I cant wait until dec 20th 2012 its gonna be like y2k all over again but probably worse lol so ridiculous.
That's my birthday
Re: "the Maya are long since dead"
The Maya peoples never disappeared, neither at the time of the Classic period decline nor with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent Spanish colonization of the Americas. Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideologies (and structured by the almost total adoption of Roman Catholicism). Many different Mayan languages continue to be spoken as primary languages today; the Rabinal Achí, a play written in the Achi' language, was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005.
(From the Wikipedia article: Maya civilization)
Oh no it'll go on and on until the real armageddon that likely didn't stem from a defunct civilisation thousands of years before.I wonder when the next 'apocalypse' will be when 2012 is over? 2013, 2020? Who knows.
So supposedly the world is supposed to end on Dec. 21 2012 or should I say the Maya Calendar ends then. Is this just another Y2k or is this one for real?
Oh course the world will end then, that's exactly how these things work.
The only thing that bothers me about it is the issue of time zones. Will the world end sooner in some countries than others? Could we postpone it by continually putting the clocks back an hour?
Personally I'm still waiting to get my eleven days back...
It would not end this way, anymore than the moon would blow out of orbit on September 13, 1999.
Bit o' trivia there, anyone know what it is?
Miss Jaffa Cake's David Beckham calendar ends on 31st December this year. However, I'm not taking that as a portent of doom and I feel the same way about the Mayan version too.So supposedly the world is supposed to end on Dec. 21 2012 or should I say the Maya Calendar ends then.
Can Kevin Rose tell us if the rumors are true?
My little bro studied the Mayas and Aztecs last year. Both sacrificed virgin women. The Mayan Empire didnt die it went away meaning they broke up and separted you could say.I stand corrected - thanks for the link and the history. I guess what I meant was they're no longer a separate state, they don't practice their beliefs the way they used to (are they the ones with the human sacrifices or was that the Aztecs?) and stuff like that. I could have worded it better.
My Birthday is Dec 21st, so if that's true - somebody better throw me one Hell of a party!
So many ways to come to an ending:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/
Just for the record, I don't think it'll be "the end of the world" - there seems to be a huge confusion about when the Sun actually crosses the galactic plane and lines-up dead-center with the galactic core, vs the illusion of a plane crossing... which happens a lot more often then you might think.
Try twice a year.
Every year, around the time of the Winter solstice, the Sun positions itself so that from our vantage point it appears to cross the galactic core. Six months later, it does the same thing.
When I say illusion of a plane crossing, it's because when this happens twice yearly, the Sun is not actually sitting in direct alignment between the galactic core and the circular plane of the galaxy - it just appears that way from our vantage point. The Sun does not travel around the galactic plane in a straight even orbit - it oscillates, or wobbles up and down during its journey with the Milky Way... and thus, dips above and below the true galactic plane several times along this trip.
So when does a true plane-crossing happen? At a distance of about 25,000 light years from the galactic core, it takes the Sun somewhere close to 240,000,000 of our years to travel one complete rotation of the Milky Way. It is believed that during this trip, the Suns oscillation will have it crossing the galactic plane at best, maybe 5 to 6 times as it rises and falls below the line of the galactic plane - meaning we actually physically cross the plane somewhere in the neighborhood of once every 40,000,000 years or so.
That's quite a time span -
and the last time we crossed the plane? depending on whom you ask, the figure can vary from about 8,000,000 years ago, to 18,000,000. Either way,
it means we're actually moving away from any direct Sun-galactic center-galactic plane crossing.
Considering the Earth is generally accepted as being 4.5 billion years old, this means our planet has seen about 113 or so of these actual crossings.
Still here. Life still crawling around.
So why all the hype? Because it's easier the sell books and tv shows and disaster theories to the public, when you add bad science to an ancient calendar - who's actual start/stop dates are still being debated.
Dec 21, 2012? Probably didn't mean squat to the Maya.
I wouldn't worry about it - personally I'm a little more worked up about what's happening with the U.S. economy at the moment - that certainly is something that could impact myself & a lot of others directly, and disastrously.
So presumably aliens will be involved.Re: "the Maya are long since dead"
... Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideologies (and structured by the almost total adoption of Roman Catholicism)...
So presumably aliens will be involved.
I wonder when the next 'apocalypse' will be when 2012 is over? 2013, 2020? Who knows.
Interesting but not worried.
On a side note, I wonder if the PowerBook G5 will be released by then?
Nah, it's when the Braves win again, which right now, is unlikely.The world will end when the Cubs win the World Series.
Well the world is gonna have to end someday, it is not going to wait for the Braves to get good again.Nah, it's when the Braves win again, which right now, is unlikely.