WEBVTT - Is the world going to end in 2012? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.600 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know? 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.440 From house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.640 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. Your lude, Chuck, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.680 what delude? Oh but you said I'm alluded with a 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.599 little bit of both, Chuck, great? Yes, so this is 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.880 stuff you should know. I did? I did say your 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.479 full name? Didn't I? No, it doesn't matter. Just Chuck, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:35.760 just Chuck CB. Yeah. Hell o, l So Chuck. Um, 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.160 did you know that just a couple of days ago, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.400 the Earth actually had a near miss with an asteroid? 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.160 I did hear about that? Someone actually, a fan wrote 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.920 in and told me that I wasn't aware. Yeah, this 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.320 this asteroid about the size of a ten story building. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.839 We know the height. I don't know the width or 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.840 death or anything. But UM passed within fifty thou miles 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.320 of Earth, which NASA considers a close call. Right, I 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.400 believe that is what they call it, or near miss 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:08.959 same thing, UM, But uh, the there've been closer asteroids 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.720 very recently, think two thousand four, two thousand six one 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.800 UM came within five thousand miles, but the thing was 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.399 pretty small and would have done much damage. This one 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.640 came within fifty thousand miles, which is a fifth of 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.760 the distance between us and the moon, so it was 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.360 really close. And it was about the same size as 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.319 the one that um leveled eight hundred square miles of 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.880 Siberia n eight Wow, So it could have been a 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.240 real problem, right right, we need we should have gotten 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.080 Bruce Willison the Gang of Drillers to go up and 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.959 uh explode it with I think they were at the ready. Yeah, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.080 Ben Affleck too. Yeah, that was a terrible movie. It 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.960 really was. Are we allowed to say that? Oh, it 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.360 was a terrible movie. It was. Thank you Michael Bay 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.240 for that stinker. That's funny that you bring up Michael 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.440 Bay's name because he's doing something right now that um 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.200 we'll be out soon. I believe he may have already finished. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.680 He's directing a movie called two thousand twelve. No he's not. Yeah, yes, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.320 Rowland Emerick directed that film. Well, then we need to 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.080 update this article because this says Michael Bay. I believe 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.960 he's producing it. Same thing. Okay, okay, Michael Bay is 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 uh I worked with him. Let's hear it. Chuck, I 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.720 can't tell this full story honestly, because I would I 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.800 would most definitely get a phone call from his people. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.200 Oh yeah, but yeah, I worked with him on a 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.519 truck commercial like the Grand Canyon. Pretty cool, very cool. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.960 What truck the Canyon? Earra Oh I don't even remember. Okay, So, um, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.680 well I bring up twelve because that's kind of what 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.040 we're talking about today. And Josh, this is another listener 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.640 suggestion we're kind of diving into these from Jason of 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.800 Santa Barbara wanted to hear about the doomsday theories of 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.280 the year twelve. So yeah, yeah, thanks Jason. Let's let's 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.000 do this, right, Chuck. Yes, okay, So basically it's not 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:59.880 just the year. Um, there's actually a specific date December one, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.079 two thousand twelve, the Winner Solstice. And actually I was 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.760 on a site called all About twelve and it's sites 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:12.079 eleven eleven A m. Greenwich meantime as the moment when 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.880 the world's going to end. Really yeah, I think I 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.840 will hold off on buying my Christmas presents that year 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.120 till the twenty two. You do anyway, don't you? So 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.160 you know the end of the world is not gonna 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.920 if I plumped down like several hundred dollars on gifts 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.520 from my wife and then the world ended. Well, you're 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.359 not gonna need money anyway after the apocalypse comes. That's alright, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.840 so well, Chuck. December twenty one, two thousand and twelve. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.160 This is not an arbitrary date right now. This is 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:43.040 actually based on the Mind calendar or one of them, right, Yeah, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.640 they had several The first we should probably say this 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.520 is this is actually becoming something of a trend. This 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.880 this kind of doomsday prophecy that uh, December twenty first, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.400 two thousand twelve, is UM is going to see the 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.600 end of the world or at least significant changes. UM. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.880 There's all sorts of groups around the world. I read 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.000 an article about one in Belgium, led by a guy 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:11.200 named what's his name Patrick? Yeah you heard of him too, Yeah, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.320 I read that He's he's developing quite a following, and 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.719 apparently they he and his people have UM found a 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.560 plot of land in Africa in the highlands, I imagine 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.080 somewhere in Ethiopia, UM, where they're going to basically hold 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.720 up and wait and then come back out and try 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.320 starting civilization up again. It's what he said he's stockpiling stuff. