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There's been a lot of crap going around about when the world is supposed to end. There have been many predictions, but the most prominent right now is that damn annoying 2012 doomsday prediction that so many people are trying to escape from by flying to Mars or something.

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  • 2012 phenomenon
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  • There's been a lot of crap going around about when the world is supposed to end. There have been many predictions, but the most prominent right now is that damn annoying 2012 doomsday prediction that so many people are trying to escape from by flying to Mars or something.
  • A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Conversely, some believe that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe.
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  • There's been a lot of crap going around about when the world is supposed to end. There have been many predictions, but the most prominent right now is that damn annoying 2012 doomsday prediction that so many people are trying to escape from by flying to Mars or something.
  • A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Conversely, some believe that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scholars of various stripes have disputed the idea that a catastrophe will happen in 2012, suggesting that predictions of impending doom are found neither in classic Maya accounts nor in contemporary science. Mainstream Mayanist scholars argue that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history. To the modern Maya, 2012 is largely irrelevant, and classic Maya sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean. Meanwhile, astronomers and other natural scientists have rejected the apocalyptic forecasts, on the grounds that the anticipated events are precluded by astronomical observations, or are unsubstantiated by the predictions that have been generated from these findings. NASA likens fears about 2012 to those about the Y2K bug in the late 1990s, suggesting that an adequate analysis should stem fears of disaster.
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