How can they predict 13 of 8? O.o
Yes there are a lot of dates based on some vague mathematical formula or “code breaking”. But like I said, no one is saying anything about an “apocalyptic event”! I don’t believe that shit.
I don’t know off the top of my head where the smudgy line is, and it’s the nature of smudgy lines that you can’t pin down precise boundaries for them, either. And I don’t see how you get from there to a 1 in 5 chance on the December solstice, either: Assuming you mean “on the same day as the solstice”, then (even if the alignment could be defined precisely), there’d be only a 1/365 chance of it being on that date of the year.
That’s a common dig made at economists’ expense.
The “dismal science”, and all that.
They predicted all 8 of the recessions that did happen, and predicted 5 that didn’t happen.
Predictions aren’t terribly useful unless they have specific details about what is going to happen when. Anybody can predict that “something astronomical” is going to happen on December 21, 2012, or on any other date. That’s vague enough that the sun rising and setting could qualify. Now, if the Maya had predicted a solar or lunar eclipse for a particular date, that’s more interesting, because it’s more specific. The Maya were, of course, not the only ancient civilization that managed to predict eclipses.
Once more with feeling. The Mayans had a calendar with cycles. Period.
And real archaeologists keep finding real things that don’t gibe with the idiotic maunderings of people trying to sell books to the gullible.
New Mayan calendar may eclipse doomsday prediction
Nothing about this December was any more significant for the Mayans than Jan. 1 is for us each year.
It “rolls over” about every 5125 years, actually. And there’s also strong evidence that the Mayans prepared additional “digits” of precision, anticipating the roll-over long in advance. And we know within a week or so how closely it lines up with our own calendar. (There’s actually three plausible date possibilities. December 21st is the most plausible.)
I agree with you, though, that the Mayans certainly never stated that something was due to happen on the date the calendar rolls-over. They just either added another “digit” of precision, or started over again from 0.
Edit: if you’re interested, the Wikipedia page goes over a lot of this.
Exactly. They all got their information from the same source.
I’ll me the first to give up my theories if by Dec 24th comes and nothing happens, but right now, it’s looking pretty good.
The sun rising and setting would not be reason of celebration. Something has to happen that usually doesn’t happen, and that is the solstice.
How do you figure? That’s like saying that either the Galactic Alignment will happen on 12/21/12, or it won’t, so there’s a 1 in 2 chance that it will.
Except the solstice is easy to predict, innit? Aside from the 26,000 year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, and if you know about that you can predict the date of the solstices from now until the cows come home. Predicting next year’s solstice is about as difficult as predicting tomorrow’s sunrise.
Or they failed to predict some that did happen, and predicted even more that didn’t.
Thanks for the link. I do not think this discovery was a coincidence that this happened while we are nearing 12.21.12. There are many codes to break with this discovery and I think it will lead us to know more about the truth for 12.21.12! It is exciting indeed, and this is further proof 12.21.12 is a significant date. Especially since the calendar goes on another 4000 or 7000 years!
I do believe that he’s been to Mexico and Central America seven times, but that’s about it.
I hope that people realise that the Galactic Equator is only the line that defines the plane of the Milky Way as seen from the Solar System; it is not the actual midplane of the galaxy, which appears to be several tens of parsecs towards galactic south of our location - and we are moving away from it every year.
Also I hope that people realise that the node where the ecliptic and the galactic equator cross is around six degrees away from the location of the centre of the galaxy; twelve times the diameter of the Moon.
Is it me or does this ancient astronaut stuff strike anyone else as kinda racist? Like there’s no way brown people could have figured it out so it must be ETs?
So what’s being allegedly aligned?
It works in two steps:
- Exaggerate what they could do and how accurate they were in doing it, then declare
- There is no way they could have been that good on their own, so they must have had help.
Let me ask a simple question: what sort of evidence would you consider proof that 12.21.12 is not a significant date?
For Pete’s sake. The date is palindromic. Backwards it’s 12.21.12. Do you think that’s just a coincidence? How can it not be significant? To six digits yet!
So, it resets every 28 days, with much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and general bitchiness?