Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies by Gary Daniels (best color ereader txt) 📗

Peak Oil may not be the only threats we are faced with between 2032-2052. In 2004 NASA reported that the asteroid 99942 Apophis was on a collision course with Earth. It was originally calculated to impact Earth in 2029 but later calculations disproved that timeline. But these new calculations projected the asteroid might strike on Friday, April 13, 2036. Based on the size of the asteroid, NASA calculated that it would have an explosive impact of 510 megatons.  By comparison, the Barringer Crater in Arizona was created 40,000 years ago by an impact of around 10 megatons.

In November 2007 another asteroid named 2007 VK187 was also discovered to be on a collision course with Earth with a possible impact date on June 3, 2048. In January 2011 yet another asteroid named 2011 AG5 was found to be on a possible collision course with earth. Its expected impact date is February 5, 2040. Thus a total of three asteroids have a chance of slamming into earth during the 2032-2052 katun period. Worse still, what if the unthinkable happened and they all impacted earth during this time period?

The effects of an Apophis impact alone would be profound. According to astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier in the book Cosmic Winter, such an event would throw Earth into a global winter no matter where it struck and devastate thousands of square kilometers. But projected impact locations for 99942 Apophis include both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has noted if the asteroid struck the Pacific it would create megatsunamis that would vaporize the entire west coast of North America.[28] If it struck the Atlantic Ocean, the mega tsunami would wipe out the entire east coast of the U.S. as well as the coastal areas in West Africa, South America, and Western Europe. The mega tsunami would travel miles inland destroying everything in its path then washing everything out to sea. Future archaeologists would find little to prove a civilization ever existed in these locations. As scientist Mike Baillie noted:

“If Apophis hits the earth the impact will be in the 3000-megaton class. It is entirely reasonable to state that such an impact, taking place anywhere on the planet, would collapse our  current civilization and return the survivors, metaphorically speaking, to the Dark Ages (it is believed that in such an event globalised institutions, such as the financial and insurance markets would collapse, bringing down the entire interconnected monetary, trade and transport systems).”[29]

Possible impact locations of asteroid Apophis in 2036

Combined with the financial collapse and Peak Oil, could the world much less America survive such a series of catastrophes? It would tax the world's resources in the best of times yet in the midst of a collapsing global financial system it seems improbable the world could pull itself back together. This could be a perfect storm of catastrophes that the developed world would be hard pressed to survive.

Yet the undeveloped world would actually fare better though not by much. Tribal communities around the globe who are already self-sufficient and not dependent on technology or global trade would feel little impact from the financial meltdown in the developed world. They would still herd their cattle and goats, grow their crops, gather their firewood and live their lives unaware that the world outside their small village had ceased to exist. The climate downturn would impact their ability to grow crops and may impact the food supply for their herds but they would still be able to hunt and gather.

Humans have survived such instances of cosmic catastrophe before. As Plato noted in his Timaeus and Critias:

“There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.

There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father’s chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals;...

Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times...”

It should be remembered that Plato wrote this over 2500 years ago around 300 BC. It should also be remembered that modern science didn't accept the fact that rocks fell from the sky until the 1800s. Furthermore, it was not until the 20th century that we discovered that these rocks could wipe out life on earth and that they impacted Earth at seemingly regular intervals. Thus how did Plato arrive at the same exact conclusions 2500 years before modern science? The only way is if his account was based on actual records from similar catastrophes in the past, which is exactly what he claimed. Plato stated his knowledge of these events came from records kept by priests in Egypt.

Just as the Plato story describes, western civilization has just acquired the requisites of civilized life and now possibly faces the stream from heaven that will pour down and end it all and only those “who are destitute of letters and education,” i.e, those living in tribal villages unconnected with the modern world will survive with only vague ideas about life outside their village. Thus only legends and myths will survive about our civilization and, as human nature seems to dictate, these legends and myths will be discounted as