Britain has been a stable country for much longer than most countries of the world and in general the population has never been effected by radical ideas the way others have. You can see this by the fact extream parties of both left and right have never made inroads into everyday politics as they have in most european countries.

Which is why for the most part the population of the UK ignors any 2012 doom mongering. They also remember they millennium bug hype which never occured.

As for the 2012 galatic alignment, it happens roughly every 26,000 years so that the earth has been through many of these since it was formed and survived them intact.

I now live in Japan and as far as I know the general population are not aware of any threat coming in 2012 either.

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Please enlighten us: what will happen? What should we do to save ourselves?

jacuzzi9mm - you seem to speak the language of common sense, but what do you mean by "2012 galatic alignment"?

As a scientific observer, this 2012 prophecy is nonsense.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6534662/Mayan-2012-apocalypse-theory-not-true-Nasa-says.html

As you can see, Mayans reject it, as do scientists.  You will also find that Mayans also prophesised beyond the date of their calendar so they were never predicting an apocalypse.

There was the millennium bug, then 2001, 2003 and now 2012.  I will be still planning what to do on the 22nd.

Don’t forget to make your foil hat!

Stupidity and superstition never sleep.

I opened the image posted with the question, and it says:

"Google Search   Raj  Meister   We Are The Future"

So the question-asker believes ... what ?

I recall hearing of some fool who predicted doomsday sometime in the 19th Century in USA. He found thousands of followers who sold all their property (I wonder where they were planning to spend the money?).

Ah, there it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism

When nothing happened, he recalculated his dates, and they went through it all again ... and again. Truly, is there a limit to gullibility?

Jon, you are welcome to the quote, whose assonance popped into my head unaided only by my unconscious mind (The double un... was actually a typo, but I love it! Freud is alive and dead!). However, "the city that never sleeps" is probably Frank Sinatra, about New York.

Our original poster mentioned a meteor: the "galactic alignment" part popped out later. The original of the meteor story might have been this one below, or any of several dozen others. Key names here are Toutatis and Apophis.

In line with Shakespeare's monkeys, one day it is going to happen. Actually it happens millions of times every day, but on a scale that is a global threat, maybe every 50,000 years. Amazing how an insignificant probability becomes a cast-iron certainty with no intermediate stage.

A University of British Columbia Professor published an online article that projected an 800m asteroid would hit Antarctica in the fall of 2012. His article was on the www.phas.ubc.ca website for 2 days before it abruptly disappeared.

It was probably stuck by an unpredicted fact.