Of course it's going to end billions and billions into the future. In one of the books that my grandmother owns it states the sun will explode and it will take out some of the planets with it. Though it is said that the earth will not be obliterated, instead it will be toasted worse than an ant underneath a magnifying glass on a very sunny day. Everything will be burnt to a crisp. Though others say that it will just simply go...Poof...bye bye...Sun exploding equals end of most of the planets of the solar system. So yeah...you know that the earth will end after we all die. Nothing lasts forever.

It takes millions of dollars to just make one rocket. And we are basically talking about packing up nearly everything on our planet to move to another. And if you remember correctly, there are some people who cannot stand space travel. Those with medical problems and all that are going to have even a harder time getting there. Like I said, it just doesn't seem practical to me. I mean, I do have a point here, and for everything else that I stated as well.

Doesn't mean it's right. No one can predict the end of the world or what we would do (if humans are still around, that is) when the time comes.

There will be people dying.
GuMmI: Uh...
Alixness: Same with you!

Uh... What?

Same with you=Uh...

Let's see here...to whoever keeps bringing up the "moving to another planet" theory. Hypothetically, if we're talking about billions of years in the future--assuming that we'll still be alive in a few billion years, we will have the technology to do that, and probably already would have done so before the world was even remotely close to ending.

Secondly, the Mayans never said the world would end. There are no predictions written in stone in any Mayan temple that predicted such a thing. They simply had the luck of their calender ending in 2012, and the bad luck of not being able to continue it. Said calendar that is ending in 2012 is the Mayan Long Count calendar, which consists of 5,125 years. The Mayans themselves predicted five periods of this calendar. After each of these the world is destroyed and remade. We are living in the fifth, so people think that there will not be a period of rebirth after the period of destruction, when the truth is that there will be a period of rebirth. We have nothing to worry about, existing (yes there are still some alive) Mayan elders have said this. Your source, for those who will complain that I'm full of B.S.

Finally, I'd like to know what "educational" program you watched about 2012, because, as a teacher once told me: "any educational program that's interesting is only there to make money and is utter crap." If you saw it on the History Channel, it holds no standing in this debate.

The world could end in 2012. It could end tomorrow, you never know. There's no proof it will end, there's no proof it won't. So I decide to not waste my time worrying about it

I am a christian, it is clearly stated in the bible that we will not be able to predict the end of the world, yes, I am a Christian and my avatar is naked, don't judge me.

I don't think it will. Now, I do believe something is going to happen, simply because a lot do think SOMETHING will happen. But not the world's end. Perhaps something big but not so scandalous, but because people are expecting chaos, they will make something big into something scandalous. That or we are the ones making a scandal on 2012

I disagree with you on Global Warming, but I don't believe it will end the world in 2012 and this isn't a debate about its existence, so I won't argue ^^
I think it's pointless to say for sure that the world will not end in 2012. You have no way of knowing. For all you know, it might end.

Yeah, I'm not saying to panic and worry about the world ending, I'm just saying that you can't say for sure that it won't end. I didn't freak in year 2000 either, but then I was only about 5 years old then so I don't suppose that counts ^^

Ok 2012 is just a bunch of bull. Some guy just thought it'd be funny to spread a rumor like the world is going to end in 2012, and people believed it. Do you guys not remember that they said the same thing about 1980 something and 1999 and even before that, 1950 something? But guess what? We're all still here. I mean don't get me wrong, I do believe that the apocalypse is coming but who's to say it's 2012? I'm pretty sure it's not, and if it does come then, it'll just be a coincidence.

It wasn't a modern day guy that said so, it was a ancient Mayan prophecy that said so. Get your facts together.

*cough* May I ask you what Mayan prophecy said so? Exact wording please. I noted a few posts ago that the present day Mayans call that prophecy crap.

I'm kind of iffy on this subject. I'm kind of with Elysium, because there was always a period of rebirth after, which leads me to believe that will be rebirth once again. When it will happen, nobody is for certain on that and nobody will be until it happens. Yes, I am a Catholic Christian, but that really doesn't have an effect on my opinion. I really won't believe it much until it happens.

Well they weren't saying the whole damn world would get hit by a gigantic fireball and end, they said...a New Age.

I thought the whole thing with the Mayans was that their calender ended at 2012

Guess so, but it was a New Age..

Well they had to end their claender at some point, didn't they? Maybe they just assumed that when they reached 2012 they'd make a new one