What's the story with Planet X 2012 apocalypse?

Kimia

Hey was reading the news there recently and read this thing about this Mayan prediction that the world was going to end in 2012 because Planet X is going to come hurtling into our orbit and smash into Earth. Tried to google it but found nothing much

Anyone have any insights?

monkeyfudge

I think that's just as far as their calender went.

As for another planet... if it was going to hit us in 3 years time and was planet sized we could probably see it by now.

What you might get in 2012 is something similar to the Carrington Event which was a massive sun flare that wiped the telegraph systems around the world back in 1859. If something similiar happend today the effect on our electrical grid would be catastrophic. And it looks like we might be entering a period of large solar flare activity over the next year or so.

CreepingDeath

Kimia wrote: »

...Planet X is going to come hurtling into our orbit and smash into Earth. Tried to google it but found nothing much

Anyone have any insights?

Yep, it's a huge conspiracy.
The space shuttles have been putting a large black sheet with stars painted on it, in geosynchronous orbit to hide the planet from our view for all long as possible. Meanwhile, they manufactured the global financial collapse to withdraw huge amounts of money and resources from the world to build a space ark to escape in.

Robbo

Bruce Willis and his motley crew of miners will save us.

Mr. Presentable

Ah, the Hopi Indians.

http://www.loveforlife.com.au/node/2308

shenanigans1982

There is no mention of it on Wikipedia therefore I think we can all agree this is not true.

ShooterSF

My sister is obsessed with this thing. Scary thing is I think she really believes it. I also think she's becoming interested in scientology.

Kintarō Hattori

You googled it and didn't find much. Perhaps there's a very good reason for that.

Rented Mule

i also believe that this is the first time in a milenia that all of the planets will be aligned together with the sun.

Supposedly, there will be some sort of gravitational effect that is supposed to make the seas rise and wipe us out.

JerryHandbag

Isn't there a film out about this soon? Starring Keanu Reeves as God or somesuch:rolleyes:

Edit: Ah here it is
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/
Keanu not involved

Pyr0

Rented Mule wrote: »

i also believe that this is the first time in a milenia that all of the planter swill be aligned together with the sun.

Supposedly, there will be some sort of gravitational effect that is supposed to make the seas rise and wipe us out.

Cool.

AnonoBoy

I for one can't wait because it'll mean I won't have to bother pay back any of my loans!

ScumLord

Those Mayans are full of ****. Do not trust them, do not buy anything off them, they do not know Elvis, there is no undiscovered temple they will just beat the **** out of you and then monkeys will come along after they've finished and give you another beat down.

BaconZombie

Have a look here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Maya+%20calendar+2012

AnonoBoy

ScumLord wrote: »

Those Mayans are full of ****. Do not trust them, do not buy anything off them, they do not know Elvis, there is no undiscovered temple they will just beat the **** out of you and then monkeys will come along after they've finished and give you another beat down.

Pretty sh*tty holiday overall then, yeah?

Did you at least bring me back a present?

monkeyfudge

Rented Mule wrote: »

i also believe that this is the first time in a milenia that all of the planets will be aligned together with the sun.

I think the chances of every planet lining up like ever happening are so slim that solar system would be long long, gone in the amount of time it would take for it to occur.

TheZohanS

Kimia wrote: »

Tried to google it but found nothing much

Try Google Universe, it's in beta testing at the moment but it's still pretty good.

Gummy Panda

Wait.. Isn't this planet x from some game/film called mutant chronicles, and it shows up just at the edge of Sol and tries to wipe us out?

Capt'n Midnight

Rented Mule wrote: »

i also believe that this is the first time in a milenia that all of the planets will be aligned together with the sun.

Supposedly, there will be some sort of gravitational effect that is supposed to make the seas rise and wipe us out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Effect That happened back in 1982 , March 10, around lunchtime.

We all survived, well apart from those on Ark-B

Professey Chin

ShooterSF wrote: »

My sister is obsessed with this thing. Scary thing is I think she really believes it. I also think she's becoming interested in scientology.

Im afraid youll have to kill her

monkeyfudge

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Effect That happened back in 1982 , March 10, around lunchtime.

That's not ALL the planets... and Pluto doesn't even count anymore.

ScumLord

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Pretty sh*tty holiday overall then, yeah?

Did you at least bring me back a present?

I just got a load of bits, take your pick between a Mayan calender, one of those pens that has the undressing ladys on it, or one very sick monkey. It did tricks and everything when I got it but as with the watches as soon as you get it home the damn thing stops working.

BaconZombie

No it's been renamed Planet BOB.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Wait.. Isn't this planet x from some game/film called mutant chronicles, and it shows up just at the edge of Sol and tries to wipe us out?

thelordofcheese

BOFH_139 wrote: »

No it's been renamed Planet BOB.

You can't call a planet bob!

AnonoBoy

thelordofcheese wrote: »

You can't call a planet bob!

If you can call a recession Stephen you can call a planet Bob.

ScumLord

That would just cause confusion between plants that bob and planets named Bob.

Depending on how common bobbing planets are.

AnonoBoy

ScumLord wrote: »

That would just cause confusion between plants that bob and planets named Bob.

Depending on how common bobbing planets are.

You're thinking of apples mate.

Bobbing for apples.

Bob. Bob.

ShooterSF

ScumLord wrote: »

That would just cause confusion between plants that bob and planets named Bob.

Depending on how common bobbing planets are.

Bill and Bob?

