Kunio Shiga, 75, stranded alone in Japanese ghost town 4 weeks after tsunami - What's On Xiamen

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Sydney girl Annalise Thompson's camera washed up at Bondi, photos go viral - What's On Xiamen

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Indonesian girl, 10, swallowed alive by crocodile at Wailolong river, Nusa Tenggara - What's On Xiamen

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Snapkeys' quest to assassinate QWERTY

LAS VEGAS--Israel's Snapkeys doesn't want to just be an alternative to the traditional QWERTY keyboard. It wants to kill it off for good.
The company's Ryan Ghassabian taps out sentences on his tablet with all the speed and precision of a phonetic hitman as he demos Snapkeys for me at a small booth in the far back side of the Las Vegas Convention Center here at CES.
Snapkeys is an invisible keyboard that uses 2i technology and predictive typing to eliminate the need to actually look where you're typing on touch-screen devices. For most of you, that sentence will be total nonsense, like it was to me when I first heard about Snapkeys, so here's how it actually works.
The idea is to take all the characters on a normal keyboard and reduce them to only four "buttons"--those that stand on one point (F, I, T, etc.); those that stand on two (M, N, X...); those that stand on a wide base (Z, U, L...); and characters with a closed circle (@, P, O...). Snapkeys introduces four new icons for each of these new typing areas, effectively reducing the full QWERTY board down to only this:

These cute, emoticon-esque figures are hoping to kill QWERTY.
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)
Notice that there are two extra narrow spaces on the sides--the one on the right is primarily the new spacebar, and the left is backspace. Type the area that matches the shape of the letter you want and Snapkeys uses predictive typing to figure out exactly which character you're after. The company swears it gets it right 99 percent of the time.
Once you've got a handle on this much reduced interface, you can make the entire keyboard invisible. According to the Ghassabian, this is what Snapkeys is all about--reclaiming the screen space currently given over to a keyboard. Imagine typing a comment about a show you're watching on your iPad to a friend without have to squish or cover the video with a typepad.
"We believe that in three years' time we will be the standard for text input for all touch-screen devices," Ghassabian says.
But Snapkeys isn't interested in stopping at the touch screen. Ghassabian says they're looking at ways of embedding Snapkeys in a car's steering wheel, for example--too soon to say if that would worsen or improve our distracted driving epidemic, but a cool notion nonetheless.
Snapkeys isn't out just yet, and Ghassabian says it won't be available as an app. The company is currently negotiating with wireless carriers around the world to include it as an input method on some upcoming phones and devices.

Source: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33377_1-57358223/snapkeys-quest-to-assassinate-qwerty/?tag=mncol

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World of Warcraft Movie Directed by Sam Raimi

Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures are really decided to work together to bring us a World of Warcraft movie.

We know since last year that it won't be a full CGI movie, they're indeed thinking about a live-action Warcraft movie:



"The idea of a complete CGI movie has come up in discussions but it's not something we've really considered because it takes so long to generate just the brief amount of footage that we create for the game. [...] That department's focus is creating the footage for the games to tell the story; it would be a huge undertaking and it's not really something that we're ready to do anytime soon."
Frank Pearce,
VP of product development at Blizzard Entertainment

It's been confirmed today that we will have a live action Warcraft movie, and the name of the director has also been revealed: acclaimed Director Sam Raimi will be in charge of the film adaptation of Warcraft!

The plan is for Raimi to supervise development of Warcraft and shoot the picture after he completes work on Spider-Man 4, which gets under way early next year for Columbia Pictures. IMDb is maybe listing the movie for a release in 2011, but I think Warcraft in 2012 sounds more realistic.

I'm quite glad that a high-caliber director has been hired to tackle the adaption of Warcraft, but Director Sam Raimi has to keep in mind that Warcraft isn't Spiderman. I mean Warcraft is a huge world that calls for respect: it has followers (like a religion, it's not about fans anymore) all around the world. I don't really know what to think about Sam Raimi's latest statement about his involvement in the Warcraft movie:


"At its core, 'Warcraft' is a fantastic, action-packed story. I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen."
Director Sam Raimi

Well let's be optmistic, Sam Raimi could very well bring us the World of Warcraft we've ben craving for since so long.
;-)

Who is Bob Lazar?

