jerbiebarb says:

@ferrett78 Well, yes, accuracy?.. The Sun has been in the dark section of the MW at solstice for 10 years now, and will be for another 10. Is the exact centering on the 2012 solstice? ‘Depends upon how you see the dark section. The Mayan would have killed for our knowledge of the sky and our understandings of the dark sections. It’s pathetic that people salivate over silly old stories from primitive-minded groups instead of reading readily available modern information.

ferrett78 says:

@jerbiebarb Yeah, according to Sagan, the folklore of the Dogon wasnt actually recorded until a few years after this. Plenty of time for other Europeans that knew about Sirius B to mention it to the Dogon. As you suggest, Sirius A probably already had some kind of superstitions attached to it, and they naturally would add this new information to an existing legend/tale.

jerbiebarb says:

@ferrett78 They didn’t discern a cycle. They had decades of positions for the Sun at solstice and they estimated when it would reach the dark spot in the Milky Way. There’s nothing mysterious here. They didn’t know what the MW was or the dark spot or how far away anything was. They just looked and looked for magical alignments and ‘signs’. The stories came later, theirs and the exaggerations of our modern book sellers’!

ferrett78 says:

@jerbiebarb I believe Carl Sagan discusses that in “Broca’s Brain”. He actually suggests that the Europeans who catalogued the tribal beliefs in that area arrived a couple years after the discovery of Sirius B had been news in Europe, and that the Dogon people had contact with other Europeans during those few years. The Dogon could then have added some “scientific details” gathered from these travellers to an existing legend.

jerbiebarb says:

@damaen668 That was the Dogon. And it was in their tribal stories that they had stars with small dark ‘guides’, later depicted in their elaborate headdresses. But they didn’t have a modern concept of what a star was until European explorers encountered them and showed them planets through small telescopes in the late 1800s. This case has been expanded by the authors of books. Sirius is the brightest star, all cultures have represented it as special but It’s all imagination.

jerbiebarb says:

@Karma01010
Well, the Milky Way has already lined up like that for many years now (since 1998?), but their prediction that our sun will be engulfed or regenerated (either / or) by the Dark Nebula is what Mayan were fixated upon.
They obviously didn’t know what the massive center of a galaxy was, or even what a galaxy was. Nobody knew that until 1940, because you need good telescopes and a lot of observations.

MrImsozonked says:

2012 zombie will finally pop out of the ground thats what i want to happen hahaha

freemind4ever says:

we r kept in the dark, u dont actually believe the crap that they have been telling us about his history, if it dont fix their bullshit, its a mystery, then why do people just think, mystery? o thats ok then, look into coral castle and think about stone henge the pyramids and the monolith in south america, do your own thinking, dont believe nothing, if it dont add, when u think about it, oyeah prof bullshit, aint right just because he teaches in university,

freemind4ever says:

face it, the secret societies now whats happening, those who got almost all of the scrolls in alexandria, the ancient knowledge around the world is underground, me personally i believe its a change in the vibration field, think that vibration,string theory etc is crap, open ur mind and look into quantum physical science, oyeah, dont be scared to think and tell others… thats how we learn and grow

redblaze46 says:

How about stop believing scientist and start using your own brains to determine what you think because man cant predict the ending only the earth itself will determine when it will end and how. Never question gods reason for things because you know he knows best. Man is corrupted and has always been so lets be honest will you believe some scientist that thinks that technology is the answer to everything or yourself who’s opinion and thoughts matter more than anything else?

reptilionsarehere says:

how about you don’t be an ass and stop using mumbo since its not a word.

Karma01010 says:

Nope. Alignment is a LOCAL LINE OF SIGHT EFFECT.

Karma01010 says:

The sun “aligning” to the centre of the galaxy is just a LINE OF SIGHT effect, it doesn’t actually DO ANYTHING.

Here’s a simple analogy – I could walk around a tree in my garden and make it “align” with some distant mountains. The 3 objects would be “aligned” (me , the tree, the mountain). But neither me nor the tree would be any closer, or more affected by, those distant mountains than at any other time in my “orbit” around the tree. The same applies to Earth – Sun – Centre of Galaxy.