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.159 He quit his job a couple of years ago after 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.159 he saved up some money, and yeah, yeah, yeah. And 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.839 I mean we're talking probably the thousands of people who 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.120 are you know, actively thinking that this is going to 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.880 happen and maybe making preparations about it. But it seems 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.480 to UH to be gathering steam the closer we get 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.359 into two thousand twelve. Right, you remember why two K 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.280 Do you remember what a paranoid time that was? Well 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.240 for me, No, man, I remember, And I'm not just 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.440 saying this now, but I remember at the time saying, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.599 not that's gonna happen. Nothing's gonna go wrong. Elevators aren't 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.320 gonna fall down the side of the building, and all 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.920 our computers aren't going to explode. And I just remember 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.800 thinking it's just all much ado about nothing. I feel 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.760 like you were in the minority then, like think about 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.240 remember X files had a tremendous run, and I think 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.320 a lot of it was because of the changing over 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.159 from you know, what one millennia do another. For some reason, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.200 we friends attached great significance to a change in calendar, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.200 even though it's a human construct, right, But I mean 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.360 it also these kind of doomsday prophecies. These um fears 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.080 that the world is gonna end are usually they usually 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.920 reflect like our cultural concerns at the time, like hy 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.240 two k uh that fears about that began to grow 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.159 alongside technology. Technology was taking off, and like the Internet 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.560 was this huge thing that we hadn't really figured out 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.000 what to do with except to put like really really 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.159 dirty porn that involved goats onto you know. So it 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.920 seemed like, you know, y two k it was tech 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.560 knowledgey based concern is fear and this two thousand twelve thing, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.359 it's taking place, it's transpiring. UM while we're very we've 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.360 become a very eco conscious and um society. We're aware 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.680 of our environmental impact, and it seems like part of 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.560 two thousands, the two thousand twelve movement is kind of 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.880 this back to Earth thing. I think I get the 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.880 sense that a lot of people who are like, I'm 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.360 gonna be prepared, I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna be 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.479 one of the lucky people who gets to repopulate earth. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.160 And part of that is knowing how to plant crops 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.800 and you know, like raise livestock and that kind of thing. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.480 So it seems to reflect the kind of the green 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.320 consciousness that we have right now. Although the common thread, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.600 of course is that the world's going in right exactly, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.479 and I think global warming has got a lot of 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.280 people scared and a lot of the people the verse 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.640 that's so good. You like that. A lot of bring 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.320 up things like global warming is like, this is a 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.120 sign the oceans will boil and uh, you know, volcanoes 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.800 will erupt and mass chaos. And a critic would say, yeah, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.560 volcanoes erupt, you know fairly commonly. There are earthquakes and 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.200 there are floods. These things happen. You know, we don't 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.560 have enough of a handle on climatology to really say 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.239 either way, which is I think why debates like these rags? Right, Okay, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.080 So like we said, the December twenty first, two thousand twelve, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.920 the date it's based on a Mayan calendar. That's where 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:29.720 it all started. And actually among uh to borrow your terms. Um, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.080 there's there's a predominant theory that the Mayans, the Mayan civilization, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.960 were either aliens or in contact with aliens. And when 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.760 you kind of starting to look at the Mayan's you 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.760 could you get an idea of how somebody could say 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.200 that they they earliest Mayan settlement they found um is 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.200 from and they just kind of live primitively for a 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.320 couple of millennia and then out of nowhere, there's this 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.560 sudden birth of ingenuity and insight from the third century 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.800 to the tenth century CE, and all of a sudden 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.720 that the minds like developed this really tremendous understanding of mathematics, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.080 including zero, which you can't function. You can't create a 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.720 mathematical system without zero. You have to have zero, and 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.560 it's it's very elusive and rare, and to develop it 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.840 out of nowhere is really something. Um. They understood crop domestication, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.040 really elaborate architecture UM. And you know, they became arguably 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:28.400 the most advanced pre Columbian civilization and mess Mesoamerica almost 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.560 overnight historically speaking, right, Yeah, I think they were easily 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.280 the most advanced. They had an advanced system of writing, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.320 they were the first people to do that. They had 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.280 a recorded history, they were the first civilization to record 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:44.040 their own history. Yeah, astronomy, Matt, like you said, mathematics, Yeah. