Walkway to the Future, photo by James Korringa

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
~REM

NASA has a page for anyone feeling worried about all the end of the world talk with

Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?

Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then — just as your calendar begins again on January 1 — another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar. (see links in yesterday’s Michigan in Pictures for more on this!)

What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the Earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours?

A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. Scientists believe a magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia.

In the event that NASA scientists are wrong, I hope everyone has a wonderful last day on earth. There are also those who feel that it’s a new age in conciousness dawning, which might be a nice thing. In the event those folks are right or it’s just another day, here’s hoping your short and long term future is better than you hope!

James writes that this walkway is in Detroit. View it on black and in his Favorites slideshow.