Host: Jorge Salazar
Lead Producer: Mike Brennan
ES 22 Producers: Deborah Byrd, Ryan Britton, Emily Howard
Science news of the week:
Scientists announced that they’ve found more hopeful signs of the existence of the Higgs Boson particle
NASA found evidence for what may be a new candidate for the smallest known black hole
EarthSky office at dawn! Happy solstice, everybody.
An elephant seal traveled an astonishing 18,000 miles in less than one year
NASA’s Curiosity rover has traveled 32 million miles in route to Mars
This week’s featured stories:
Solstice 2011 Deborah Byrd talks with Jorge Salazar about the winter solstice, and about seeing planet Mercury near the moon on December 22.
2012, the Mayan calendar and doomsday prophecies Archaeologist Dr. Kathryn Reese-Taylor tells us what will happen on December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan calendar.
Image Credit: roger_jen
Song of the week:
Wiretree’s “Big Coat” from their album “Bouldin”
Thanks for listening in. We’ll catch ya next week!
This week’s musical contributors:
My daughter and I just visited the Mayan ruins in Yucatan. Every thing we learned of Mayan culture was Amazing. If we think about it. Their calendar is round and it will keep on going . They were great astronomers and builders and wonderful with math. Will.there be a Doomsday ? I think we will cause it and who really knows when !!!!!
The Mayan had to have out of this world help in order to know about the cosmos as they did. It had to be more than observation. With that as a premise, how can it not be true that the end of time is 12/21/2012 when the Earth aligns with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy ? Surly there are cosmic forces that we are unaware of ?! The Mayan received information that has been lost in time. What bothers me is that the early missionaries and priests found it necessary to burn the books from the Mayan. What did they find that was so disturbing that they found it necessary to burn it ? In other instances, knowledgeable people are appalled by book burning. Why is this instance being looked as a non important event ? Only people trying to hide the truth, burn the truth ! Get ready for the big event ! Maybe the Mayan didn’t say the world would end, but maybe they did. What was burnt in that fire ??
We figured it all out why couldn’t they. We have things like the iPhone did other worldly creatures help us ? Not that I’m aware of . I my self personally know amazing people who came up with amazing technology all by them selfs
We humans are not all stupid
We know now how they did what they did to learn all they new.
Look it up on the Internet it’s a invention made by humans alone. It’s amazing !
It is really nice reading your sections regarding the solar systems . It gwidens our ideas and knowledge… keep up…