Robert Scott Lazar or Bob Lazar (born January 26, 1959, in Coral Gables, Florida, United States, to Albert Lazar and Phyllis Berliner), claims to have worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Sector Four), located near Groom Lake, Nevada, next to Area 51. According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden military location for the study and possible reverse engineering of extraterrestrialflying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine different discs there and provides details on their mode of propulsion. His critics have asserted that "Lazar's credibility crumbled" after "schools he was supposed to have attended had no record of him, while others in the scientific community had no memory of ever meeting him.


Biography and claims

Lazar first jumped on the media map in 1982 in the Los Alamos Monitor. The article titled "LA MAN JOINS THE JET SET - AT 200 MILES AN HOUR" was about a jet car that Lazar had created and worked on for years with help from a NASA researcher. The car was built from a jet engine modified and placed on an existing car model. It is also important to note that the article noted Lazar as "a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility", as it is one media article that puts Robert on the map as a physicist.

In November 1989, Lazar appeared in a special interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS to discuss his purported employment at S-4. In his interview with Knapp, Lazar said he first thought the saucers were secret terrestrial aircraft whose test flights must have been responsible for many UFO reports. Gradually, on closer examination and from having been shown multiple briefing documents, Lazar came to the conclusion that the discs were actually of extraterrestrial origin. In his filmed testimony Lazar explains how this impression first hit him after he boarded one craft being studied and examined its interior.

For the propulsion of the studied vehicles, Bob Lazar claims that the atomic Element 115 served as a nuclear fuel. Element 115 (nicknamed 'Ununpentium' (Uup)) reportedly provided an energy source which would produce anti-gravity effects under proton bombardment along with antimatter for energy production, as the intense strong nuclear force field of Element 115's nucleus would be properly amplified the resulting large-scale gravitational effect would be a distortion of the surrounding space-time continuum that would, in effect, greatly shorten the distance and travel time to a charted destination.


Lazar also claims that he was given introductory briefings describing the historical involvement by extraterrestrial beings with this planet for the past 1,000,000 years. The beings originate from the Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2 star system and are therefore referred to as Zeta Reticulians, popularly called 'Greys'.

Lazar says he has degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1993, the Los Angeles Times looked into his background and found there was no evidence to support his claims. Stanton Friedman was only able to verify that Lazar took electronics courses in the late 1970s at Pierce Junior College. The Times did discover that in 1990 Lazar had pled guilty to felony pandering (he installed a computer system for a local brothel[8], declared bankruptcy and listed his occupation as self-employed photo processor on documents. A 1991 Times article reported, Lazar was "on probation in Clark County, Nevada, on a pandering charge. His educational and professional background cannot be verified - a fact he attributes to government deletion of records.


Desert Blast

Lazar and long time friend Gene Huff run Desert Blast, an annual festival for "explodaholics" in the Nevada desert. Starting in 1987 (but only formally named in 1991, inspired by Desert Storm) the festival features home-made explosives, rockets, jet-powered vehicles, and other pyrotechnics, with the intention of emphasizing the fun aspect of physics.


United Nuclear

In the year 2000 Lazar started United Nuclear, an amateur scientific supply company formerly operated in Sandia Park, New Mexico and recently moved to Laingsburg, MI. United Nuclear sells a variety of materials including radioactive ores, powerful magnets, scientific curiosities like aerogel, and a variety of lab chemicals. United Nuclear claims "over 300,000 satisfied customers," including law-enforcement agencies, schools and amateur scientists.

In 2006 Lazar and wife Joy White were charged with violating the Federal Hazardous Substances Act for shipping restricted chemicals across state lines following a federal investigation started in 2003. The charges stemmed from a 2003 raid on Lazar's business where chemical sales records were examined. The maximum penalty is 270 days in prison and a $15,000 fine.[13] Lazar claimed that he mistakenly concluded that he could legally sell the chemicals after finding incorrect information on the internet.

In 2007 Lazar/United Nuclear were fined $7,500 for violating a law against selling chemicals and components used to make illegal fireworks.[15] Lazar "pled guilty to three criminal counts of introducing into interstate commerce and aiding and abetting the introduction into interstate commerce of banned hazardous substances."Lazar also "entered into a consent decree that permanently limits the amount of future sales of fireworks-related chemicals", and United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies was placed on probation for three years.

Lazar again gained attention in 2006 from news reports that he sold small amounts of Polonium, a radioactive element which was in the news because of its role in fatally poisoning former Soviet intelligence agent and whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko.


