Doomsday clock…another end to humanity?

It seems that over time and with the development and advancements made in science, it may not be too long before Science Fiction and Science Fact gradually become one and the same. In a follow up to our previous post of the impending Doomsday via a solar flame, another avenue to doomsday is also on the horizon.

Science Fiction movies, such as Terminator and the Matrix (to name but two), have predicted a day when computers evolve to a time when humans are simply an inconvenience to evolution. As abstract as this may seem, today we witness the dawn of living creatures being used to power a simple computer, visa vie the humans are batteries in the Matrix future.

Predictions abound regarding Doomsday, including Nostradamus, Merlin (Myriddin, Welsh Druidic Seer) Nostradamus, the Mayan Indians and the ancient Chinese in the I Ching, but what has come to light in recent years is that many of these predictions coalesce to the same date – 21st December 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar. The predictions are of global meltdown, of fire and brimstone and of floods and waves, but is there any science behind the predictions?

Surprisingly, the answer is maybe. On the winter solstice (Dec 21st, 2012) the earth, the sun and the centre-point (origin) of the milky-way galaxy are in exact alignment (the word exact is in dispute of, course). Furthermore NASA has predicted an exceptionally strong solar maximum between 2010 and 2012.