I read somewhere a couple months ago that around the 2012 date our solar system is going to be orbiting into the lower half of the galaxy. The only problem is I can't find that article again or any place else to substantiate it. So has anyone else heard of this happening too, or was the article a fake?

I would like to know what the "lower half of the galaxy" is.
We go around the galactic center. We go around once every 225 million years or so. Thus, we've been around the horn, so-to-speak, about 17 times since the planet formed.

That doesn't seem to have affected the planet, although we can't really say, since we've only been cognizant of the planets, and the solar system for a tiny fraction of the time that we've been living here, and all during that time, say around 200,000 years since the earliest "modern" human species have been here on Earth, the planet's traveled about 1/3 of a degree around the galactic core, about 1/900 of an orbit.

In other words, we've moved a virtually indetectable distance around the galactic core in all of human history.

Further, since there's no lower or upper, no up or down, and no left or right in space, it's very difficult to determine what is meant by "lower half" when discussing the galaxy.

Additionally, I'd be interested to know what sort of significance it is that has been assigned to any given position of the solar system in its galactic orbit.

I think the hint in all of this is the date, 2012.
Of recent date, we've seen a great deal of nonsense attached to this date, which of course is just an arbitrary human designation designed to allow us to measure things. That happens all the time with this system of numbering years. The end of everything in 1984, the utter lunacy surrounding 2000 and "the millennium", and most recently, more cataclysm involved with 2012.

I think any significance attached to something with the date 2012 in it is merely more silliness.

Ah the good old 2012. I laugh when I read rubbish like 'aligning with the galactic centre'.

Exactly, scarcily enough to *do* much of anything to us here on Earth.



None that I'm aware of .



This too shall pass...until the next *dooms day* arrives on the scene.

I wonder what that'll be?

Obviously the year 3,000 will be one...unless by then society has evolved beyond elementary superstition. One can only hope. A thousand years might not be enough time to pass beyond that sort of thing.


Wait a minute. I know.

August 8, 2008.
8-8-08.

There's got to be something significant about that, right???

Funny you should ask! Yes, there certainly is: *love* linky.

I feel so small now. Mid don't mess with my delusion

Cheer up, one doesn't have to be *big* to be significant.

As for delusions, I know of many more you can choose from.

Sorry Silver!!!!




Feel free to be as deluded as you like! You're on UM!
It is fully permitted, and I shall not interfere with it!

Please don't scoff at the significance of 2012, I can tell you for fact that that year will be a total dissaster, there is doom on the horizon, mark my words 2012 may not even take place, after all, it's all down to the builders at Greenwich and wether they will finish the olympic stadium in time.