What the human race is doing to preserve life in the events of 2012

[Schon]

long title i know. Anyway, i'm sure everyone has hear that the world is said to end as we know it in the year 2012 due to either a planetary collision, extreme seismic activity, or extreme solar activity I.E. massive solar flare.

Well this is what the IHC (The Institute for Human Continuity) has done to preserve the human race. here (http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/)

[deadpie]

First.
There's no planet X. And if it was going to hit us, we would have years in notice.
Second.
The mayans never said the world was going to end. They just stopped doing a calender.
Third.
Watch The episode of penn and teller BS where they talk about 2012.

[tripolar]

Well...

This is horrible all its going to do is cause mass panic and fear. Elect new leaders and survival lotteries. Lets scare everyone.

And this lottery (stolen idea from deep impact (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/) 1998 film) what bullshit, it sounds like some fraud machine that will scare people into giving personal information to "ensure survival" what.

These people claim that total destruction of the world will happen in 2012, how are they going to save anyone if total destruction happens.

And resource links to tsunami preparedness lol.

But nothing is outrageous as the subterranean cities in Antarctica
http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/#/initiatives/safeHaven/destCol/SubCities

That is so outrageous.

Watch this turn into an i told you so situation.


The mayans never said the world was going to end. They just stopped doing a calender.
2012.

Exactly a calendar made a 1,000 years ago runs out and everyone thinks were all screwed. The people had to get tried of making a calender that goes 1,000 years into the future.

[Sage]

Yes, let's trust the Mayans, obviously they're doing very well these days, myes, myeees.

[Zero Beat]

THE WORLD IS OVER! wait... hasnt this been and happened already?? what was the last end of world thing? lets see 2000 the computers where gonna end right? then we had that thingy that was gonna make a worm hole and kill us all now 2012... it must be the end. Not.
Im sure if the world was gonna end, we wouldn't know about it till it was to late. Next they will say zombies are coming...

[OneManArmy]

The world gonna end in 2000! The worlds gonna end in 2012. Just shut up. Just because the Mayans ran out of space, means the worlds gonna end. And now we have to find some dumb ass crystal skulls to do something. This is just annoying. The worlds not going to end!!!! Well not yet anyway. Sorry, but this 2012 crap is really stupid.

[deadpie]

Look at all the monsters in the world making so much money off of BSing to people with their books and programs. I never thought people were this stupid.

[Zero Beat]

^ they are.^
There are so many getting rich, and so many falling for it.

A bit off subject aka why i made it small: A friend on mine found a book about how to out live a zombie attack. His folks read it and are now planning for it to happen. -_- This is no joke. They have stuff out of the book. They got guns, they have cameras everywhere. its f**ked up. aka the stupid people

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Um, ok. My archaeology professor is a PhD who is somewhat of an expert in the ancient Mayans. Between his 10 or 15 summers in Belize, discovering a few pyramids, and doing a dissertation about the Mayans for his PhD... I kind of trust that the info I've gleaned from him is correct. Because this question has been brought up a few times in past classes I have had with him, I will say what I know. I think it's kind of interesting.

Exactly a calendar made a 1,000 years ago runs out and everyone thinks were all screwed. The people had to get tried of making a calender that goes 1,000 years into the future.

1) The Mayan calendar is not ending, the way everyone seems to claim. It's zeroing out. As in, starting over, like ours does every January 1st. So not only are you right that it's not the end of the world, it's not the end of time either. xP The Mayans have two calendars. One has 365 days, and the other has something like 126 and is more of a horoscope kind of thing from what I understand. They both turn simultaneously (because time for them is more of a wheel than the straight line that we tend to perceive it as), and every here and there they both start over at the beginning on the same day. That's what is happening in 2012.

Yes, let's trust the Mayans, obviously they're doing very well these days, myes, myeees.

2)There are actually still Mayan people alive today. So, yes, some of them are doing quite well, haha. They don't live the same way that the ancient peoples did; practices change with time and with outside influences. But they ARE still there.

[maeniel]

I do hope you all realize that that website is fictional, and is just there as hype for the movie 2012.
The lottery, isnt real, its just there too get your email, so they can send you stuff about the movie when it gets to theaters and such.


I think itll be a wicked film though =]

[deadpie]

Speaking of making money....

Everyone does know that the planet x guy got his theory because he was abducted by aliens, right?

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

I do hope you all realize that that website is fictional, and is just there as hype for the movie 2012.

I figured as much, although I didn't know it was for the movie specifically. I mean, has anyone EVER heard of the Institute for Human Continuity? Or found a google search result which brings up anything other than 2012 propaganda and references to Sony Pictures? Such a big institute would be concerned about things like UFO's and Bigfoot colonies too, right, not just this one event? Oh, and preparing for the Y3K, when the computers really WILL die. xD

Anyway, it's a neat advertising tactic. I hope the movie turns out good; it's got some potential.

