Jan
28
2009

Thank goodness I don’t use the Mayan calendar

The Maya referred to ours as the fifth age of man, which implies the earth has been created and destroyed 4 times previous, and the Maya anticipated at least two more (a total of seven, for those keeping count). According to the calendar, this fifth age is scheduled to end in 2012, as many have noted, some with increasing hysteria. Now, I don’t buy into the doomsday scenarios that seem to crop up every few years. Y2K bug, anyone?

However, I am somewhat interested in the near earth object Apophis, which is due for a visit in our neighborhood in 2029, and by a freak accident of gravitational physics, would then be pulled in for a collision with Earth on its return visit in 2036. That’s assuming we don’t annihilate ourselves through war, pollution, and other foolishness before then. Save ourselves for Aphophis, I say – the way nature intended!

 NASA does have a plan to deal with Apophis – a gravity tractor, as was eleganty explained by Neil Degrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium.

In case you miss the collision in 2036, the Discovery Channel has provided this striking video illustrating the effect should a 500km asteroid collide with the earth. My first thought is – CANNONBALL! My second thought is – Oh. I think there went New Zealand. OK, this is more serious than I thought…

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5 Comments »

  • ZooRocket says:
    January 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    Wow, there are some warm happy thoughts. Only 27 years to go.. hmmm. Time for a bucket list?

  • steve says:
    January 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    That’s how I’m living my life! Have any drawings you want to create, any stories you want to tell, any films you want to make – make them NOW! Don’t wait for the asteroid. *snicker*

  • Dan says:
    January 28, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    Pfff! Asteroids, shmasteroids… what do those crazy Mayans know? And what have they ever done for us? Or New Zealand? Okay, the Mayans gave us chocolate, and New Zealand gave us Peter Jackson, but besides that? What have they done for us lately??? Mmmm???

    Sorry — low blood sugar. I need to eat a stack of waffles dipped in chocolate sauce to get the blood chemistry back to normal. My bad…

  • elledeegee says:
    January 29, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    But it’s only 27 yrs if you discount the end in 2012. ;P

  • Flawedprefect says:
    January 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    That it is set to a pink floyd track makes me really quake with fear.

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