# Hey - it's only one month till the apocalypse! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753 "2012-11-21T19:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/61 "2012-11-30T18:30:37Z")
Maybe it’s something really bizarre, like the entire human race loses its ability to count, and to write. So no more calendars – but we can still talk about how we miss calendars. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/62 "2012-11-30T19:44:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Maybe it’s something really bizarre, like the entire human race loses its ability to count, and to write. So no more calendars – but we can still talk about how we miss calendars. “Dude! Remember that time we saw those lighthouses in Maine?” “Yeah, bro! But not as cool as when the widdle kitten was cuddling with the duckling! What else were they for?” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/63 "2012-11-30T19:52:27Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > “Dude! Remember that time we saw those lighthouses in Maine?” “Yeah, bro! But not as cool as when the widdle kitten was cuddling with the duckling! What else were they for?” Sorry, “that time” suggests an ability to count, at least as high as one. BZZZT! Not allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/64 "2012-11-30T19:52:57Z")
> [@NadineBeyer](#): > > Yay! Can’t wait! 😛 You planning a party? Can I come? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/65 "2012-11-30T21:07:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Maybe it’s something really bizarre, like the entire human race loses its ability to count, and to write. So no more calendars – but we can still talk about how we miss calendars. See, I don’t know if the human race’s existence/ability to perceive time is an issue. December 22nd will still happen regardless of whether we are able to understand or experience the day —_unless_ the Earth itself is no longer rotating and circling the sun. I’d like to think the Mayans were more wholistic in their thinking and therefore not limiting time to sentient beings and their reaction to the concept of time. If instead these prophetic Mayan astronomers were espousing a cosmological time end w/r/t the Earth, the Sun, the seasons and the passage of day into night, then the human element can and should be diminished. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/66 "2012-12-01T01:09:22Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Damn, why didn’t I think of that? Hang on, I’ll just take this pile of ordinary advent calendars and cut four doors off. Genius! And you may as well eat the chocolate. We have tickets to a Leonard Cohen concert on the 20th. We’re hoping he closes with “The Future.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/67 "2012-12-01T01:18:28Z")
**Boyo Jim** , I like your light switch theory, but instead of ceasing to be, I wish I could be sent to Azeroth (World of Warcraft). I spend about 55% of my time there anyway! 🙂 Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/68 "2012-12-03T01:06:44Z")
Unusually warm today after a cold snap. Squirrels running in circles in the yard. Thought I heard a duck’s caw echo earlier this afternoon. The signs are there. The writing is on the wall. 19 days to doom… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/69 "2012-12-03T01:37:55Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > My survival strategy: stick close to John Cusack. You take John. I’m going to glue myself to Amanda Peet. ---
**Author:** ![Mallory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mallory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallory)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/70 "2012-12-04T16:06:37Z")
So is the apocalypse supposed to be the 21st or the 22nd? We need the right date if we’re going to prepare. Or party. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/71 "2012-12-05T02:50:02Z")
It’s the 21st of December, but I don’t know if that’s Mayan time or GMT. Some people may live to see the 22nd depending on where they live on the globe…I’m not clear on this. No one get’s the 23rd. At least doomsday will save us from going off the fiscal cliff. More like going over the spiritual cliff, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/72 "2012-12-05T12:32:32Z")
I’ve just realised this means I will miss the last four levels of Angry Birds Seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/73 "2012-12-05T15:48:44Z")
Maybe they should change the name to Apocalypse Birds. Nothing angrier than that. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/74 "2012-12-05T16:44:22Z")
The Mayans saw the end of the world in 2012, but didn’t see the Spanish coming in 1520? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/75 "2012-12-06T04:31:38Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > The Mayans saw the end of the world in 2012, but didn’t see the Spanish coming in 1520? Now let us be fair. The astronomers couldn’t have expected the intervening Spaniards, as the Spaniards were terrestrial. If the invaders were from space, they’d have been ready, no doubt. Remember: \*Nobody expects the Spanish Intervention! \* Anyway, the rise and fall of various civilizations is small potatoes compared to the end of time/space. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/76 "2012-12-08T01:15:36Z")
[countdown] \*\* Two weeks to go! \*\*[/countdown] ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/77 "2012-12-08T01:42:38Z")
Y’all starving muthafuckas best not be getting all up in here. I will be munching a can of Argentine corned beef while I shoot your happy ass to pieces as I listen to Fareed Farjad on my iPod. Too late now, civilians. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/78 "2012-12-10T15:30:13Z")
The Thais are really buying into this apocalypse business. I know an American who is a physics professor at a local university. His specialty is planetary mechanics. He speaks fluent Thai and so always gets interviewed during times of eclipses, solar flares etc. Solar flares seem to be an especially big worry here. He says he can explain them in layman’s terms in about five minutes, but someone always interrupts him after about two minutes to ask what about the god of darkness, Rahu. He was on TV tonight and will appear again tomorrow morning to explain that a solar flare will NOT destroy the Earth during December, but the local consensus seems to be he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/79 "2012-12-10T17:38:03Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Y’all starving muthafuckas best not be getting all up in here. I will be munching a can of Argentine corned beef while I shoot your happy ass to pieces as I listen to Fareed Farjad on my iPod. Too late now, civilians. Why should we be afraid of you? We have Rahu on our side. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753/80 "2012-12-10T17:56:09Z")
Apparently the [French](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/apocalypse-2012-alien-bugarech-peak-france-noahs-ark_n_1380273.html), true to form, have decided to keep out of this apocalypse nonsense and will not be joining the rest of the world in vaporising next Friday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-only-one-month-till-the-apocalypse/641753.md?page=5)