Daily Mail Spreads 2012 Suicide Idea
January 10, 2012
For a publication with the reach of the Daily Mail, suggesting that some people are considering killing themselves – as a response to the 2012 meme – is irresponsible. It will almost certainly cause some additional people to make such a consideration.
There is nothing new in the article at all – just a mish mash of articles that have appeared over the years.
Mindscape: Special 2012 Edition
December 20, 2011
UK magazine Mindscape have devoted their 5th edition to the 2012 meme. The cover lets us know that it contains articles from John Major Jenkins and Erich von Daniken, and topics covered include crop circles, Illuminati and cataclysms. I’ll update this post when mine arrives – it ships worldwide.
Huge Bunker Article at The Verge
November 9, 2011
I don’t any particular insights to add – this is just an excellent article on 2012 Bunkers!
It covers a lot of territory:
- decommissioned missile silos
- a bunker with a vehicle elevator (pic above)
- Patrick Geryl on nuclear meltdowns
- Vivos Group mass shelters
- The Survival Condo Project
- Hardened Structures (leading bunker builders)
- 20th Century Castles
- Tom Cruise
- Greenbriar
There are a lot of people out there who have taken significant steps towards 2012 preparation. And many more we’ll never hear about!
2012 Article in Science Magazine
September 21, 2011
Not just any old science magazine, but the Science magazine, which is full of very scholarly articles and is not written for the general public. It has stories like Visualizing Individual Nitrogen Dopants in Monolayer Graphene and Quantum Simulation of Frustrated Classical Magnetism in Triangular Optical Lattices. So lo and behold in the 19 Aug 2011 edition, there’s a 2012 article. Somewhat disappointingly, it is just an interview with David Morrison, and yet again he shares how tiresome it is telling so many people they are wrong. Of course none of the feasible threats are discussed.
One website has copied out a good portion of the interview (it’s not officially available for free online):
“We live in nervous times,” Morrison explains. “Nowadays, almost anything that comes up in astronomy—free-floating planets, the Andromeda galaxy heading here—prompts people to write to me and ask whether it’s a danger. So many talk about their pervasive fear, especially children. I don’t see anything to do but keep on [responding]. I hope after 21 December 2012 it will end, and I can stop.”
…In the video, Morrison supplies damning scientific details about the nonexistence of Nibiru and the impossibility of various cosmic catastrophes, such as flipping Earth on its poles. But he also addresses viewers directly with a soothing appeal to reason: “I want to take a chance to talk to some of you more directly. There is no threat to Earth in 2012. There is no danger. All of the talk about a doomsday is a big hoax perpetuated on the Internet and with people trying to make money. So, please, don’t worry about it. … The simple fact is Nibiru does not exist. … It’s not there. It’s a no-show. … Don’t worry about 2012 and enjoy 2013 when it comes.”
Another Aussie 2012 Cult?
July 6, 2011
An article has described UCADIA as a cult. I don’t think having a belief system and asking for money is proof enough, so unless we find out from someone who has experienced the inner-workings, it’s a hard call to make. Seemingly the sole work of Sydney man Frank O’Collins, UCADIA could just be an elaborate (at least 10 websites) idealistic spiritual framework. Many of these have come and gone in the internet era. It is only being mentioned here because he/they have borrowed the 2012 end date, and they could be a cult. This is potentially bad publicity for 2012ers.
“The UTC Date for the 1st Horseman of the Apocalypse ‘White Horse’ was 12/21/2009 aka ‘Day of Divine Agreement.’ Haiti earthquake, Deepwater Horizon, Australia fires, Pakistan and India Flooding, Russian heat wave/drought, and the European deep freeze soon followed. The UTC date for the 3rd ‘Black Horse’ is 12/21/2011 aka ‘Day of Judgment’. The UTC date for the 4th ‘Pale Horse’ is the ‘Day of Redemption’ 12/21/2012.”
2012 Antarctica Asteroid Hoax
January 18, 2011
You may have read in forums and dodgy news sites this story:
“University of British Columbia Professor published an on-line article that projected an 800m asteroid would hit Antarctica in the fall of 2012.”
