| 00:00:01 | Link to nostradamus himself to
suggest a doomsday convergence
in 2012.
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| 00:00:09 | We will neither refute nor
endorse these theories, merely
present the evidence.
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| 00:00:17 | To some, a comparison of
apocalyptic prophecies for 2012
yields unusual correlations.
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| 00:00:25 | >> Researchers began comparing
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| 00:00:00 | and abruptly ending on
december 21, 2012.
|
| 00:00:10 | Did the mayans actually intend
this date to represent the end
of time?
|
| 00:00:16 | Some believe the final date of
their calendar simply indicates
a reset to a new cycle, a new
long count.
|
| 00:00:24 | But others see an alarming
trend.
|
| 00:00:28 | An investigation into other
cultures across the ages and the
continents has also identified
december 21st as an especially
significant day.
|
| 00:00:38 | It marks the winter solstice in
the northern hemisphere -- the
day of the year when the sun
appears farthest from the earth.
|
| 00:00:47 | >> It happens every year.
|
| 00:00:48 | It's actually the pagan origin
of what we now call christmas.
|
| 00:00:52 | >> Narrator: Science has
confirmed that the winter
solstice in 2012 will coincide
with an extraordinarily rare
event called a galactic
alignment.
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| 00:01:03 | It will seem to place our sun in
the very center of our home
galaxy, the milky way.
|
| 00:01:09 | >> The galactic alignment is
caused by the alignment of the
winter-solstice sun with the
equatorial plane of the milky
way.
|
| 00:01:18 | >> Narrator: The milky way is a
massive pinwheel-shaped disk of
stars that includes our sun.
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| 00:01:25 | From our vantage point within
it, the milky way looks like a
band with a dark rift in the
center, a place where there are
no visible stars.
|
| 00:01:35 | Mayan astronomers calculated
that the winter-solstice sun
appears to line up within this
dark-rift center of the galaxy
once every 26,000 years.
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| 00:01:46 | How they arrived at this
conclusion is a mystery, but
they accurately predicted the
next galactic alignment
thousands of years beyond their
own time.
|
| 00:01:58 | >> The maya had been, for quite
a while, trying to figure out
when this kind of epochal-shift
event would happen and even
which kind of astronomical cycle
it was connected with.
|
| 00:02:11 | >> Narrator: Astronomers today
have concluded that the coming
galactic alignment will be the
first such occurrence since the
beginning of human civilization.
|
| 00:02:21 | But there is no scientific
evidence to support that it will
result in any celestial
catastrophe.
|
| 00:02:28 | Still, some observers speculate
that the rare event will
coincide with cosmic chaos.
|
| 00:02:35 | They suggest violent solar
storms hurling deadly radiation
..
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| 00:02:41 | ..
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| 00:02:43 | Even a complete pole reversal --
scenarios that could leave our
planet devastated and billions
dead.
|
| 00:02:53 | According to some interpreters,
the mayan calendar is clear --
2012 marks the end of time.
|
| 00:03:02 | But as to the specific horrors
mankind could face on that
fateful day, the mayans are
ominously silent.
|
| 00:03:12 | If we accept that the ancient
mayans were warning future
generations of an apocalypse in
the year 2012, they may not have
been alone.
|
| 00:03:22 | A trail of evidence suggests
that other ancient cultures may
have arrived at the very same
conclusion about a possible end
date for the world.
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| 00:03:32 | Could the same be said of
history's most notorious
prophet, nostradamus?
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| 00:07:33 | >> Narrator: 2012 -- Many
believe that this is the
date when the world will end.
