2012: End of the World! Science or Superstition?

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS globally are predicting and expecting that 3 years from now, all life on Earth may well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be we humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural disastrous phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop and restart button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012. Go through them and leave your view in comments.

Reason 1: Mayan calendar

The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things — building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.

Reason 2: Sun storms 

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.

Reason 3: The atom smasher 

Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

2011 Top 10 Gadget Failures

Among the thousand’s of gadgets released this year many were successful to impress the consumers with their awesome performance, uniqueness and affordable price tag. However some among them failed due to either of the reason or improper implementation, here are those top 10 products.

1. Nokia N9

Nokia launched the N9 as a successor to Nokia N8 with expectation of great sales figure. However the game turned, the best looking phone was bottlenecked due to its poor hardware and mild software support. Along with this, Nokia N9 was launched in handful countries with heavy price tag.

2. Apple Thunderbolt Display

 People who cannot afford iMac but still love the bling of it, Apple Thunderbolt Display is for them. Even though using most fastest Input/Output ever, this display is useless. The main reason behind its failure is its price tag as the 27inch model is priced at $999.00 USD where you can get a whole of MacBook Air or a 40inch HDTV at the same price.

3. Motorola Xoom

Motorola Xoom was the first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet released back this year. Being the first Honeycomb tablet the user-interface was completely raw, even the performance was not up to expectations. Such a tablet was heavily priced in the early days this reduced its demands and later on it was not even considered.

4. LG Optimus 3D

As the name states LG Optimus 3D is a 3D capable smartphone made to deliver glasses free 3D on a portable device. Though LG made it with decent hardware it was sluggish and poor laggy interface. 3D which was not necessary on portable device was made as the prime factor of the phone. The dimensions were big that made this phone fat and older version of Android withdrawn its demand.

5. HP Touch Pad

While the tablet wars were HOT, HP entered into the war by launching TouchPad featuring WebOS. HP Palm devices with WebOS was huge success which made HP to develop this operating on big screen. In early days TouchPad reached expected sales figure but later after that the sales figure went down and HP couldn’t meet the expected sales figure because of low application count and its inability to meet iPad’s performance at same price, this forced HP to stop HP TouchPad.