[Stoutcat]

So many end-of-the-world scenarios are floating around, as well as what looks like is going to be a blockbuster of a movie. Endless opportunity for humor, I say.

[Safetgiver]

That’s when the cognoscenti are saying that the world, as we know it, will end.... It already has.

[Vendome]

If this about the Mayan Calander, I think I have an answer.

The fellow responsible for pounding numbers and dates into a hefty piece of stone, got old and with his joints aching in pain said “This crap is for a younger man. I can’t do this no more. I quit...erh, I mean, I retire!”.

And so the calendar ended that day because an old man couldn’t do it anymore.

Mystery solved.

[BubbaBasher]

The only problem is that Y2K was real. It happened because of a known problem that could be verified and demonstrated. The wasn't a catastrophe because many of us worked long hours to prevent it.

The 2012 scare has no basis in fact at all. Even Mayan shaman say it's not the end of the world, it's the end of one era and the beginning of a new one.

[RedStateRocker]

It is just the extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of the galactic equator (equator of the Milky Way) and the ecliptic (path of the Sun).
Something that could be, and was, calculated by several different civilizations. That’s why the same date has shown up in several different systems; mere(!) straightforward extrapolation of well known processes.

[HerrBlucher]

According to my two cats, the world ended yesterday when they were taken in for their rabies shots, but it miraculously started up again when they got home.....whew!

[bolta_lightnin]

[...]Remember Y2K? All the computers in the world were supposed to do horrible things, banks were going to topple, governments who depended on PCs for their defense systems would vaporize, and The Osmands threatened to come back to prime time TV...Fast forward to now [...]

Hate to break this to ya but The Osmands ARE back on prime time tv : (