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A date inscription for the Mayan Long Count The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012.[1][2][3][4] This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae rela ted to this date have been proposed. A New Age interpretation of this transition postulates that this date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. [5] Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar ca tastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of t he next solar maximum, or Earth's collision with a black hole or a passing aster oid or planet called "Nibiru". Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic ev ents occurring in 2012. Mainstream Mayanist scholars state that predictions of i mpending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history .[3][6] Astronomers and other scientists have rejected the apocalyptic forecasts as pseudoscience, stating that the anticipated events are contradicted by simpl e astronomical observations.[7] Contents [hide] 1 Mesoamerican Long Count calendar o 1.1 Apocalypse o 1.2 Objections 2 Mayan references to b'ak'tun 13 o 2.1 Tortuguero o 2.2 Dates beyond b'ak'tun 13 3 New Age beliefs o 3.1 Galactic alignment 3.1.1 Precession 3.1.2 Mysticism 3.1.3 Criticism o 3.2 Timewave zero and the I Ching o 3.3 Other concepts 4 Doomsday theories o 4.1 Other alignments

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4.2 Geomagnetic reversal 4.3 Planet X/Nibiru 4.4 Other catastrophes 5 Cultural influence 6 See also 7 Notes 8 Citations 9 References

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar Main article: Mesoamerican Long Count calendar December 2012 marks the conclusion of a b'ak'tuna time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of E uropeans. Though the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec,[8] it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period last ed from 250 to 900 AD.[9] The writing system of the classic Maya has been substa ntially deciphered,[10] meaning that a corpus of their written and inscribed mat erial has survived from before the European conquest. Unlike the 52-year Calendar Round still used today among the Maya, the Long Coun t was linear rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals (360 days) made a tun, 20 tuns made a k'atun, and 20 k' atuns (144,000 days or roughly 394 years) made up a b'ak'tun. Thus, the Mayan da te of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 b'ak'tuns, 3 k'atuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals and 15 da ys.[11][12] Apocalypse The oldest surviving manuscript of the Popol Vuh, dated to 1701 See also: Fifth World (Native American mythology) There is a strong tradition of "world ages" in Mayan literature, but the record has been distorted, leaving several possibilities open to interpretation.[13] Ac cording to the Popol Vuh, a compilation of the creation accounts of the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world.[14] The P opol Vuh describes the gods first creating three failed worlds, followed by a su ccessful fourth world in which humanity was placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous world ended after 13 b'ak'tuns, or roughly 5,125 years.[15][a] The Long Count's "zero date"[b] was set at a point in the past marking the end of the th ird world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to 11 August 3 114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.[16][c] This means that the fourth wo rld will also have reached the end of its 13th b'ak'tun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0. 0, on December 21, 2012.[1][c] In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that "the complet ion of a Great Period of 13 b'ak'tuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya".[17] In 1966, Michael D. Coe wrote in The Maya that "there is a su ggestion ... that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the 13th [b'ak'tun]. Thus ... our present u niverse [would] be annihilated [in December 2012][d] when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion."[18] Objections Coe's interpretation was repeated by other scholars through the early 1990s.[19] In contrast, later researchers said that, while the end of the 13th b'ak'tun wo uld perhaps be a cause for celebration,[3] it did not mark the end of the calend ar.[20] "There is nothing in the Maya or Aztec or ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to suggest that they prophesied a sudden or major change of any sort in 2012," s aid Mayanist scholar Mark Van Stone. "The notion of a "Great Cycle" coming to an end is completely a modern invention."[21] In 1990, Mayanist scholars Linda Sch ele and David Freidel argued that the Maya "did not conceive this to be the end of creation, as many have suggested."[22] Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin Ameri can Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "W e have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come t

