2012 Doomsday

Now here is a pretty picture, its close to Christmas you buy all these expensive gifts for yourself and your family. You stood in line for hours or perhaps days to get the new iPhone 5 and iPad 3 that just came out, you think you will surprise your girlfriend/wife/family members with this spectacular gifts. You are all done shopping and now you wanna relax, you open up a bottle of beer, look at your bonus cheq for the year and give a nice well deserved smile to the cheq but wait ! whats this the floor underneath you is shaking, you quickly grab the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3 and rush out to save yourself (and if someone lives with you then of course you will help them out as well), and you see the whole world is coming to an end and you wonder what is Apple's return policy on situations like this if you happen to survive this catastrophic event....lol of course I am just kidding but it will be very interesting to see what the world does when we reach December 21st, 2012.

Now there are countless theories that eradicate any signs of life on this planet but which one will actually be true (Hypothetically speaking) ? Well this all started with the end of Mayan calendar that stopped its count on Dec 21st, 2012. Now I mean no disrespect to the people who actually believe it but have you guys ever thought that the guy making that calendar got sick all his 9 to 5 job of craving days, months and years on stones. I guess he finally snapped on Dec 21st and quit, him being the only one who knew how to actually write carve the calendar on stone the project stopped and Mayans didn't bother to carve further as they didn't even think that people could survive till 2012 as we were a future as Jetson's is ours. Apart from poking fun on this topic I will get serious, Mayan's calendar dilemma only fueled the imagination of smarty pants of our generation. Now if you read all their technical explanations you are bound to believe it as its sounds very compelling and rather interesting. The movie 2012 explained their view on this in a very cool way. I liked the movie and the way they showed the doomsday sort of made sense, but real scientists claim that we are not there yet and if the world is suppose to end like in the movie it will not end in 2012.

I was researching on this topic and I came across Comet Apophis theory a.k.a 99942 Apophis, no its not much of a theory as a fact, this comet has been orbiting our solar system for years and its said that it will come very very close to our beautiful Earth close enough to actually disrupts our satellites, so good luck watching this on your Dish Network or using your GPS. This is happen in 2029 (still a long way to go), but here is when this fact goes all bonkers, according to NASA's calculations Comet Apophis is coming closer and closer to our planet and will finally collide with Earth on April 13th, 2036. Now, NASA and all other space agencies have already been working on way they can deflect it from its impending path and thus avoid hitting our mother earth. Though this comet is not big enough to be a planet killer it can easily level a large city or two if it were to hit us. I hope this is not going to be the case but if it does then not sure which agency it is but they have a path of risk, which maps its possible collision path.

Apophis: Path of Risk

Its like we cannot catch a break, if we survive 2012 then we have to look forward to 2036. Oh well make the most out of the time we have to ourselves, in the spirit of which my next post will be my bucket list of places I would like to see before 2036 happens.