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| 00:07:41 | Some say it is predicted in a
2,000-year-old mayan calendar.
|
| 00:07:47 | Similar timelines from other
cultures seem to point to the
exact same date.
|
| 00:07:55 | Is this really a sign that
humanity is on the brink of
apocalypse?
|
| 00:08:01 | As 2012 approaches, those open
to the possibility are examining
the different strands of
evidence with increased urgency.
|
| 00:08:12 | Their goal is to determine
whether these strands are linked
with a seemingly escalating
number of recent natural
disasters.
|
| 00:08:21 | >> I think the cataclysm is
coming straight at us.
|
| 00:08:24 | I think there's nothing we can
do about it.
|
| 00:08:26 | It is both an external
CATACLYSM, i.e. OUTSIDE OUR
Planet, and it is an internal
cataclysm.
|
| 00:08:34 | We are in very serious trouble,
very serious trouble.
|
| 00:08:38 | >> Narrator: Others say, "not
"
>> I think what's happening,
FROM A 21st-CENTURY PERSPECTIVE,
We're looking at these prophetic
clocks and kind of reading into
it what we want to read into it.
|
| 00:08:51 | They're quite vague, and it kind
of reminds me of these people
that knock on my door and tell
me armageddon's just around the
corner.
|
| 00:08:59 | >> Narrator: December 26, 2004.
|
| 00:09:02 | 8 Years before 2012, an
earthquake beneath the
3 on
the richter scale, the second
largest ever recorded.
|
| 00:09:15 | It propels walls of water as
high as 50 feet toward
unsuspecting victims in 11
different countries.
|
| 00:09:24 | When the water recedes, entire
communities are gone.
|
| 00:09:28 | The death toll is staggering.
|
| 00:09:30 | A quarter million people have
perished.
|
| 00:09:34 | Some suggest this tragedy has
brought us one step closer to
the end of days as we march
toward the finality of the mayan
timeline.
|
| 00:09:46 | The mayans chose december 21,
2012, the date of the galactic
alignment, as the end of their
..and, perhaps, the end
of the world.
|
| 00:09:59 | But they may not have been alone
in doing so.
|
| 00:10:04 | >> You have a lot of indigenous
cultures and myth-based cultures
which seem to be very aware of
this as a time of
transformation, and other
cultures are now stepping forth
saying that they have prophecies
around this time.
|
| 00:10:16 | >> Narrator: One such culture,
the hopi indians of the american
southwest, have lived on the
land that is now present-day
arizona for nearly 1,000 years.
|
| 00:10:27 | Like their mayan predecessors,
they find a union with the earth
and the sky and, in them, seek
to answer the mysteries of the
universe.
|
| 00:10:37 | Centuries ago, they carved their
prediction of man's future
destruction in stone on what is
now known as the
hopi prophecy rock.
|
| 00:10:47 | Like the mayan calendar, the
hopi prophecy breaks down
humankind's timeline into phases
or worlds.
|
| 00:10:55 | According to interpreters, the
hopi believed that the world has
been created and destroyed three
times.
|
| 00:11:02 | The first three worlds were
wiped out by violent natural
forces -- volcanoes, a great ice
age, and flood.
|
| 00:11:10 | They believe we now inhabit the
fourth world.
|
| 00:11:15 | >> They see this as the cusp
between the fourth world and the
fifth world.
|
| 00:11:19 | And they have a whole series of
oral prophecies that they feel
have been fulfilled, with only a
few left to take place before we
enter into this next world.
|
| 00:11:30 | >> Narrator: Hopi traditions
predict that near the day of the
great purification, man will
bring home pieces of the moon,
and there will be cobwebs in the
sky through which we travel and
communicate, all disrupting a
delicate cosmic balance.
|
| 00:11:46 | Are the hopi predictions of the
moon landing, airplane travel,
and telecommunications accurate?
|
| 00:11:54 | To those seeking confirmation of
the mayan prophecy of 2012, they
are indicators that the time
remaining for the hopi's fourth
world, our world, is alarmingly
short.
|
| 00:12:08 | To some, the imagery of the
hopi prophecy rock suggests we
are soon destined to experience
..
|
| 00:12:17 | Purge by fire from the sky --
possibly solar storms -- an
..
|
| 00:12:25 | ..nuclear weapons.
|
| 00:12:33 | Thousands of miles away from the
maya and the hopi and centuries
apart, another culture has its
own prophecy of our end.
|
| 00:12:42 | The ancient hindus created a
calendar that some interpreters
believe also points at 2012.
