SU - 2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked
source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2Ujrk7/news.nationalgeographic.com
Negative propoganda and the usual state of fear are running rampant as more articles appear on 2012, and it is not a prediction from the Mayans, it's the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.
Exerpt:It's the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar—1,872,000 days or 5,125.37 years—overturns and a new cycle begins," said Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and archaeoastronomer at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
"There is no 'galactic alignment' in 2012," he said, "or at least nothing out of the ordinary."
"If there were a planet or a brown dwarf or whatever that was going to be in the inner solar system three years from now, astronomers would have been studying it for the past decade and it would be visible to the naked eye by now," Morrison said.
"It's not there."
Exerpt:It's the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar—1,872,000 days or 5,125.37 years—overturns and a new cycle begins," said Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and archaeoastronomer at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
"There is no 'galactic alignment' in 2012," he said, "or at least nothing out of the ordinary."
"If there were a planet or a brown dwarf or whatever that was going to be in the inner solar system three years from now, astronomers would have been studying it for the past decade and it would be visible to the naked eye by now," Morrison said.
"It's not there."
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