2012 Is not the end, It is just the beggining.

   Look at this picture, and tell me what you see. A perception of what 2012 will occur of. Fire, water, wind, destruction, destrosity, wreckage, power and an end of the world as we no it, Earth. "There is zero scientific evidence that anything will happen in 2012, but there are numerous things that could easily threaten the human species in the year 2012, such as a geomagnetic reversal, asteroid strike or supernova. Or something more intimate, like a flu pandemic, or a nuclear war." This is a quote stollen from the website http://survive2012.com/ I would say this is completely wrong, and seriously unprofessionally written. The ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity that just so happens to end in the year of 2012. The Aztects created a calender as well, with an ending date in the year of 2012. The Maya calendar was adopted by the other Mesoamerican nations, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec, which adopted the mechanics of the calendar unaltered but changed the names of the days of the week and the months.

The Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá (Left picture), constructed circa 1050 was built during the late Mayan period, when Toltecs from Tula became politically powerful. The pyramid was used as a calender: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year. Now to sum up all this information, this is how 2012 had been brought up. It was the ending date from accurate professionally written calenders that the Mayas presented. How they figured this out? The Maya based their calendar on careful observations of the planets, sun and moon. The Mayan calendar has proven to be one of the most accurate time keeping systems known to human kind. It has tracked without fail every solar eclipse every lunar eclipse and even takes into account changes in the rotation of the earth and the speed of the rotation of the earth to accommodate for this. The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count by the Aztects), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun).  The ancient Maya recognized this as the "Sacred Tree".  This is an event that has been coming into focus very slowly over thousands  of years. This meaning there are a few possibilites of what will occur, all these comming from the very accurate calender created by the Aztects aswell. First off, 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record is expected to pass by earth in a near miss. According to the 1997 book "The Bible Code" certain algorithms of the Bible code reveal that a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.  Could this be 433 Eros? I think so. So far we've basically got a meteor either smashing into the Earth, or nearly scratching it while passing by. Obviously if the meteor is the second-largest near Earth object passing by, it's clearly going to make a huge impact on the Earth. Over 65 Million years ago when Dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, a mass destructive meteor was said to hit. Killing all of the Dinosaurs. Could this of happened? Or could they have been extinct for other reasons we are not aware of? According to a report on Eurecka!, this theory is being seriously challenged. It is thought the poor dinos went belly up after a very big rock smashed into the Earth, leaving a 180km-wide crater for us to find underneath the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Enough rambling, continuing with my main point.. My personal theory of what will become when 2012 comes, is I know for a fact after watching an episode on the history channel, that the Earth shifts. The Magnetic feilds reverse, also known as "The Polar Shift". With this Earth polar shift in 2012, the magnetic fields in the north will be shifted to the south and vice versa. Saying, the heat and cold will travel to places uncommonly felt in places around the world. Mexico and Africa may be getting snow, The Artic will feel the dense heat causing ice and glaciers to melt, concluding to a flood. Valcanos will arrupt killing wildlife around it, villages and people, ect. Skies will turn black, but only because of storms and natural disasters caused from these changes on Earth. Everything here has an explanation, whether readers believe it or not. The Earth shifts Decemeber 21st 2012,

the Earth's axial tilt will reach it's maximum of 60 degrees in relation to the equatorial plane of the Milky Way galaxy. The Mayans were some of the greatest astronomers and mathematicians to have lived. They divided the 26,000 year precessional cycle into 5 Ages of about 5,125 years each. This is the age which comes to an end 2012. The age we are now in is called the age of the jaguar. When the jaguar dies, it's body will shiver and quake. This would be a referrence to the Earth experiencing earthquakes and possibly volcanic activity. Mayans have never spoke of any age as the 'end of the world' as unfortunately most people assume. They only spoke of the ending of an age as a time of transition. Leading to my title, 2012 is not the end, it's just the beggining, of a new age of life. Some theories are "This is an astronomical event which occurs only once every 26,000 years. Look forward to it with admiration and respect, not fear." Other people say " It's the end of the world, doomsday, Polar shifts, transistions." What you believe or not, is your own theory. Maybe in 2012 Aliens will hover down to Earth to save us and bring us to Gliese 581 (A planet recently founded by scientists substaining possible life form, because of the water and tempature located at this planet in our Solar System.) Gliese 581 is 4 times bigger then Earth. Suprisingly it is the closest planet so far to act like Earth. Containing water, and just right tempatures to hold life. Before it being called Gliese 581, scientists were going to call it Murth, and word close to Earth. That's how similar they were together. 2012 is not the end of the Earth (Hopefully).. But it's just the beggining of a new human age. Maybe it's the start of the future, where floating cars take place, and people dress in contrasting colors. Who knows, only the Mayans did. -Joevanna Magnusson.