2012. The end?

Watched the movie 2012 with boon on saturday after the AFA 09. Its a very very emo. show to begin with cause its the end of the world and stuff like that. Surprisingly, its good with the way they use nature to create the catastrophe and the forecasts by the mayans to add a touch( or rather a huge touch) of realism to this movie.

In the movie, Armageddon was caused by the sun's repetitive solar storms that heats up the earth's core over the next 3 years from 2009 to 2012. And eventually the earth's core will be so hot that the magnetic poles of earth will change and that earthquakes and tsunamis(see wad i mean by realism) will totally tear the earth apart. And in the movie, mass people died.

The movie was not bad cuz it touches on a variety of topics like Anarchy, Elitism, Rich and Poor inequality, human morals and ethics, courage and being rational. I think the more annoying part was the rich and poor inequality with the rich being able to have a chance to survive rather than the poor and if going by the initial plan of the world's leaders( which is to have the best and youthful humans to procreate), why on earth is an old lady who is super rich allowed to be saved then....so u can see the contrasting ideals of the world's leaders. The saddest part I think was that a young indian scientist was the one who initially alerted the world of this catastrophe, but in the end, he wasn't saved even though the US govt. had said that they would...but well...cuz being in a 3rd world country, that sort of deprives him of a ticket.

Also, when everyone knew that they are going to die, anarchy rule the day...that I have nothing to say because its in everybody that survivability is of the utmost importance. But its seriously very sad to see it happens, people stampede and pushing each other off the ledge...

Naturally, the movie makes one want to go find out more about 2012 and the solar storms. Of course, I had knew of Nostradamus predictions that 2012, the world will undergo a massive change, and somehow a lot was link to the end of the world. But like what jy said, eventually analysts of Nostradamus said its up to human choice. And, in recent news, NASA had earlier released in march 2009 that there will be a massive solar storm occurring in 2012 around there and that it will be strong enough to wipe out the entire east coast of USA power grid. Which in other words mean that electricity will be totally cut off, everything will be down....imagine wad a huge impact will it be on the world. Barely recovering from the 2008 sub prime, now wall street for all its computers and trading platforms, will totally shut down. Imagine what a huge catastrophe that not only is on USA but on the rest of the world as well....

As of now, the news have been mainly said that it will affect the northern hemisphere....so maybe it might not happened to the equatorial countries, but the far-reaching effects of it may cause turmoil around the globe. But of course, I am sure the USA will be definitely beef up their power grids and stuffs...I mean come on, if the whole world knows about this and it was released by your very own space agency, u mean u are going to ignore it??...whether it will be sufficient enough no one knows, and about the fundings to fund the program...well, its gonna add more zeros to the budget deficit of the nation.

On a side note, I wonder whether this solar storm will actually cause any more other side effects...as the ozone layer is already rather thin itself, will more UV rays actually reach us?? and isn't that terrible?? with the earth farther heating up..and sea levels rise even more. And due to the large ejection of magnetically charged particles, will the already shifting of the magnetic poles be accelerated?? Which in turn will again distort all our devices and it may cause problems to nature...

Therefore, I dont think that 2012 will be the end of the world, but rather maybe what Nostradamus meant was that our way of life may be seriously altered by this solar storm...it might lead to an acceleration to our current eco-problems and stuff. So I think its up to our choice on how are we going to prevent,react and how prepared are we to such a storm...but then again...it might never ever happen...however if based on graphs and patterns provided by NASA, then it most probably should be lor. I meant the solar storm not the end of the world lah...lol...But i think such stuff do really get everyones worries up by an inch, I am sure