[QUOTE=Scuba_Ben]
Or anywhere else we can get to (perhaps Chicago). And eat/drink lots of chocolate. And discuss rogue rouge.
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I’m in for the chocolate (bless those Mayans) but I’ll have to pass on the violent make-up.
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
It goes farther than that. From 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, Appendix D, “Calendar Math”:Italics in the original.
"Although extant Long Count dates have only five positions for numbers, the Maya knew that eventually that time would pass and they would have to add more positions. Indeed, their priestly mathematicians had calculated nineteen further positions, culminating in what is now called the alautun, a period of 23,040,000,000 days, which is about 63 million years. Probably the longest named interval of time in any calendar, the alautun is a testament to the grandiosity of Mesoamerican calendries. Just as the tzolk’in is one of the most impeccably circular time cycles ever invented, the Long Count is among the most purely linear, an arrow pointing straight ahead for millions of years into the future. "
Not that I expect this infusion of facts to dissipate the fantasies of the doomsday pornographers or anything.
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Didn’t the dinosaurs get killed off appx. 63 million years ago? And wasn’t 63 million years ago… 63 million years ago??? Doesn’t that “coincidence” strike anybody as being very unlikely!!!
WE’RE DOOMED, I TELLS YA!!! DOOMED!!!
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac]
Nah… it’ll strike Mars. It’s a matter of predilection.
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No, as the prophet Porter said, we’ll collide with Mars.
It’s written in the stars.
(What a swell party this is.)
[QUOTE=Scuba_Ben]
Or anywhere else we can get to (perhaps Chicago). And eat/drink lots of chocolate. And discuss rogue rouge.
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Maybe Jesus can come back and bring pie.
[QUOTE=WideEyedCosmos]
. Although, I find it very interesting and suggest everyone check out the link above directing you to the History Channel special about that particular date. Here’s a quote of the text which reads below the screen…“the medieval predictions of Merlin, the Book of Revelation”
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Merlin did not exist, thus he never wrote any predictions. :rolleyes: Nor does Revelations refer to 2012. :dubious:
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
Merlin did not exist…
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Oh, so they got to you too, huh?
Fnord.
Given that even the Mayans didn’t record the rollover date as the date of the apocalypse, this is absurd. Ridiculous.
We’re far better at astronomy than the ancient Mayans ever were; does the fact that January 1, 10000 is a significant date in our calendar system imply that there is some good reason to believe the world will come to an end at that time?
[QUOTE=nd_n8]
I’m in for the chocolate (bless those Mayans) but I’ll have to pass on the violent make-up.
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I just checked some calendars; 21 Dec 2012 / Long Date Rollover is a Friday on the Gregorian calendar. That’d be perfect for a chocolate fest.
But you’ve got me worried about cosmetic-wise Dopettes ruthlessly applying makeovers.
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Given that even the Mayans didn’t record the rollover date as the date of the apocalypse, this is absurd. Ridiculous.
We’re far better at astronomy than the ancient Mayans ever were; does the fact that January 1, 10000 is a significant date in our calendar system imply that there is some good reason to believe the world will come to an end at that time?
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Sure; all the billions of preprinted forms with space for only four-digit years will be rendered obsolete and need replacing. This will require the massive reprinting of all those forms, as well as all the destruction of the old forms; these will cause planetary deforestation and massive waste disposal issues. This will cause the already fragile reconstructed ecosystem to alter slightly, which will cause all the fleems to die. As fleems will by then be a vital part of our symbiotic relationship with cheese, so lacking them, we’ll all die. And then the planet will explode.
We need to keep in mind that the World Outlook for Canned Puddings ends in 2012. Coincidence? I think not.
May I point out to all of you non-doomsayers that December 21, 2012 has not yet come around? You may be singing quite another tune five years from now. Not that I expect it, but you MIGHT…
Is that Old Calendar or New Calendar?
(patting Sevoulian’s hand condescendingly) Dude, there are LOTS of things to worry about. THIS isn’t one of them.
:dubious:
I find it belittling to progress that superstition has had such a strong hold on cosmology. After 2012 can we just STOP the armageddon banter?
[QUOTE=ConsciousStarDebris]
After 2012 can we just STOP the armageddon banter?
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Of course not. Somebody will latch onto some obscure calendrical feature of the Toltecs or the Haudenosee or the Kwisatz Haderach or whatever, and we’ll be off to the races again.
JayJay
If the end of the Long Count means will live in the implausible, badly written, poorly edited, and run by badly thought out rules world of ShadowRun- then I say an Apocalypse is preferable.
Didn’t you hear? Nostradamus published a new book! It was on TV!
Tris
Silly people! Don’t you know the end of the Long Count meant Tunney had an extra three seconds to recover from being knocked down in the seventh so he could go on to win against Dempsey by a decision and retain the title?
[QUOTE=Voyager]
No, as the prophet Porter said, we’ll collide with Mars.
It’s written in the stars.
(What a swell party this is.)
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Bingo! 
Second nominee for best quote!
Y’know, I’m still pissed that during all that work to fix the Y2K bug, our programmers didn’t take the extra step and fix the Y10K bug at the same time. I can imagine a poor old 8000 year old mainframe chugging along in 9,999 AD, and keelling over. Just one more digit to the year field and we could have solved the problem for another 97,999 years. But noooooo…short-sighted capitalist greedhead said we only needed 4 digits in the year field, and so we’re going to have to do the whole thing over again in 8000 years.
[QUOTE=Scuba_Ben]
I just checked some calendars; 21 Dec 2012 / Long Date Rollover is a Friday on the Gregorian calendar. That’d be perfect for a chocolate fest.
But you’ve got me worried about cosmetic-wise Dopettes ruthlessly applying makeovers.
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Of course the world would end on a friday, so much for one last weekend. Why couldn’t it end on a monday? Best case would be the world ending on a monday, before I have to get out of bed.
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
Of course the world would end on a friday, so much for one last weekend. Why couldn’t it end on a monday? Best case would be the world ending on a monday, before I have to get out of bed.
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Some of the references on the Mayan calendar have the rollover on 23 December, which is a Sunday. So the world would end before Monday hit. Does that make you feel better?