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Some believers in a 2012 doomsday used the term "galactic alignment" to describe a different phenomenon proposed by some scientists to explain a pattern in mass extinctions supposedly observed in the fossil record. [114] According to the Shiva Hypothesis, mass extinctions are not random, but recur every 26 million years.
2012 ranked number one on its opening weekend, grossing $65,237,614 on its first weekend (the fourth-largest opening for a disaster film). [33] Outside North America it is the 28th-highest-grossing film, the fourth-highest-grossing 2009 film, [ 34 ] and the second-highest-grossing film distributed by Sony-Columbia, after Skyfall .
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the estimated likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor , not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances.
Before 2012, there was Y2K. Predicted since the mid-'80s, Y2K was an eminently man-made calamity that nonetheless drew coverage and panic at least as widespread as 2012's.
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2012 phenomenon – a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization ...