[fwellers]

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

The alignments on that date are much more interesting than that. There are several alignments happening simultaneously on that date. One is an aligent with the dark rift, whatever that is (on my iphone so i cant copy paste links.) Another is that the earth's wobble will align with the galactic plane of the ecliptic. We will essentially be standing straight up with respect to the equator of the galaxy. One of the events happens every 26,000 years. I forget which. Another occurs every like 13,000 years. The Mayans recorded that the last time this happened a catastrophic event occurred. Many other cultures have foretold the 2012th date for hundreds of thousands of years. And yes, people have prophesied about the end of the world, but never do so many predict the same date, especially a date that has such astronomical (pun) coincidences with uh, astronomy. Furthermore, there have been disasters before, but puleeze! The world is soo much different than it was a hundred years ago. We are on the virge of a united global economy. And the disasters ARE worse tban they ever were in human history. There has to be SOMETHING to this.

I don't have a source handy, but I have heard that the alignments with the center of the galaxy of which you speak, could very well cause a distrubance in one of the two asteroid/comet belts in our solar system.