Did you even follow the link that Matt provided? Extreme solar activity and the earth alligning with the galactic equator are no prophecies, they are fact. The date this this is gonna occur just happens to be 12/21/2012. Like I said, the 11 year cycle has already started. Look it up. Why you ask would they keep it a secret? Because they simply can't save us all. Obviously, they do plan on surviving or why would they be stocking this huge underground complex with food, clothing, ect.? What do you think would happen if the Gov. went on Nat. telivision and told us this would happen, and that only a handful of us would survive? Fuckin Anarchy. Think of 2012 not as the end of the world, but the beginning of the end. Yeah lots of civilizations have had similar prophecies. In fact an acient Chinese civilization came up with the same exzact date... 12/21/2012! Don't know about you but 2 totally diffrent civilization on either side of the world coming up with this date is pretty crazy. Do your homework...
Dude, please don't fall for this.
Show me one paper that says we are heading into the 'galactic plane', then find me where it says how it will influence life on the earth. Didn't your own source, or matt's source, say that it doesn't happen for 'eons'? How would we know what happens to life on earth if we've never measured the affects?
Further, the 'sleve' idea that paper offered within the sun, about how each planet produces these 'sleves' and they conflict with eachother inside the sun which produces sunspots, please provide me with some evidence for that theory as well, I tried searching for an independent source, but couldn't find anything.. That sounds pretty unlikely to me though. I'm pretty sure there are already pretty good ideas out there for why the sun becomes more active every 11 years, I doubt it has anything to do with the orbits of the planets. The size comparison is just too small. The gravity produced by even the largest planet, Jupiter is miniscule in comparison to the sun. It would be like a satellite orbiting the earth having some kind of gravitational impact.. Also, it takes a lot longer than 11 years for Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to orbit the Sun, why would Jupiters 11 year orbit have anything to do with sunspot activity at all?
I hope you consider all this man, realize it's all just hype, exactly how Y2K was (idk if you were old enough to experience that yet, I was 13 at the time, but still old enough to realize the bullshit at the time).. it's just a stupid rumor to sell merchandise, that's it. Look how well it's doing so far.. there's even a movie coming out with Nick Cage called 2012, actually looks pretty bad ass, but think about it, like you said, if they were really trying to keep it a secret, don't you think they're doing a shitty half assed job? How many people know about 2012? Do you see any anarchy?