o an end" in 2012.[3] "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make i t to the end of a whole cycle," said Sandra Noble, executive director of the Fou ndation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. The 2012 phenomenon, she sa id, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[3] "There will be another cycle," said E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute. "We know the Maya thought there w as one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of anot her one after this."[23] Mayan references to b'ak'tun 13 It is not certain what significance the classic Maya give to the 13th b'ak'tun.[ 24] Most classic Maya inscriptions are strictly historical and do not make any p rophetic declarations.[24] One item in the Mayan classical corpus, however, does mention the end of the 13th b'ak'tun: Tortuguero Monument 6. Tortuguero The Tortuguero site, which lies in southernmost Tabasco, Mexico, dates from the 7th century AD and consists of a series of inscriptions mostly in honor of the c ontemporary ruler Bahlam Ajaw. One inscription, known as Tortuguero Monument 6, is the only inscription known to refer to b'ak'tun 13. It has been partially def aced; Sven Gronemeyer and Barbara MacLeod have given this translation: tzuhtzjo:m uy-u:xlaju:n pik chan ajaw u:x uni:w uhto:m il[?] ye'ni/ye:n bolon yokte' ta chak joyaj It will be completed the 13th b'ak'tun. It is 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in and it will happen a 'seeing'[?]. It is the display of B'olon-Yokte' in a great "investiture".[25]

The Tortuguero monument connects the end of the 13th b'ak'tun with the appearanc e of Bolon Yokte' K'uh, shown here on the Vase of Seven Gods. Very little is known about the god Bolon Yokte'. According to an article by Maya nists Markus Eberl and Christian Prager in British Anthropological Reports, his name is composed of the elements "nine", 'OK-te' (the meaning of which is unknow n), and "god". Confusion in classical period inscriptions suggests that the name was already ancient and unfamiliar to contemporary scribes.[26] He also appears in inscriptions from Palenque, Usumacinta, and La Mar as a god of war, conflict , and the underworld. In one stele he is portrayed with a rope tied around his n eck, and in another with an incense bag, together signifying a sacrifice to end a cycle of years.[27] Based on observations of modern Mayan rituals, Gronemeyer and MacLeod claim that the stele refers to a celebration in which a person portraying Bolon Yokte' K'u h was wrapped in ceremonial garments and paraded around the site.[28][29] They n ote that the association of Bolon Yokte' K'uh with b'ak'tun 13 appears to be so important on this inscription that it supersedes more typical celebrations, such as "erection of stelae, scattering of incense" and so forth. They furthermore a ssert that this event was indeed planned for 2012, and not the 7th century.[30] However, Mayanist scholar Stephen Houston contests this view, arguing that futur e dates on Mayan inscriptions were simply meant to draw parallels with contempor ary events, and that the words on the stela describe a contemporary rather than a future scene.[31] Dates beyond b'ak'tun 13 Mayan inscriptions occasionally mention predicted future events or commemoration s that would occur on dates far beyond the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates": Long Count dates given together w ith an additional number, known as a Distance Number, which when added together make a future date. On the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of text projects forward to the 80th 52-year Calendar Round from the

coronation of the ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal. Pakal's accession occurred on 9.9 .2.4.8, equivalent to 27 July 615 AD in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The in scription begins with Pakal's birthdate of 9.8.9.13.0 (March 24, 603 AD Gregoria n) and then adds the Distance Number 10.11.10.5.8 to it,[32] arriving at a date of October 21, 4772 AD, more than 4,000 years after Pakal's time.[21][32][33] Another example is Stele 1 at Coba, which gives a date of 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.1 3.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, or twenty units above the b'ak'tu n, placing it either 4.134105 1028 (41 octillion) years in the future,[22] or an equal distance in the past.[34] This date is 3 quintillion times the age of the universe as determined by cosmologists. New Age beliefs Many assertions about the year 2012 form part of a non-codified collection of Ne w Age beliefs about ancient Maya wisdom and spirituality.