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.880 And one of the other things that they were really 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.600 really good at was marking time, especially through calendars and 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.440 building things. They were they were good at building things 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.800 and um blood lighting big into blood lighting really and 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.600 human sacrifice. Yeah sure, yeah, but blood ritual blood lighting 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.880 as well. Okay you can't. You can't leave that out 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.440 for the person whose blood is being it's pretty significant experience, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.440 I imagine, uh, and probably for the person who's doing 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.120 the cutting two. But we'll find out later. UM. So 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.720 they had twenty different calendars at least that we know of, UM, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.800 and actually five of them are still kept in secret. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.040 Five bands today really kind of makes you wonder what 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.319 this five calendars are counting, right, UM. But there there's this, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.520 there's I guess I call him the Big three calendars, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.640 the Zulkin, which is actually a two hundred and sixty 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:38.440 day calendar that actually um parallels human gestation all about twelve. Again. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.839 That that site, UM, which I found pretty cool. They 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.360 basically have a calendar for a pregnancy. Right. There's the 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.880 hob h a B. Yeah, that's three hundred and sixty 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.679 days with a five day period called the Way Up, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.480 which basically it's a solar calendars, but it's essentially the 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.640 same thing as the one that we UM use, the 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.200 Gregorian calendar that we exactly. And then there's the calendar Round, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.040 which is a fifty two year calendar, and then there's 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.080 there's actually the big one. This is the one that 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.400 all of this doomsday stuff is centered around, and it's 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.160 called what the Long Count calendar, right, yes, and that's 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.840 all about the Great Cycle, is what they call it, yeah, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.920 which is a period of five thousand, one twenty five 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:25.839 point three six years very specific yeah, um, approximately, right, um. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.840 And we know that this date of December twenty one, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.440 two thousand twelve is the end of this Great Cycle 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.360 thanks to the conquistadors. So they show up and just 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.120 completely subjugate and commit genocide against the Mayans. Some of 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.320 them were left alive. Um. And actually there was one 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.679 Mayan scholar who adopted the Gregorian calendar in conjunction with 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.840 the Long Count calendar and started recording the same dates 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.160 on both and so eventually, um, some scholars went back 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.720 and started comparing dates and found the path and finally 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.280 determined that the last beginning of the beginning of the 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:10.320 last Great Cycle was August thirteen, fourteen b C. And 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.840 you know, five thousand, twenty five years after that is 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.120 point three six point three six would be December one, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.120 So that's how we know that the the Mayan calendar 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.080 is going to reset itself on that date, right, But 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.439 I think it's now is where we should note that 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.640 the Mayans did not say this was the end of 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.560 the world. It was a restarting of the Great cycle, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.920 and they, I believe, had gone through three other great cycles. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.800 Is that correct so far? Yeah? Yeah, So they didn't 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.040 think it was gonna be the end of the world. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.440 This is uh, something that other people have kind of 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.960 put on it, And apparently we're as far as the 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.520 minds are concerned, we're extraordinarily lucky to live through the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.360 end of a great cycle in the beginning of another. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.959 One's a time of really good luck. It's a time 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.600 to celebrate, exactly. It's not really a time to stock 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.480 up on bottle water, you know, evaporated milk. Yeah, exactly. Um. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.480 But yeah, so that's kind of one of the fatal 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.199 flaws I think in this the whole doomsday prophecies, that 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.400 the very people whose calendar it's based on didn't necessarily 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.760 believe this, right, well, right, but the reason and you know, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.480 I did a little more research too, and a lot 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.440 of Mayan scholars are really upset about this that it 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.720 cast them in in a negative light, and they're saying, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.880 this is not all accurate, This is not at all accurate. Sorry, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.520 and Mines didn't believe this, and this is something we 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.160 put on it because of the uh. It ends with 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.000 a winter solstice. That's the key right right there. There 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.600 are a couple of things that doing research I found 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.440 slightly unsettling. Let's hear them, and okay, I can I 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.720 tell you a quick white two K story. Yeah. I 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.600 wasn't big into it either, but I'm kind of one 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.800 of those. I was a cub scout for a little while, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.280 never made it to boy scouts because I thought, respecting 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.640 your elders just because they're old, that's a stupid concept, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.320 and I quit um. But I was a boy scout 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.920 long enough to learn to prepare just in case. So 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.360 on December thirty one, I was at Philips Arena at 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.320 a widespread panic show, and had you followed me back 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.679 to my van, you would have found a four ten shotgun, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.720 some shells, my dogs, some water, and a couple of 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.760 other supplies. And I was ready to go to the 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.720 Georgia Mountains. Just I'm very serious, kidding, Yeah, you know, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.680 a younger um much more out of it. Josh made 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.840 that decision, but hey, if it had happened, I would 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.760 have I would have, you know, been fine. I was 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.000 at the Gravity Pub in East Atlanta at night. Were 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.400 you a great place bringing in the new year? That's great? 