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Originally Posted by aspwm
Many Mayan scholars perceive it to mean "the end of a cycle". The Mayans wrote their calendar up to this cycle, doesnt necessarily mean its the last one or armageddon. 12/21/2012 so happens to be the day of a planetary (or galactic) alignment.
An "alignment" usually means that most planets in our solar system are on one side of the sun. They line up in a straight line with astronomical rarity. Even so, nothing will happen, as the mass of the solar system is predominantly in the sun and tidal effects won't have much effect. Also, because of size and/or distance, the earth won't be affected to any noticeable degree.
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Any reason to leave out the other part of the quote? You know the part of a restart (new cycle)?
Personally I do not believe in most predictions, well the exception of what they as a civilization were able to predict. (do not assume I think it is a date where shit will end either, that is just one of many theories)
However we are talking about people that had and used a calendar that is still even more accurate than the one we use today.
They had an uncanny ability to know or predict the cycles of comets, galaxies, the wobble of the planet, sun spots, and so forth. Not in vague interpret how you wish riddle jargon like every other seers. They gave dates, times, even down to minute predictions.
Again this would not overly thrill me, but what eats at me is the how in the fuck was it done. We barely now have the ability to see parts of the galaxy that they were predicting alignments with, wasnt to long ago that we began to learn of certain cycle events that happen about every 20k years or so. Then again just recently the real effects of to many or to few sun spots. Ok to make it simple again how?
Again though I do not think it is a doomsday.