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Originally posted by xweaponx
Do you think the world is going to end or something big is going to happen?
The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.
Originally posted by Obliv_au
all these 2012 doomsday threads have one thing in common. . . .
From what I've read we cross this equatorial region every 26000 years or so.
The sun oscillates through the plane of the galaxy with an amplitude of about 230 light-years, crossing the plane every 33 million years.