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.480 Chuck a plug for the Gravity Pub seriously, and Philips arena. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.160 Um So, come to Atlanta. We've got at least two 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.720 things for you to do. Um So, my point is 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.320 is that I'm not necessarily a really nervous person about 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.040 stuff like this. Um I I am prepared. I'm probably 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.360 not gonna do anything for December twenty first, two thousand 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.600 twelves and maybe throw a party. But there are a 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.400 couple of things, like I said, doing research that I 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.520 found that work on a weird about December twenty one, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.720 two thousand twelve. One of them is that on that date, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:10.040 the winter solstice, the sun is actually going to be 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.920 on that one day at the center of the Milky Way. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.360 The last time that happened was about twenty six thousand 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.760 years ago, and apparently only happens every twenty six thou 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.600 years yea or so, And we're talking like a day. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.520 This is this will it will be in that position 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.680 for a day, and probably not even the whole day 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.160 at eleven eleven, maybe even who knows. I found that 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.520 a little significant. UM. And then another is that we 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.320 are actually beginning a new sun spot cycle. This is 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.400 something that actually if you read some of the literature, um, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.080 they keep talking about sun spots and sun spots and 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.520 how it's going to create you know, severe climate change 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.960 and imbalance in Earth processes. And on July thirty one, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.880 two thousand six, uh NASA astronomers found a backwards sun spot, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.600 meaning that it was polar I it's in the wrong 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.960 direction from south to north rather than a lying north 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.240 to south. It appeared on the Sun and it's basically 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.040 a planet sized magnet and they've been waiting for it 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.080 because it's it signals the start of a new solar cycle. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.240 Okay um, and when that happens, we have like proton 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.280 storms and it actually messes with the Earth's magnetic field. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:24.920 These happened, UM. Oh, I don't know, every every every 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.080 few years. I think a new there's a few year 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:32.200 period between solar cycles. UM. So it's not that significant, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.200 but it could have a big effect. The thing is 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.400 is the Earth. So magnetic field right now is in 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.120 the process of reversing. It is. Did you did you 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.720 read about this? I did, and I know that think 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.360 that polar reversal might be one of the significant events, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.760 as in sunrises in the west, sets in the east, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.000 that kind of thing. And actually it is like I 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.760 read on a Science Daily of that we're about in 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.680 about probably years or saying it's going to reverse, and 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.280 it happens randomly, and they know that it's reverse through 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.480 some very clever techniques. They find ancient lava flow, and lava, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.080 because of its composition, aligns itself with magnetic north. It 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.240 flows right, so whatever direction it's flowing in it basically 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.960 leaves like a line of this is where magnetic north 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.920 was on this day. And if you can date that 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.960 lava flow, then you know, right then hundreds of thousands 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.760 or millions of years ago, that's where magnetic north was right. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.440 So they're finding now, um that that the the magnetic 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.760 field on Earth is reversing, and this only happens about 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.560 every seven hundred and eighty thousand years. So all these 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.600 things are kind of significant. And I can understand how 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:44.040 somebody who is very concerned about war famine, pestilence, and 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:49.240 it is, you know, conceivably into the end of the world. Sure, sure, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:54.000 UM could kind of take all this information in and say, yea, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.800 the summer twenty two thousand twelve and I'm gonna be 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.720 in a bunker in Ethiopia. I see your point, Josh, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.440 But most serious scholars say there's nothing to it. And 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.640 I didn't find any mainstream scientists to endorse anything like that. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.800 Everyone I ran across is like, no, no, no, no, 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.959 this is not going to happen, and in fact they 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.880 call it. A lot of them just call it out 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.040 as down irresponsible to spread something like this, but not 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.000 not only that, but a way to make a quick 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.800 money to with another criticism, I son, so will the 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.399 world really end in two thousand twelve? I'm going to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.640 go ahead and say probably not, because humanity is far 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.199 too blemish to get off that lucky. Yeah. Wow, that's 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:35.800 an interesting point of view. I don't think it's gonna 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.840 end a twelve either, don't. Okay, we're in agreement, Chuck. