#MARCH 10 1982 PLANET ALIGNMENT MOVIE#

In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. What exactly is the Maya calendar about to do? On December 21, 2012, it will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. But people eager for the world to end are not to be denied and this time, of course, all will be different. Throughout history, end-of-the-world movements missing their mark number in the 'hundreds of thousands at the very least,' says Richard Landes, historian at Boston University and director of its Center for Millennial Studies. The 'Jupiter Effect' cataclysm predicted for March 10, 1982, (named for the 1974 book about it by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann) commanded headlines but never materialized. Most believers in the power of planetary alignments forgot the failure of earlier lineups to induce disaster. When January 1, 2000, came and went with nothing worse than ski-lift passes printing the date as 1900, the focus shifted to '' several months later. In the 1990s an entire 'Earth Changes' movement swelled into being as the end of the century neared, with all sorts of millennial expectationsвЂ“earthquakes, plagues, polar axis shifts, continents sliding into the sea, Atlantis rising and more. Berlitz (fresh off books on Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle), warned that 1999 could inflict flood, famine, pollution and a shift of Earth's magnetic poles. Borrowing a forecast from Nostradamus, the 16th-century French riddler, author Charles Berlitz predicted catastrophe in his 1981 book Doomsday 1999. True-believer authors (and their imitators) published scary and/or hopeful books about the moment's prophetic potential to catch an immense cosmic wave and change everything for either good or ill.

Never mind the actual y2k computer-date bug. The last time the world got all worked up over the mystical turning of a calendar was the false millennium of January 1, 2000. We've had similar scares in the recent past, but none quite like this. I'm an astronomer and a specialist in the astronomy of ancient people, so people are asking me about this. People you know, however, are likely becoming a bit afraid that modern astronomy and Maya secrets are indeed conspiring to bring our doom. The ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala kept a calendar that is about to roll up the red carpet of time, swing the solar system into transcendental alignment with the heart of the Milky Way and turn Earth into a bowling pin for a rogue planet heading down our alley for a strike. The movie's ominous slogan: 'Find out the truth.' Two more major movies about the 2012 doomsday are reportedly in the works.ДЄnyone who cruises the Internet or all-night talk radio knows why. Earning $750 million, it seemed designed to break all records for disaster spectaclesвЂ“with cracking continents, plunging asteroids, burning cities and a tsunami throwing an aircraft carrier through the White House.

#MARCH 10 1982 PLANET ALIGNMENT MOVIE#

The $200-million disaster movie 2012 opened November 13, 2009.

March 10 1982 planet alignment