Nostradamus

As happened a thousand years, the approaching end of the millennium provoked a wave of concern about the times ahead. For centuries there have been many who have been prophesying the end of the world, obviously all missed, but also had to be made smaller than predictions were fulfilled even centuries later, also predicted an end, Am I right?

The best known of all the prophets “modern” is Nostradamus (Michel de Notre-Dame, 1503-1566), who expressed in verse in 1555 covering his prophecies to the end of the world. In his Centuria X, 72:

“The year nineteen ninety and nine seven months
The sky will come a great King of Terror:
To resuscitate the great King of Angolmois,
Before after Mars to reign by that. “
For scholars of the Prophet this is the century that talks about the end of the world as we know, it would be in 1999 in the seventh month. But at the time of Nostradamus had only 10 months, therefore referred to September (seventh month of their calendar). On the ground relates to the king of terror, to appear in the sky, and the reference to Mars is no doubt as war, Mars is in classical antiquity the god of war. The researchers said the Nostradamus predicted that in the heyday of a great war, an astronomical phenomenon will end to mankind.

For the Maya, who had the exact timetable until recently and still surprises us with his knowledge, the end of the world will come on December 21, 2012, start of a new era. For many other prophets, large and small, good and not so good, the end of the world is haunting us even to many scientists from different areas in order approaches.

While for some the end of the world is the extinction of humanity, for others it is promoted to a higher level or a radical change in the way we live, there are the religious interpretations of all kinds. So how will happen are the most varied but if we have to make a summary of the likely or repeated, these are:

1 A large meteor strikes the Earth: This is one reason that target some of the interpreters of Nostradamus, and also is one that is more fashionable by the recent impact of one on Jupiter and the passage of several of them the vicinity of our planet. Considering the Moon as found by the impact and that was the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs, we see that while Earth is a small target in the long run one large enough (1 km., Diameter ) has to fall. In fact, the March 23, 1989 one of 800 m. pass very close and was not detected until it was too late to stop it. There is the possibility of launching nuclear missiles against a possible impact, but we had better not see us so hurry. According to experts, a week before the collision would be visible in the sky, increasing the panic and disaster. A small impact of a body of 400 m in diameter, could also be fatal if falling nuclear and destroys the current global state of balance (what would it be if falling economic center in Japan or Europe?)

2 º. The day of Contact: Other interpretations of Nostradamus speaks of a permanent contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. If they come to conquer, with its technology, we would have no chance. And if they come in peace, just the social impact could be fatal to our civilization, as happened many times throughout history, remember the fate of all American cultures, or that of many people influenced by Rome.

3 – Nuclear Disaster: For most scholars of the nuclear issue if it does not change the current world order sooner or later someone will release the first bomb, and it will fall behind the others. Several times we were close to a nuclear conflict, and most people in the street or heard. On 9 November 1979, U.S. and Canadian interceptor aircraft took off from bases with orders to attack and destroy the alarm for a period that lasted six minutes, the explanation was that a tape containing a seizure was taken as true by the interceptors , neither the president nor the general staff at the time they learned. On June 3, 1980, a slight error in a computer warning systems indicated that there were Soviet nuclear missiles were launched against the United States, the alarm lasted three minutes and was terminated in the fourth minute, leaving relatively little before the American retaliation , and, of course, a counter of the Soviet Union. The false alarm came from an electronic bug in one piece that cost about forty-six cents …. Kingdom that the possibility of a fanatical leader is done with a pump or a central Chernovil relive the disaster, we see that this possibility is not far-fetched, nor has an expiration date.

4 – Environmental Disaster: The warming of the atmosphere, coupled with the hole in the ozone layer, deforestation, extinction of wildlife and pollution may end the current state of affairs in two decades. This would be a prolonged and agonizing end to humanity, although perhaps not definitive. The prosperity and the rise of civilization during the Middle Ages he was a halt for a “little ice age” that lasted 300 years, hunger, wars and disease ravaged Europe, how we stand to something?

5 – A new plague is not ruled out a disease that runs in all or most of humanity. In medieval plague swept Europe in waves, killing more than a third of the population in America from west-borne diseases wiped out half the indigenous population. We know of many viruses such as Ebola or Anthrax spreading to destroy the current world civilization. And if they are deadly which create naturally, think of those that are manmade.

6 – The final trial: In most religions there is a beginning and an end. Christians, Muslims and Jews from all branches agree that one day, after many hardships, God will come to end the world in one way or another.

Other possibilities are many candidates: a change in solar activity or other stellar phenomena, a world war, that the evolution of another step and create a new Man, the scarcity of natural resources, the approach of a star to our solar system. .. and many more. Although it is curious to observe how many civilizations in order of Humanity is by fire.

But Nostradamus and many others predicted an era of happiness after the destruction:

“The human epoch of supernatural origin will bring peace and unity.
The war, kept in captivity,
peace will reign for a long time. “

The end of the world has happened other times, killing more than a majority of living species on the planet, putting a sudden end to great and glorious civilizations (Cretans, Aztec …) or gradually forgetting everything that is known (all small cultures overwhelmed by other more important). The fact is that it is possible that the end of the world will never happen, or may already be happening, the truth is that no one can say exactly when or as it will, that only the facts are true, and the future is always a assumption, at least for most …