What do you think will happen in 2012?

One thing that is guaranteed NOT to happen is the end of the Mayan calendar. The 13th b'ak'tun ends on December 21, 2012, and the 14th b'ak'tun starts the next day.

People who claim the calendar ends, have no idea of what they are talking about. The modern day Mayans think they are stupid.

Well there seems to be a very wide variety of what people believe will happen. I'll debunk some for you as well as show plausible occurrences.

-Floods: They happen every day around the world. Nothing different.

-Tsunamis: Depends on what causes the tsunami. Earthquakes are one of the largest causes, though no earthquake could cause a tsunami powerful enough to topple over mountain ranges in the middle of a country. It's just not gonna happen. The only plausible event for giant tsunamis are comet impacts. (which I will get to later)

-Mysterious Planet Niribu: Some ancient civilizations suggest and have archived that a planet they named "Niribu" orbits closely enough to observe every once in a great while. This planet must orbit the sun on an extreme ellipse around the sun to be undetectable by any telescope. If the planet was only 2 years away on a collision course with earth, Wouldn't we already be able to observe it closing in?

-Comets: Nope. Isn't going to happen. We have thousands of objects flying near Earth every day. Comets are on a fixed orbit around the sun until they eventually dissipate. Since we only see popular comets within a range of 20-60 years, its highly unlikely that its area of approach to the sun would align with the direction of Earth's travel.

Plausible Event:

Most people think that the sun will eventually destroy us. Yes, it will... in 5 billion years. But until then, we have a LOOOONG time to live. We have a better chance of killing ourselves before that or expanding to the stars. The sun does though, run on a dangerous cycle.

The sun runs on an 11 year cycle. Every 11 years the suns activity increases (we are seeing increases already) in which the rotation of the sun speeds up and entangles magnetic fields to their breaking points. These points because so tense that they eject super dense and superheated particle waves known as Coronal Mass Ejections. These way are sometimes 14 Earth's across. One aimed at Earth would not be pretty. THANKFULLY, the Earth's magnetosphere protects us from these harmful excretions. The aurora borealis is generated by solar wind which is diverted by the earth's poles straight to the north or south. Solar maximum is suppose to arrive around late 2012 or early 2013. The scary part is knowing that this may be the most powerful storm we may see yet. Scientists are not sure if the measly magnetosphere is enough to stand up to a massive storm that the sun may shoot out. If the the magnetosphere were to weaken in any way, All life as we may know it may be changed forever. Might even send us back to the dark ages. Global EMP.

Now, I can go on and on with facts. But this is the fact, its either the suns imminent storm is deflected completely by the magnetosphere or that this really will change us forever. It all depends on what you believe may happen. This has happened before in history, fortunately for them, they didn't have cell phones, mac books, and an electric global network.

Your call.

The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century.

Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).

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).

well the whole idea of 2012 is from the Mayan civilization said to be one of the first people on earth. at the end of there calender (2012) said that there god will come back which scientist believe will be the sun hitting the earth, aliens arriving here, or jesus.

i believe an end is possible sense we are the 3rd generation of humans according too the universe on the history channel.

I think people will stop asking this inanely stupid question! I'm amazed at the total lack of common sense in the world today! Little, mindless, humans scurrying about, scared to death over some stupid *** hoax. And they call us an intelligent civilization. I know what my next question will be after 2012. What moronic BS will people have to cower in fear over next?

you know whats going to happen,absolutely nothing, i mean how long have people been saying it's going to happen?and Nostradamus and "his theory" is bull **** he heard it and stole it from modern day science and the mayan calender. and nowhere in mayan history and mayan predictions does it say the world is going to end in 2012. case closed

I will be graduating as Nuclear chemist :) in 2012 ! n blow up the whole world. watch out!

i agree with you. nothing will happen, and if it does, there will be enough time for us to rebuild the same type of living standard as we had before the event.

It probably won't. It's just a theory. They said that in 2000 all the computers would crash and they didn't. Don't worry. ;-)

I dont know and I dont care, if it is the end what can I do. if is not the end I will have to keep on living and that is it.