Fact or Fiction

Although his stories have garnered some rather interesting fanfare and media attention, it is hard to determine what the truth really is. Some hold out for Bob's story, but the majority of others remain skeptical. Including Stanton Friedman, who looked into Lazar's claims and did his own investigating on the matter. Another debunker is Dr. David L. Morgan. Morgan looked into all of Lazar's scientific claims and put down most of the ideas that Lazar had elaborated on in his description of the alien spacecraft, particularly its propulsion systems and use of Element 115. Morgan also went on to say, "After reading an account by Bob Lazar of the "physics" of his Area 51 UFO propulsion system, my conclusion is this: Mr. Lazar presents a scenario which, if it is correct, violates a whole handful of currently accepted physical theories. That in and of itself does not necessarily mean that his scenario is impossible. But the presentation of the scenario by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories."






Source :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar

Ancient Model Aircraft

There are artifacts belonging to ancient Egyptian and Central American cultures that look amazingly like modern-day aircraft. The Egyptian artifact, found in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt in 1898, is a six-inch wooden object that strongly resembles a model airplane, with fuselage, wings and tail. Experts believe the object is so aerodynamic that it is actually able to glide. The small object discovered in Central America (shown at right), and estimated to be 1,000 years old, is made of gold and could easily be mistaken for a model of a delta-wing aircraft - or even the Space Shuttle. It even features what looks like a pilot's seat.

Topic Source: http://paranormal.about.com/od/ancientanomalies/ig/Most-Puzzling-Ancient-Artifact/Ancient-Model-Aircraft.htm

Yahoo's new CEO is Scott Thompson, PayPal president - Jan. 4, 2012

Yahoo's new CEO is Scott Thompson, PayPal president - Jan. 4, 2012

The Baghdad Battery

The ancient battery 
in the Baghdad Museum

In 1936, while excavating ruins of a 2000-year-old village near Baghdad, workers discovered mysterious small vase. A 6-inch-high pot of bright yellow clay dating back two millenniacontained a cylinder of sheet-copper 5 inches by 1.5 inches. The edge of the copper cylinder was soldered with a 60-40 lead-tin alloy comparable to today's solder. The bottom of the cylinder was capped with a crimped-in copper disk and sealed with bitumen or asphalt. Another insulating layer of asphalt sealed the top and also held in place an iron rod suspended into the center of the copper cylinder. The rod showed evidence of having been corroded with an acidic agent. 

Source: http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm

The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

Introduction

Skulls are humanity's foremost symbol of death, and a powerful icon in the visual vocabularies of cultures all over the globe. Thirteen crystal skulls of apparently ancient origin have been found in parts of Mexico, Central America and South America, comprising one of the most fascinating subjects of 20th Century archaeology. 

These skulls, found near the ancient ruins of Mayan and Aztec civilizations (with some evidence linking the skulls with past civilization in Peru) are a mystery as profound as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Nazca Lines of Peru, or Stonehenge. Some of the skulls are believed to be between 5,000 and 36,000 years old.

Many indigenous people speak of their remarkable magical and healing properties, but nobody really knows where they came from or what they were used for. 

Were they left behind after the destruction of a previous world, such as Atlantis? Are they simply ingenious modern fakes or can they really enable us to see deeply into the past and predict the future? 

Much research is currently being done on the skulls. However, their origin is still a baffling mystery. They seem to defy logic. Everything that is known about lapidary work indicates that the skulls should have been shattered fractured, or fallen apart when carved.

Famous Crystal Skulls

This report examines the known history of crystal skulls, various viewpoints on where they might have came from, and the secrets they may reveal.

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The Anna Mitchell-Hedges Skull 

was discovered in British Honduras in 1927

The most widely celebrated and mysterious crystal skull is the Mitchell-Hedges Skull, for at least two good reasons. First, it is very similar in form to an actual human skull, even featuring a fitted removable jawbone. Most known crystal skulls are of a more stylized structure, often with unrealistic features and teeth that are simply etched onto a single skull piece.

Second, it is impossible to say how the Mitchell-Hedges skull was constructed. From a technical standpoint, it appears to be an impossible object which today's most talented sculptors and engineers would be unable to duplicate.

The discovery of this baffling artifact is a controversial matter. It was brought into prominence by British explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, who claimed that his daughter unearthed it in 1924. Mitchell-Hedges led an expedition in the ancient Mayan ruins of Lubaantun, in Belize (then British Honduras), searching for evidence of Atlantis.