Rented Mule

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I think the chances of every planet lining up like ever happening are so slim that solar system would be long long, gone in the amount of time it would take for it to occur.

http://www.2012planetalignment.net/

http://www.2012planetalignment.com/

BaconZombie

So now you're the boss. You're the King of Bob.

thelordofcheese wrote: »

You can't call a planet bob!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

ShooterSF wrote: »

My sister is obsessed with this thing. Scary thing is I think she really believes it. I also think she's becoming interested in scientology.

Slap her, and slap her hard... :eek:


After 2012 there will be another "doomsday" perdiction. Probably 2020. Every few decades one pops up, it's never too far away. It stirs a lot of crap. Lots of theories etc etc. My theory is that the mayans got fed up writing the calander and just stopped.

Mayan 1: "So, what year are you on now?"

Mayan 2: "Just finishing year 2012"

Mayan 1: "Dude WTF? Why would you bother going so far? We won't be around to see it..."

Mayan 2: "So true, so true... well I guess i'm done, fancy a pint?"

Capt'n Midnight

monkeyfudge wrote:

and Pluto doesn't even count anymore.

:eek:

In your horoscope Pluto symbolizes death, rebirth, sex, evolution, degeneration and regeneration, and symbolizes the breakdown of psychological blocks that prevent evolutionary growth

Professey Chin

ShooterSF wrote: »

Bill and Bob?

Weebl & Bob :pac:

994

The Mayans did not believe the world would end! Their calendar runs on 394-year cycles called baktuns, the 12th baktun ending on 21-12-2012, but there's nothing to indicate that we wouldn't just enter the 13th baktun.

diverdriver

but there's nothing to indicate that we wouldn't just enter the 13th baktun.

Omigod, the 13th baktun, the 13th. We are doomed.

ShooterSF

Desiree Itchy Gingersnap wrote: »

Slap her, and slap her hard... :eek:

Ah late teen fads She went through the catholic thing for a few months before blurting out aliens put us here and the world is ending in 2012. She can only be wrong for 3 more years and at least she never did the goth/emo thing.

thelordofcheese

BOFH_139 wrote: »

So now you're the boss. You're the King of Bob.

Can't we just call it "Earth"?

BaconZombie

No one said you have to live on Bob.

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Can't we just call it "Earth"?

faceman

The polar magnet yokes are probably going to flip in 2012 but i doubt it will cause the world to end. Just like the miles to KM changeover, the government will give us stickers to remind us to flip our compasses the other way around.

AnonoBoy

faceman wrote: »

The polar magnet yokes are probably going to flip in 2012 but i doubt it will cause the world to end. Just like the miles to KM changeover, the government will give us stickers to remind us to flip our compasses the other way around.

They'll probably send us all out a pack of iodine tablets too. Y'know, just in case.

b0bsquish

I haz come to take over your bob planet...I've come to squish it

Zangetsu

End of the world? Nah... Its the galactic alignment of our sun with the center of our galaxy. It signals the end of Pisces and the beginning of a new age, can't remember off hand... I think our view of the stars will change by 6 degrees (massive amount considering!).

Funnily enough there was a global event 26000 years ago (the last ice age began) afair so maybe your right, we could all be quite screwed :pac:

This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 26,000 years, and was what the ancient Maya were pointing to with the 2012 end-date of their Long Count calendar.

Tbh what I think/hope is that its inversion of our being, matter becomes the metaphysical and we all continue on to the next stage of evolution.
But thats just me...

BumbleB

I must book some holidays in 2012.

thelordofcheese

BOFH_139 wrote: »

No one said you have to live on Bob.

I'm never calling it that

bleg

ShooterSF wrote: »

My sister is obsessed with this thing. Scary thing is I think she really believes it. I also think she's becoming interested in scientology.

just don't let her get involved with those zombie carpenter worshippers

BaconZombie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUnINDZolDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIXRYyvB8M

Disclaimer:

I can;t be arsed watching both clips and my view point is not connected to it in anyway.

pablomakaveli

It's all an intricate hoax by the ancient Mayans. They invented the calender in order to trick people in the future.

Anyone who's studied Mayan culture will know they loved practical jokes and invented the rubber spider on a string.

Capt'n Midnight

The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count, unlucky for some), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT, just like World War 1 (did the Mayans use GMT ?)

Actually the truth is very simple. The aliens have been doing a long time test on us and we have until then to get the right answer. IIRC it's 42

Snowie

was'nt there a prediction in 2000 as well that all th computers would fall apart???

serously people......

why do you care about impending doom d rather not know about it and seek the ignorence is bliss this worry about things that are unimportant.....

ScumLord

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

was'nt there a prediction in 2000 as well that all th computers would fall apart???

serously people......

why do you care about impending doom

Because I've missed every apocalypse so far, it's annoying.

There was a prediction that something would happen on good Friday over on the Christianity forum not so long ago. Missed that one too, but maybe she was predicting the shocking lack of Easter eggs available after so called good Friday.

Lobelia Overhill

IIRC it's like this, there is a tenth planet that's orbit is at a 90º angle to the rest of the solar system, every however many tens of thousands of years it's orbit brings it very close to Earth, and when that happens the Earth tilts on it's axis by however many degrees, which causes chickens to stop laying and cows to go off their milk and you probably won't get any post delivered for a few days. Apparently the Earth has so far tilted nearly 50º from it's original upright position (Antarctica was a land mass on the equator a bazillion years or so ago).

so now you know.