|
| 00:12:50 | The mythology of the hindus,
like that of the maya and hopi,
holds that life in the universe
occurs in cycles.
|
| 00:12:59 | According to hindu myth, each
cycle of life is divided into
four ages called yugas -- the
dwapara, treta, satya, and the
kali.
|
| 00:13:12 | Humankind begins each cycle
enlightened by virtue and high
ideals.
|
| 00:13:18 | Then over time, humans
degenerate into a state of evil
and corruption.
|
| 00:13:25 | The philosophy of life cycles is
mirrored in our modern world in
the way we keep time.
|
| 00:13:31 | >> The modern system of time we
use, on our watches, it's 12
hours of a.m., 12 hours of p.m.
|
| 00:13:39 | For a total of 24 hours.
|
| 00:13:41 | A.m. is an increasing light.
|
| 00:13:42 | P.m. is decreasing light.
|
| 00:13:44 | Our present system of time is a
microcosm of the yuga system.
|
| 00:13:50 | >> Narrator: According to
ancient hindu texts, we now live
in the final age of the
kali yuga.
|
| 00:13:57 | The texts indicate that this age
began in 3102 b.c.
|
| 00:14:04 | Intriguingly, this date is
separated from the start of the
mayan long count calendar by
only 12 years.
|
| 00:14:13 | Could this final age end in
2012 and usher in the end of
days, just as the mayans
prophesied with their calendar?
|
| 00:14:23 | The finaage of the kali yuga
described in the ancient hindu
texts has been seen by some to
bear a striking resemblance to
..with its
..pestilence,
and destruction.
|
| 00:14:39 | They believe humankind is
consuming itself until a final
cataclysm annihilates
everything.
|
| 00:14:48 | >> Hell before heaven or the
darkness before the dawn, and
this is something that's
repeated in a lot of
mythologies, a lot of creation
stories, a lot of cultures.
|
| 00:14:57 | >> Narrator: Many interpreters
say it's a reach to target 2012
as the point of intersection for
the prophecies of the maya,
hopi, and hindus.
|
| 00:15:07 | But some believe the
correlations shared by these
diverse cultures are too
striking to be a coincidence.
|
| 00:15:17 | Others suggest yet another
prophetic voice has joined the
..
|
| 00:15:22 | History's most renowned seer,
nostradamus.
|
| 00:15:28 | The french renaissance prophet
may have also foreseen calamity
..as he may have for
other world events.
|
| 00:15:37 | >> Nostradamus predicted a lot
of very notable events from 1555
to the present day -- the rise
and fall of napoleon.
|
| 00:15:47 | He predicted the landing on the
moon.
|
| 00:15:49 | He predicted the events of
world war ii, including the rise
and fall of hitler.
|
| 00:15:54 | He's predicted an enormous
amount of things.
|
| 00:15:58 | >> Narrator: Some believe that
the prophecies of nostradamus
point directly at today's
perilous times.
|
| 00:16:05 | Could his cryptic quatrains have
been describing the cataclysm
that some say awaits us in 2012?
|
| 00:16:35 | Apocalyptic visions are
everywhere in the work of
nostradamus, the most
frightening and familiar image,
fire in the sky.
|
| 00:16:45 | Is nostradamus pointing to some
yet-undiscovered threat from the
skies?
|
| 00:16:50 | A comet or asteroid hurtling
silently through space?
|
| 00:16:55 | Deadly solar flares thrown off
from the sun?
|
| 00:16:59 | Modern science now searches for
answers to these questions.
