Re: Movies in General/ Star Trek etc etc
The 2012 movie visually looks interesting, as for the ancient Mayan prophecy about the world being destroyed, that's a crock. The Mayans prophesized that in around 2012 their would be a cultural awakening, not complete annihilation ala Roland Emerich. It's mostly due to a bad translation by a french archaeologist, but might be a good popcorn for some.
Yep, another thing is that they found that the Mayan calender, which is a cycle, ended on 2012. So they concluded that Mayans must've thought the whole world's ending in that year, therefore no need to continue the calender. One thing they did not consider is that the calender-making could be ended by some man-made or natural disaster. It's amazing how easy it is to get people to believe something like this. Like all the urban legends and myths, such as aliens, UFO, etc, the scarier you make it, the more likely people will believe it.
Last night, I was watching History channel where they had "UFO Hunters" on all night long. At the end, I had to switch channels because some of those so-called ufologists are simply nut-cases. They can link anything and everything to aliens. "Anything we can't explain has to be done by the aliens..." "How could our ancestors be smart enough to build pyramids? It had be the aliens..." "why else the military installations around the country don't want us to know what they are doing? they are working with aliens...? No, I'm not kidding here. This is exactly what some of the hosts are saying on the show with a straight face. They spent a quarter of the show "testing" the security of one of the military facilities in Utah. Of course, they found it was very tight. And the conclusion they got? The US govn't must be working with aliens as if the nation has nothing else to hide but aliens.... Man, talking about subjective and illogical thinking... To me, the show gets a little better this season since they brought in a mechanical engineer who actually does something strange called "logical thinking", which must be a shocking revelation to many of the "ufologists". To me, this guy is the ONLY sane voice on that show and the only thing that keeps me watching it.
