Tampa International Airport has had to close its main runway for about a week because the compass directions painted on their main runway need to be changed.
The magnetic north pole, which is in the Canadian Arctic, is moving at the rate of 40 miles a year toward Russia. As a result, the compass headings on airport runways eventually do not represent the correct direction and the new compass directions are painted over the old ones.
Some people who think the shifting of the magnetic poles represents the end of the world associated with the upcoming end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012.
The movement of iron in the molten earth’s core causes the shift of the earth’s magnetic poles. This has been going on long into our past. Because of the changes in the earth’s magnetic poles, airports regularly change the compass headings painted on their runways.
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As I said yesterday, the Astro America website has a page on 2012 Doomsday Prophecies, including a list of books on the astrology aspects of 2012 prophecies.
David R. Roell, who represents Astro America ssuggests that “Before you get sucked up into this [2012] malestrom” consider that as far back as recorded history, there has never been an end of the world, not even on the August 13, 3114 B.C. date generally considered the start of the Mayan calendar.
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While buying my Jim Maynard’s Pocket Astrologer, I scouted around the Astro American website and found, to my surprise, a commentary on 2012. Interested in reading a view of the December 21, 2012 date and Mayan prophecy, I digested the article. However, I felt disappointment to find merely opinions on 2012 – and that the end of the world could not possibly happen. Not for astrological reasons, but for logical reasons. On retrospect, the article was interesting and brought up points I hadn’t thought about or read before.
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I have received a number of requests from people who are worried about Nibiru, the planet that is supposed to demolition earth on December 21, 2012. The worried people site a YouTube video as their proof. The video, which I have seen, says that it is made by a NASA scientist ,who is afraid of death or dismissal for revealing the truth – that NASA is keeping secret from the public – that NASA is tracking Nibiru.
I find it challenging that although intelligent people can tell that the special effects on a commercial movie such as, say, the Star Wars series, are fiction but they cannot extrapolate that someone could use computer software to make a movie on their home computer or laptop and post it on, say, YouTube. I feel sad that some intelligent people don’t consider that this homemade video could also fiction – merely a creation of some person’s mind. And that that person could say they are a NASA scientist or anything else that person wants to say … but it could all be fiction.
I find it challenging that just because someone sees a YouTube video they automatically assume it must be the truth.
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I’ve copied a selection directly from the web site of Dr. David Morrison, Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute on Nibiru and 2012. This is a great site for the scientific answers to many questions posed about various hoaxes attributed to NASA.
Such questions should be put to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
However, I think that astronomers have reached the point where we can offer extremely strong arguments that Nibiru does not exist. A large planet (or a brown dwarf) in our solar system would have been known to astronomers for many years, both indirectly from its gravitational perturbations on other objects and by direct detection in the infrared. The NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) carried out the first allsky survey in 1983, and several subsequent surveys would also have seen Nibiru if it were there. Further, if a large mass passed through the inner solar system every 3600 years, we would see its disruptive effects on the orbits of the inner planets, and we don’t.
Here’s a link to an entertaining forum on the 2012 cataclysm. A member of the forum says they’re watching the “Nostradamus Effect” on the History Channel. The program says that as a result of the 2012 Extinction (that’s a cool name to call it!) 98% of humanity will be wiped out!
One of the participants suggests that an intriguing solution! Here’s the link to MMO Champion’s 2012 Cataclysm.
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According to Who Will Survive 2012:
The above excerpt is one of a long list of 2012 prophecy information found on the Will You Survive 2012 website.
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Here’s a link to a YouTube video you might enjoy if you’re interested in what three 2012 authors have to say on the topic. Listen to John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Lawrence Joseph. It’s a LiveScience video posted on a Santa Barbara news site.
livescience.com – 2012 cataclysm: ancient astronomy to modern myth?
Carol Chapman
When We Were Gods
Arrival of the Gods in Egypt
If you’re wondering how far away we are from that fateful date of December 21, 2012, check out the 2012 Doomsday Predictions website. It has a countdown counter. Today, it is 794 days away!
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I am happy because I met many interesting authors at Book ‘Em in Waynesboro, Virginia, today. In addition, my 2012 and the End of the World presentation went well. I felt happy to meet the people who attended my event and felt especially happy that they included both school students and adults – a good range in ages.
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