2012 Bogus...like we didn't know, right?? Right? But they did predict Ironman!!!

Even the Maya Didn't Think the World Would End in 2012

By Dan NosowitzPosted 05.11.2012 at 2:30 pm9 Comments

(the Mayans did however predict Ironman...lol)

Mayan Cave Paintings Photograph by Tyrone Turner, National Geographic

National Geographic has a new feature up today in which they discuss the new finding of a cave in the midst of an unexplored Mayan megacity--a cave with very particular glyphs on the walls. Those writings include charts to predict lunar cycles and other calendrical workings--including a cyclical Mayan calendar that counts many thousands of years in the future. Which means, um, that stuff about the Maya predicting the end of the world is kind of...factually problematic.

The article's pretty great; this kind of calculation room was probably a part of every Mayan city, but it's the first to be found well-preserved enough to examine. This particular city, named Xultún, was "discovered" about a hundred years ago, north of Tikal and south of San Bartolo, two other Mayan cities. The calendar-type charts on the wall of the cave emphasize the Mayan concept of cyclical time, and counts some 7,000 years in the future, which pretty much debunks the 2012 myth (which is itself based on a calendar that shows the year "starting over" in 2012).

And on a side note scientists discovered the Mayans predicted Ironman....as depicted in photo above....J/K lmao...

Asteroid to pass very close to Earth!

NASA is about to begin detailed observations of an asteroid nearly twice as wide as Canada's largest stadiums, scheduled to pass between the Earth and the moon's orbit next Tuesday.

The 400-metre-wide space rock known as 2005 YU55 will make its closest approach to Earth at 6:28 p.m. ET on Nov. 8. At that point, it will be just 324,600 kilometres away from Earth or roughly 85 per cent of the distance between the Earth and the moon. The last time an asteroid this big came this close to Earth was in 1976.

However, it isn't expected to pose any threat and its gravity will have "no detectable effect on anything here on Earth," NASA reported.

Astronomers anticipate that the close encounter will allow them to bounce radio waves off it and get images of the asteroid as detailed as two metres per pixel. Those are expected to provide information about its surface features, shape, dimensions and other characteristics.

NASA was scheduled to begin its measurements using the Deep Space Network Antenna in Goldstone, Calif., at 12:30 p.m. ET Friday and to continue daily measurements until Nov. 10. Starting Nov. 8, radar observations of the asteroid will also be made using the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto Rico.

2005 YU55 regularly passes close to Earth, but hasn't come this close in 200 years.

NASA said amateur astronomers interested in looking at the asteroid will need a telescope with an aperture of 15 centimetres or larger. This is very scary...time to call Bruce Willis