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| 00:17:04 | What evidence might astronomers
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| 00:21:00 | >> Narrator: Will the world end
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| 00:21:05 | Or will it slowly keep turning
as it has for millions of years?
|
| 00:21:10 | Some interpreters of the mayan
calendar say that the mayans
foresaw 2012 as the year of the
apocalypse.
|
| 00:21:20 | And they see corroboration in
the prophecies of other ancient
cultures -- the hopi and hindu.
|
| 00:21:30 | But skeptics see few real
connections.
|
| 00:21:35 | Now the debate intensifies as
some seek answers from history's
most renowned seer, nostradamus.
|
| 00:21:45 | What is his prediction for 2012?
|
| 00:21:49 | The year never appears in any of
his quatrains, but some believe
one quatrain alludes to an
astronomical event that could
potentially occur.
|
| 00:22:08 | Some researchers believe
nostradamus is describing an
asteroid or comet.
|
| 00:22:14 | Over eons, earth has been struck
by a variety of celestial
objects, some of which triggered
extinction.
|
| 00:22:23 | >> There is a theory that the
dinosaurs, 65 million years ago,
were wiped out by an asteroid.
|
| 00:22:29 | If that were to happen, we could
be looking at an
end-of-the-world scenario,
definitely.
|
| 00:22:36 | >> If something that big were to
happen, humanity wouldn't
survive.
|
| 00:22:41 | >> Narrator: Could an asteroid
strike earth in 2012?
|
| 00:22:47 | Nasa estimates there are a total
of 20,000 asteroids and comets
in our solar system that are
potential threats.
|
| 00:22:56 | But scientists know where only
6,000 of these objects are.
|
| 00:23:00 | And some fear one could be
heading our way.
|
| 00:23:05 | Analysts at nasa have confirmed
that a different threat from
..
|
| 00:23:11 | From our own sun.
|
| 00:23:14 | >> It just so happens, perhaps
coincidentally, that solar
activity -- sun storms, sun
spots, and the explosions that
emanate from them -- will climax
in 2012.
|
| 00:23:25 | This is not a mayan or a new-age
prediction.
|
| 00:23:29 | This is by consensus of
contemporary astronomers.
|
| 00:23:32 | >> What we know from the past is
that there's an 11-year solar
cycle, and we'll be coming to
the peak of that solar cycle in
2012, so the chances of solar
activity being high, of
disturbances coming from the sun
will be high for the whole year
of 2012.
|
| 00:23:49 | It's a paradox, but we're more
susceptible to problems from the
sun now than we ever have been
before, and that's because we
rely on increasingly
sophisticated technology --
microcircuits, microchips, small
things that can easily be
disrupted by just a small amount
of radiation.
|
| 00:24:09 | >> Narrator: If the solar climax
of 2012 is more powerful than
any previously recorded, what
could be the worst-case
scenario?
|
| 00:24:17 | >> Without any warning, we
suddenly have a communication
blackout over the polar caps.
|
| 00:24:22 | We'd lose contact with our
aircraft flying from the eastern
united states to east asia.
|
| 00:24:29 | The next thing that happens is a
big cloud of solar plasma, that
means charged ions and
electrons, slams into the earth,
compresses the earth's magnetic
field, and sets off a storm
inside the earth's magnetic
field.
|
| 00:24:43 | >> Narrator: Satellites
crippled, communication cut off,
all electricity out.
|
| 00:24:50 | Chaos ensues as our electronic
world shuts down.
|
| 00:24:57 | Could this be out imminent
..
|
| 00:25:01 | Or will our weakening magnetic
field protect us as it always
has in the past?
|
| 00:25:10 | Prophecies foretelling the
world's end in 2012 have
emerged not only from the
cosmos, but also the inner mind.
|
| 00:25:18 | An american shaman of sorts
would embark on a different type
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|
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searched for answers to the
human condition.
|
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|
| 00:25:34 | He would combine complex
mathematics, chinese philosophy,
and psychedelic drugs into a
provocative new form of
prophecy.
|
| 00:25:43 | His quest eventually led him to
conclude that, just as the
mayans predicted over 1,000
years earlier, humanity's end
was destined for 2012.
|
| 00:25:54 | IN 1971, McKENNA AND HIS BROTHER
Dennis accelerated their
spiritual experiment with a trip
through the colombian amazon.
|
| 00:26:03 | The result was an end-of-days
theory so novel, scholars took
immediate notice.
|
| 00:26:10 | >> We were, I guess, children of
THE '60s IN A SENSE AND PART OF
The counterculture.
|
| 00:26:17 | We were interested in alchemy,
magic, psychedelics, and many
subjects that you might think of
as esoteric.
