[CPOSharky]

The predicted time has come and gone...

[cripplecreek]

As I understand it, the Mayans would have looked upon today as the beginning of a birth of a new age.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

It's been oft-reported by knowledgeable sources that they didn't make a calendar beyond 2012 because they simply ran out of stones.

[R. Scott]

I’ll survive, I don’t use a Mayan calendar.

[KarlInOhio]

Under one scenario, the Earth would not survive a rare galactic alignment that would subject it to the powers of not only the sun but also Sagittarius A — a massive black hole in the heart of the Milky Way.

Rare? The sun passes through Sagittarius once each year. It has been passing the same spot in the sky every year since people started looking up at the constellations and noticing that the sun and planets follow the same path. The earth's axis may wobble changing which star is the north star, but the path of the ecliptic remains constant (the time of the sun passing the various constellations does gradually shift).

This is as silly as the "supermoon" freak-out and the "Mars as big as the moon" email which passes around every year.

[Cronos]

yes, it’s the end of the world. Quix is gone ;-P

[MCH]

Yeah, right. Stupid Mayans. This dude’s just trying to cover up for them.

[Wuli]

the artisans tasked with chiseling the calendar in stone and their priests wanted a standardized size of the calendar, as an infinite one would be impossible, and why confuse everyone with different ones, and thus there was a limit to how far ahead in time the calendar went; no mystery really; there was no room to go farther