The story goes that his daughter, Anna, was rummaging inside a structure believed to have once been a temple, when she found the beautifully carved cranium of the crystal skull. It was lacking its jawbone, but the matching mandible was found three months later, some 25 feet away from the first discovery. Mitchell-Hedges claimed that he refused to take the skull away, and offered it to the local priests, but the Mayans gave the skull back to him as a gift upon his departure.

It now appears that this tale of the skull's discovery was entirely fabricated. Mitchell-Hedges apparently purchased the skull at an auction at Sothebys in London, in 1943. This has been verified by documents at the British Museum, which had bid against Mitchell-Hedges for the crystal artifact.

This revelation is consistent with the known history of Mitchell-Hedges's involvement with the skull. There are no photographs of the skull among those that were taken during his Lubaatun expedition, and there is no documentation of Mitchell-Hedges displaying or even acknowledging the skull prior to 1943.

The skull remains in the possession of the octogenarian Anna Mitchell-Hedges. She resides in Canada and displays the skull on frequent tours. Anna has maintained for all these years that she discovered the skull, even though there is reason to doubt that she was present at the Lubaatun expedition at all.
The Mitchell-Hedges skull is made of clear quartz crystal, and both cranium and mandible are believed to have come from the same solid block. It weighs 11.7 pounds and is about five inches high, five inches wide, and seven inches long. Except for slight anomalies in the temples and cheekbones, it is a virtually anatomically correct replica of a human skull. Because of its small size and other characteristics, it is thought more closely to resemble a female skull -- and this has led some to refer to the Mitchell-Hedges skull as a "she."
The Mitchell-Hedges family loaned the skull to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories for extensive study in 1970. Art restorer Frank Dorland oversaw the testing at the Santa Clara, California, computer equipment manufacturer, a leading facility for crystal research. The HP examinations yielded some startling results.


Researchers found that the skull had been carved against the natural axis of the crystal. Modern crystal sculptors always take into account the axis, or orientation of the crystal's molecular symmetry, because if they carve "against the grain," the piece is bound to shatter -- even with the use of lasers and other high-tech cutting methods.

To compound the strangeness, HP could find no microscopic scratches on the crystal which would indicate it had been carved with metal instruments. Dorland's best hypothesis for the skull's construction is that it was roughly hewn out with diamonds, and then the detail work was meticulously done with a gentle solution of silicon sand and water. The exhausting job -- assuming it could possibly be done in this way -- would have required man-hours adding up to 300 years to complete.
Under these circumstances, experts believe that successfully crafting a shape as complex as the Mitchell-Hedges skull is impossible; as one HP researcher is said to have remarked, "The damned thing simply shouldn't be."

The British Crystal Skull and the Paris Crystal Skull

The British Crystal Skull.  It is currently residing in the British Museum of Man in London, England,
and has been there since 1898. It is a one piece clear quartz full size quartz crystal skull. 

There is a pair of similar skulls known as the British Crystal Skull and the Paris Crystal Skull. Both are said to have been bought by mercenaries in Mexico in the 1890s, possibly at the same time.

They are so similar in size and shape that some have guessed that one was copied to produce the other. In comparison to the Mitchell-Hedges skull, they are made of cloudier clear crystal and are not nearly as finely sculpted. The features are superficially etched and appear incomplete, without discretely formed jawbones. The British Crystal Skull is on display at London's Museum of Mankind, and the Trocadero Museum of Paris houses the Paris Crystal Skull.

Mayan Crystal Skull and the Amethyst Skull

Further examples of primitively sculpted skulls are a couple called the Mayan Crystal Skull and the Amethyst Skull. They were discovered in the early 1900s in Guatemala and Mexico, respectively, and were brought to the U.S. by a Mayan priest. The Amethyst Skull is made of purple quartz and the Mayan skull is clear, but the two are otherwise very alike. Like the Mitchell-Hedges skull, both of them were studied at Hewlett-Packard, and they too were found to be inexplicably cut against the axis of the crystal.

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Stonehenge and the end of the world Mysteries

The Stonehenge

The Stonehenge Monument of America stands straight with an aura of mystery surrounding its five erect slabs. The gigantic structure created in 1980 comprises of five huge granite slabs each of which are 16 ft tall and weighs over twenty tons apiece. All the five slabs together support a grand capstone of 25,000 pound. A small glimpse at the structure reminds well of the ancient Stonehenge Monument located in England but the American one comes with a different significance. The rocky structure is located in Georgia and thus is also termed as “Georgia Guidestones”. The rocks have several directives or guidelines carved in 8 different languages. It’s the common belief that the Stonehenge monument is waiting for the world to end and the guidelines here are actually given to instruct the survivors of humanity on rebuilding a civilization.

