QIf Lucinda could hear the whisper people, why wasn't she saved?
ALucinda was driven crazy by the voices and surely understood what the numbers or whispering meant. Indeed, in her bedroom, John finds a wall covered of newspaper's snippets about a lot of disasters related to the numbers.
She also understood that something really bad would occur on October 19th, but the reason why she wasn't saved is left unanswered. It probably had to do with the fact that she could not cope with knowing the world was going to end, so she killed herself before she could be saved. It can be speculated that Abby had a striking resemblance to Lucinda and perhaps this is to show that somehow Lucinda was 'saved' in the form of Abby. Also, Lucinda was a child in the 50's, so she was obviously a full grown adult by the time the world ends. As we see in the film, the aliens only save the children. So it's possible that Lucinda was simply a messenger the aliens hoped that perhaps somebody would figure out what the dates and predictions meant back when Lucinda wrote them. and possibly with the 50 years of advanced knowledge of the world ending, the human race could develope a way to prevent it. Unfortunately the predictions were buried in the time capsule and not discovered until just weeks before the world ended, so the aliens were forced to implement plan B.
QSince there were other spaceship leaving the earth, does that mean that the whisper people whispered the same numbers to other people around the world?
AIt's possible. Or maybe they sent different kinds of messages to different people. That's very possible since not as many people are as smart as John. They might not have figured out the messages from the numbers. There could have been all kinds of messages that were sent depending on the what the people recieving them were like.
QIs there an ancient document that predicts a doomsday date?
AThere are many theories surrounding the Mayan Long Count Calendar, a system of recording dates used by the Mayan people around 3000 BC. The Mayans were, for a great deal of human history, the most advanced astronomers and developers of systems for predicting eclipses and other events of cosmic significance that they recorded in various documents. In the late 20th century and onwards, many theories have been developed regarding the supposed "end date" of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The current b'ak'tun "cycle", the 13th, ends on the 21st of December, 2012. The Mayans considered this a historic event, as the previous world (the third attempt, by that stage) was written off as a failure by their gods after its 13th b'ak'tun. Our current world was considered to be a success, and therefore humans were created in it (ca. 3000 BC). Making it into a 14th b'ak'tun was to be considered an additional sign that the universe was "correct", and would be cause for a great celebration, similar to 20th century celebrations of the Millenium. Mayan predictions for events continue into the future, either as a new 14th b'ak'tun or as a "distance date" from the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. Many New Age theories exist, however, that suppose the universe or world will come to an end in that date. These vary from a solar disaster, as in this movie, to a shift in the magnetic poles or rotational axis of the Earth, arrival of a rogue planet or brown dwarf, some sort of spiritual singularity, etc.
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