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2012 could sucka mah dick...
word i watched this. but all those prophecies are pretty vague still. the only thing that i'm concerned about is the mayan one. they were accurate as hell with the sky, and scientists are saying (or people are claiming scientists are saying) that on that day the earth is gonna be in line with the plane of the galaxy, and that the gravitational forces are enough to fuck us up. so maybe the mayans knew somehow that day is when this alignment would happen. seeing as how they were given all this information from aliens anyway.
lol. jk. about the aliens part. but i'm still watching out for signs and shit ever since i saw those videos months ago.
lol. jk. about the aliens part. but i'm still watching out for signs and shit ever since i saw those videos months ago.
KurtisRich
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They play stuff like this waaayy too much on the history channel I get tired of seeing it lol. However, I dont think the world is going to end 2012, but I do think that many major things will occur during that time.
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Co sign. I believe major spiritual events are going to happen.. WWJD??? lol jk in the Jesus biz.
I think we are going to go through a spiritual renaissance in the time to come. How long can religions clash in beliefs before we wake up and realize that no one has the right answer.
Co sign. I believe major spiritual events are going to happen.. WWJD??? lol jk in the Jesus biz.
I think we are going to go through a spiritual renaissance in the time to come. How long can religions clash in beliefs before we wake up and realize that no one has the right answer.
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word. If you wanna know what really is goin down on the physics tip,,google: Michio Kaku. Man's a genius
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I wonder if it predicted Obama would be president
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You ever watch "The Universe" on the science channel or history channel? if not you gotta watch it, back in my pothead days I used to watch it all the time while severely blazed, Kaku would be on there with some crazy ideas that would bug me the fuck out! lol
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They went through a lot of the string theory on "The Universe", damn I gotta torrent the episodes or something...
Since the birth of mankind and still counting, I wouldnt hold your breath.
At the moment im not sure about 2012, its one of those things that we wont know till it happens.
Im not about to change my life though, because if there is an "end of the world" then there is not a damn fucking thing I can do to stop it.
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lmao,,me too!
I find this to be much more alarming...
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/sagdeg_wyse.html
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 13 FEBRUARY 1998 AT 14:00:00 ET US
A Galaxy Invading Milky Way
Apparently Contains Much Unseen Matter
(Release coincides with talks during a meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science)
The Milky Way is being invaded by another galaxy. But don't panic; we've got the size advantage.
Astronomers have known since 1994 that a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way has actually entered Earth's home galaxy. A team of scientists made the discovery unexpectedly while analyzing stars in the concentrated, elliptical bulge at the center of our own galaxy.
They realized that certain stars, which all had essentially the same velocity, were not moving in the proper manner to be in the center of the Milky Way. They were found to be in a dwarf galaxy located along the line of sight to the center of our galaxy, but on the far side of the Milky Way.
"It's close enough that you can study individual stars in it the same way that you study stars in our galaxy," said Rosemary Wyse, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University. She will present an overview of the galaxy on Feb. 13, during an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Philadelphia Marriott hotel, 1201 Market St. Her paper, entitled, The Invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy, will be delivered as part of the meeting's Galaxies in Collision talks, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Known as the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy -- since it is observed in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius -- it is roughly one-tenth the diameter of the Milky Way but weighs less than one-thousandth as much as the Milky Way. It is nearly as close to the center of our own galaxy as is the Earth. The galaxy is one of nine known nearby, or companion, dwarf spheroidal galaxies to the Milky Way.
"The other galaxies are far enough away that you don't really think of them as invading your space," said Wyse, a professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy. "You can more or less ignore them. But Sagittarius has come right in."
Wyse, and four other astronomers, have made new observations of stars inside of the dwarf galaxy and have calculated that it makes a complete orbit around the Milky Way in less than one billion years. As the small galaxy orbits around the center of the Milky Way, it plunges into the central regions of the larger galaxy. The astronomers have inferred that it has orbited our galaxy at least 10 times.
Findings from that work have led to the conclusion that the small galaxy is surprisingly sturdy; after orbiting the Milky Way that many times, the smaller galaxy should have been pulled apart by our galaxy's strong gravitational forces, unless it harbors more matter than indicated by the number of visible stars it contains.
"It's just got a lot of dark matter, so it's able to hold onto its stars," Wyse said.
The astronomers analyzed spectra from observations they made with the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. The other astronomers involved in the work were Nicholas Suntzeff, from the Cerro Tololo Observatory, Rodrigo Ibata, from the European Southern Observatory, both located in Chile; and Gerard Gilmore, at the Institute of Astronomy and Mike Irwin at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, both located in the United Kingdom. Ibata, Gilmore and Irwin made the original discovery in 1994.
It is important to study Sagittarius in the overall quest to learn how galaxies form and evolve, Wyse said. Astronomers propose that such small companion galaxies might have merged to make the larger galaxies like the Milky Way.
Astronomers are trying to understand more about a diffuse "halo" of stars that surrounds the central, elliptical bulge and disk of stars in the Milky Way and other galaxies. For example, how does the halo form? Does it represent the shredded bits of small satellites like Sagittarius?
Wyse said her findings indicate that, at most, 10 percent of the stars in the halo came from dwarf galaxies like Sagittarius, which merged with the Milky Way over the past 8 billion years or so.
Studying Sagittarius may help answer other questions, such as: Does the central bulge of our galaxy also come from merging companion galaxies, but from more dense pieces that were capable of migrating to the center? What types of stars make up other galaxies that we can study in great detail?
Sagittarius also gives astronomers an opportunity to study the dark matter of another galaxy up close. Scientists hope to clarify what the nature of the dark matter is. According to theories and observations, the universe contains more matter than is directly observed using current technology. Astronomers think that at least 90 percent of the mass in the universe is yet to be observed directly.