|
| 00:26:26 | >> Narrator: The mckenna
brothers went to colombia in
search of oo-koo-hé, a
hallucinogenic potion that
contains dmt, a psychedelic
drug.
|
| 00:26:38 | >> We found out that dmt
occurred in many plants and that
many of these plants were used
in shamanism, particularly in
south american shamanism.
|
| 00:26:47 | It actually opened the doorway
to what seemed to be a
profoundly different world, and
a different world in the sense
that it seemed as real as this
world.
|
| 00:27:02 | We thought that we were really
on a quest for some kind of holy
grail.
|
| 00:27:11 | >> Narrator: Use of these
recreational drugs would lead to
terence McKenna's groundbreaking
life's work -- timewave theory.
|
| 00:27:20 | This theory proposes that the
ebb and flow of significant
events in the universe is an
..and
that across the millennia, these
significant events increase
exponentially until they climax
in 2012.
|
| 00:27:36 | Skeptics consider it
pseudoscientific fantasy.
|
| 00:27:40 | Followers of the timewave theory
believe it's genius.
|
| 00:27:44 | >> The idea for the timewave
grew out of this experiment,
what you might call ideas
downloaded from another
dimension.
|
| 00:27:56 | >> Narrator: But not everyone
agrees.
|
| 00:27:58 | What skeptics would consider a
psychedelic drug trip for kicks,
the McKenna brothers saw as an
experiment probing untapped
human potential.
|
| 00:28:08 | >> A number of other things did
manifest, which you might
interpret as paranormal.
|
| 00:28:14 | For instance, we seemed to have
telepathy with each other.
|
| 00:28:20 | I could hear what terence was
saying in my head and vice
versa.
|
| 00:28:26 | We seemed to have access to a
huge database of information
from somewhere.
|
| 00:28:33 | I was traveling backward in
time.
|
| 00:28:36 | He was traveling forward in
time.
|
| 00:28:38 | And terence did not sleep for 14
days after the experiment.
|
| 00:28:45 | >> Narrator: Terence mckenna
believed that during the
experiment, a divine voice
instructed him to analyze
numerical patterns of an ancient
chinese text called the
..a text that uses
complex symbols to organize
seemingly random events,
including those yet to happen.
|
| 00:29:06 | This system, still in use today,
is believed by some to predict
the future.
|
| 00:29:14 | >> The yi jing is the chinese
divination system that uses
broken and unbroken lines in
hexagrams to form patterns.
|
| 00:29:21 | There are 64 sequences that you
can get, 64 combinations.
|
| 00:29:26 | Now, terence and dennis -- they
saw a pattern emerge that
correlated with events of
novelty, which are just simply
new events that happened to
human beings or that happen in
the world or in the universe.
|
| 00:29:40 | >> And he started making charts
and almost like automatic
writing -- running, looking at
the yi jing, and running these
cycles of 64 hexagrams in the
yi jing.
|
| 00:29:54 | And 6 times 64 is 384.
|
| 00:29:58 | Well, it turns out 384 is a
perfect 13-month lunar year.
|
| 00:30:07 | >> Narrator: Guided by the
YI JING, terence McKenna used
complex math to plot so-called
periods of novelty on a wave or
timeline.
|
| 00:30:17 | He then looked for a significant
date in history which would
mark the start of the final
cycle of life on earth.
|
| 00:30:24 | He chose august 8, 1945, the
date of the atomic bombing of
hiroshima, japan.
|
| 00:30:34 | To that date in 1945, he added
29 years, the length of one
cycle of life according to the
yi jing.
|
| 00:30:45 | The result was an end date in
december 2012, essentially the
same end date identified by the
mayans.
|
| 00:30:55 | for McKenna, it was the missing
key that unlocked the mystery of
his timewave theory.
|
| 00:31:04 | BUT terence McKenna would never
learn whether his doomsday
timewave theory would be
realized.
|
| 00:31:11 | He died in april of 2000.
|
| 00:31:15 | >> We really need terence now.
