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Originally posted by iamatigerAnd yet people will put money on it ending:
As all predictions of the world's end that have expired have been wrong, the odds are that any unexpired one is wrong too.
http://www.bettingpro.com/category/Entertainment/End-of-World-Betting/
this post seems to have the right idea on the subject already (aka doomsday scenarios are silly), but just for the record, it was the maya calendar, not the aztec one, that references the end of the third cycle at dec. 20, 2012. (the aztec calender is even more cumbersome ... maya dates read like 12.19.19.17.19, whereas aztec dates read like "snake. knife. flower. monkey"😉. since the maya include events and time frames AFTER 2012, logic suggests that they did not believe the world would end then. even today, when the remnants of the maya culture in the yucatan are asked about 2012, they scratch their heads. (although i'm sure the smarter ones wave their hands about, decree that the world will end, and then try to sell you flood insurance)
and when the world doesn't end, i suspect that the doomsday prophets will simply pick a new date, which will pick up steam at an alarming rate to anyone who believes in reason, and eventually become another terrible motion picture.
Originally posted by adramforallFunny 😀
I hope not, otherwise I have wasted money buying a new 5 year diary.
I was going to buy a new cat, but I think I'll buy a tank of ants and cockroaches... they'll out-survive the forthcoming holocaust. 😉
Missus won't be too excited at not being able to hug them but, what the hell, our legacy will live on.
Originally posted by PlexusNexusoh sorry for the wrong "tribe"
this post seems to have the right idea on the subject already (aka doomsday scenarios are silly), but just for the record, it was the maya calendar, not the aztec one, that references the end of the third cycle at dec. 20, 2012. (the aztec calender is even more cumbersome ... maya dates read like 12.19.19.17.19, whereas aztec dates read like "snake. knif ...[text shortened]... ate to anyone who believes in reason, and eventually become another terrible motion picture.
but in 2012 december (the day before the supposed end) will people make calendars
for 2013?
well the calendar already exists for dates past 2012 ... it's just that in 2012 everything basically starts at zero again (actually it starts at 13.0.0.0.0). A surprisingly good article on the subject can be found at that most dubious of sources, Wikipedia. You can read it here (but only do so if you're tremendously bored, because it's a LOT of information):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#2012_and_the_Long_Count
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Originally posted by JS357Hmmm...so even if I did believe the world would end, why wouldn't I just bet that it won't. If I'm wrong, hell I'm dead so no payment necessary. If I'm right, then hello retirement!
And yet people will put money on it ending:
http://www.bettingpro.com/category/Entertainment/End-of-World-Betting/
Originally posted by Banana KingWell solar activity peaks around then. Some scientists also say that the magnetosphere has chances of being too weak to handle a full on solar flare and may, in laymans terms, temporarily go out.
i dont see any proof, other than that the aztecs lost their paper....
what do you guys think?
If this were to happen magnetic poles would beging to "sprout" in random locations. This would cause so much stress on the earths crust that it would start shifting about the mantle. This would cause volcanos to erupt, massive upheavals in the crust as it moves over the equator, and massive waves constantly hitting land. But we don't really have to worry about that if another solar flare hits before the magnetosphere can recover.
As you can see, none of this involves a callender or the alignment of the planets which actually happened not that long ago.
Rest at ease though because the chances of the above actually happening are enormously miniscule.