Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice.
Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and the science of the end of the Earth thoroughly studied. Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the science behind the end of the world quickly unravels when pinned down to the 2012 timeline. Below, NASA Scientists answer several questions that we're frequently asked regarding 2012.
Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?
A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.
Q: Could a phenomena occur where planets align in a way that impacts Earth?
A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.
Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.
Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours?
A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway.
Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012?
A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of pending doomsday?
A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.
Q: Is there a danger from giant solar storms predicted for 2012?
A: Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
A nice love poem-involve math..haha
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
The Star- Flood
We should think....
DEEPAVALI is the festival of lights. But sadly not so for those in Kedah and Perlis due to the flood situation.
From the news and accounts of family and friends who live in the affected areas of Kedah, I am sorely disappointed with the handling by the authorities.
Whenever the floods hit, the only measures undertaken are the evacuation of affected folks to relief centres. When flood waters are gone, they go home, clean up and carry on with their lives.
Floods hit again a few years later, and you have the same cycle of action.
It appears the local authorities have not bothered to learn lessons from major floods in the past to take proactive measures in improving the facilities to prevent and contain or limit damage from floods.
To begin with, Kedahans have lived with substandard drainage systems for umpteen years, but the previous floods were not serious enough to shut down Alor Star airport and cut off entire districts.
The current flood crisis has brought to light a very obvious need to improve the drainage system in Kedah.
Crisis communication measures are found lacking and wanting: considering that 50,000 have to be evacuated, it is nothing short of shocking that both the city councils of Kangar and Kota Setar have nothing on their websites for people to seek information and support.
No emergency hotline to call, no announcements pertaining to the flood situation to keep the population informed.
The e-Aduan feedback form on the MBAS (Majlis Bandaran Alor Star) website isn’t working, while Majlis Perbandaran Kangar doesn’t even provide a form on their website to make it convenient for people to provide feedback to them.
While the floods took the lower-lying remote towns of northern Kedah by surprise, it was obvious that Alor Star had enough time to prepare and institute some measures in the housing areas to keep out the waters, like sandbagging or constructing concrete barriers at the canals and waterways.
Instead, no serious warning or advice were issued so that people can be prepared, no measures were undertaken to contain the flood waters or improve the drainage systems. Evacuation to relief centres, closing the flooded roads and shutting down the water supply was what happened.
I’m not belittling the efforts of the emergency services who have evacuated and rescued people from affected areas because saving lives during an emergency is of paramount importance. Neither am I deliberately throwing egg on someone’s face.
My whole point is: if the local authorities talk so much about being proactive, they’d do much better to walk the talk.
DEEPAVALI is the festival of lights. But sadly not so for those in Kedah and Perlis due to the flood situation.
From the news and accounts of family and friends who live in the affected areas of Kedah, I am sorely disappointed with the handling by the authorities.
Whenever the floods hit, the only measures undertaken are the evacuation of affected folks to relief centres. When flood waters are gone, they go home, clean up and carry on with their lives.
Floods hit again a few years later, and you have the same cycle of action.
It appears the local authorities have not bothered to learn lessons from major floods in the past to take proactive measures in improving the facilities to prevent and contain or limit damage from floods.
To begin with, Kedahans have lived with substandard drainage systems for umpteen years, but the previous floods were not serious enough to shut down Alor Star airport and cut off entire districts.
The current flood crisis has brought to light a very obvious need to improve the drainage system in Kedah.
Crisis communication measures are found lacking and wanting: considering that 50,000 have to be evacuated, it is nothing short of shocking that both the city councils of Kangar and Kota Setar have nothing on their websites for people to seek information and support.
No emergency hotline to call, no announcements pertaining to the flood situation to keep the population informed.
The e-Aduan feedback form on the MBAS (Majlis Bandaran Alor Star) website isn’t working, while Majlis Perbandaran Kangar doesn’t even provide a form on their website to make it convenient for people to provide feedback to them.
While the floods took the lower-lying remote towns of northern Kedah by surprise, it was obvious that Alor Star had enough time to prepare and institute some measures in the housing areas to keep out the waters, like sandbagging or constructing concrete barriers at the canals and waterways.
Instead, no serious warning or advice were issued so that people can be prepared, no measures were undertaken to contain the flood waters or improve the drainage systems. Evacuation to relief centres, closing the flooded roads and shutting down the water supply was what happened.
I’m not belittling the efforts of the emergency services who have evacuated and rescued people from affected areas because saving lives during an emergency is of paramount importance. Neither am I deliberately throwing egg on someone’s face.
My whole point is: if the local authorities talk so much about being proactive, they’d do much better to walk the talk.
