Far too much is going to happen this year for me. My diary is already full and I am still coming to terms with 2008.

Lets see what we have so far not including mundane political/sporting or religious events.

Starting with events with dates

January 31 — 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record is expected to pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (Bugger all compared to TU24)

April 1 — The United States Census of 1940 is released to the public.(Should be interesting info there despite the release date)

April 17 — The United States will cede control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years. (Just stand back and watch)

May 20 — Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday. (First of many alignments)

June 6 — Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this century (Second of many alignments)

October 19 — at 01:36 UTC, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people, according to the US Census Bureau (Unless they manage to pull off WWIII in time)

November 13 — Total solar eclipse (Another alignment)

November 28 — Penumbral lunar eclipse (Another alignment)

December 3 — Jupiter oppositions. (Yet another alignment)

December 21 — The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, completes its thirteenth cycle (This is the big one we have all been waiting for) The 2012 Winter Solstice will also occur on this day at 11:11 UTC

And events without dates but due that year.

The United Kingdom will complete a 5-year process to cease analogue television (End of the world for some?!?!)

Australia and Ireland will cease analogue television broadcasts. (End of the world for some more?!?!)

Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012 (Peak oil again?)

Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness. (Shift of consciousness. I will just be happy to be conscious)

The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. (433 Eros as mentioned above? Or something bigger and closer?)

Alien Disclosure will take place that year. (Must be when Nibiru gets here)

Planet X / Nibiru will arrive (Will be visible? Collide with earth? It’s inhabitants will enslave us?)

Return of Christ (Why he would want to come back here beats me)

Solar Pole Shift (The one we had 7 years ago wasn’t exciting enough)

Earth pole Shift (If the suns can, why cant ours)

Global Ice age (Global cooling is coming!!! Get your woolies on people!)

Global Heat wave (Global warming is coming!! Get your sunscreen on people!)

Project Blue Beam and the Dark Knight will come to fruition after Nov, 07 and continue through 2012.

I will be 28 years old and still have a slight drinking problem.

Jails will still be overcrowded, and Bush will still be president mysteriously.

But really, we'll just be the same people we are now. Eating, Drinking, Pooping, Tax-paying citizens of our respective nations.

- All the targets of the Kyoto reports aim for 2012
- A cashless society in 2012
-We will pass through the middle of the milky-way ( height-wise ) that has more radiation and that will cause us to get enlightened ( about friggin' time )

True, 2012 will be one of two things, a year as any other with the exception that there will be a substantial amount of disapointed/relieved people around that nothing ( out of the ordinary ) happened or a whole lot of people taken by suprise or flabbergasthed at the fact that this end of the world / worldchanging event was for real this time.

Place your bets

Out of interest how will the Winter Solstice start at 1111 UTC on 21 Dec 2012? Surely it will start at 0001 in whichever time zone you are in.

I was going to try and explain in my own words but for the sake of clarity wiki says....

The winter solstice occurs at the instant when the Sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer.

So solstice although often referred to as being the day but for the purpose of this referece it is actually a moment in the day.

Most if not all of the Arctic ice is supposed to be gone by 2012 and may become habitable to long term settlement. It would explain why the US and Russia are sending fleets at each other up there.

if its one thing about the end of the world that pisses me off the most, its 2012. I did a persuasive essay on the end of the world being crap, one of the topics was extensive research into 2012. In short i know of at least 400 claims the world was gonna end seince 1850. Iv looked into all the major predictions, y2k, and so on. And the reality is it just wont happen. I came to the conclusion that the end fo thr world was built up from the basic human fear of death, thats all. sorry people, but its true.

Originally posted by SantaClaus


I will be 28 years old and still have a slight drinking problem.

Yeah i'll be 31 and will still have both my drinking and gambling habit, bring on ww3 i think this will stem my drinking but not by much bet you for it

Wee Mad Mental

What can be said about people who have spent a fortune building underground living quarters cut deep into a mountain in the middle of a forest where they have installed power generators, water well pumping systems and stored every sort of food stuff to last for years? What can be said about people who've stock piled an arsenal of weapons and ammo, including swords and bows and knives? What can be said about people who have built their own satellite systems and network of video cameras to view for miles around their underground haven? What can be said about people who have stockpile gold and platinum bullion and thousands of gallows of gasoline and diesel, and cases of oil? What can be said about people who have built work shops for mechanical and wood working, and have horded away every sort of wire, nut, bolt and hardware? What can be said about people who have dug a motor pool 100 feet into a mountain and filled it with every sort of vehicle; gas, diesel and electric? What can be said about people who have ultra lights and a helicopter, and even boats stuck away in their underground haven? What can be said about people who would spend almost $6 million dollars doing such a thing? Would such people be crazy? I am curious.

Originally posted by Harman
-We will pass through the middle of the milky-way ( height-wise ) that has more radiation and that will cause us to get enlightened ( about friggin' time )

Has the above ever been clearly stated? The whole 26,000 year cycle thing is vague at best.

I'll turn 29 in 2012.

I think a lot of the predictions based around 2012 rely heavily on numerology, as far as the Gregorian calendar goes at least. In my opinion 2013 will be a much more interesting year.

You’ve got to love Wikipedia trivia (2013) –

In this year, it will be the first year since 1987 that there hasn't been a 'double' of any number in the year. (Ex. 1989 has two 9's; 1991 has two 9's and two 1's; 2004 had two 0's; and so on.)

[edit on 4/4/08 by thebox]

Originally posted by Harman
The theory i find most plausible based on the little i think i know of the workings of the universe is that our solarsystem is traveling to a part of the Milky way that has a higher level of vibration/radiation/insert terminology here, namely the middle of it. I think the Mayans, regarding the astronomers they where knew that this would be happening.

So if we are really mainly or even totally made out of energy-vibrations condensed at a level that we seem solid any kind of increased level of energy will have an impact on beings residing in that area. So yeah, we will enter a hightend area of energy and are doing it as we speak so we will have consequenses because of that.

This is what is so fascinating to me, galactic change *has* to affect the planet. It's the domino effect in action.

If nothing occurs in 2012 I'll be pretty disappointed!

Couple of corrections to your post


For the Sun to rotate around the galaxy is approx 220 million years.
The Oort cloud is on the edge of our Solar system.

A couple of other pointers for the other Mayan followers:

The Mayans had no concept of galaxy (anyone want to give evidence to the contrary are quite welcome)
The Mayans believed the world was flat, which I believe just buggers up the idea of alien contact.

[edit on 4-4-2008 by Mark Roazhar]