What will happen in 2012?

[Zaddaa]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

[Takaram]

Umm. Well, the US will be having a presidential election, and more importantly I'm graduating High School that year. It'll also be the first year I get to vote. Is there anything else... Nope, nothing.

[FreeAgency]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

One civilization, just one.

Any reports you have heard to the contrary are fabrications and distortions.

Beyond a shortage of generators, canned foods, and toilet paper, nothing significant will happen.

That is all.

[Conserative Morality]

Riots. Afterwords, widespread arrests and the normal Christmas 'spirit' before New Years.

[Nadkor]

We'll all carry on with our generally quite mundane lives. There'll be a "scandal" involving politics in some way, there'll be a "scandal" involving some celebrity or other, and we'll mostly spend our time complaining that it's too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry.

And probably still posting here.

[Brogavia]

This is what we know will happen in 2012. Get over it.

January
January 13–22 – The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
January 31 – 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13×13×33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019 km; 16,639,090 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on February 17, 1996.[3]
February
February 6 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marking the 60th anniversary of her accession to the Thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia & New Zealand (as well as the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth).
March
March 22 – Unless the European Council votes to extend current copyright law, The Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, will fall out of copyright.[4]
April
April 17 – The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.[citation needed]
May
May 20 – Annular solar eclipse. Path of annularity runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
June
June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
June 9 – July 1 – The UEFA Euro 2012 will be played in Poland and Ukraine.
June 18 – June 23 – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth. [1]
July
July 18–21 – The 2012 World Rowing Championships will be held at Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
July 27 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 7:30 pm UTC, 8:30pm BST.[5]
August
August 12 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a Sunday.
August 29 – Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
November
November 13 – Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
November 28 – Penumbral lunar eclipse.
December
December 3 – Jupiter in opposition.
December 17 – Members of the Electoral College meet in each U.S. state.
December 21 – 11:11 UTC. Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.[6]
December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era.[7] On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years.[8] The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation's Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time.[9]
December 23 – An alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun in the Long Count calendar, calculated using another version of the GMT correlation[10] which is supported by a few Mayanist researchers.[11]
December 31 – The Kyoto Protocol will expire.
Unknown dates
Ireland will cease analog television broadcasts.
China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft.
Pleiades, a proposed super computer built by Intel and SGI for NASA's Ames Research Center, will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 10 Petaflops (10 quadrillion floating point operations per second).[12]
Sequoia, a proposed super computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 20 Petaflops.[13]
Start of the commercial operation of the first unit from the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II.
The 108 ft (33 m) Elwha Dam and 210 ft (64 m) Glines Canyon Dam will be removed from the Elwha River in Washington state, marking the largest dam removal project in history.
The Canberra class light aircraft carriers/large amphibious ships, the largest ships ever to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy, will be in service.
On the sun, the solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 in the 11-year sunspot cycle is forecast to occur. Solar Cycle 24 is regarded to have commenced January 2008, and on average will reach its peak of maximal sunspot activity around 2012. The period between successive solar maxima averages 11 years (the Schwabe cycle), and the previous solar maximum of Solar Cycle 23 occurred in 2000–2002.[14] During the solar maximum the sun's magnetic poles will reverse.[15]
The United Kingdom will complete a 5-year process to cease analogue television broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London, Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue.[16]
Portugal will also cease their analogue television broadcasts, after a 4-year simulcast with digital ones. After that, DVB broadcasts will be the only system to be used in television (DVB-C for cable, DVB-T for terrestrial and DVB-S for satellite). The five free-to-air channels on terrestrial network will also start broadcasting in high-definition 24-hours a day.[citation needed]
The Ryungyong Hotel in Pyongyang is said to be finally finished.[17]

[WhatchaTalkinBout]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

This monstrosity:

[Zaddaa]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

This monstrosity:

hahahahahaha yes. I do believe this will be our doomsday. lol. NOTE: I did not say I personally believe we're all gonna fry in 2012, I just wanted to get input on the IDEA, and the relating theories, i.e: Planet X, Polar Shift, etc. Thanks

[Wallonochia]

