I’ll leave the comments on this to others, as I’m out of my league on this topic.
Man, I hope the end-of-the-worlders finally get it right and the apocalypse happens. Then I wouldn’t have to deal with the IRS anymore, and I wouldn’t have to worry what will happen to the country if we’re stuck with a president Obama for eight years.
There is a guy at work that buys this hook line and sinker. He was all wound up in the hype over the crystal skulls too. I can’t believe how otherwise intelligent people can fall for this crap. But then again, the same can be said about AGW believers.
Hmmm...that date, Dec.21, 2012, marks the 25th anniversary of my marrying Mrs. BPE.
Guess we’ll party hearty and watch the show!
Graham Hathcock in the “Finger Prints of the Gods” covers this rather well....
But, I just got done cleaning the egg off my face from the turn of Y2K, so I’ll just sit on the bleechers for this one... maybe toss and turn a bit the night of the 21st....
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Remember Y2K ?
There are is a “fatal flaw” in all of the doomsday scenarios surrounding the Mayan Calender and that is that it only works if their “source” of information is some sort of extraterrestrial being with a “time machine” of sorts. However, if this was the case and they had such a wealth of scientific knowledge, their civilization should have NEVER collapsed.
The media ALWAYS wants to talk about how certain cultures are/were so “superior” to ours, but they can NEVER explain why these cultures no longer exist.
The more likely explanation is that whoever was “in charge” of making the main calender got up to the winter solstice in 2012, got sidetracked doing something else and died before he got back to it. It would be totally logical for someone making calenders to stop at one of the solstices or equinoxes and the winter solstice would be the most likely because it seems like the logical place to “end” a year. So, later when someone else was put in charge of the making the calender looked at it and realized that it was so far out in the future that he had better things to do that work on it, so he just left it.
The whole Y2K hoax was because programmers in the 1970s and early 1980s didn’t write anything into the programs to go past December 31, 1999. Was this because they thought the world would end on that day? No, it was because they didn’t think anyone would still be using the programs and therefore it wasn’t worth the time and effort to write script for beyond then. My guess is that the Mayans worked on roughly the same principle. They figured that if their calender was still in use in 2012 that somebody would have already extended it.