Sunday, October 4, 2009

2012? Really could the Mayans be right?

How many times have I heard the prediction that they world was going to end, countless times. I remember once when I was very young probably in elementary school and remember in the newspaper and on television, so body was saying that the world was going to end. Being so young and easily persuaded, I believed it and was so frightened that I did not want to leave the house and remember crying and refusing to go to the circus that we were on our way to that day.

As I got older, I was so easily persuaded and now I want scientific proof. As of lately the new thing is the Mayan's calendar which stops at the date December 21, 2012, and some believe that since they were so accurate with this calendar that since it ends on this date, that the world will also. So I did some research on the idea, and one scientist believes that the sunspot cycle will occur in 2012 and will be the strongest one yet. While other believe it will happen sooner like 2010 or 2011. But what does this sunspot cycle entails? Well not the end of the world, but just a malfunction in our technologies such as cellphones, GPS, and weather satellites.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm

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