January
January 13–22 – The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
January 31 – 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13×13×33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019 km; 16,639,090 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on February 17, 1996.[3]
February
February 6 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marking the 60th anniversary of her accession to the Thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia & New Zealand (as well as the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth).
March
March 22 – Unless the European Council votes to extend current copyright law, The Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, will fall out of copyright.[4]
April
April 17 – The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.[citation needed]
May
May 20 – Annular solar eclipse. Path of annularity runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
June
June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
June 9 – July 1 – The UEFA Euro 2012 will be played in Poland and Ukraine.
June 18 – June 23 – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth. [1]
July
July 18–21 – The 2012 World Rowing Championships will be held at Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
July 27 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 7:30 pm UTC, 8:30pm BST.[5]
August
August 12 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a Sunday.
August 29 – Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
November
November 13 – Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
November 28 – Penumbral lunar eclipse.
December
December 3 – Jupiter in opposition.
December 17 – Members of the Electoral College meet in each U.S. state.
December 21 – 11:11 UTC. Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.[6]
December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era.[7] On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years.[8] The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation's Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time.[9]
December 23 – An alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun in the Long Count calendar, calculated using another version of the GMT correlation[10] which is supported by a few Mayanist researchers.[11]
December 31 – The Kyoto Protocol will expire.
Unknown dates
Ireland will cease analog television broadcasts.
China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft.
Pleiades, a proposed super computer built by Intel and SGI for NASA's Ames Research Center, will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 10 Petaflops (10 quadrillion floating point operations per second).[12]
Sequoia, a proposed super computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 20 Petaflops.[13]
Start of the commercial operation of the first unit from the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II.
The 108 ft (33 m) Elwha Dam and 210 ft (64 m) Glines Canyon Dam will be removed from the Elwha River in Washington state, marking the largest dam removal project in history.
The Canberra class light aircraft carriers/large amphibious ships, the largest ships ever to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy, will be in service.
On the sun, the solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 in the 11-year sunspot cycle is forecast to occur. Solar Cycle 24 is regarded to have commenced January 2008, and on average will reach its peak of maximal sunspot activity around 2012. The period between successive solar maxima averages 11 years (the Schwabe cycle), and the previous solar maximum of Solar Cycle 23 occurred in 2000–2002.[14] During the solar maximum the sun's magnetic poles will reverse.[15]
The United Kingdom will complete a 5-year process to cease analogue television broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London, Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue.[16]
Portugal will also cease their analogue television broadcasts, after a 4-year simulcast with digital ones. After that, DVB broadcasts will be the only system to be used in television (DVB-C for cable, DVB-T for terrestrial and DVB-S for satellite). The five free-to-air channels on terrestrial network will also start broadcasting in high-definition 24-hours a day.[citation needed]
The Ryungyong Hotel in Pyongyang is said to be finally finished.[17]

I highly doubt that last point will happen.

[Lord-General Drache]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

No, they haven't.

Nothing will happen, same as with every other conspiracy theory end of the world craze we get every few years.

[Iuxtim]

Im gonna get drunk off my ass from the 11th to the 21st

[Soratsin]

I'll be....almost out of college....Dammit my life is over.

[Redwulf]

You've probably all heard about it. Different civilizations, all from different periods in history have predicted that something cataclysmic will happen in the year 2012. Is it credible? Or a coincidence? Your thoughts:

One civilization, just one.

IIRC less than that. If I'm remembering right they didn't PREDICT anything, the calendar just stopped being updated. They may have just felt that was enough years to be getting on with for then and moved on to more productive endeavors.

[Goldsaver]

Wost Case Scenario: A mass murder-Suicide and:

[Tunizcha]

If Palin gets elected, the universe will implode on itself.

[Uawc]

Riots and looting; general mass hysteria. I suggest everyone arms themselves.

Beyond that, not much.

[Lord Tothe]

Life will continue as it always has...at least, that's what I want you to think...

*edit* but really, I have it on good authority that the world ends after December 2009. My calendar has no more pages, and only a few drugged-out hippies out there really believe in the coming of "2010". Repent! Worship me!

[The Aryan Third Reich]

Nothing except that I'll be lmao at all the people who thought the world would end

[Burchadinger]

[Redwulf]

Riots and looting; general mass hysteria.

But will we have dogs and cats living together?

[Gordonisia]

on a more serious note, the Mayans talked of an "end of an age", which doesn't necessarily mean the apocalypse. It could be a huge scientific advance, like a new Industrial Revolution

[Lord-General Drache]

on a more serious note, the Mayans talked of an "end of an age", which doesn't necessarily mean the apocalypse. It could be a huge scientific advance, like a new Industrial Revolution

Alternatively, their damn calendar ran out, and that was it.

[Burchadinger]

on a more serious note, the Mayans talked of an "end of an age", which doesn't necessarily mean the apocalypse. It could be a huge scientific advance, like a new Industrial Revolution

Star Wars here we come????

[New England and Maine]

[Lenyo]

Nothing stellar. Nothing apocalyptic. Nothing involving hundreds of millions of dollars of wasteful special effects.