By comparing the number of stars and the luminosity of Sagittarius, astronomers will be able to learn what kinds of dark matter prevail in that galaxy. In the near future, astronomers hope to learn whether other companion galaxies also are invading the Milky Way. Because the Sagittarius discovery was made by chance, it is possible that such galaxies have gone undetected.
Picking out the companion galaxies would be difficult because it would involve analyzing the fine color differences of stars in the most concentrated regions of the Milky Way. "Unless you know it's there, you can't find it," Wyse said, referring to Sagittarius.
Note: An image of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy entering the Milky Way is available on-line at the following Web address: http://tarkus.pha.jhu.edu/~wyse/araa97_fig1.gif (our image)
Noda Pic http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/serv...58~107984:Sagittarius-Dwarf-to-Collide-with-M
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/sagdeg_wyse.html
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 13 FEBRUARY 1998 AT 14:00:00 ET US
A Galaxy Invading Milky Way
Apparently Contains Much Unseen Matter
(Release coincides with talks during a meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science)
The Milky Way is being invaded by another galaxy. But don't panic; we've got the size advantage.
Astronomers have known since 1994 that a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way has actually entered Earth's home galaxy. A team of scientists made the discovery unexpectedly while analyzing stars in the concentrated, elliptical bulge at the center of our own galaxy.
They realized that certain stars, which all had essentially the same velocity, were not moving in the proper manner to be in the center of the Milky Way. They were found to be in a dwarf galaxy located along the line of sight to the center of our galaxy, but on the far side of the Milky Way.
"It's close enough that you can study individual stars in it the same way that you study stars in our galaxy," said Rosemary Wyse, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University. She will present an overview of the galaxy on Feb. 13, during an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Philadelphia Marriott hotel, 1201 Market St. Her paper, entitled, The Invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy, will be delivered as part of the meeting's Galaxies in Collision talks, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Known as the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy -- since it is observed in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius -- it is roughly one-tenth the diameter of the Milky Way but weighs less than one-thousandth as much as the Milky Way. It is nearly as close to the center of our own galaxy as is the Earth. The galaxy is one of nine known nearby, or companion, dwarf spheroidal galaxies to the Milky Way.
"The other galaxies are far enough away that you don't really think of them as invading your space," said Wyse, a professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy. "You can more or less ignore them. But Sagittarius has come right in."
Wyse, and four other astronomers, have made new observations of stars inside of the dwarf galaxy and have calculated that it makes a complete orbit around the Milky Way in less than one billion years. As the small galaxy orbits around the center of the Milky Way, it plunges into the central regions of the larger galaxy. The astronomers have inferred that it has orbited our galaxy at least 10 times.
Findings from that work have led to the conclusion that the small galaxy is surprisingly sturdy; after orbiting the Milky Way that many times, the smaller galaxy should have been pulled apart by our galaxy's strong gravitational forces, unless it harbors more matter than indicated by the number of visible stars it contains.
"It's just got a lot of dark matter, so it's able to hold onto its stars," Wyse said.
The astronomers analyzed spectra from observations they made with the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. The other astronomers involved in the work were Nicholas Suntzeff, from the Cerro Tololo Observatory, Rodrigo Ibata, from the European Southern Observatory, both located in Chile; and Gerard Gilmore, at the Institute of Astronomy and Mike Irwin at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, both located in the United Kingdom. Ibata, Gilmore and Irwin made the original discovery in 1994.
It is important to study Sagittarius in the overall quest to learn how galaxies form and evolve, Wyse said. Astronomers propose that such small companion galaxies might have merged to make the larger galaxies like the Milky Way.
Astronomers are trying to understand more about a diffuse "halo" of stars that surrounds the central, elliptical bulge and disk of stars in the Milky Way and other galaxies. For example, how does the halo form? Does it represent the shredded bits of small satellites like Sagittarius?
Wyse said her findings indicate that, at most, 10 percent of the stars in the halo came from dwarf galaxies like Sagittarius, which merged with the Milky Way over the past 8 billion years or so.
Studying Sagittarius may help answer other questions, such as: Does the central bulge of our galaxy also come from merging companion galaxies, but from more dense pieces that were capable of migrating to the center? What types of stars make up other galaxies that we can study in great detail?
Sagittarius also gives astronomers an opportunity to study the dark matter of another galaxy up close. Scientists hope to clarify what the nature of the dark matter is. According to theories and observations, the universe contains more matter than is directly observed using current technology. Astronomers think that at least 90 percent of the mass in the universe is yet to be observed directly.
By comparing the number of stars and the luminosity of Sagittarius, astronomers will be able to learn what kinds of dark matter prevail in that galaxy. In the near future, astronomers hope to learn whether other companion galaxies also are invading the Milky Way. Because the Sagittarius discovery was made by chance, it is possible that such galaxies have gone undetected.
Picking out the companion galaxies would be difficult because it would involve analyzing the fine color differences of stars in the most concentrated regions of the Milky Way. "Unless you know it's there, you can't find it," Wyse said, referring to Sagittarius.
Note: An image of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy entering the Milky Way is available on-line at the following Web address: http://tarkus.pha.jhu.edu/~wyse/araa97_fig1.gif (our image)
Noda Pic http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/serv...58~107984:Sagittarius-Dwarf-to-Collide-with-M
UNORTHODOX
Father Timeless
just live everyday like there is no next week, and you'll have no regrets/ what ifs when you find out the world is ending... if it is. Worst case scenario, you grow old looking back on a well lived life.