December 21, 2012: This date has many people wondering why scientists and researchers assume the world will come to an end. Generally, everyone is captivated on the concept of the world’s execution. Hollywood even created a film based on 2012. But is the world really going to come to an end? Are we really going to die because of some calendar that is almost done? Is a giant flare from the sun going burn us all, or an enormous volcanic eruption from a super volcano going to destroy the earth? Considering how we were to have a meltdown in 2000, it is unlikely the world will end. So the talk about the world ending in 2012 could just be that; talk. However, there is scientific evidence that shows the following could contribute to some damage of earth: the Mayan calendar, a solar flare, or a volcanic eruption.
One of the three concepts of scientific evidence that shows how time is short is the ancient Mayan calendar also known as the Divine calendar (Lungold Ian, 2009)The Mayan’s would use it to predict many things in the future to come, and also figure out the past. The calendar can be very accurate when it comes to great events such as: the American Revolution and the two World Wars (Sky, 2009). As to how they predicted those events? Combing two of their calendars; The Tzolk’in, which has 260 days, and the Haab’, which has 365 days. When these were together it would form a cycle called Calendar Round, which had about 52 years in a cycle, roughly a length of a generation. What many scientists have written about the Mayan calendar is that it is more accurate than our own calendar; so accurate that the Mayan’s could predict a solar eclipse in the future (Pincheck, 2009). So if they somehow predicted the World Wars, then could they be...
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Many works of literature describe the end of the world as the end to humanity from a natural disaster such as an earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption. Some go as far as deadly viruses eliminating the human race. In the short stories, There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury, and Chippoke Na Gomi, by Misha Nogha, both authors predict the end of the world due to human conflicts and destruction. Bradbury and Nogha both focused on the aftermath of a nuclear bomb. In both stories, There Will Come Soft Rains and Chippoke Na Gomi, human-developed technology intending to make life better can have the opposite effect thereby creating the destruction of humanity.
It is very likely that most people have heard about the Mayan Civilization in one way or another. Whether fictitious or factual, this ancient culture iw idelt recognized. The Mayan people lived from about 250 to 900 CE in Mesoamerica. Which includes modern day Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and parts of southern Mexico.These people had many remarkable achievements, all of which can fit under the categories of scale, genius effort, and significance. These achievements include an advanced trade system, an amazing understanding of numbers, and the ability to design and build cities that are still mostly standing today. However, their most impressive achievement is their complex calendars.
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The Maya elite developed a complicated calendar system. There are two main cycles in their calendar; one was made up of 260 days and the other 365. Each day is named from both the 260 and 365-day calendars. Because of this each full day name could only repeat every 18,980 days or once every 52 years.
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When most people think of the Mayans, they think end of the world prediction in 2012. Everyone knows the movie 2012 which portrayed the end of the world predicted by the Mayan calendar. What many do not know is that the Mayans developed three separate calendars; the Long Count, the Tzolk’in, and the Haab, which were represented by glyphs or pictures that were used in their daily lives in many different ways. The Mayans kept time in a very different way than we do today. The Mayans may not have invented the calendar, but they certainly developed it further, and still use their version today.
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A solar storm refers to space weather involving solar activities like solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Although most solar storms may only have minor effect on the Earth, a particularly strong one like the 1859 Carrington Event is likely to cause damage of spacecraft and satellites, as well as radio and electricity blackout of large regions on the Earth. In the age that people’s lives are greatly dependent on electronic and telecommunication technologies, our modern civilization is under a constant threat posed by a hazardous solar storm. This paper will examine a few past solar storm observations and attempt to analyze the effects of the major components of solar storms on human technologies and people’s lives.
The warming of the Earth is known more commonly as global warming. Maybe this subject is going to be fought over for centuries while we squander the time we have left, but even if we did stop doing the things that cause global warming, it will not bring it to a standstill. The main cause is pollution, and although scientists say that crude oil will be a thing of the past, alternatives to it will be created. Whether you consider the future to be one hundred years away or just a second, the conception of the future is always the same. There are numerous views on the future, but each one says the identical thing.