[4][35] Archaeoastronom er Anthony Aveni says that while the idea of "balancing the cosmos" was prominen t in ancient Maya literature, the 2012 phenomenon does not draw from those tradi tions. Instead, it is bound up with American concepts such as the New Age moveme nt, millenarianism, and the belief in secret knowledge from distant times and pl aces.[36] Established themes found in 2012 literature include "suspicion towards mainstream Western culture," the idea of spiritual evolution, and the possibili ty of leading the world into the New Age by individual example or by a group's j oined consciousness. The general intent of this literature is not to warn of imp ending doom but "to foster counter-cultural sympathies and eventually socio-poli tical and 'spiritual' activism".[2] Aveni, who has studied New Age and SETI comm unities, describes 2012 narratives as the product of a "disconnected" society: " Unable to find spiritual answers to life's big questions within ourselves, we tu rn outward to imagined entities that lie far off in space or timeentities that ju st might be in possession of superior knowledge."[37] In 1975, the ending of b'ak'tun 13 became the subject of speculation by several New Age authors, who believed it will correspond to a global "consciousness shif t". In his book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth Age of Consciousness, Frank Wa ters tied Coe's original date of December 24, 2011,[d] to astrology and the prop hecies of the Hopi,[38] while both Jos Argelles (in The Transformative Vision)[39] and Terence McKenna (in The Invisible Landscape)[40][41] discussed the signific ance of the year 2012, but not a specific day. In 1987, the year in which he hel d the Harmonic Convergence event, Argelles settled on the date of December 21 in his book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology,[42][43] in which he claimed o n that date the Earth would pass through a great "beam" from the center of our g alaxy, and that the Maya aligned their calendar in anticipation of that event.[4 4] Aveni has dismissed all of these ideas.[45] Galactic alignment There is no significant astronomical event tied to the Long Count's start date.[ 46] However, since the mid 1990s, esoteric author John Major Jenkins has asserte d that the ancient Maya intended to tie the end of their calendar to the winter solstice in 2012, which falls on December 21. This date was in line with an idea he terms the galactic alignment.[47] Precession In the Solar System, the planets and the Sun lie roughly within the same flat pl ane, known as the plane of the ecliptic. From our perspective on Earth, the ecli ptic is the path taken by the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. Th e twelve constellations that line the ecliptic are known as the zodiac and, annu ally, the Sun passes through all of them in turn. Additionally, over time, the S un's annual cycle appears to recede very slowly backward by one degree every 72 years, or by one constellation every 2,160 years. This backward movement, called "precession", is due to a slight wobble in the Earth's axis as it spins, and ca n be compared to the way a spinning top wobbles as it slows down.[48] Over the c ourse of 25,800 years, a period often called a Great Year, the Sun completes a f ull, 360-degree backward circuit through the zodiac.[48] In Western astrological traditions, precession is measured from the northern hemisphere's spring equino x, or the point at which the Sun is exactly halfway between its lowest and highe st points in the sky. Presently, the Sun's spring equinox position is in the con

stellation Pisces and is moving back into Aquarius. This signals the end of one astrological age (the Age of Pisces) and the beginning of another (the Age of Aq uarius).[49] Similarly, the Sun's winter solstice position, its lowest point, is currently in the constellation of Sagittarius, one of two constellations in which the zodiac intersects with the Milky Way.[50] Every year, on the winter solstice, the Sun and the Milky Way, from the surface of the Earth, appear to come into alignment, and every year, precession causes a slight shift in the Sun's position in the M ilky Way. Given that the Milky Way is between 10 and 20 wide, it takes between 700 and 1400 years for the Sun's winter solstice position to precess through it.[51 ] It is currently about halfway through the Milky Way, crossing the galactic equ ator.[52] Mysticism The Milky Way near Cygnus showing the lane of the Dark Rift, which the Maya call ed the Xibalba be or "Black Road" Jenkins suggests that the Maya based their calendar on observations of the Great Rift or Dark Rift, a band of dark dust clouds in the Milky Way, which, accordin g to some scholars, the Maya called the Xibalba be or "Black Road."[53] Jenkins claims that the Maya were aware of where the ecliptic intersected the Black Road and gave this position in the sky a special significance in their cosmology.[54 ] According to Jenkins's hypothesis, precession will align the Sun precisely wit h the galactic equator at the 2012 winter solstice.