Lets get past 2012,accordding to the Mayan calender, planet earth will be desolate.

The danger is out there and your quest will succeed. Even the Sripts mention Apophis, humanity's enemy and the Blond Race's intervention. Any chance of the West waking to this (or any) bell and standing up to its role instead of floating in its materialistic malaise?

no the mayan calander ends in 2012 like ours ends in december however their is some very interesting things about to happen in the skys above us around that time . if an astoroid dosnt wipe us out we'll do our selfs in, thier seems to be the genral feeling amongst people all over the world that somthing big is about to happen. what that is well just have to wait and see. ps dont forget the possibility of poll shifts or even visitors

The Mayan calendar actually comes from the Aztec calendar, and we're supposed to go into another sun, and the double sun will be interesting to watch if you live up North and astronomers will be thrilled to have such a clear view with some popcorn, I'm sure. This world will end in earthquakes according to them, the Aztecs. If you ask some of the Native people of different tribes, something bad is going to happen and people will come from the four directions to put the world back together again. Einstein and a few others agreed on a pole shift. Wikipedia says that this was prior to plate tectonics but one can't be certain if that would stop it from occuring. In the movie, 2012, the virgin logo is advertised, which are also shuttles; someone seems to have faith, so I'm hoping someone will live and not have bad luck in the magnetic field, especially if it thins for the flip, causing electronical equipment to potentially fail and some serious radiation. Russia happens to be on the Eurasian plate and doesn't have fault lines along an ocean. If it's like the Bible and every mountain is moved, however, I'm not sure it would matter where you live. In Nordic stories, there will be three long winters before the end, but you never know if that's because it happened that way before, so they assumed it would again.

Sara: "The Mayan calendar actually comes from the Aztec calendar..." The Mayans predate the Aztecs by at least a thousand years. The Aztecs were wandering the deserts of central Mexico chewing on cacti when the Mayan civilization was at its height. I doubt the Mayans got their calendar from the Aztecs. But it could have been from some other civilizations like the Toltecs or olmecs. I believe the Aztecs copied the Mayan calender.

I'm so confused. The calendars remind me of the yugas. I wasn't trying to correct, though "actually" did so. It's what I see. And when I think that is probably because the Mayan calendar simply ends on that date, the end of the world, no more, while the Aztec carries on, has history. Those cultures popped up then vanished. I was aware that the dates didn't agree, but I don't trust much of what I read these days. It's evolution though.

Which will destroy the earth first: humans or an asteroid? Earth is a unique entity in the universe in that it possesses qualities necessary for advanced life. Nature created creatures to inhabit the earth; however, only one of the creatures (humans) has the ability to destroy the earth. All creatures coexist with nature without dominating it, except for the humans. Seems to me that human beings don't understand balance and stability. If one society, the Americans for example, become industrially powerful, they exercise arrogance of power by trying to dominate other human societies and launching aggressive wars to garner more and more of earth's limited resources. The humans are rapidly depleting the earth's resource both on land and in the sea to feed their industries and the exploding population. When the earth's resources are depleted: no more fish in the seas; no more fuels; no more forests; no more fertile land; and, no more fresh air, the billions and billions of starving humans will look to the cosmos and beg for an asteroid.

If there is a 1 in 250,000 chance of a collision then the risk is, in gambling terms, and supposing that a collision would kill everyone, equivalent to the loss 26,800 lives (1/250,000 times 6.7 billion). And perhaps worse, a negative outcome would preclude any future generations being born. Earlier estimates may have posited a greater risk, but I doubt the adjustments to the present estimate were made for reasons other than error in calculation, the integration of under acknowledged influences, and/or greater amount of data. It takes time to zero in on these things, and people have made wild first estimates in the past that also proved incorrect. If we don't do anything, then we'll probably get away with it. However, it would be rational to try to do something about this. Even if you ignore the potential humanitarian cost of inaction, it would give us a technologically productive space goal. It would be something neat to try out, so long as we honor the Hippocratic oath. As Medvedev said, "Go Russia!".