|
| 00:31:16 | We need his eloquence, and we
don't have it, and I'm an
extremely poor substitute for
it.
|
| 00:31:22 | But I feel that I have to at
least bring terence's work to
the forefront because it is the
most incredibly important work
that I've ever seen.
|
| 00:31:29 | >> Narrator: For some,
terence McKenna's work suggests
that the yi jing is yet another
ancient prophecy corroborating
doom for 2012.
|
| 00:31:41 | And some believe a different
21st-CENTURY PROPHET, ONE HIDDEN
In the shadows, has issued the
same dire warning.
|
| 00:31:49 | It is not rooted in ancient
wisdom nor long-lost cultures,
but microchips.
|
| 00:31:56 | Could history's ultimate source
of information, the internet,
hold the secret to what might
happen in 2012?
|
| 00:34:39 | xt
>> Narrator: The mayans, the
hopi, the hindu, the yi jing,
modern science.
|
| 00:36:09 | Adherents to the belief that the
world will end in 2012 say these
cultures are sending a message
of warning to our generation.
|
| 00:36:17 | They believe more proof of this
is perhaps unfolding today.
|
| 00:36:25 | October 2008, new york city,
financial capital of the world.
|
| 00:36:31 | economy plummets into a
free-falling state of chaos,
sending shock waves across all
global markets.
|
| 00:36:39 | Major financial institutions
close their doors.
|
| 00:36:42 | Food and fuel prices skyrocket.
|
| 00:36:44 | rises
to the greatest level since
world war ii -- a major
disruption just four years
before 2012.
|
| 00:36:54 | Could the recent financial
collapse be simply the inherent
nature of capitalism at work, or
is the world moving closer to
an end-of-days cataclysm?
|
| 00:37:05 | >> The global economy is
collapsing.
|
| 00:37:07 | People are panicking.
|
| 00:37:08 | We are living in a very
fear-based time right now.
|
| 00:37:12 | >> I think what we have here
with 2012 is what I call
"
"the sky is falling!
|
| 00:37:19 | "
"
"
>> Narrator: Some believe the
debate over 2012 can be settled
by a newer oracle now among us,
a revolutionary triumph of the
computer age.
|
| 00:37:35 | In 1997, a mysterious former
computer consultant, today known
only as cliff, created a program
called web bot.
|
| 00:37:45 | Those familiar with web bot and
its inventor say cliff designed
the program to predict future
stock-market trends.
|
| 00:37:54 | >> The web bot program is really
interesting because it
corresponds with a hopi prophecy
that towards the end time, the
world would become like a
spider web and everybody would
be able to communicate
interconnected by this web.
|
| 00:38:07 | Well, we've got the worldwide
web now.
|
| 00:38:10 | >> Narrator: The internet's
powerful ability to disseminate
and build upon vast amounts of
global information has led some
to a provocative belief that the
internet is a repository of our
own psychic visions of the
future.
|
| 00:38:24 | Web bot is our tool to decoding
it.
|
| 00:38:28 | >> The web bot project is
looking to tap into the
collective unconscious of
humanity by focusing on specific
search words and keywords to
kind of look for tipping points,
TRENDS, M.E.M.s, PARADIGMS THAT
Are being discussed on the
internet.
|
| 00:38:45 | >> Narrator: Web bot is a
software application that
automatically combs internet
data in search of keywords
denoting trends.
|
| 00:38:54 | It not only finds the keywords,
but those surrounding them and
analyzes the results using
linguistic tools.
|
| 00:39:03 | The data ends up at a central
collection point, its location
and data collectors still
unknown, where they can be read
and interpreted.
|
| 00:39:13 | Results emerge as mysterious
clipped fragments reminiscent of
the poemlike quatrains of
history's most famous seer,
nostradamus.
|
| 00:39:25 | IN THE 1990s, WEB BOT COMPLETED
Countless word searches and
compiled trend reports.
|
| 00:39:31 | And in 2001, an unexpected
pattern seemed to emerge.
|
| 00:39:36 | >> I first heard about it in
june of 2001 when one of my
friends sent me an e-mail saying
some crackpot is saying that
there's gonna be something
happening in late summer,
high-rise buildings are gonna be
destroyed.
