Having a inquiring mind and to give a toss is in itself admirable... BUT. Wasted on this subject. Study the facts as we know them and it soon becomes clear that we, humanity is in NO threat in the year 2012 that we can see at this point.
That of course is not without completely dismissing the usually on going ever existing possibility of natural catastrophic calamities that could happen at almost any moment... Earth could be in a collision event with a as yet unknown object. Meteor or comet. Volcanic super event such as the Yellowstone Nat., Park...going off. There are numerous possibilities that could bring a cataclysmic end to humanities hold on this planet. Your lac of imagination is only holding back what could happen...
Can you see that any of these things could happen at any time. To point to a date and postulate is nonsense and rubbish as is my proposed doomsday events list.

The facts as we know them are these... We are in no danger known to us at this time.

Mayans, Shmayans. I'm much more worried about my very very modern, post-moon-landing, 2008 pocket calendar: It ends on Dec. 31, 2008. No roll over, spill over, reset, or refill. Just GAME OVER.

THAT'S IN 2 AND A HALF MONTHS!!!

We're all going to die!

Well, eventually ...

If one counts the rotation of the Earth around the Sun, the year, as an astronomical event, then I dare to predict that, in course, every person on Earth that lives through the entirety on 2012 will have a birthday sometime in that year.

I know I'm going way out on a limb with this prediction, but I'll stand by it. You can quote me on that.

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Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken? Bleib' ich hier, oder wünsch' ich mir Berg und Hügel auf den Rücken?
Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.

Is it a leap year?
:-)

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It's divisible by four, isn't it?

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As I see it:

1. Numbers affect people.
2. 9/11 combos appear in so many dates of destruction and in more than one calender, and in many emergency phone numbers.
3. After 2012 you get much less such combos in the dates
4. All the 2012 obsession can be attributed to it.
5. No natural disasters are involved, numbers affect people, not nature.
6. in 2000-2012, dates are especially "charming", causing so much fuss about date and numbers. Since 2013, dates will be less charming (less repetitions) and less dangerous (less 9/11 combos), resulting in a less-effect-of-time-on-us.
7. Fears about the end of the world, are actually fears about the end of the year. Christ's birthday is in the end of the year, and he will come at the end of the world. Jewish formal Judgment-day, is the Hebrew-New-Year (after the year-calender is over), and also when the Mayan calender is over, like when a year-calender is over, some people are anxious about it.
8. All dates-number obsessions, however artificial, have a natural source - counting with 10 fingers.


2012:
I don't believe there's anymore much to it than numbers affecting people, NOT NATURE.
Calenders are not designed in any way that can predict natural disasters. They are constructed in a way that corresponds to the natural cycle of nature and mankind to some extant with seasons and weekends and other mainly sun & moon related cycles.
They are not constructed in a way that can predict, or cause, a natural disaster, but in a way that can make some people feel some things, sometimes.

Blueelectricmonkey,
One piece of friendly advice: you should probably not push your non-mainstream ideas about "charming" numbers (which you have discussed elsewhere) in Q&A - the moderators frown upon such behavior.

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not exactly so, 2100 isn't a leap year =)

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It is divisible by zero?

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Thanks for the advice, the moderator here really keep a tight shift.
I tried to give a straight answer to a straight question.

Speak for yourself. I intend to live forever.

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Good one!

Ok, who went dumpster diving without inviting the rest of us?

I'm tossing this one back. It stinks.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

I have to admit I like the specific kind of sense of humor here....
Anyway, no more open-source building-of-the-theory is imposed on this forum...
I hope one link is enough, and not too much of a problem, and I have no current interests here on the subject except those two quite "to-the-point" posts.
But of course, feel free to tell me if I'm breaking some rules, and you can also use my temporary-semi-return-from-the-dead as a zombi / ex-troll / other forum-definitions, in order to the express your dislike of 2012 / calenders / numerology / statistics / math / certain-forum-postings / monkeys / non-scientific-expressions / english-mistakers / zombies / trolls / and whatever it is that (some of) you like to do here, sometimes.
I do enjoy it to some extent, but I respect the expressed desire here, for me to return to the graveyard of your virtual world, and I don't intend, to "upset anyone here". Those here who are somehow interested, can check the above link or the summary, and I can continue my annoying repetitions elsewhere.