So Whats This 2012 Shit Anyway?

Originally Posted by Alterminded

NASA has debunked this as a total myth. There is no way a Meteor would come that close without them already basing warnings and preparing for it.

No way? Its more likely than you think.


Jam it back in, in the dark.

The whole premise of the article is that we don't know how many NEOs are out there.

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Experts admit they don't yet know how many so-called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) orbit close enough to pose a threat.

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"The good news is we have conducted the 'Spaceguard' survey, which has detected most of these very large objects," he said.

"We think we've detected all the NEOs big enough to cause a mass extinction and pretty much eliminated that risk."

Meanwhile smaller objects that can cause significant destruction are currently flying under the radar.

and

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"The main risk lies with those objects that we have not even found yet," the Space Science Institute's Harris said. "So the most important thing is to continue [surveillance]."

So to say there's "No Way", it could happen is quite wrong. In fact, it is the most likely thing to happen (that we won't see it coming), as any objects discovered and deemed dangerous would be dealt with. Also, "keyholes" only help us when we know about an asteroid (or comet) and can determine what the specific path it needs to take to be on a collision course.

Of course there's always the threat of some random comet coming out of nowhere that we've never seen before; they have been known to have highly eccentric orbits. Something of that nature could have a 100,000 (or however long outside of human history) year orbit and we'd have absolutely no record of them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Shin

Why the Mayans chose a 13 Katun cycle I couldn't tell you.

Probably the same reason England used to use a 13 month callendar:

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Old English 13-month lunar year

In England, a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each, plus one extra day, known as "a year and a day" was still in use up to Tudor times. This would be a hybrid calendar that had substituted regular weeks of seven days for actual quarter-lunations, so that one month had exactly four weeks, regardless of the actual moon phase. The "lunar year" is here considered to have 364 days, resulting in a solar year of "a year and a day".

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.