I prefer scientific theories to new age mumbo-jumbo.
- All black holes move. Let me repeat, ALL black holes move. However, they don’t move fast enough to surprise us.
- The plane of the Milky Way is significantly large enough and our technology significantly imprecise enough that most astrophysicists acknowledge that we are at the very least within .1 degree of it now. Even the article you linked says “Thus, the Galactic Alignment “zone” is 1998 +/- 18 years = 1980 – 2016 (although most of it is just terrible science.)
- If you were to actually look at the wikipedia article, you’d notice it says ”[f]or a description of the modern scientific understanding, see true polar wander.” That article clearly, and correctly, states that we’ve had the poles shift before and that they don’t correlate with extinction patterns.
- The Mayan calendar is cyclic and has no end. The Long Count is used for monuments only, to denote dates that cannot be denoted with a combination of the Haab’ and Tzolk’in dates (solar and ceremonial calendars, respectively). There are inscriptions, most notably the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque that predict dates far beyond the end of the Long Count – the tablets make mention of celebrations for King Pacal to be had on October 4772 – some 2760 years after the end of the Long Count.
However, I should have been clearer when I meant they obviously didn’t think the world would end in 2012.