been trying to think of what to say in this thread for a few days now lol
personally, i think something will happen on december 21 2012, but seriously doubt it will the doom predicted by so many.
there's also WAAAY to much speculation about this impending event and WAAAY to many crackpot theories from holographic alien invasions staged by the all powerful state (look up project bluebeam), to the earth being torn apart by gravity induced from the center of the galaxy due to the galactic alignment of the center with our solar system...or some such nonsense!
wasn't there a cult a few years back that all committed suicide because the end was nigh?
LiQuiD wrote:
none of these are really predictable even with modern knowledge. so an ancient ppl with little science would do no better in foretelling disasters yet to come [said in voice of gandalf]
don't sell the ancients short mate, they did indeed have advanced knowledge of both science (all sciences) and maths, you only have to look at ancient structures, the maps from the ancient world which clearly shows they knew about longitude and latitude. they also had advanced knowledge of the solar system and the orbits of the planets as well as the size and shape of our planet, which is locked within the mathematical dimensions of the great pyramid of egypt.
these are things that were only rediscovered by modern man and NOT invented by modern scientists.
you may want to look up things like the Antikythera mechanism (a device invented to track the planets course in our solar system, possibly the first computer EVER invented, and no electricity in sight!).
and also look up the piri reese maps. piri reise was a turkish admiral who served in the turkish ottoman fleet and he drew up maps of many parts of the world but 1 part he drew up was of antartica!
that's not so astonishing in itself, but what is astonishing is that he wrote on this map that he drew up his maps from ancient source maps held in turkish libraries, and that piri's map like the ancient source maps show antartica clear of ice!
you have to ask yourself, when was antartica last clear of ice, and also how the ancients could have depicted both mountain ranges and inland rivers accurately if there science was so limited.
the Hapgood letters about the maps:
[spoiler]The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.
On 6th July 1960 the U. S. Air Force responded to Prof. Charles H. Hapgood of Keene College, specifically to his request for an evaluation of the ancient Piri Reis Map:
6, July, 1960
Subject: Admiral Piri Reis Map
TO: Prof. Charles H. Hapgood
Keene College
Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood,
Your request of evaluation of certain unusual features of the Piri Reis map of 1513 by this organization has been reviewed.
The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctic, and the Palmer Peninsular, is reasonable. We find that this is the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick.
We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander[/spoiler]
i'm not trying to say that ancient predictions are correct or that they will be fulfilled (only time will tell us if they are right), all's i'm saying is to not sell ancient scientific knowledge short
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lets also remember that MUCH ancient knowledge has been lost to both the ravages of time and mans own ignorance. the conquistadors destroyed a HUGE amount of evidence with their conquering of the "new" world. and many of the ancient libraries were destroyed by conquest and or natural cataclysm.
Humans could certainly be wiped out however, mostly by our own hand I would imagine rather than by nature.