|
| 00:39:50 | Airplanes, terrorism, many die.
|
| 00:39:53 | And I went, "yeah, right,
"
and I ignored it.
|
| 00:39:56 | And 9/11 happened.
|
| 00:40:00 | A few years later, I got another
message from my friend saying,
"that crazy guy's saying
"
"
and he's saying, "southern city,
"
and I said, "okay, if anything
happened, I would now start
"
well, katrina happened three
weeks later in new orleans.
|
| 00:40:18 | >> Narrator: Hurricane katrina
barreled into the southern coast
of the united states on august
29, 2005, causing catastrophic
floods and levee failures
throughout 80% of the city of
new orleans.
|
| 00:40:32 | Nearly 2,000 people lost their
lives.
|
| 00:40:36 | Property damage surpassed $100
billion.
|
| 00:40:42 | Those using web bot as a
predictive device began
..
|
| 00:40:50 | Many of which supposedly point
to a dark and dangerous future.
|
| 00:40:55 | The 2008 stock-market crash,
bank failures, mass
unemployment, collapse of the
..
|
| 00:41:07 | According to some, web bot saw
..based on
information in cyberspace.
|
| 00:41:22 | As for 2012, some believe
web bot purportedly foresees
countless casualties resulting
from an unusual combination of
disease, economic collapse, and
even an unidentified threat from
space, echoing the hopi indians
and the 500-year-old prophecies
of nostradamus.
|
| 00:41:41 | But skeptics say cyberspace has
no mysterious ability to predict
the future.
|
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web bot followers and believers
in the 2012 apocalypse as
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| 00:46:08 | >> Narrator: December 21,
2012 -- a date predicted
thousands of years ago across
diverse cultures to be the end
..
|
| 00:46:21 | When the world will lay
smoldered in ruins, decimated
by a final cataclysm.
|
| 00:46:27 | [ People screaming ]
some believe solar storms will
rain destruction upon our
..
|
| 00:46:40 | And even a new ice age may
emerge.
|
| 00:46:47 | If we accept the premise that
life as we know it will draw to
..
|
| 00:46:52 | What might await in 2013?
|
| 00:46:57 | >> It will be very, very hard to
survive this because all the
volcanoes that will go off, they
will give a cloud of dust around
the earth, and that will stay
there for at least 30 to 40
years.
|
| 00:47:12 | So there will be almost no sun.
|
| 00:47:15 | The stone age was better because
you had sun.
|
| 00:47:18 | And after this cataclysm, you
won't have food, you won't have
sun, you won't have electricity.
|
| 00:47:25 | You will have nothing.
|
| 00:47:30 | >> Narrator: This is the
aftermath of global disaster.
|
| 00:47:36 | A tiny fraction of the
population has survived and must
now claw for what little
resources remain.
|
| 00:47:44 | >> The only people that are
gonna survive the cataclysm are
those who are taking precautions
now.
|
| 00:47:51 | >> Narrator: For survivors to
endure, they will have had to
stockpile food, weapons, and
supplies necessary to live on
and rebuild.
|
| 00:48:01 | >> I think that the only safety
that people are gonna find is in
community and in networks of
trust.
|
| 00:48:07 | Trust is gonna become like a new
form of value principal to
replace a vanished obsession
with money.
|
| 00:48:19 | >> Narrator: Researchers suggest
the safest possible locations to
resettle after the devastation
will be far away from
..coastlines, nuclear
..
|
| 00:48:31 | And at least 6,000 feet in
elevation.
|
| 00:48:38 | >> We have found several places
that we think that are okay.
|
| 00:48:43 | Malawi is okay, morocco is okay,
ethiopia, if you stay far away
from the volcanoes, and also
madagascar.
|
| 00:48:52 | >> Narrator: But why so high
above sea level?
|
| 00:48:55 | >> The pollution that is gonna
be created by the tidal waves,
it's gonna be taking out
industry, densely populated
areas.
