Is December 21st, 2012 the Last Day for Mankind?

Without any doubt, the 21st of December 2012 being the doomsday is a viral belief that has been plaguing us for the last few months. It prompted me to research, read plenty of mainstream articles that either supported or opposed this idea. Hence I thought I'd share my views on the same topic.

As we know, this is not the first time that we have heard of a doomsday prediction. Throughout history, numerous rumors regarding the apocalypse had been erupting through time and time and quite precisely, we have survived every single one of them. However, the believers of this prediction claim this one to be different from the rest pointing out that the long count of the Mayans calendar concludes on the 21^st December 2012 and that marks a reset of the Earth. It is also a well observed fact that the ancient Mayans had been excellent scientists and astronomers who correctly predicted every eclipse, solar and lunar so far and is still currently correct on the ones to come.

Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj is a modern day living Mayan shaman and the appointed representative of 440 modern day Mayan tribes. He has recently said “We are now in the window of the end of time”. Also he went on to highlight the numerous changes and the culmination of the predicted events that are manifesting.  The shaman also says that the more wars, the more chemicals, the more nuclear testing and the more we heat the Earth makes it more imminent that Mother Earth is going to strike back with millions of lives lost. This is a fair statement as far as the environmental Biologists who believe in the Gaia hypothesis are concerned. Gaia hypothesis states that the Earth is a self-evolving being.

With all these being stated, we cannot deny the abnormally huge number of earthquakes and other natural disasters that had been striking us in the past few months. Such catastrophes had been reported even in areas that had never been threatened ever before. However, all these speculations are merely a prediction, theoretical and are not based on Science or steady facts.

According to the article published on the official site of NASA; 2012: Beginning of the end or why the world won’tend, the idea of the apocalypse in 2012 is a mere internet hoax. Many websites publish fake content to exaggerate this speculation in order to attract more readers and hence more website traffic. According to them, the end of the 5, 125-year old long count of the Mayan calendar is no different from the end of an ordinary calendar that hangs on the kitchen wall. The article goes on to explain the hoax being originated with the theory featuring a dwarf planet called Nibiru or Planet-X that was supposedly expected to hit the Earth back in 2003, and since it didn’t, the prediction year was moved forth to 2012.

The article also stated that the Earth had always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare and that the last big impact was 65 million years ago which lead to the extinction of primitive reptiles such as the dinosaurs. NASA monitors all planetary motions and threats that could come our way 24/7 and there is no proof that there are any celestial threats for the world in the near future.  And even if a planet or a comet is to hit the Earth before the fall of 2012, it will be very well visible to the naked eye at this point. Hence the scientists at NASA guaranteed the safety of the Earth.

I for one strongly believe that there are supernatural events that are beyond the limits science could reach. However, based on analysis of the information I've gathered thus far, I believe the scientists are right on  this one. Further, all these occurring could easily be merely coincidental and also I don't want the world to end yet :D 

Credits:

www.nasa.com 

www.learnabout2012.com