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There is one theory that in 2012 that when the planets align the poles will shift, causing earthquakes, volcanos, and potentially some gravity issues.
It's funny though how things have escalated in the last 2 or 3 years regarding the Mayan Calendar. When I had first heard about this 10 years ago, the "prophecy" was that machines and pets would go haywire and attack us.
The Mayans were smart because they figured out how to track the moon, sun, and stars and use it to tell time. However, I seriously doubt that knew down to the minute when the world would end. These are the same people that would cut out the heart of a soldier, build a fire in his empty chest, and then have every town leader light a torch from the chest fire and take it back to their village so they could celebrate their sacrifice to the Sun god. And if the sun came up that next morning, they would be happy.
We need to stop worrying about a specific date and get more observatories (on earth and in space) watching out for something that might hit us. We are over due for that to happen, and we only watch about 30% of the sky ( if i recall correctly).
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