|
| 00:49:05 | We're gonna have oil wells, tank
farms, tankers, chemical plants
that are gonna be inundated.
|
| 00:49:12 | And the farmlands are gonna be
inundated with salty, toxic
water.
|
| 00:49:16 | This is why higher elevations
are gonna be needed to habitate
and colonize and be able to
plant crops out of the flood
zone.
|
| 00:49:25 | >> Narrator: Those who believe
that hoarding supplies and
choosing the right location are
not enough to survive now look
to a bold new model.
|
| 00:49:35 | 300 Miles north of the norwegian
mainland, 427 feet inside a
..lies a bunker
unlike any other.
|
| 00:49:45 | >> One of the more positive
things that's being done, in
case there is a series of global
catastrophes in 2012, is the
doomsday seed vault, which is an
impenetrable vault that is
storing seeds for us.
|
| 00:50:00 | It is supposedly immune to
everything from super volcanic
eruption to nuclear explosion.
|
| 00:50:06 | And in this vault, geneticists,
researchers, scientists are
bringing the best quality seeds
that they can in the hopes that
if something ever did happen, we
would be able to use these seeds
to repopulate these plants, to
have a new agricultural society.
|
| 00:50:24 | >> Narrator: The svalbard global
seed vault began operation in
2008.
|
| 00:50:30 | It's the world's $9-million
insurance policy against
catastrophic loss of plants on
earth.
|
| 00:50:37 | 5 million
distinct samples of seeds or
about 2 billion in total.
|
| 00:50:46 | The seeds are gathered from all
over the world, encompassing
almost every variety of the
globe's most important food
crops.
|
| 00:50:55 | >> The seed vault is basically a
little noah's ark.
|
| 00:50:58 | >> Narrator: The refrigerated
vaults preserve the seeds at
zero degrees fahrenheit.
|
| 00:51:04 | If the refrigeration units fail,
the arctic permafrost
surrounding the vault will still
keep the seeds frozen at
25 degrees fahrenheit.
|
| 00:51:13 | To sabotage or steal from this
facility, one would have to
brave bone-chilling
temperatures, polar bears, and
state-of-the-art security.
|
| 00:51:23 | Assuming survivors of an
apocalypse could reach the seed
vault, the seeds stored here
would ensure that they could
regrow the crops needed for
survival.
|
| 00:51:33 | But not everyone is convinced
the facility is a fail-safe
against 2012.
|
| 00:51:40 | >> The tidal wave from 2
kilometer high comes in,
everything will be destroyed.
|
| 00:51:45 | Nothing will be left.
|
| 00:51:47 | And it won't help us to restart
civilization, so according to
me, it's a huge waste of money.
|
| 00:51:59 | >> Narrator: But as 2012
approaches, many believe the
focus on this date as a year of
apocalypse is a result of
misinterpretation and hysteria.
|
| 00:52:09 | Others contend that a chorus of
ancient prophecies have
..
|
| 00:52:15 | And are clear signs of impending
calamity.
|
| 00:52:19 | For them, it is no coincidence
that one message of doom is
seemingly shared by cultures
separated by so many miles and
centuries.
|
| 00:52:31 | >> They're feeling it.
|
| 00:52:32 | They're seeing it in the news.
|
| 00:52:33 | Something is coming.
|
| 00:52:35 | >> The year 2012 appears to me
as a completely arbitrary date,
no different from 2011 or 2013.
|
| 00:52:46 | I'm sure there will be some
exciting things happen in that
year, but, then, that's true
for all other years, as well.
|
| 00:52:53 | >> What I'm most worried about
for 2012 is the domino effect.
|
| 00:52:57 | It's global systemic collapse.
|
| 00:53:03 | >> Narrator: The clock keeps
ticking as we await the arrival
of december 21, 2012.
|
| 00:53:10 | There is every reason to believe
that day will dawn as so many
millions have before it.
|
| 00:53:16 | But what the world will look
like on the morning after --
DECEMBER 22nd -- IS ANYONE'S
Guess.
|
| 00:53:27 | >> male narrator: THROUGHOUT
Time, there have been mysteries
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