to 2000 or 999 to 1000.

No other calenders end on that date.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093

pinion wrote: »

There is also the Timewave Zero theory


Timewave zero, which is part of Novelty theory, is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase in the universe's interconnectedness, or organised complexity over time. According to Terence McKenna, who conceived the idea in the early 1970s, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity on December 21, 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur instantaneously. This idea has failed to gain any scientific credibility or recognition.
McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program, which purportedly produces a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or the timewave. Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and cultural evolution. He believed the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November, 2012. When he discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th baktun, he adjusted it so that the two dates matched.

Hang on.
He just chose random event off the top of his head drew a random connection, calculated a random date and when he saw the mayan calendar just changed it randomly?

That's not exactly scientific. Or convincing.

WW3 is going to hit, the stage has been set with the financial meltdown and the current political tensions will simmer into an out and out global conflict, key players: US, Iran, Korea, China and the EU. Following the hellish aftermath a one world government will be arrived at as a matter of necessity. This will allow for first contact with the aliens. What happens after that and the politics surrounding the whole thing I have not idea. Native american tribes have been talking about this for decades. I believe they were contacted by aliens and have ancestral foreknowledge about whats going to happen.

Mahatma coat wrote: »

the sheer arogance of this statement is mindblowing

This is addressing the post.

Mahatma coat wrote: »

this is the reason I generally ignore you, your attitude is not condusive to productive debate

This ... isn't.

I thought this was going to be about analogue Switch off.

I've studied prehistory/early history and history of writing, numbers, communications and calculations as a hobby on and off for nearly 30 years.

E Howard set his fictional "heroes" about 10,000BC as a good guess as what was before known history. This extract from Wikipedia agrees largely with my books and reading over the years:

A major change, described by prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe as the "Agricultural Revolution," occurred about the 10th millennium BC with the adoption of agriculture. The Sumerians first began farming ca. 9500 BC. By 7000 BC, agriculture had spread to India; by 6000 BC, to Egypt; by 5000 BC, to China. About 2700 BC, agriculture had come to Mesoamerica.

Although attention has tended to concentrate on the Middle East's Fertile Crescent, archaeology in the Americas, East Asia and Southeast Asia indicates that agricultural systems, using different crops and animals, may in some cases have developed there nearly as early. The development of organised irrigation, and the use of a specialised workforce, by the Sumerians, began about 5500 BC. Stone was supplanted by bronze and iron in implements of agriculture and warfare. Agricultural settlements had until then been almost completely dependent on stone tools. In Eurasia, copper and bronze tools, decorations and weapons began to be commonplace about 3000 BC. After bronze, the Eastern Mediterranean region, Middle East and China saw the introduction of iron tools and weapons.

You need Agriculture for Civilisation. It creates specialism, trading etc.

This appears as far as we can tell about 10,500 years ago. Written history (that we have found, there may be older not yet discovered) goes back almost 6,000 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform

The book of Genesis changes style with the introduction of Abraham. Suddenly we have real places we can identify and a much more robust style of narration. However exact identification of kings is uncertain. But we are looking at events about 4000 years ago.

There is no calendar associated with I Ching.

I can't see any basis or connection at all to 2012.

Admittedly the mayan "long count" Calendar is pretty mad stuff. The reality of "cracking" the Mayan script is quite a story with some unlikely twists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar

To measure dates over periods longer than 52 years, the Mesoamericans devised the Long Count calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.
"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

"There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."

Conclusion
The 2012 apocalypse is a New Ager Myth.

Futher..

More recent academic scholars of Maya civilization have disputed the apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date, insisting that it simply marks a resetting of the calendar to Baktun 13.0.0.0.0,[7] rather as the units and tens columns of a car's odometer reset to zero each time a hundred miles are completed. They also argue that the Long Count calendar does not end on 13.0.0.0.0.[8] Scholars such as Linda Schele and David Freidel[9] cite the Mayan inscription Coba Stela 1, which features the date 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0. In Mayan mythology, this date represents the age of the previous world at its ending. Because the Mayan calendar is cyclical, the above dating will also, of necessity, mark the end of the present Long Count cycle and the beginning of the next. With each column equal to twenty times its predecessor, this date lies some 41,341,049,999,999,999,999,999,994,879 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe.

This seems reasonable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Doomsday_prediction

AntiRip wrote: »

Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse?

Well if it's in a news article it must be true.

Can you provide anything that shows the this galactic alignment doesn't happen every year but every 26000 years?

Because as far as I see it the galactic centre (the supermassive black hole) is in the constellation of Sagittarius.
Sagittarius is part of the zodiac. The zodiac is a group of 13 constellations the sun appears to go through as viewed from Earth as it orbits the Sun.
During every winter solstice every year the Sun is in the constellation of Sagittarius.
So it is between us and the galactic centre just like every year.