I know there are plenty of 2012 threads here... but (unless it slipped past me) I haven't read anything on what we will actually see on this "doomsday". Will there be anything odd or noticeable in the sky?

Personally I don't think anything devastating will happen. While there's a lot of interesting theories about 2012... we've been through this situation before and we're still here.

I've read articles about how that day will be an "awakening" or "rebirth" for humanity. In the back of my mind I like to think that maybe this will happen. Now I'm not saying that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will come out of the sky and give everyone delicious gumdrops and jellybeans... but more so in a sense that many people will get more into astronomy and strive to venture beyond.

This goes back to why I am curious to know if there is anything visual predicted that would be slightly out of the ordinary in the sky that day/night. I think that if something visual happened and opened humanity's eyes... maybe our quest to understand the Cosmos will take more precedence in our lives.

I am now stepping off my hippie soapbox.

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No. Please read all the other threads. We don't need another one.

This article has pointers to more than anyone would want to read.

Aw, I'm just gonna add to and repeat all those pointers every time I see a new 2012 topic.

So what will we see in 2012?
2012: What do you think well happen (if anything)
2003 no, 2012 si
2012
Pole shift / Planetary alignment 2012?
2012 alignment question
about the Mayan 2012 item
2012 Debunking?
Possible asteroid impact in 2012?
2012 asteroid?
We don't have to worry about 2012!
More on 2012 from India Daily
2012 Completion of conspiracy?
Here's what's REALLY going to happen in 2012...
crop circles, Planet X and 2012
Planet X, crop circles and 2012 cataclysma
According to the Mayans, what will happen on 23rd Dec. 2012?
More 2012 Nonsense
NEO 2012?
Dangerous NEO in 2012?
Christmas 2012
2012 mayan calender end of world
Regarding the supposed polar shift/new ice age in 2012
New 2012 threat?
2012 look at this thing on the sun
Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
Dec 20 2012
2012 Stuff
Date: December 21st 2012
Earth passing thru Galactic center in 2012 - didn't that already happen?
2012: What do you think well happen (if anything)

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I'm going to go on a limb and say that what we will see in 2012 is the Summer Olmpic Games in London.

And since it's the XXX Olympiad it might get a bit racy. Know what I mean? Now what I mean? Nudge, Nudge. Wink, Wink.

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I live in London, so I'm prepped for the Londoners' stab at winning the world whinge-athon about how much this is costing them. Still, we should also be poring over MESSENGER data by then so that's something to look forward to.

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Ye Gods. My daughter will turn 15 that year. I think I have to lie down. (Thanks Gods my computer's right next to my bed, so I pretty much am lying down!)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Clouds, sun, moon, stars, snowflakes, raindrops, a little more carbon dioxide, a slightly bigger ISS...
In other words - No!

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I'm going to go on a limb and say that what we will see in 2012 is the Summer Olmpic Games in London.

If the facilities are finished. Britain has a rather regrettable record of getting major projects like that finished on time and on budget.

I suspect we'll have a track with builders still on scaffolding, smoking, eating, scratching, whistling at the female athletes and calling for them to uncover certain parts of their anatomy for their appreciation....

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I predict that the year 2012 will find the Houston Rockets champs of the NBA, the Houston Astros will win the World Series, and the Houston Texans will be the first host city team to win the Super Bowl.

Oh, wait... that would be a world ending sequence of events, wouldn't it?

Okay, then... rain, snow... what that other guy said.

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So you're importing American laborers?

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What's really funny is I started writing "The Indians win their third World Series in a row", but realized that would prove it is the end of the world. If I had added something about Browns and Super Bowl, I suspect the entire galaxy would have been destroyed.

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The Cubs will win the World Series.

The Yankees will have the lowest payroll in MLB.

The Red Sox will be renamed the Poindexters.

Women will be allowed to pitch, catch, play the outfield and position numbers 4 through 6 in the infield.

All umpiring will be done by cloned computers, each of which has the same network name: Denkinger.

Each ticket office will have a loan office situated right next to it.


Yup, as the drunk at the bar in The Birds said...well, you know the rest.

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Actually, no. The library's copy was too scratched to be viewable.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

The theatrical trailer for this movie featured Alfred Hitchcock bemoaning the unfortunate fate of many birds and how they're mistreated by humans, while feasting what appeared to be a roast squab or small chicken.

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The trailer can be found here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wb7gzn4hGs
Hitchcock was a wag...

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So in 2012 we are going to see a "The Birds" movie remake?

(wag as in definition #4 on this list
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=WAG )

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"Dogs and cats! LIVING TOGETHER!! MASS HYSTERIA!!!"

What?

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

I'll settle for RUSH doing a new live version of 2112........

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In 2012 Gmann will have to change his name to Q ball. At the rate I am losing hair, this will become fact not hypothesis.

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