End of the world december 21st 2012??

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I thought this was all based on the myan calender or something else like that?

Any who, dec 10th 2012, ocuk pillage at a seaside village?
 
Lysander said:
Oh, is that all. Is there are real evidence that this will happen? This doesn't seem like a lot of cause for concern.
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There is no doubt *what*soever that the future contains totally devastating global events which will wipe out most of humanity (especially now most of us, especially in the West, can't feed or look after ourselves without an industrial complex to keep the electricity, petrol, and fertiliser flowing). They've happened with monotonous regularity throughout the earth's history, and are responsible for the world as we know it... including human civilisation.

There's a reason why continents like Australia and Northern America were unpopulated until humanity spread out in recent, millennia... they're unstable areas prone to devastating phenomena. In Australia's case it's likely to be be severe drought, and what's going on there now might be the start of the next severe drought cycle.

In the USA's case, it's probably the Yellowstone caldera, which pops its cork every once in a while and wipes out everything within a very wide radius indeed... probably inducing global winter for a (geological) while.

The last few thousand years have been pretty tame by historical standards, and that's why human civilisation has had chance to develop in the way it has. Small scale problems like Krakatoa and the Mediterranean tsunami which wiped out Minoan civilisation are mere hiccups compared to what's happened before and will happen again and again.

The only question is whether something like that will happen in our lifetimes. Statistically we're pretty safe. But civilisation's very fragile, and we've been lucky as a species for a very long time. So who knows?

The good news is that it's not worth worrying about because there is no defence whatsoever against this kind of stuff. Well, unless you're Mad Max, obviously.

Andrew McP
 
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It wont be wiped out it will just be a enormous tsunami, with waves that will basically drain the sea and move over land. if what he says is correct ;), ill never say never.
 
Nah it's going to end in May when they fire up the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva which will create a black hole and consume the planet.
 
RobH said:
Nah it's going to end in May when they fire up the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva which will create a black hole and consume the planet.
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thought the LHC was damaged and was put off till 2009, or was that last year to this year?
 
Andrew_McP said:
In the USA's case, it's probably the Yellowstone caldera, which pops its cork every once in a while and wipes out everything within a very wide radius indeed... probably inducing global winter for a (geological) while.
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Just read up on that, seems we're due a super eruption of sorts if it happens every 600,000 years
 
Tefal said:
thought the LHC was damaged and was put off till 2009, or was that last year to this year?
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Yeah they dropped something important and it was delayed until May, it was meant to be activated last November.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
According to some geologists and scientists, we are in the middle of a deadly 11,500 year cycle when the ice age comes back. The start of the cycle is marked with a Polar reversal, super volcanic activities, massive earthquakes, Tsunamis and nasty hurricanes. 11, 500 years back, the last ice age happened and what we have started experiencing – all happened. In the last one year the earth experienced the largest three earthquakes in the last two hundred years. The under water volcanoes and earthquakes have gone up 88% over the last three years. The continental earthquakes have gone up by 62% during the same time frame. The rate of increase of these earthquakes and volcanoes when drawn against time is staggering.
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Hmmmm, what if I change to low wattage lightbulbs... do you think that would help?
 
Tefal said:
Native Americans might have something to say about that.
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I wasn't talking about the European invasion, which happened 'yesterday' to all intents and purposes. Native Americans (and all American natives) are all very recent on a geological scale. They probably came over the Bering Straits from Russia/China and spread south. Similarly the Australian aborigines probably island-hopped from mainland Asia.

Andrew McP
 
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