Hi All, 4-23-09 Here is some entertainment for those who are interested in the 2012 speculations. More seriously, there is mounting evidence that a Tunguska type event ushered in the Younger Dryas cold spell in North America about 13,000 years ago, wiping out the Clovis culture.
Jack Smith --------------- 1. Apocalypse 2012 Posted by: "gulland68" [email protected] gulland68 Date: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:29 pm ((PDT)) I became fascinated with the work of Graham Hancock when he came over to these parts to give a talk about ten years ago. He argues that the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Gizeh were both constructed by a pan-global, non-Egyptian and highly sophisticated, Megolithic civilisation existing around 10,500 BC. His manifold arguments are very compelling and down to earth, and he ultimately leads us to wisdom surrounding the Mayan calendar, which predicts cataclysmic global events occurring at cycles the period of which renders a great cataclysm due in the year 2012; indeed, December 22nd 2012 is the Mayan Doomsday; and it is then that all the planets are in alignment. This, according to the Mayans, occurs every 5215 years, causing a spark of light, received from the central galaxy, that signifies the transition between the old era and the new, there being solar flares and a generally brighter sun, the cosmic event reversing the polarity of the sun's magnetic field. The result would be our being, finally, propelled into the Golden Age that amounts to a glorious legacy of the Mayan culture. (We have had our warnings, supposedly: we would be given 13 years to get our act, as a civilisation, in order, beginning in 1999.) It is perhaps merely a cyclical development, then, that, as recently reported on the news, the sun is currently remarkably dim. Concomitantly, the magnetic fields of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are changing. These planets are each becoming brighter and their atmospheric qualities are changing. The civilisation Hancock describes approximately coincides with the era of the supposed Atlantean civisaltion, reckoned to have been destroyed by a cataclysmic event. Indeed, its is around this time that the mass extinction of species that marked the end of the Pleistocene, and the end of all the known Upper Paleolithic cultures occurred; the evidence supports a pattern of worldwide volcanism, very rapid geological uplift in South America and an extraordinary disruption in the kingship list in the land now known as Egypt. This was at the time of a cultural orientation, suggested by the architecture and positioning of the Gizeh Pyramid, towards the constellation of Orion, which is associated with the deity of Osiris -- and Leo, the initial sign in the Dedera zodiac, thus heralding the inception of a new age. The writings of Zecharia Sitchin dates the Great Flood to this very era, this being in his viewpoint the transition to a new era (noteworthy is that Herodotus and at least one later author record the existence of marine shells deposited atop the Great Pyramid). Those who consider that Atlantis is mere fable might think twice if they launch Google Earth, switch on the ocean features facility, then type in the coordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W. This takes you to a region north-west of the Canaries and a little way south east of the Plato and Atlantis Seamounts. It requires just a little bit of image enhancement but you find there, etched into the ocean floor, a perfect rectangle dissected by a grid structure that is reminiscent of Milton Keynes. Indeed, researchers have been finding signs that might very well vindicate the concerns. The earth's magnetic field, which has been weakening for the past 500 years or so, has become particularly weak in the past twenty years. Recent, anomalous seismic activity seems to indicate churning motions of the earth's mantle which might point towards an imminent polar reversal in the earth's magnetic field. Any such event will be associated with seismic activity on a titanic scale. Another source of concern has been the discovery, by NASA, of a breach in the earth's magnetic field, ten times larger than any other such previously thought to exist. But most astonishing is the fact that the bout of immense solar activity that has reached us is the product of a north-pointing solar-magnetic field (the northern IMF).It had, previously, been believed that this orientation will always generate a 'shields up' respsonse resulting from interaction from the earth's magnetic field; yet the opposite has occurred. In 2012, the solar storm Solar Cycle 24, will reach its peak, with the earth's and the sun's magnetic fields being in sync. The US National Center for Astronomical Research models this to be one of the strongest in centuries, 30-50% stronger than the last (and starting as much as a year late). Cycles of solar activity correlate closely with cycles of hormonal changes (especially in the male, prompting agreesion), psychotic activity (reflected in murder rates) and wars; they can also result in disruption to satellite orbits, communications and power breakdowns. More