[Atonement]

Wikipedia: "The studio also launched a viral marketing website operated by the fictional Institute for Human Continuity, where filmgoers could register for a lottery number to be part of a small population that would be rescued from the global destruction."

[Underground_Network]

Lmao.

That's pretty hilarious.

But we're not going to die on December 21, 2012.

Something catastrophic may occur that day, but we're not all going to die.

The Mayans predicted a lot of things correctly, and two other sources agreed with the Mayan prediction (the ancient I Ching and some other source that I can't think of off the top of my head), so the fact that three different groups of people who never had contact with each other all predict the world is going to "end" on December 21, 2012 is rather creepy to say the least...

But based on books I've read on all this stuff, the most likely time period for us to undergo a truly catastrophic event is 2020, where we're supposed to enter some unstable part of the galaxy or something... I forget exactly what it is (I read a book on it over two years ago, maybe three), but basically we're all going to be crushed to death by gravity. 0.o

[JackOfClubs]

The world is not going to end in 2012. It ended in 2000, remember? :D
As everyone else already said, the Mayans obviously just stopped making the calendar. If a planet was going to collide with us, we would know about a decade before hand, and we don't know anything of the sort.

We may go through some changes, but we're not all going to die.

[Modus Operandi]

I just saw an ad for this today, and at the end it said "this film is not yet rated" :P

[Camazotz]

Although this article isn't too scientific, it's the best thing I have to argue against the 2012 Doomsday theories.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17445_6-best-2012-apocalypse-theories-are-all-bullshit.html

[Donkey]

People are getting prepared over nothing. December 22nd 2012 will be a great day.

[Viral Death]

It is a myth if it aint then all well I guess I will burn in hell

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Did no one read my post? The Mayans have predicted nothing, and they did not stop making a calendar. The Mayan people of today would laugh at you if you suggested such a thing to them. The "calendar running out" theory is sort of bullshitty because they measure time in a circle, not a line. Imagine time like a giant wheel, with an arrow at the top pointing to the current day. Instead of each day being marked off and never coming back, the wheel just turns to the next one. It never runs out it just starts over again at the start of the next year, when the arrow once again points at that day. So, the calendar keeps repeating indefinitely, it will never "end".

[Underground_Network]

^^ You are correct...

But the Mayans believe we will enter a new era on that date.

And an expert on Mayans (who is actually an elder Mayan himself) claimed (in a book I read called Apocalypse 2012 by some scientist who I can't remember the name of) that the calendar ends to signify a sort of Rapture, in which the Mayans are saved and move on to a 'new' world or something like that... It's not quite how he put it (I read the book ages ago), but that's what he said.

So it is possible that the world could 'end' on that day...

But it's also possible we could enter a new era that day...

But then again it's equally possible that nothing special will happen on that day...

[Perseus]

Haha, Nibiru, what a laod of bullshit. I'm waiting for December 21, 2012, just so I can tell people, "I told you so." Because people are foolish enough to believe we will die on that day.
But Nibiru is an interesting theory if you read about it. :D
And if it isn't about Nibiru, oh well, I didn't read the link.

[Schon]

Vielleicht haben Sie alle richtig sind, aber ich glaube, steht immer noch, bitte, BASH mich nicht zu sagen, aber ja, ich persönlich glaube, dass die Welt "Ende" im Jahr 2012. Nicht wegen der Maya-Kalender Mist, ich meine, schauen, was wir als eine Art tun, um diesem Planeten. Wieder tun bash mich nicht dafür, aber ich glaube an die globale Erwärmung als gut. Auf jeden Fall schauen, was wir tun, um die Erde, pollouting es auf verschiedene Weise wird das Ozon dissappereing, die Kappen aremelting langsam ertrinken uns alle ... und vielleicht ist das nur ein Film ist. aber nie weniger.


Perhaps you all are correct, however my belief still stands, please, do not BASH me for saying that, but yes, i personally believe that the world will "end" in the year 2012. Not because of the Mayan calender crap, i mean look at what we, as a species are doing to this planet. Again do not bash me for this, but i beleive in global warming as well. Anyway, look at what we're doing to the earth, pollAouting it in several different ways, the ozone is dissappereing, the caps aremelting, slowly drowning us all... and maybe that is just a movie. but never the less.

(german is now my doninant language, however i will translate in english.)

[RenamedUser]

Lmao.

But based on books I've read on all this stuff, the most likely time period for us to undergo a truly catastrophic event is 2020, where we're supposed to enter some unstable part of the galaxy or something... I forget exactly what it is (I read a book on it over two years ago, maybe three), but basically we're all going to be crushed to death by gravity. 0.o

Yeah. If there was any legitimate evidence of this, surely it would be a bit of a bigger deal.