There would some survivors, but most likely not enough to save the human race.

Doesn't mean anything.

I like the concept. No one cares about some random colonists! I bet the threat is two purge vessels nobody noticed, and forgot to build hangar defense!

Err ill edit this with more positive feedback after I sleep : D

It's a nice start to what could be a very interesting story.  Though i do not believe the world will end on Dec. 21 2012 because if i remember correctly, it will only be a polar shift which will screw up wheather patterns like mad and probably cause millions of deaths but not enough to make the human population go on the endangered species list...

Just a thought...

There are actually many different theories about what happens on that date, i just kinda took the doomsday one and kinda tweaked it a little to suit my story,

Thats an interesting thought though, thanks for the feedback

The end of the Mayan calendar. Maybe it means doomsday, or maybe the Mayans didn't feel like going any further with it. To them this date was hundreds of years away. I think the Mayan guy who came up with this was probably like "eh, that's as far as I'll go for now, someone else will keep this going in a couple hundred years." rather than "this is the day the world (as we know it) ends." But I'm not a psychic and I don't have a time machine, so who knows, maybe billions will die that day. A pole shift isn't goign to take out humanity, we're too resilient and adaptive for that. It's much more likely that nuclear war will be the end of humanity. My vote, however, is for a deadly infectious disease. Not this swine flu BS (which currently has only killed people in or from Mexico, f-ing racist.) Something ten times more infectious and ten time more deadly. Man made? Maybe (if you consider drug resistant viruses and bacteria that have mutated and adapted to modern medicine, man made) Personally I think that's much more likely to make us extinct, even if that does take awhile (couple years to kill the majority of humans and the rest just die off in seclusion).But who knows, we humans are really good at coming up with new ways to kill stuff. Especially if we can't see it.

You can bet your last shirt on a few Doomsday Asteroids to cap the fearsome Torino scale sooner than never even if the Mayan calendar expires on the galactic center alignment with our star as superstitiously speculated by the 13th Baktun's end.

Lucky us, NT7 Impact odds for February 1st 2019 were lowered to none.

Be we're still evaluating or keeping track of facts, not story.

But that's interesting (if you don't want to bother going to the link above) and remember two blockbusters such as Armageddon and Deep Impact, quoting wikipedia;

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On March 23, 1989 the 300 meter (1,000-foot) diameter Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius (1989 FC) missed the Earth by 700,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) passing through the exact position where the Earth was only 6 hours before. If the asteroid had impacted it would have created the largest explosion in recorded history, thousands of times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba. It attracted widespread attention as early calculations had its passage being as close as 64,000 km (40,000 miles) from the Earth, with large uncertainties that allowed for the possibility of it striking the Earth.

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Now... that's what i call a near miss!

It's because the word "near" is a synonym for close, while "nearly" is a synonym for almost, and also that a "miss" is a noun, while "missed" is a verb. To say "near miss" (adjective modifying a verb) is the opposite of saying "nearly missed"(adverb modifying a verb), eventhough they use the same base words. One hears "nearly missed" more often in natural conversation, hence, being the same base words, we tend to want to think it means the same thing. Weird how that works eh?

The Maya calendar thing is a myth, especially since the Mayans themselves didn't think that there would be an apocalypse, since there are actually many Mayan inscriptions showing dates beyond 2012, and there is never, ever, any reference to an apocalypse then.  What 2012 was to the Mayans was the end of a calendar cycle, where they'd have a big party and start a new cycle (they seriously lked to plan ahead didn't they).  So the Mayan apocalypse stories are roughly equivalent to those that said the world would end at the millenium (which incidentally ended at 11.59 December 31st 2000, not 1999).

The title of this thread has now given me an urge to watch Deep Impact again.

Y2K bug created a flop so big, collective paranoia resolved issues of "illicit" propaganda simply by reasoning over the inevitable or parsing facts from truth. If time has any importance (on calendars or otherwise), it is because we can observe or influence it.

Problem is, freaks and fools exploit it soooooo much that *some* people start to believe in lies and can't realize they were wrong (in absolute terms, btw) before it's already too late for them & everybody else.

So, beware of the rational... it may look obvious and yet science is theory until it isn't.

That's also cool because we should always plan for the worst--a.k.a--WWIII, Antichrist, Nuclear Holocaust--but we should plan for something that is better than what we expected--a.k.a--pole ship causing massive natural disasters killing thousands of humans but humanity still survives unlike WWIII or Nuclear Holocaust

If i'm also not mistaken, this is the time when our solar system will cross an imaginary line that seperates the galaxy in half.  In 2012, we will cross this line and begin a new galactic year--i think that it is a new galactic year or the last half of the one we're on.  But if Prozach2K3 is right, then it should be a new galactic year.

December 21 2012 is also the day that our sun eclipses the center of the milkyway galaxie, i also think that it could be a start of the new age

most likely, I mean other then nuclear war or super Volcanos what else would

Deep Impact is also on now on TNT, well over on the east coast anyway

Good day too one and all. I wish you all who have responded to Darkfall's idea and

of my 'own' way of thinking... See, most of what you people wrote is in it's own slice of truth REAL.  My birth date is DEC 22 and haven grown-up so close within the gosspel it and  as most of my own 'past' studies of this possible event... it would make sense.

as this planet is nothing more than a scabbed over 'fireball'... and 'if' something did slam into it, the effect would make biblical sense as far as the [Ending in fire] (Not bible thumping here, just pointing a few 'other' things we fail to look at...).

The fact that the government would NEVER inform us (Nor 'could' any goverment) that in X amount of time... we would be extinct... [TRUE?] ... "like a theif in the night"

The calenders I have no faith in... the 'stars' though.... I do. Alignments are only small 'tics' of the much larger picture that unfolds time and the fates appear and dissapear... (begins as well as ends all cycles)

I beleave it's true that we have less (time) than we thought, that 'most' of humanity will become lost in the void and the few that have remained will only survive as well as there training has equipt them, however, mankind (i fear) is extinct...

They will 'find' the ....>right< comet or asteroid well to late to prepair for it )I'm guessing that the actual date for the 'right' rock to hit us will be around 6/23-30/2012.. witch will give us what.... 5 months?