[54] Jenkins claimed that the classical Maya anticipated this conjunction and celebrated it as the harbinger of a profound spiritual transition for mankind.[55] New Age proponents of the ga lactic alignment hypothesis argue that, just as astrology uses the positions of stars and planets to make claims of future events, the Mayans plotted their cale ndars with the objective of preparing for significant world events.[56] Jenkins attributes the insights of ancient Maya shamans about the galactic center to the ir use of psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive toads, and other psychedelics.[57] Jenkins also associates the Xibalba be with a "world tree", drawing on studies o f contemporary (not ancient) Maya cosmology.[58] Criticism Astronomers such as David Morrison argue that the galactic equator is an entirel y arbitrary line, and can never be precisely drawn because it is impossible to d etermine the Milky Way's exact boundaries, which vary depending on clarity of vi ew. Jenkins claims he drew his conclusions about the location of the galactic eq uator from observations taken at above 11,000 feet (3,400 m), an altitude that g ives a clearer image of the Milky Way than Mayans had access to.[44] Furthermore , since the Sun is half a degree wide, it requires 36 years for it to precess ac ross any single point. Jenkins himself notes that even given this determined loc ation for the line of the galactic equator, its most precise convergence with th e center of the Sun already occurred in 1998.[59][60] There is no clear evidence that the classic Maya were aware of precession. Some Maya scholars, such as Barbara MacLeod,[29] Michael Grofe,[61] Eva Hunt, Gordon Brotherston, and Anthony Aveni,[62] have suggested that some Mayan holy dates we re timed to precessional cycles, but scholarly opinion on the subject remains di vided.[21] There is also little evidence, archaeological or historical, that the Maya placed any importance on solstices or equinoxes.[21][63] It is possible th at only the early Mesoamericans observed solstices,[64] but this is also a dispu ted issue among Mayanists.[21][63] There is also no evidence that the classic Ma ya attached any importance to the Milky Way; there is no glyph in their writing system to represent it, and no astronomical or chronological table tied to it.[6 5] Timewave zero and the I Ching A screenshot of the "Timewave Zero" software "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb an

d flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnec tedness, or organized complexity.[66] According to Terence McKenna the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectednes s, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which po int anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived t his idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mus hrooms and DMT.[66] McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a w aveform known as "timewave zero" or the "timewave". Based on McKenna's interpret ation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[40] the graph appears to show gre at periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological a nd sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are re cursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November 2012. When he la ter discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.[67] The first edition of The Invisible Landscape refers to 2012 (but no specific day during the year) only twice. It was only in 1983, with the publication of Share r's revised table of date correlations in the 4th edition of Morley's The Ancien t Maya, that each became convinced that December 21, 2012, had significant meani ng. McKenna subsequently included this specific date throughout the second editi on of The Invisible Landscape, published in 1993.[2] Other concepts Pic de Bugarach, Camps-sur-l'Agly, France; a target of "esoterics" who believe t hat some great transition will occur in 2012 In India, the guru Kalki Bhagavan has promoted 2012 as a "deadline" for human en lightenment since at least 1998.[68] Over 15 million people consider Bhagavan to be the incarnation of the god Vishnu and believe that 2012 marks the end of the Kali Yuga, or degenerate age.[69] In 2006, author Daniel Pinchbeck popularized New Age concepts about this date in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, linking b'ak'tun 13 to beliefs in cr op circles, alien abduction, and personal revelations based on the use of entheo gens and mediumship.[70][71] Pinchbeck claims to discern a "growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has re ached its expiration date ... [w]e're on the verge of transitioning to a dispens ation of consciousness that's more intuitive, mystical and shamanic."