It seems that pretty much everywhere you look at the moment the main story is 2012, the (new) end of the world. When will people just settle down and realise the nonsense? I have to admit, certain world ending theories have gripped me for a moment or two, until the realisation sinks in. For instance Planet X or Nibiru if you will. The money a select few people must have made from the public, promising that if they were to buy certain products from they that'd they would survive the proposed impact of the giant brown dwarf inhabited by the Nibiruians.. Utter b*****s if you ask me.

And it now seems we're being threatened by another doomsday. For the gods sake people, give yourselves a day off!

Does anyone see any relevance or truth within the yet again promised end of the world in 2012?

None.

Stay tuned for "The List".

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Hi Vikingheart, Welcome to BAUT!

Try searching the forum, you'll find a lot of topics realating to 2012.

Dennis

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The List was last posted here, IIRC.

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The list of some previous BAUT Forum dicussions of predictions for the year 2012 (and allied articles) just isn't any fun unless it snowballs through each new article. Here is its very latest appearance in its most up to date state:

1. 2003 no, 2012 si
2. 2012
3. End of Mayan Calendar
4. Pole shift / Planetary alignment 2012?
5. 2012 alignment question
6. about the Mayan 2012 item
7. 2012 Debunking?
8. Possible asteroid impact in 2012?
9. 2012 asteroid?
10. We don't have to worry about 2012!
11. More on 2012 from India Daily
12. 2012 Completion of conspiracy?
13. Here's what's REALLY going to happen in 2012...
14. crop circles, Planet X and 2012
15. Planet X, crop circles and 2012 cataclysma
16. According to the Mayans, what will happen on 23rd Dec. 2012?
17. More 2012 Nonsense
18. NEO 2012?
19. Dangerous NEO in 2012?
20. Christmas 2012
21. 2012 mayan calender end of world
22. Regarding the supposed polar shift/new ice age in 2012
23. New 2012 threat?
24. 2012 look at this thing on the sun
25. Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
26. Pole shift idea origins
27. Dec 20 2012
28. 2012 Stuff
29. Horizon Project-New End of World Scare?
30. Date: December 21st 2012
31. Earth passing thru Galactic center in 2012 - didn't that already happen?
32. 2012: What do you think well happen (if anything)
33. So what will we see in 2012?
34. Galactic Tsunami?
35. Plane of the ecliptic of the galaxy?
36. Earth's Magnetic Field & 2012
37. 2012?
38. Any truth to this?
39. How can the sun be aligned with Galactic centre?
40. the whole 2012 poles flip nonsense
41. Planet X Official Advertisement
42. What year are we in
43. Quick question about the sun
44. Galactic Alignment
45. Books of 2012! -
46. 2007 = 2012
47. Return of Planet X By Rand
48. Don Alejandro - Mayan Elder.
49. Toutatis 4179: 2012?
50. Galactic Alignment in 2012 ?
51. Solar Storms
52. A real prediction!
53. NIBURU - Brown Dwarf, The DESTROYER
54. 2012 Galactic Alignment
55. Not 2012 again! But I cant help it~
56. New evidence for 2012 TEOTWAWKI!!!
57. this may be a silly question but...
58. Just to know if this is true
59. Just Wondering...
60. Planet X/Nibiru, is it real?
61. Youv heard this a million times.
62. Nibaru or Planet X
63. Mayan calendar
64. 2012 Article?
65. can i say something please on planet x
66. Nibiru
67. The growing earth.... :P
68. Our Solar System's Eclipse of the Galactic Plane on Dec 21, 2012?
69. Something scaring the hell out of me....
70. Its Only the end of the World AGAIN!!! (Woo Woo Alert)
71. 2021 Doomsday
72. is it just me or is the milky way brighter..?
73. Polar Shift in 2012?
74. I would like to ask about Nubiru stuff...
75. Bit behind the times, my appologies...

Universe Today: No Doomsday in 2012
Bad Astronomy Blog: 2012, the year nothing will happen
Universe Today: 2012: No Planet X
Universe Today: 2012: Planet X is not Nibiru
Universe Today: 2012: No Killer Solar Flare

(Oof. That was a bit more work with the most recent entry that came in a locked thread. I couldn't just hit the edit button, not there, to grab the source to paste here. I had to go back a generation, and then recreate the most recent. I guess I just learned a lesson: always keep a snapshot of the source available.)

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Actually it seems the LHC has somewhat replaced 2012/Nibiru as the next EndoftheWorld-subject :-)

Nonono, it'd be together. Imagine LHC creating a black hole and destroying the world just at 2012...
Brilliant

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Or we will launch the BH towards Nibiru and save the World.

January 1, 2013.

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I can't tell if this one is on the list or not

I bought one of those silly books years ago. They succeeded in saying, well, absolutely nothing in about 400 pages. If only I had found this site sooner...

Oh, and I love "the list". Never fails to make me chuckle.

they will just say that 2012 was just the beginning of the end- and it will culminate in 2036 or whenever that huge asteroid is supposed to hit us. that is a long, long time to have to put up with that stuff..

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Even after that date, someone will come up with something new. Have no fear, we shall have plenty to banter about!

The problem is - the list is a self-fulfilling prophecy....

You see, by the time 2012 rolls around, the list will be so long that it will take all of the currently generated electrical power to display it. Just as the last electrical systems fail, one final entry will be added to the list that takes it over what astrophysicists describe as the "List Event Horizon".

It will immediately collapse under its own mass into a black hole, taking the entire Earth with it. The irony - Nibiru doesn't exist, but the unrelenting discussion about it will doom the Earth!

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to me, a conspiracy theory is much like a good fiction novel. i definatey don't mind the read.

I don't see it. It would be between entries 3 and 4. The list is in numerical order of topic ID number (and therefore presumably chronological).

I never meant it to be an exhaustive list -- as exhausting as the size may appear.

It's just some of the topics.

Ya know ya gotta leave some hidden nuts for the squirrels to find.

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The problem is that, as in the case of at least one novel (fiction novel is redundant) I can name, people really do believe it and go off the deep end over it.

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Bad news- dad says I can't take a gap year to a remote island to escape the crazies in 2012. I'm going to have to pick a very rational college city.

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I knowHey! I resent that...

I don't know, but what could be the result of 2012? I heard the only safe place to be would be in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. If so, have you heard of the government or say Bill Gates building any extremely large ships.

Just wondering??

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A year passes.

Where did you hear this? What was their argument, and what was the evidence for their argument?

No.

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Considering all that is written on this subject, I sincerely don't know remember where and who, but I believe the argument had something to do with the Dec. 26, Tsunami and I think it made sense at the time, sort of and that is why I was asking?

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Ahhh

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Which novel?

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probably that one about the guy that has the same name as the turtle with the swords and a secret code in some old book..

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The says-it's-fictional-but-based-on-real-stuff Da Vinci Code, the history of which is truly appalling.

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"You can't erase icing."

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

Oh, okay. I actually never read the Da Vinci Code.

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