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Originally Posted by Kandierain15
oh I'm not claiming it to be a total lie. don worry about that. And actually, because of the whole outburst at my school, we had to do A LOT of research on it.
For example, some scientists say it's because of the earths' gravitational pull with the sun and the moon. There is another theory that the earth is going to get hit with this asteroid that's "supposedly" close to the earth.
But I have another thing that I just remembered. Didn't the whole world freak out in 1999 when it was almost 2000? I mean, humans naturally worry about things. And it's a good thing we do.
If something bad does happen this year, or in 2012, I can only hope that it doesn't inpact the earth badly. Sorry if I've offended anyone somehow. I don't mean to.
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You are wrong. 2000 was backed up by freaking religious people. NASA itself said that in 2012 the sun will have a powerful solar flare. And it's not because of the earth and moon gravitational pull.
You see, we believe the earth revolves around the sun. While it's correct, the reasonw hy it does is because the center of the gravitational pull between the earth and the sun, is almost the center of the sun (due to its large size compared to us). If you take Jupiter, the center of the gravitational pull is out of the Sun, because Jupiter is bigger than us. This way, both Jupiter and the Sun rotate around that point, even though Jupiter rotates a lot more. Same goes for Saturn.
In 2012, it is predicted that Saturn and Jupiter will be in both opposite sides of the Sun, and the earth will be in such a position to be exposed to solar flares caused by this. Now to solar flares. It all depends how powerful they are. We've never seen a powerful solar flare to destroy earth, but we've seen a somewhat powerful flare that killed the electricity of a whole city (look up in Google). If the 2012 is powerful enough (the predictions say yes), it will cause electricity problems, pole shifts... batteries won't work... if it is more powerful than that, it will burn everybody (though it all depends how our atmosphere will be able to resist it, which has been quite good till now).