If It Comes? Here’s What The End of The World Will Look Like When It Does

This is a scene from the movie Jarhead. Decent war flick, but nothing overly memorable for me… with the exception of this scene. For some reason, this scene hit me. I wasn’t sure why at first. I called a buddy of mine who was there (keep in mind it was around 1am at this point), watching the wells burn, and asked him what it was like. “it was like….” he paused at this point, for nearly a full minute; I thought he had hung the phone up. Finally, in a near whisper, he said “It was like I finally understood… really understood what the word ‘apocalypse’ really meant.” I’ll never forget his words, because of what they symbolize. There are some moments that stand still in history. Some we share as a collective, thanks to technology; We all watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center together. But imagine being the schmuck on the street, looking up in bemusement as the first one hit, mind unsure what it just witnessed… or being the guy looking out his window from a few miles away as the bomb hit Hiroshima… Or the tribesman looking up to see the tsunami bearing down.

Of course, once I had seen the movie, I had to see the real thing. It is, if you can imagine, even more horrifying.

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There’s a scene in Deep Impact that I’m sure most of us have seen… big wave coming down onto the East Coast. If the world really was to end, I’d like to be somewhere like that. Imagine, right before you head out… God, what a way to go.

Which has gotten me to thinking, with all of the 2012 stuff going around… What would it be like? Would it resemble the movie? Maybe it sounds a bit morbid, but if the world was going to go up in flames anyway, wouldn’t it be cool to watch it go? So after I finished digging, and realized it’s pretty much all fuss like Y2K was, I started to wonder just what it would be like. So let’s take a look, shall we?

We’ll start by trying to look at this from a scientific point of view. If you’re looking for someone to go all Revelations, read the bible. No need for me to rehash it, as they have been for a couple of thousand years already. No, the one theory that seems to bear anything other than mystical or supernatural connotations is that of a ‘pole shift’. For sake of discussion, you’ll have too accept a few facts… one, the Mayans were remarkably adept astronomers, even by today’s standards. They have predicted celestial occurrences centuries into their future. Two, the Earth, the Sun, and the exact center of the Milky Way galaxy will be in exact alignment on the 21st of December, 2012. And three, the Mayans predicted it. (Feel free to take a moment and Google them if you’re unsure)