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Myan Calander/End of the Earth Predictions/ 2012?
This article states that the 'over-hyped' 2012 apocalyptic prediction may be off by a few decades.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed
However, the way I see it. There is an easy solution to this.
Other than 2012, what other predictions has the Mayan calender made,
and been right about, and what were their dates?
Please and thank you,
Calendars do not predict any events. Some recent frauds used the Mayan calendar for a silly hoax. There is no logical reason to say 2012 was significant to the Mayans, and even if it was, such primitive people knew nothing about the end of the world, any more than hundreds of frauds who have made such predictions for centuries. The Mayans did not really predict anything for 2012. It is just some recent frauds who claimed they did.
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Dec 21, 2012 - End of the World
What will be the effects of the grand alignment predicted by the Mayan calender in Dec 2012?
The mayan calender ends on the winter soltice on dec 2012.There is evidence to support a grand alighnment of the sun,earth,and the center of the galaxy.Has this happened before?If so what were the effects?What are the predictions for this event?
So far, the best answer is Nick's.
Actually, the Mayan calendar does NOT predict an alignment.
What should have happened, had the Mayans estimated the precession cycle correctly (they missed by a few years), is that the Winter Solstice position of the Sun would be the closest it can be to the Galactic centre. Still, it is not an alignment since it misses by over 5.5 degrees (this is a lot in astronomy: 11 times the diameter of the Full Moon).
This happens every 25,800 years (The Mayans had estimated 25,627 years -- not bad considering they had no telescopes).
Over the last few years, this "alignment" occurs twice a year (once with the Earth on the side "away" from the Galactic centre -- winter -- and once with the Earth between the Sun and the Galactic centre). This includes the years where the alignment is in fact ever so slightly better than in 2012 (because of the Mayans' error in the estimation).
So far, nothing has happened (except, perhaps, for a slight increase in the number of times we get a question about 2012).
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The Mayans have left us some astronomical predictions that are clearly dated for after 2012 (with dates written in the style of their calendar): clearly they, themselves, did not think that their calendar would end.
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