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Lance Carmichael at CC2K has read the script for “2012″, the blockbuster movie being made by Roland Emmerich - and he is not impressed. In his opinion:

2012 is basically The Day After Tomorrow, but makes less sense. There’s a disaster on its way that’s going to completely change the environment and destroy a lot of cities. The ridiculous cause of the Disaster … has something to do with the planets of the solar system aligning, the Sun sending lots of radiation out, and then apparently that causes a bunch of earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanoes on earth.

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Mayan

Newly discovered cities of the Ancient Maya suggest that their civilization is much older than previously thought.

And the archaeologists are hopeful of finding evidence of even earlier cities, as they continue their search.

Over the last five years, Bey and his colleagues have started unearthing Maya cities in the Puuc region dating back to more than 800 B.C. “It is both the number of sites we are finding as well as that some of them produced large-scale monumental architecture — pyramids and an acropolis — while others have ball courts.” At Kiuic, Bey’s team has found a large platform that held at least two large ceremonial structures with ceramics. The cities dated back more than a millennium earlier than anyone had thought Maya cities existed in the region.

Meanwhile satellite images are helping uncover Mayan cities in Guatemala.

Authors

Daniel Pinchbeck’s latest blog post focuses on never-ending supply of questions he still receives regarding 2012. He says:

My view is that “2012″ is useful as a meme if it helps us to catalyze a shift in global culture and consciousness. Rather than fretting about what may or may not happen on that date, we should concentrate on the work that needs to be done now, on an inner as well as outer level.

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Articles

Dr. Karl S. Kruszelnicki is a media personality in Australia, holds four degrees, and has an uncanny ability to answer almost any general scientific question on the spot. This week his website deals with the 2012 question, and he concludes:

By the way, the time between 0.0.0.0.0 and 13.0.0.0.0 is about 5126 years. Now some Mayan archaeo-astronomers reckon that the calendar should reset back to zero and start again. But others disagree and say it should continue to 20, and then reset again.

We don’t have enough information to know who is correct - but if it does go up to 20, then this completely destroys the End of Days Conspiracy Theory, as far as the year 2012 is concerned. But let’s stick to the 13 Conspiracy for the time being.

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Opinion

It used to be nuclear war that teens stressed about, at an age when they should be thinking about more positive things. 2012 is the new nuke. 2012 authors get emails from concerned teens. 2012 forums get new members who have lied that they are over 18. Blog entries describe their fear:

…but I’ve also suddenly become incredibly anxious, and obsessed with the whole 2012 theory to a point of parinoia. I’ve been panicing sometimes staying up all night literally afraid to fall asleep, finding it difficult to think of anything else, and generally losing my mind.

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