[5] Beginning in 2000, the small French village of Bugarach, population 189, began r eceiving visits from "esoterics"mystic believers who have concluded that the loca l mountain, Pic de Bugarach, is the ideal location to weather the transformative events of 2012. In 2011, the local mayor, Jean-Pierre Delord, began voicing fea rs to the international press that the small town would be overwhelmed by an inf lux of thousands of visitors in 2012, even suggesting he may call in the army.[7 2][73] Doomsday theories Sagittarius A*, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory A far more apocalyptic view of the year 2012 that has spread in various media de scribes the end of the world or of human civilization on that date. This view ha s been promulgated by many hoax pages on the Internet, particularly on YouTube.[ 74] The History Channel has aired a handful of special series on doomsday that i nclude analysis of 2012 theories, such as Decoding the Past (20052007), 2012, End of Days (2006), Last Days on Earth (2006), Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (2007) , and Nostradamus 2012 (2008).[75] The Discovery Channel also aired 2012 Apocaly pse in 2009, suggesting that massive solar storms, magnetic pole reversal, earth quakes, supervolcanoes, and other drastic natural events may occur in 2012.[76] Author Graham Hancock, in his book Fingerprints of the Gods, interpreted Coe's r emarks in Breaking the Maya Code[77] as evidence for the prophecy of a global ca

taclysm.[78] Other alignments Some people have interpreted Jenkins's hypothesis apocalyptically, claiming that when the galactic alignment occurs, it will somehow create a combined gravitati onal effect between the Sun and the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (known as Sagittarius A*), thus creating havoc on Earth.[79] Apart from the fact noted above that the "galactic alignment" predicted by Jenkins already happened in 1998, the Sun's apparent path through the zodiac as seen from Earth does not take it near the true galactic center, but rather several degrees above it.[52] Even if this were not the case, Sagittarius A* is 30,000 light years fr om Earth, and would have to be more than 6 million times closer to cause any gra vitational disruption to Earth's Solar System.[80][81] This reading of Jenkins's theories was included on the History Channel documentary, Decoding the Past. Ho wever, Jenkins has complained of the fact that a science fiction writer co-autho red the documentary, and went on to characterize it as "45 minutes of unabashed doomsday hype and the worst kind of inane sensationalism".[82] Some believers in a 2012 doomsday have used the term "galactic alignment" to des cribe a very different phenomenon proposed by some scientists to explain a patte rn in mass extinctions supposedly observed in the fossil record.[83] According t o this hypothesis, mass extinctions are not random, but recur every 26 million y ears. To account for this, it suggests that vertical oscillations made by the Su n as it orbits the galactic center cause it to regularly pass through the galact ic plane. When the Sun's orbit takes it outside the galactic plane which bisects the galactic disc, the influence of the galactic tide is weaker. However, when re-entering the galactic discas it does every 2025 million yearsit comes under the influence of the far stronger "disc tides", which, according to mathematical mod els, increase the flux of Oort cloud comets into the inner Solar System by a fac tor of 4, thus leading to a massive increase in the likelihood of a devastating comet impact.[84] However, this "alignment" takes place over tens of millions of years, and could never be timed to an exact date.[85] Evidence shows that the S un passed through the plane bisecting the galactic disc only three million years ago and is now moving farther above it.[86] A third suggested alignment is some sort of planetary conjunction occurring on D ecember 21, 2012. However, there will be no alignment of planets on that date.[8 7] Multi-planet alignments did occur in both 2000 and 2010, each with no ill res ult for the Earth.[88] Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System; larger than all other planets combined. When Jupiter is near opposition, the Earth exp eriences less than 1% the gravitational force it feels daily from the Moon.[89] Geomagnetic reversal Another idea tied to 2012 involves a geomagnetic reversal (often incorrectly ref erred to as a pole shift by proponents), possibly triggered by a massive solar f lare, that would release an energy equal to 100 billion atomic bombs.[90] This b elief is supposedly supported by observations that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening,[91] which could precede a reversal of the north and south magnetic p oles. Critics, however, claim that geomagnetic reversals take up to 7,000 years to com plete, and do not start on any particular date.[92] Furthermore, the U.S. Nation al Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now predicts that the solar maximum wi ll peak in May 2013, not 2012, and that it will be fairly weak, with a below-ave rage number of sunspots.