I watched it, I'm almost done with it ( few minutes left ) and there is solid info relating to science and most theories of the galactic plane..it starts off kinda "hokey" and a waste of time, yet speeds up into good info.
You have to look past the new age info presented, you have to look past the doom info presented.... Just take in the science involved and come to your understanding of what was presented to form an understanding of what Dec 21st 2012 brings us.
Doom?. No.
Better understanding of our sun traveling through space and towing us along?..YES.
Quoting: Redpaw360 ^^ THIS ^^
At least, that's what I got out of it. I don't start my Astronomy class until January, so I don't have a clue if any of that central sun stuff is right.
You are going to love astronomy, had you lived closer to me, I'd let you put my 12" dobsonian and quality eyepieces to the test any time you wanted.
I personally don't know if our solar system orbits another star system, but I look at it like this:
Put a thousand BB's into a blender and set for froth / juice. Now some of those BB' over time will establish orbits around each other. If some of those BB's had a magnetic field around them, and some did not, you'd find that over time they'd group together and establish orbital harmony with the force of the whirlpool.
It is quite possible we orbit another body in the Sagittarius arm of our galactic arm as we weave up and down through the galactic plane . We just don't know enough at this point in our current studies.
I do however find global precession fascinating as portrayed within this video and how, as we dive above and below the galactic plane the planet produces procession of the poles as well.
Like I said, there's really good science in this video, but getting to it the way this guy presents it, is a little too hippy for me.
The 21st is right around the corner, I guess if the poles start to do a slow slip, we'll know in our lifetimes.