intriguingly, for those into cryptic codes, someone wrote to me recently with the following: ``If you had watched the film Contact (1997) that had an extraterrestrial message in the form of prime numbers from 2 to 101 and like me thought it was simply amazing then here is a real non sci-fi extraterrestrial message which is encoded using prime numbers as per the first chapter of the Quran (THE KEY) which has: 7 verses 29 words 139 letters Not only these are prime numbers but their digit sums (7=7, 2+9=11 and 1+3+9=13) are primes too, and the sum of these sums (7+11+13 = 31) is yet another prime! What's more, joining these numbers left-to-right 729139 and right-to-left 139297 results in primes too.'' :) Shortly after, browsing through the Quran I found, in chapter THE MERCIFUL, 31 repetitions of a verse that comes after every time God reminds us of a certain bounty He is bestowing upon us that asks: "What other bounties of your Sustainer do you still not believe?" repeated at: 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77. The sum of these numbers = 1433 which is a prime and its digit sum (1+4+3+3=11) is prime too. This is in itself is of small interest but when I realized that the current Islamic Hijri year is 1430, then a LOUD wake up call was sounded that we are only 3 years away from a great, if not the greatest, bounty from God in the year 1433H = 2012AD. Now I can see what all this 2012 fuss is about. I can only wish it would be the re-appearance of Imam Mehdi and Prophet Jesus (may peace be upon them both) to wake up the sheeple into a new Spiritual Awakening revolution.>> I have been interested in the spate of post-apocalypic drama that has appeared on British TV in the past few months: the series 'Dead Set', '28 days later' (a truly stunning film), the series 'Being Human' (and there's more to come in the form of one called 'Survivors'). Employing stark verisimilitude, in these productions it's as though someone in media is trying to give us a message. (Also we had A Clockwork Orange on television a couple of weeks ago, about the same time as Brave New World was discussed on In Our Time.) There has been mention, too, of comets and large asteroids that are known to be on course for a near miss or a direct collision in or near 2012, while blockbuster films addressing these themes have been brought out in order to, it has been speculated, give us a degree of psychological preparation for any imminent events. Then, of course, London hosts the Olymics in that year. That's bound to be a disaster and a half. 2a. A GRAND PLANETARY ALIGNMENT WILL NOT OCCUR IN 2012 Posted by: "[email protected]" [email protected] billarnoldfla Date: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:14 pm ((PDT)) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyclesi/message/15761 Hi, Cycles Scientists, I also have research 2012, and having studied planetary synodic/conjunction cycles for decades now, and having published about them in 1985 [see my *Order* paper in my sig file as a clickable], I can assure all cycles scientists that no such grand planetary alignment will occur in 2012. In fact, what the Mayan Calendar does, according to experts in Mayan culture, is it rolls over and starts again, being based on cycles based on stellar and planetary and lunar observations. There is no grand planetary alignment in that year, and I can provide further analysis to refute this nonsense if members seek further proof. Forget, once and for-all, this 2012 alarmist nonsense. It is not based on fact, but science fiction and hype! It is a media creation by the tabloid press and cable TV. 2b. Re: A GRAND PLANETARY ALIGNMENT WILL NOT OCCUR IN 2012 Posted by: "Bill Arnold" [email protected] billarnoldfla Date: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:15 pm ((PDT)) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyclesi/message/15762 Hi, Cycles Scientists, ALIGNMENT MEANS TO FORM A LINE, BY DEFINITION If you consult my *Order* paper, clickable in my sig file, you will see the synodic/conjunction and opposition cycles in Figures 2 through 6. For orientation purposes, the Galactic Center is at approximately 266^o and its opposition at 86^o. I do not have an ephemeris handy, so I did the following calculation by hand with a hand calculator and conclude the following facts. In 2012, from the charts it is observed that the slowest moving planet Pluto moves slightly more than 2^o/arc per year, and will be at about 258^o. In 2012, from the charts it is observed that the next fastest moving planet Neptune moves 2.2^o/arc per year, and will be at about 331^o. In 2012, from the charts it is observed that the next fastest moving planet Uranus moves 3.9^o/arc per year, and will be at about 6^o. In 2012, from the charts it is observed that the next fastest moving planet Saturn moves 11.87^o/arc per year, and will be at 210^o. In 2012, from the charts it is observed that the next fastest moving planet Jupiter moves 29.6^o/arc per year, and will be at about 57^o. >From the above it can be demonstrated that there will not be a grand alignment of the planets in 2012. Long live cycles :) Bill, Author of Arnold's Law
