# Dec. 21st 2012, End of the World **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322 "2007-03-02T17:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/1 "2007-03-02T17:41:11Z")
Whatever it is you’re doing now don’t bother. Time to max out those credit cards. According to: Scientists,Historians,Religious Freaks and a whole bunch of other weidos the world is gonna end on Dec 21st 2012. :dubious: Well that’s fucked the Olympics up for London to start with. Anyways, what the hell would historians know about it, they study what was, not what is to be. Yes indeedy, the religious bods claim that hidden in the bible they have discovered clues that give this date as Armaggedon. War, volcanic eruption, earthquakes, tsunamis are just a few of the delights to look forward to, it’s gonna be a hell of a day folks. On the bright side you don’t need to buy any Christmas presents ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/2 "2007-03-02T17:49:25Z")
And this End OF The World is going to be different from all the others how? ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/3 "2007-03-02T17:52:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And this End OF The World is going to be different from all the others how? [/QUOTE] Because it’s really going to end. Oh ye of little faith, ye shall see the horrors when they vist upon us, and none shall save thy soul! Condemned, tormented for all eternity!! Alternatively, of course, for the low, low price of $199.99, I can personally send you a guaranteed salvation device. If it fails to keep you alive through the end of the world, I promise to replace it! My word of honour! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/4 "2007-03-02T17:54:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And this End OF The World is going to be different from all the others how? [/QUOTE] Well I dunno but the various experts reckon this is most definitely _THE END OF THE WORLD_ not a load of hogwash like other EOTW scenes ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/5 "2007-03-02T17:57:21Z")
This has been going around many years now. It’s an idiotic misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar. See [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar). Scroll down to Long Count. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/6 "2007-03-02T17:58:48Z")
It just had to be on my birthday didn’t it… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/7 "2007-03-02T18:00:40Z")
[QUOTE=Cowboy8467] It just had to be on my birthday didn’t it… :smack: [/QUOTE] Well then what are the odds of dying on your birthday… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/8 "2007-03-02T18:04:07Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well then what are the odds of dying on your birthday… 😛 [/QUOTE] 1 in 365.25, give or take. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/9 "2007-03-02T18:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And this End OF The World is going to be different from all the others how? [/QUOTE] Look at the date: 12/12/12 . It’s the like Mark of the Beast, doubled! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/10 "2007-03-02T18:14:51Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] …world is gonna end on Dec 21st 2012. :dubious: Well that’s fucked the Olympics up for London to start with… [/QUOTE] Why 😕 ? The Olympics will be held in the summer of 2012, before the end of the world. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/11 "2007-03-02T18:17:05Z")
[QUOTE=Baracus] Look at the date: 12/12/12 . It’s the like Mark of the Beast, doubled! [/QUOTE] 12/21/12. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/12 "2007-03-02T18:18:28Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Why 😕 ? The Olympics will be held in the summer of 2012, before the end of the world. [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/13 "2007-03-02T18:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] 12/21/12. [/QUOTE] The double dyslexic mark of the beast? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/14 "2007-03-02T18:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And this End OF The World is going to be different from all the others how? [/QUOTE] Actually, the world did end a couple years ago, we just never got around to telling you. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/15 "2007-03-02T18:27:02Z")
Leonard Bernstein! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/16 "2007-03-02T18:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well then what are the odds of dying on your birthday… 😛 [/QUOTE] Ask Thomas Jefferson. [QUOTE=mstay] Actually, the world did end a couple years ago, we just never got around to telling you. [/QUOTE] This explains a lot. Thanks for the info. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/17 "2007-03-02T18:34:13Z")
[The coming Galactic Superwave](http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2006/12/exopolitics_the.html) > [@](#): > > the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004 (Boxing Day) may have been caused by gravity waves which accompanied a gamma ray burst caused by the explosion of a Neutron Star in the Constellation Saggitarius, some 45,000 light years from Earth. The article also summarizes analysis of whether the December 26, 2004 event may be an indicator that a cyclical Galactic Superwave event, recurrent every 13,000 and 26,000 years, is overdue and may occur precipitously in the near term future. The Mayan Calendar’s current TUN, or organic unit of Galactic time, ends on December 21, 2012. “Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control.” exactly one hundred years early. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/18 "2007-03-02T18:40:15Z")
That’s just after the 2012 presidential election. Wonder if anyone will bother to run for the office, then? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/19 "2007-03-02T18:44:17Z")
If the End of the World prevents a second Hillary Clinton Administration, I’m all for it! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322/20 "2007-03-02T18:49:41Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] If the End of the World prevents a second Hillary Clinton Administration, I’m all for it! [/QUOTE] What do you care if the mayor of Little Rock gets another term? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-21st-2012-end-of-the-world/394322.md?page=2)