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media type="youtube" key="sFXGrTng0gQ" width="425" height="350" This video is a preview for the //2012// movie that came out in 2009.

__2012 (the movie)__ Plot: Negative Feedback media type="youtube" key="dpxF8Cd1jwc" width="425" height="350" this the trailer for a 2005 television miniseries, called Category 7: The end of the world.
 * 2009: geologist Adrian Helmsley learns that neutrinos from a huge solar flare on the sun are causing Earth's core's temperature to increase, and he informs U.S. president
 * 2010: world leaders try to ensure humanity's survival by choosing 400,000 people to board "arks", built in Tibet
 * Nima, a monk, is evacuated, brother Tenzin works on Ark
 * 2011: valuable art and other treasures are moved to Himalayas
 * 2012: Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer/ limousine driver in L.A. He has an ex-wife and kids.
 * Jackson takes kids camping in Yellowstone National Park, meets Helmsley and Charlie Frost, a radio host
 * Charlie plays video about 2012 and the long count calender, and has a map about the ark project and info about murdered officials/scientists who were trying to spread the word about the project
 * family returns home, there are more earthquakes, Jackson, suspicious, rents plane in time to rescue family as Los Angeles is destroyed
 * millions die in earthquakes, the group flies to Yellowstone to retrieve map. Charlie is killed by volcano
 * Group obtains larger plane, meets Yuri, pilot, and family, heads to China as does White House officials and Helmsley. President and pilot are killed
 * group is taken to the ark by Nima, and stows away with the help of Tenzin
 * megatsunami approaches, impact driver is lodged in gears of ark's hydraulic chambers, a boarding gate cannot close, ship can't start engines
 * Yuri, girlfriend, and Gordon are killed in resulting chaos, Tenzin is wounded, problem is fixed and ark is set adrift
 * flood waters recede, ark heads to Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where the tallest mountain in the world is. A happy ending for Jackson, Helmsley, and families
 * Rotten tomatoes website said 39% of the critics gave the movie a positive review
 * However, anthropologist Will Black and researcher Carl Calleman criticized the film
 * they claimed that 2012 distracted people from the true meaning if the Mayan calender, and the movie made people fearful of 2012
 * Will Black, who wrote a book, said "The film is visually stunning but the tedious script sadly sheds no real light on Mayan society, calenders or even the wealth of New Age and utopian fantasies that have built up around the date. Apart from a character mentioning the Maya in passing, the film gave no information about the complex religious beliefs of either the ancient society or contemporary Mayan communities.”
 * the movie (and 2012 in general )is untrue, according to National Geographic, because
 * 1) the Mayan calender doesn't end in 2012
 * 2) continents will not shift drastically
 * 3) there's no "galactic alignment
 * 4) a "Planet X" will not collide with Earth
 * 5) solar storms won't heat up Earth anytime soon
 * 6) Mayans said stuff about the end of the world - but the weren't meant to be taken literally

__Apocalyptic, dystopian and post-Apocalyptic books that I liked or are popular:__

//The Giver// by Lois Lowry

//Gathering Blue// by Lois Lowry

//The City of Ember// series by Jeanne DuPrau

//The Hunger Games// series by Suzanne Collins

//Cell// and several other books by Steven King

//Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury

several books by Isaac Asimov

and there are, of course, countless non-fiction books related to the end of the world Links: [] [][] __[] __

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