it would have to take at least 500 years for mars to create a livable, breathable atmosphere for us to live in, i think mars is a last resort

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On topic - Well, I don't believe in this "End of ****ing world"... remember the apocalypse in 2000? No?

That wasn't an "apocalypse"... it was the supposed malfunction of electronics making our lives somewhat difficult for maybe a week. It was fully under our control unlike a foreign object the size of Everest entering our atmosphere.

These threads need to stop. For real. I legitimately think the amount of "end of the wolrad n 20*insert number here*???" threads has crossed into the triple digits.

Jack shit is happening this century. Jack shit is happening next century. And none of us will live to see the century after that (and the ones who live to see next century will be in their 100s so they wont give a shit then either). Just go back to your 9/11 conspiracy threads. Actually, those are annoying too. Just go cut off your hands.

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QUESTION:How come the mians(or watever) could predict the end of the world for all of us....but could not predict there own end??? hu?

because the end of the world is an astronomical event that could, probably, be predicted using knowledge of the workings of the solar system and such, whilst the end of a civilisation is an insignificant event that would be caused more by personal and evolutionary failings rather than an astronomical event

for example, as seen in the article about 2029, we are able to clearly predict the path of an asteroid and determine whether or not it will annihilate us on its own.

we are not, however able to predict when the spanish are going to come and kill us all for our gold.

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we are not, however able to predict when the spanish are going to come and kill us all for our gold.

this being because they'll probably just fall asleep in the process

This is silly, nothing will matter if we all die. Mainly because humanity wouldn't be around to bitch about it.
I don't see why it matters now, I myself just sit around and do nothing until the day I die, same as a lot of internet people. >.> *cough*

conspiracy theories. if we die in 2029, we die. if the information posted there is accurate (and i'll trust the data more than a theory), nothing happens.

If somehow we get hit, then two things that I can foresee, directly from the event, can happen:
One, it might hit the ocean. salt water floods all the low lying coastal areas, rendering them unusable for agriculture, unless we clear out the soil and put new soil in.
Two, it might hit land. a sizable area will be taken out. Dust clouds let out from it would likely kill a ton of people. once it settled, nothing more would happen from it.

either possibility could crack into the crust, and if it goes farther could cause massive damage, either by punching through, shifting continental plates around, or forcing magma up, either through the crack or through various volcanic and once volcanic mountains, causing more damage. All in all, humanity would probably still survive somewhere.

I still don't think it will hit us though.

They know it won't hit. They showed the margin for error in the article. There is no way it'll kill us: it'll just be pretty to watch.

I love sunrises and sunsets but THIS would be waaaay cooler =D

I don't even understand everyones fascination with death and the year??? So basically I could be at a party at new years eve and as the ball drops (where ever what ever) A giant asteroid kills everyone somehow? Or it could be seconds before the next year from that year on it makes no sense originally.

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I don't even understand everyones fascination with death and the year??? .

Fear is the media's favorite tool to make tons of money.

Yes I agree with that but what was the point of all the Mayans doing it (Even if we already know everything they did makes no sense)

The Mayan's prediction was not about the end of the world, though. They made extremely accurate predictions about the stars, yes. Telling what time lunar and solar eclipses happened. On 12/21/2012, is when the solar system lines up, or the sun and earth line up to the center of the galaxy, or something like that. The prediction was towards that, and not towards the end of the world.

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Or it could be seconds before the next year from that year on it makes no sense originally.

This sentence makes no sense.

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Yes I agree with that but what was the point of all the Mayans doing it (Even if we already know everything hey did makes no sense)

What are you talking about? We barely know anything about the Mayan's and what we do know makes perfect sense.

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The Mayan's prediction was not about the end of the world, though. They made extremely accurate predictions about the stars, yes. Telling what time lunar and solar eclipses happened. On 12/21/2012, is when the solar system lines up, or the sun and earth line up to the center of the galaxy, or something like that. The prediction was towards that, and not towards the end of the world.

If you consider the end of the world to be mass extinction and great change then the prediction was towards the "end of the world." The Mayan's believe that the world was "destroyed and reborn" like 4 times and that it will happen once more and then after that nothing more is said.
Since the Mayan's based their calenders off of major astronomical events it's believed that the ending of such a calender would be a time of great change.