The mayan calender says that a 26000 year cycle means the Earth will line up with the Sun and the centre of the galaxy on December 12 2012. What the people that came up with that bullshit didn't tell you, is that it really does that every single year on new years day.

Only time will tell.

Does it cross the galactic rift?

According to the Mayans, once it crosses that, shit happens.

According to "science," the poles shift and shit happens.

I'm not saying the world will end then, I'm just giving you a heads-up on the doomsday thinkers' next big thing after 2012. and yeah, probability is about 1 in 250.000 says the wiki.

sounds about right yeah hehe, so a slim chance ;)

i was just thinking, if you take off on a hot air balloon on the 20th, you're virtually immune to anything that can happen on the ground on the 21st.

(save alien invasion)

Or if you live in a satellite in space (some people do).

Yes but the whole theory is based on very long cycles, but one of the 2 cycles they told you is really only a 1 year cycle. We cross the galactic rift every 26000 years also. Basically if anything is going to happen it would have happened 26000 years ago also.

The only real danger is that gravitational shifts caused by crossing the galactic rift could 'possibly' (but highly unlikely) cause asteroid apophis or any of the comets that orbit Earth to change course or push their orbits closed inwards to the Earth. Even if an asteroid were to come towards the Earth though, multiple nuclear missiles fired at different sections of the asteroid would probably cause it to crumble into smaller pieces leaving it to fizzle up in the atmosphere. The UN supply NASA with only £1 million (GBP) for monitoring incoming asteroids however, meaning they can only monitor 2% of the sky. What the government needs to do, is increase their resources for monitoring the sky to £100 million. That way we are guaranteed to know exactly when and where an asteroid will come, so we can stop it before it reaches us. This would also help us cut down on the ridiculous amounts of nuclear weapons we have. A large asteroid could take up to 100 10megaton weapons to destroy.

I dont think the world will end 2012 just a silly guy started all this.
my thoughts about the world ending is;
1. the sun doesn't burn, everything will be dark, animals will die, no food.
2. meteor
3. black hole
and it will take years before this will happen
when my mom was kid, the same thing was in the news. but nothing rly happened that year.

If the Sun doesnt burn we will freeze in around 10 minutes. Once all the heat leaves our atmosphere we are fucked. Supernova won't happen because the Sun isn't a massive star. Meteor is possible, but there are forces at work that we cant comprehend yet defending us from that, or we would of been hit already. Our solar system orbits a blackhole. If we came near a black hole we would just go into orbit of that. If we came near another solar system orbiting a blackhole that was bigger than ours we would begin to orbit the solar system. orbits