The guidelines on the Stonehenge Monument signifies that an apocalypse is impending soon which would be followed by the Age of Reason. The instructions thus chiefly focus on reconstructing the future social order based on love and humanity. They emphasize on a profound respect for beauty, love, integrity with an approach to establish harmony with Infinite. Another guideline highlights a social order constructed on “just courts” and “fair laws” where all the nations would rule internally and the external disputes would be resolved by all countries together in the “World Court”. The new civilization would further have the human beings working with a perfect balance in between their rights and social duties. Besides, the guidelines also direct to preserve the natural resources eliminating cancer threats from the world.

There are many such guidelines that is said to be needed to channelize the human race in the predicted new Age of Reason which is said to usher with the end of the world. The Georgia Guidelines are laid down in 10 different dialects such as Spanish, English Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Swahili, Egyptian Hieroglyphic, Classical Greek and Babylonian Cuneiform.

As told earlier, the 1980 Stonehenge Monument in Georgia is enshrouded in mystery. Nobody precisely has the knowledge as who was the one exactly to commission for the Georgia Guidelines and why. The sole hints for its genesis are found to be on a close by plaque on ground that features dimensions corresponding to movements of stars and the sun.

But whoever its architects were, it seemed that they were aware of the purpose of Stonehenge Monument in Georgia. The monument was directed to build as a structure that would track the Sun flawlessly. History says, that the entire thing began in 1979 June when a grey haired elegantly decked up gentleman appeared in the official chamber of the esteemed Elberton Granite Finishing. He gave his introduction as somebody called Robert C. Christian and claimed himself to be the representative of a little group of faithful Americans who are planning for the construction of a grand as well as a very complex stone structure. He further said that he chose Elberton since he believed it to be finest producers of stone structures and since his proposed construction is about to carry a huge significance, he cannot thrust the immense responsibility on anybody other than Elberton.

When Fendley, the President of Elberton Granite, asked Christian the reason behind such an unusual construction, Christian replied that his proposed structure would work as a clock, calendar and compass. But most importantly the huge granite structure would actually be the place of certain guidelines in all the major languages of the world that would actually help the mankind in building a new and efficient world order based on reasons and rational. He further emphasized that the new world system would be evolving after the present world would come to its end. Thus, Christian’s directions were to build up a truly durable structure that would be stable enough to stand against any catastrophe so that the shattered and devastated remnants of the humanity would get their guide intact in reestablishing a proper and better civilization compared to the one which is on the verge of its own destruction.

It’s said that Fendley tried to discourage Christian in many ways citing an unusually high cost and many other factors. But nothing seemed to deter Christian and agreed to every exorbitant criterion Fendley put forward for the project. Finally Fendley was compelled to take his uncanny client to Wyatt Martin, the President from Granite City Bank as
Christian asked for a credible banker in the town. Martin was taken aback on his first meet with Christian as the latter disclosed his name to be a mere pseudo interpretation yet the Bank President was also impressed with Christian’s presence as he showed in a neat expensive suit.

stone-henge rocksHe was well spoken too and seemed to be well educated and hence Martin could not stop himself in giving his consent on the terms and conditions of Christian, even though they were extraordinary. Later on Martin and Christian almost became pals but Christian was still firmly secretive about his whole identity and even sent cash from various banks so that no body could trace them. Martin didn’t make any further attempt to know about Christian’s group since on their first meeting only Christian made it clear that he wished the curiosity to stay “enshrouded” in the great “sunny stillness”.

However, not everybody seems to be comfortable with the particular notion of apocalypse leading to the termination of world that is predicted to give rise to a new world system. The opponents smeared the Georgia Guidelines with spray-printed slogans shouting “Death to new world” and other such protesting graffiti. However, these slogans were not the 1st attack on the Georgia Guidelines. For decades, the uncanny structure erected at the center of Bible belt zone has been found to generate responses involving both horror and disbelief.

However, the Georgia Guidelines had its group of supporters too and that included many popular celebrities such as Yoko Ono. The unholy assumptions since the American Stonehenge construction could not stop followers from visiting the place and Ono even contributed one of her tracks “Georgia Stone” chanting the guidelines of the Georgia Guidelines.