The story goes on to say that the asteroid was spotted by the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub millimeter Telescope (BLAST) at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. There are two major things wrong with this story, letting us know that it is a hoax:
1) BLAST is designed to study galaxies, not look for asteroids
2) You don’t need a telescope in Antarctica to spot an asteroid that will crash into Antarctica
Now the website that supposedly published this story (then removed it two days later) has posted a response:
No such article ever appeared on the UBC Physics & Astronomy web site.
This is a story on a par with the annual “Mars as big as the Full Moon” hoax that makes the rounds on the web, except that in this case, it can cause people undue alarm. The only reaction to this story should be amusement, followed by anger that some people are willing to prey on public fears and their interest in astronomy.
Daily Telegraph on 2012
January 14, 2011
2012 is in the news a lot recently, from being a topic embraced by a Tuscon murderer, to a date being pointed to by various apocalyptic signs. The Daily Telegraph writes about how a convergence of 2012 stories is feeding the hype:
- Harold Camping says Saturday May 21, 2011 will be Judgment Day, and he has many followers (and billboards).
- “Aflockalypse”.
- The Dogon tribe of Mali believe 2012 will see the return of aliens in a spaceship that looks like a blue star.
- Ancient Cherokee and Egyptian calendars also end in 2012
- The Bible Code author predicts a comet collision in 2012
Of course doomsday stories are always most prevalent in the media around New Year, so expect next Dec/Jan to be overflowing with 2012 information.
Ashton Kutcher a 2012er?
December 31, 2010
Ashton Kutcher is on the cover of Men’s Fitness, and inside he says that the “end of days” is on its way, and he wants to be prepared for the inevitable madness:
“It won’t take very much, I’m telling you. It will not take much for people to hit the panic button. The amount of convenience that people rely on based on electricity alone. You start taking out electricity and satellites, and people are going to lose their noodle. People don’t have maps anymore. People use their iPhones or GPS systems, so if there’s no electricity, nobody has maps.”
“And people are going to go, ‘That land’s not yours, prove that it’s yours,’ and the only thing you have to prove it’s yours is on an electric file. Then it’s like, ‘What’s the value of currency, and whose food is whose?’ People’s alarm systems at their homes will no longer work. Neither will our heating, our garbage disposals, hot-water heaters that run on gas but depend on electricity – what happens when all our modern conveniences fail? I’m going to be ready to take myself and my family to a safe place where they don’t have to worry.”
While he doesn’t specifically state 2012, his fears are in line with 2012ers (especially those who listen to Lawrence Joesph), the way he talks about the US power grid and satellites going down.
Two Major Articles at Examiner.com
July 12, 2010
The first is a compendium of ideas regarding our fate in 2012. Topics covered include CMEs from the Sun, a coming Ice Age, Patrick Geryl’s pole shift theory, the Web Bot, Nibiru and more. The second article is entirely about the possibility of contact with aliens in 2012 (or even disclosure that we have been in contact with them).
There’s no new information, but an excellent overview of many of the non-Mayan aspects of 2012.
2012 Threats According to the Independent
July 2, 2010
The recent Independent article kicks off with a powerful prediction:
Forget man-made threats – the catalyst for the apocalypse will come from outer space – It’s true that the Mayan odometer will hit zeros on 21 December 2012
And, as befits a quality publication, it details the more likely cosmic catastrophes that may befall us, without any irony or sarcasm:
Then there’s the “Big One”. About every 100 million years, a rock the size of a small asteroid slams into the Earth, causing global earthquakes, kilometre-high tidal waves, and immediately killing all large land animals. Creatures in the sea soon follow, as trillions of tons of vaporised rock cause drastic cooling and the destruction of the food chain based on photosynthesis.
…If a hypernova went off within 1,000 light years, and Earth was within the narrow cone of high- energy radiation, we’d experience an immediate global conflagration. It’s brutal luck if a hyper nova ever goes off with its beam aimed at us.
And then it descends into the arena of “we’re doomed, but it is a billion years away so who cares…”
