End of the world 2012?

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George Lucas says world will end in 2012
Seth Rogen, a comedian and actor, said that he was left speechless by a recent conversation in which George Lucas, the producer of Star Wars and other Hollywood hits, told him of his belief that the world would end in 2012.

Lucas made his claims at a meeting with the actor and Steven Spielberg, the director, to discuss a film project.

Rogen told the Toronto Sun: "George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is going to end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.

"He's going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, 'My nerdy friend won't shut up, I'm sorry ...'

"I first thought he [Lucas] was joking ... and then I totally realised he was serious and then I started thinking, 'If you're George Lucas and you actually think the world is going to end in a year, there's no way you haven't built a spaceship for yourself ... So I asked him ... 'Can I have a seat on it?'

"He claimed he didn't have a spaceship, but there's no doubt there's a Millennium Falcon in a garage somewhere with a pilot just waiting to go ... It's going to be him and Steven Spielberg and I'll be blown up like the rest of us."

Anyone have any thoughts on this? or N.A.S.A's claims regarding the suns solar storm???

Or are like me are you sceptical that this is another millenium bug?

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

The ancient Mayan calender apparently picks 2012 as the end of the world. Usual bullshit stuff like the Viking Ragnorak and Christian Armagedden. The world has to be destroyed in order to be remade type of thing.

Course only the chosen few make it through the apocalypse. So basically it allows lot's of Priests/Policticians/the Indoctrinated to say follow our shite doctrines and all will be well. It's about Power and controlling the social order. That's what it's really all about.

If it is the end there is nothing any of us can do about it anyway so if the cataclyism is around the corner the System tells it positively, unequivicaly to go F*** itself.

[locustsofdeath!]

Are you still drunk System?

[Emperor]

The latest thinking seems to be the original Mayan texts have been mistranslated and the calendar is way off (the Mayan apocalypse may have already been and gone without us noticing). Although the solstice in December 2012 is a relatively major astronomical moment when the stars will align so... worth spreading it around New Agey types in case they decide to give away all their stuff and run naked in the woods (no backsies) and it might be you could coax a hippie into the sack with you (as long as you understand I don't mean an actual sack and a random hippy - I'm talking serious bed time with a sexy hippy of your gender of preference).

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Are you still drunk System?

Regretfully... not.

[TordelBack]

I'm not going to start into my tired rebuttal of the alleged Mayan prophecy (again), I'll just direct interested parties to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon) which does an excellent job of raining on the eschatological parade.

The Lucas thing was a joke, as just about everybody involved or connected has pointed out at this stage.    

I'm talking serious bed time with a sexy hippy of your gender of preference

Careful though, willful stupidity is sexually transmitted. 

[Cthulouis]

Oooh, nice use of the word eschatological.

[TordelBack]

Oooh, nice use of the word eschatological.

I'm afraid I lifted it from the Wiki, but it is one of my favourites - along with teleological.

[Cthulouis]

Ooh, that's a favourite of my girlfriend as well. Hearing her fuming as she marks undergrad essays is quite amusing.

[mogzilla]

my wife's 40 in dec 2012 at least i wont have to buy her a pressie.

unless george wants to give us some of his money surely he cant spend it all by then.?

[Peter Wolf]

my wife's 40 in dec 2012 at least i wont have to buy her a pressie.

unless george wants to give us some of his money surely he cant spend it all by then.?

George Lucas probably isnt 100 percent certain that the world will end in 2012 so its probably best to hang onto the cash just in case.

I think its all rubbish as the world is always about to end as there is always someone or some organisation talking about the end of the world is going to be caused by this or that or the other and its like natural disasters or any kind of extinction level event is organised in advance.The Mayan calendar theory is a lot of rubbish and all the rest of the new age Hippy shit.

As for NASAs claims i wouldnt take that 100 percent seriously as NASA have been widely discredited lately and it sounds like the plot to The Knowing.

There are half a dozen end of the world scenarios that all coincide with 2012 and this cant be a coincidence.

The Elite Scum have spent a lot of cash building various underground bunkers to save themselves from any upcoming disasters so if there is increased activity in any of those locations then you can be certain something is imminent.It cant be ruled out so if something is imminent then it will be noticeable with increased military activity with no official explanation given and that type of thing.

[TordelBack]

As for NASAs claims i wouldnt take that 100 percent seriously as NASA have been widely discredited lately ...

The expensive public end of NASA exists entirely at the whim of politicians, leading to misguided programmes and incompatible objectives (all-consuming Space Shuttle, I'm looking at you ... and your..  beautiful wings and SF stylings.. oh I can't stay mad at you).  The core business, the science, is rock solid (assuming they can handle the metric system) - or at least it's the best we've got.  Who can argue with the success of Kepler?  I mean holy shit, a rocky world (K-10-B, aka Vulcan) in Cygnus and they've barely begun!

Also:  http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

[Peter Wolf]

As for NASAs claims i wouldnt take that 100 percent seriously as NASA have been widely discredited lately ...

The expensive public end of NASA exists entirely at the whim of politicians,

I should have said that its their enviromental/climate science that has been discredited and even more specifically James Hansen who isnt popular within NASA.

Thanks for the correcting my lazy comment.

[Richmond Clements]

Hansen is descerdited, eh?
I must have missed that meeting- but then, I suspect we're looking at this from different ends of the conspiracy theory line.

[TordelBack]

I should have said that its their enviromental/climate science that has been discredited and even more specifically James Hansen who isnt popular within NASA.

Personally I think well of Hansen (although I'm not a climatologist so I have to take the opinions of others on the science), but it is clear that he's a very serious scientist who has become so frustrated and disillusioned with working as such within the political system that he's moved into outright activism, which tends to piss off everyone who's engaged in the 'softly, softly' approach. He doesn't believe that the kind of lip-service politicians pay to climate change is going to do anything to address the trends he sees in his work - I think it was he who coined the term 'greenwash', which I've always liked.  The world needs wild-eyed prophets who won't shut up, especially when their conviction is based on a lifetime of scientific research.

I don't see how this reflects badly on NASA either way.