Source: http://www.december2012endofworld.com/stonehenge-end-of-the-world-mysteries

The End of Mayan Calendar

The Mayan Long Calendar

You have probably heard about the famous Mayan Long Calendar that is set to end its final baktun (cycle) on December 21st, 2012. This end has caused many to sit up and take notice because they are uncertain of what it signifies. The Mayan calendar 2012 deadline is one that has gripped the imagination of everyone from researchers of the Mayan culture. There are a plethora of clues, but putting the pieces together is something that can be quite difficult. This is another reason why there has been so much speculation about the event that will take place on that day. One theory that has been put forth is that this date signifies a rare alignment of the Milky Way galaxy that only occurs once every twenty five thousand years. Some researchers believe that this rare alignment is something that could cause a shift of the magnetic poles.

This is something that has happened before in the distant past, and if it were to happen now it could usher in great and dramatic changes for mankind. The problem is that if the magnetic poles shift it will essentially affect the geographic and weather patterns across the entire globe.

Another clue to the Mayan calendar predictions for 2012 is that there are also signs that this date will be significant in another celestial matter, the return of Planet X. This planet was originally referred to as Nibiru by the Sumerians, and according to their mythology was the home planet of a race of beings known as the Anunnaki that originally created humanity. Whether or not this is a realistic scenario, there is some scientific evidence of a planet that only orbits through our solar system once every three thousand six hundred years. If this planet were to collide with another planetary body or cause a massive disruption in our orbits, then this too could be dangerous for all of humanity.

Source: http://www.december2012endofworld.com/mayan-calendar-2012

Unveiling the Truth of 2012 Predictions

 Recently the end of the Mayan Long Calendar has received a lot of attention because of the belief that the date is closely linked in with the end of the world as we know it today. These 2012 predictions range from those on a celestial level to those on a much more earthly realm. One of the reasons why researchers of Mayan culture and mythology are so certain that this calendar means something is because of the exacting relevance and research that was put into studying the solar system and the corresponding important dates.

For example, the end of the calendar takes place at the end of the thirteenth baktun. The number thirteen was considered by the Mayan to be a very important and spiritual number. Not to mention the fact that December 21st, 2012, is not only the winter solstice, but is actually the date that a rare alignment will take place of the entire Milky Way. This is something that only occurs once every twenty five thousand years. The fact that the Mayans knew this date was going to be an important one for the alignment of the planets is not a coincidence. In fact, the Mayan culture has several components that are closely linked in with the study of astronomy.

When researchers began to look into the dates on the Mayan calendar they realized that they actually corresponded to certain astronomical phenomenon it was that amazed most of them. After all, this culture did not have access to the high tech scientific equipment that we have today, yet they were able to pinpoint many events in our solar system with complete accuracy. It was this ability of the Mayans that caused many who looked into the 2012 predictions to take them a little more seriously than they might have otherwise.

There are arguments that the end of the baktun cycle that the Mayans put into their calendar does not necessarily mean that it is the end of humanity, but rather they would have seen it as an important transition that would affect everyone on a different level. However, there are others who view it as a literal end of the world scenario. Besides the rare planetary alignment that is set to occur, there are also interesting astronomical occurrences that help to lend credence to this idea.

One of these is the belief that there is a planet named Nibiru (sometimes referred to as Planet X) that orbits through our solar system once every three thousand six hundred years. While there is no definite scientific proof of this, there are those researchers who agree that there appears to be a missing planet from the orbital rotation. Some even believe that the next time this planet’s orbit is set to intersect with ours will be in the year 2012. If this orbit interferes with our solar system it could cause a lot of problems, and these issues are what some people are anticipating.

While you may find the idea of this strange planet something out of a science fiction novel, you should know that the ancient Sumerians actually wrote about this planet, and they are the ones who named it Nibiru. They also believed that an advanced race of beings known as the Anunnaki lived on the planet, and that these beings created humanity through a form of genetic manipulation. While the Sumerians did not know about genetic mutation, it appears that the hieroglyphs that have been uncovered by archeologists show a detailed description of the Anunnaki taking a part of themselves and combining it with other creatures to create humanity.

Even though the 2012 predictions are completely shrouded in mystery, it is certain that they have intrigued people around the world. If you are interested in finding out more, you can go to the website below as a way to find out more about the countdown to this date. In fact, it is full of updates, general knowledge, and even helpful information to make sure that no matter what happens you and your family will be fully prepared.

Source: http://www.december2012endofworld.com/2012-predictions

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