Has anyone looked into the 2012 stuff yet? Does anyone have any long term survival plans?

2012 hype is worse than the Y2K crap because it doesn't even have any foundation in science or reality ... just the end of an ancient calendar.

It's just as valid as any other Millienialism (JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK SOON!). That is to say not at all.

haha! okay :)

Will be just another year.

been aware of ut for a long time thanks to my favorite late night radio show Coast to Coast AM. I don't think any thing is really going to happen. If anything it looks like a lot of different things kinda converging at once. Maybe a new type of Renaissance period. Certainly nothing catastrophic..... Unless Yellowstone goes poof.. Tons of activity there at the moment.

yeah that would cause a serious probllem if it erupted or moved :I

i know its all superstitious....but why would the creators of one the first calendars make it just end :P

i know its all superstitious....but why would the creators of one the first calendars make it just end :P


They ran out of ink.

I have a bottle that is aging specifically for that year's uncorking. :cool:

Honestly I think whoever they had assigned to writing out the calendar prolly got to the end of his day, said "Alright guys see you tomorrow!" went home to his hut/condo and then something in the jungle on the way back ate him.

i know its all superstitious....but why would the creators of one the first calendars make it just end :P


I could be misremembering, however it isn't so much that it stops as there is a conjunction of the termination of all the cycles in the calendar system on the same year. Rather than having a single solar cycle like we do, they had numerous overlapping cyclical events based on the revolution of other planets, the moon, etc.



According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world.[8] The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 13th b'ak'tun.

The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.[9]

Their base-20 arithmetic scheme is quite fascinating. It's not the end of the world, it's just the rollover :>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar

yeah when my car rolled over it went to all zeros...what is the metaphoric representation of that in our world....

Overtime!

The real end of the world is in 2038 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) anyway!

Anything important has been 64 bit for a decade.

I saw something about their calendar not long ago. And what it basically came down to was it was an arbitrary stopping point. Something like they kept a long term calendar and a short term. They said it doesn't even actually end in 2012, its just misinterpreted that way. It is the same as saying pre 2k that our calender ended in 1999 because there was no 20xx.

Pffft...2038 is the next scheduled end of the world after that...When all the unix computers go back to zero year...or was that Macs? Whatever...I'll get to come out of retirement as a former Y2K expert at that time....(now THAT was a cush job...) :)

Pffft...2038 is the next scheduled end of the world after that...When all the unix computers go back to zero year...or was that Macs? Whatever...I'll get to come out of retirement as a former Y2K expert at that time....(now THAT was a cush job...) :)


Had an even cushier job choreographing a college play, Y'69. Only difficulty was getting the half of the characters that were upside down to project their lines. :eek:

Pffft...2038 is the next scheduled end of the world after that...When all the unix computers go back to zero year...or was that Macs? Whatever...I'll get to come out of retirement as a former Y2K expert at that time....(now THAT was a cush job...) :)

Sadly I probably won't even be considered retirement age in 2038, I'll be about to turn 63 but and by then early retirement will probably be 70.

Sadly I probably won't even be considered retirement age in 2038, I'll be about to turn 63 but and by then early retirement will probably be 70.


*cracks whip* I don't see you working!