[93] In any case, there is no scientific evidence linkin g a solar maximum to a geomagnetic reversal, which is driven by forces entirely within the Earth.[94] Instead, a solar maximum would be mostly notable for its e ffects on satellite and cellular phone communications.[95] David Morrison attrib utes the rise of the solar storm idea to physicist and science popularizer Michi o Kaku, who claimed in an interview with Fox News that a solar peak in 2012 coul d be disastrous for orbiting satellites.[74] Planet X/Nibiru Main article: Nibiru collision Some proponents of doomsday in 2012 claim that a planet called Planet X, or Nibi ru, will collide with or pass by Earth in that year. This idea has appeared in v

arious forms since 1995, and originally predicted the event in 2003, but this da te was abandoned after it passed without incident.[96] The idea originated from claims of channeling of alien beings and has been widely ridiculed.[96][97] Astr onomers have calculated that such an object so close to Earth would be visible t o anyone looking up at the night sky.[96] (See also Near-Earth object) Other catastrophes The Pleiades, a star cluster whose supposed influence is sometimes tied to the 2 012 phenomenon Other speculations regarding doomsday in 2012 have included predictions by the W eb Bot project, a computer program that purports to predict the future using Int ernet chatter. However, commentators have rejected the programmers' claims to ha ve successfully predicted natural disasters, which web chatter could never predi ct, as opposed to human-caused disasters like stock market crashes.[98] Also, th e 2012 date has been loosely tied to the long-running concept of the Photon Belt , which predicts a form of interaction between Earth and Alcyone, the largest st ar of the Pleiades cluster.[99] Critics have argued that photons cannot form bel ts, that the Pleiades, located more than 400 light years away, could have no eff ect on Earth, and that the Solar System, rather than getting closer to the Pleia des, is in fact moving farther away from them.[100] Some media outlets have tied the possibility that the red supergiant star Betelg euse may undergo a supernova at some point in the future to the 2012 phenomenon. However, while Betelgeuse is certainly in the final stages of its life, and wil l die as a supernova, there is no way to predict the timing of the event to with in 100,000 years.[101] To be a threat to Earth, a supernova would need to be as close as 25 light years to the Solar System. Betelgeuse is roughly 600 light yea rs away, and so its supernova will not affect Earth.[102] Another claim involves alien invasion. In December 2010, an article, first publi shed in examiner.com and later referenced in the English-language edition of Pra vda[103] claimed, citing a Second Digitized Sky Survey photograph as evidence, t hat SETI had detected three large spacecraft due to arrive at Earth in 2012.[104 ] Astronomer and debunker Phil Plait noted that by using the small-angle formula , one could determine that if the object in the photo was as large as claimed, i t would have had to be closer to Earth than the Moon, which would mean it would already have arrived.[104] Cultural influence The phenomenon has produced hundreds of books, as well as hundreds of thousands of websites.[74] "Ask an Astrobiologist", a NASA public outreach website, has re ceived over 5000 questions from the public on the subject since 2007,[99] some a sking whether they should kill themselves, their children or their pets.[74] Man y contemporary fictional references to the year 2012 refer to December 21 as the day of a cataclysmic event, including the bestselling book of 2009,[105] Dan Br own's The Lost Symbol. The 2009 disaster film 2012 was inspired by the phenomenon, and advance promotio n prior to its release included a stealth marketing campaign in which TV spots a nd websites from the fictional "Institute for Human Continuity" called on people to prepare for the end of the world. As these promotions did not mention the fi lm itself, many viewers believed them to be real and contacted astronomers in pa nic.[106][107] Although the campaign was heavily criticized,[74] the film became one of the most successful of its year, grossing nearly $770 million worldwide. [108] Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia features a plot in which a planet emerges from behind the Sun onto a collision course with Earth.[109] Announcing his com pany's purchase of the film, the head of Magnolia Pictures said in a press relea se, "As the 2012 apocalypse is upon us, it is time to prepare for a cinematic la st supper."[110] Jay Sean's 2010 song "2012 (It Ain't the End)" makes reference to the phenomenon. See also Dreamspell calendar

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