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.240 We typically don't give our opinions, but darn it, that's mine. Yeah, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.720 And um, anybody out there stocking up for two thousand 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.920 twelve when listening to this podcast, more power to you. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.120 Sure you will have the last laugh at the world 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.159 really does it, as we usually say to each his 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.000 own and or her own. And if that's what you believe, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.560 then yea stock up. Yeah, Chuck, that's one of those 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.399 podcasts that now that we've done it, it stays done. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.960 I don't understand that. You don't have to. Okay, you'll 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.280 find out on December twenty twelve. You rat so, Chuck. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.080 We're big time now and I want to I think 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.040 I think we should express this. We have a spoken 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.800 word album for love God, Chuck. We have a spoken 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:22.240 word album available for sale on iTunes. Right now, Let's 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.280 let's discuss, uh, correct, Josh, is the stuff you should know? 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.879 Super stuffed Guide to the Economy beautiful? And what we 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.520 tried to do is breakdown economics and the economy in 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.840 a way that the layman can understand, because we'd layman 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.080 as well. Exactly. We learned a lot. We think you'll 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.320 learn a lot. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of it. I'm too. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.040 I think it's worth four bucks. I do too. And Jerry, 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.640 our producer, did an outstanding job with the sound design. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.720 It's much different and very special. We would be nowhere 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.040 without her. So you guys can find that on iTunes. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.320 All I have to do is type super stuffed into 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.720 their handy search bar, and from my experience, as the 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.399 first thing that comes up and have at it, I 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.920 wouldn't click on anything else that said super stuff. Let's 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.000 put it away, agreed, Chuck agreed. And while we're at it, 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.440 while we're just plugging away, let's talk about our blog too, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.480 which frankly I've come to be pretty proud of. I 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.600 wasn't sure about the blogging thing at first, and I'm like, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.520 I get this. Yeah, Yeah, we have a blog now 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.960 called Stuff you Should Know, and you can access it 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.120 through the homepage on the right hand side there at 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.760 how stuff works dot com. And uh we post twice 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.879 a day. One of us posts. I post in the morning, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.159 Chuck posts at night. Both of them are well worth reading. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.960 And Chuck likes to do a little recap on Fridays 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.600 of the podcast the Weekend Podcasting, and we will answer you. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.199 We chat with the folks. Yes, we follow up, and 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.359 it's a good way to reach us. Yeah. What, Chuck 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.240 likes to interact with you guys more than I do. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.560 Because he likes to show off his cool guy hat 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.920 in in his photo that pops up every time he 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.399 posts something. So so ask us to come out and 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:58.679 play and we will. Okay, So relief. Yes, we we 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.400 got the spoken We're It album knocked out, we got 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.480 the blog knocked out. You know what that means. It's 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:11.920 time for yes, l M. But listener mail, listener mail, right, Josh. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.080 This is significant because today is the day where we 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.600 retire Haiku Theater. Thank you? Did everyone here that we 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.879 are retiring Hiku Theater. We love your high Kus and 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.440 you can still send him if you want, but we're 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.800 not going to read him anymore. I agreed. Thank you, Chuck, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.320 Thank you, thank you Chuck. Okay, so check, let's do it. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.159 This is the final. Um, how can we get Jerry? 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.440 Maybe a drum roll in here? Right? And I should 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.080 say that one of the reasons we were retiring is 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.080 because we received the best Hiku ever and it cannot 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.560 be topped, and so I'm still looking forward to this one. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:47.200 All right, So here we go. Um. Nathan of Akron, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:52.320 Ohio says, I'm a c P, a anesthesiologist. Man, they 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:56.440 make some loot. Belinda, who doesn't say where she's from, 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:00.320 says Hiku and search bar no article for learning. I 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.280 had to google, so I think she was expecting an 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.280 article on hikus h. David, who is an l V 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.800 in which I believe is a nurse, says frozen missed 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.800 on ground. The railing has lots of holes. It's a 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.680 long way down. He's referring, of course, to Niagara Falls. 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.040 Uh Jesse, I'm gonna read this one pretty quickly. Odin 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.439 has an eye. Valhalla is in asgard. I do not 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.719 know why Thor has a hammer. Heimdal nine moms and 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:33.399 white God, please enlighten me. Balder dreamt his death, his 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.880 mom frigg dreamt it as well. Mistletoe, who knew then 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.280 him on Loki for Seti and his justice. How does 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.720 this all fit there? I have no idea how Norse 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.440 mythology in haiku that was gorgeous. We have one that 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.040 just came in today from Ryan, and I was gonna 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:52.800 not use it, but I told him I would make 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.840