Friday, November 05, 2010
JITRA-BANJIR
On 1st Nov 2010..jitra has been hit by water!!!! i mean flood!!! early in the morning maybe at 8 smethng, as usually i drive to work when i saw a lot of cars park beside the streets (my house is on higher grounds now like a pulau) then i ask a pakcik, wat happen?? he said Banjir!! lebih teruk dari dulu!! at that instance, my mind was thinking of cuti!!! hahaha...the banjir was cause by several reason+
1- the non stop rain (3 fucking wet days)
2.-water from thailand (they were flooded too)
3-the stupidity of the Jabatan saliran negeri kedah to lepaskan air...(the damn broke) bodo!
so the banjir give me 3 days without goin to work..all the road cannot be access, the only way is by swimming and flying. no other option. stupid water.hahaha.
what i hate the most is that the government state and federal, is slow like a worm..i might think worm is much more faster than them..
even all the political parties didnt come to help..
they were arrogantly occupied by the PRK in galas and batu sapi..
stupid pig dog asshole politicians!! all parties are the same..
on friday, after the election they will running here come to help..stupid..may god balas them la...
dato sharizat the kebajikan lady is a bitch..making dumb statement saying its the responsibility of the state to help..so wats the use of u bitch?? stupid keling minister..ko itam mcm aku tp at least hati aku xitam ko kulit itam hati pun itam..hahahaha...
the kebajikan people plak suke take the goods that is meant for flood victims..wey,darah daging ko haram la setan!!! hak orang lainko amik!! pundek!!!
shithead!!
im done here..for pictures of the flood sila rujuk my facebook..thanks!
adios! =)
1- the non stop rain (3 fucking wet days)
2.-water from thailand (they were flooded too)
3-the stupidity of the Jabatan saliran negeri kedah to lepaskan air...(the damn broke) bodo!
so the banjir give me 3 days without goin to work..all the road cannot be access, the only way is by swimming and flying. no other option. stupid water.hahaha.
what i hate the most is that the government state and federal, is slow like a worm..i might think worm is much more faster than them..
even all the political parties didnt come to help..
they were arrogantly occupied by the PRK in galas and batu sapi..
stupid pig dog asshole politicians!! all parties are the same..
on friday, after the election they will running here come to help..stupid..may god balas them la...
dato sharizat the kebajikan lady is a bitch..making dumb statement saying its the responsibility of the state to help..so wats the use of u bitch?? stupid keling minister..ko itam mcm aku tp at least hati aku xitam ko kulit itam hati pun itam..hahahaha...
the kebajikan people plak suke take the goods that is meant for flood victims..wey,darah daging ko haram la setan!!! hak orang lainko amik!! pundek!!!
shithead!!
im done here..for pictures of the flood sila rujuk my facebook..thanks!
adios! =)
My 2010 Raya- Penguin Theme =)
SELAMAT HARI RAYA 2010....
RAYA IS OVER YET THE SPIRIT IS STILL WITH ME =)
SPEND MY TIME WITH MY FAMILT...
JUST THE 5 OF US BECOZ MY SIS N BRO RAYA AT THEIR IN LAWS PAHANG N KG KAYU ARA SELANGOR....
BUT IT STILL A GOOD RAYA FOR ME..
HERE ARE SOME PICS..
ADIOS!! =)
RAYA IS OVER YET THE SPIRIT IS STILL WITH ME =)
SPEND MY TIME WITH MY FAMILT...
JUST THE 5 OF US BECOZ MY SIS N BRO RAYA AT THEIR IN LAWS PAHANG N KG KAYU ARA SELANGOR....
BUT IT STILL A GOOD RAYA FOR ME..
HERE ARE SOME PICS..
ADIOS!! =)
The Day My Kausa Habis!!
On 22 of october 2010, my kausa which is the power given to me to go to court and represent the firm in cases has finally HABIS!! yet, i still go to court...huhu...the reason is that the firm doesnt have enuff manpower...plus the the chambee doesnt want to go to court, a problem of self confidence..like myself...i still have it yet i try my best to represent the clients and hiding my nervousness..hahaha...i learn quite a lot in my chambering period..im proud of it..litigation is find, mind blowing and help the adrenalin pumping..u cant expect what the judges/SAR/client going to ask...i draft so many affidavits and documents... i also do witness statement..which i coach the witness to..hahaha..
i dont really know, what im going to do after this..i hope something good and makes me happy...a good pay would also be nice..i dont know that whether im suited to become a lawyer...litigation is fun, that is know for sure..
there are quite a lot of things that i haven't done yet..i haven't file my petition for long call yet..plus i need 11 more committee members of kedah perlis lawyers to make be able to do so..and time is of the essence..
hopefully i would file my petition by the end of november...
pray that i could..
xoxo- =)
i dont really know, what im going to do after this..i hope something good and makes me happy...a good pay would also be nice..i dont know that whether im suited to become a lawyer...litigation is fun, that is know for sure..
there are quite a lot of things that i haven't done yet..i haven't file my petition for long call yet..plus i need 11 more committee members of kedah perlis lawyers to make be able to do so..and time is of the essence..
hopefully i would file my petition by the end of november...
pray that i could..
xoxo- =)
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