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The End Really Is Coming, But Not Under Obama
NASA / JPL-Caltech
Andrew Malcom / Investor’s.com
The 1300′s were a crucial time in world history:
Fleas carried several waves of Black Death across Europe, killing countless millions. Many thousands of Jews were slaughtered for causing that. Kings and popes and their wars came and went, as did William “Braveheart” Wallace. Beheadings facilitated the process, as did stake-burnings for heretics. Vodka and corsets were invented. Construction began on the Bastille. Larry King was born in Brooklyn.
Most importantly, perhaps, in hindsight the 14th century came to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Renaissance.
That time period was also when all of the beautiful light in the NASA photo above began its journey from the Helix Nebula, a dying star in the Aquarius constellation, through the endless vacuum of space to strike the waiting lenses of the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer this year.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/100712-628466-nasa-photo-of-helix-nebulae-from-650-years-ago.htm#ixzz28eZ9x1Q6
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Well, that meas we all have 4 more years to live. There goes the Maya ( and others) prophecy.
Dupek
The mayans calendar simple state its a new ba’ktun, there’s nothing in Mayan belief that explicit say that the world will end, but they do believe we will engage a start of a new period in our spiritual evolution