# The world will end in 2012, yes indeedy **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194 "2008-12-01T16:26:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/41 "2008-12-02T12:06:32Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > It will be on a Thursday, when Earth is unxpectedly demolished to make a new hyperspace bypass. Please. Everybody knows Thursday, as the Day of Thor, is the Intergalactic Sabbath, and union rules specify that planet dematerializers get paid double time if they have to work on an official holiday. In these tight economic times, I just don’t see that happening. Friday, at the earliest. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/42 "2008-12-02T12:24:10Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > The world will not end at 2012, and to prove how convinced I am, I will say right now that if the world does end at any point of 2012 and all life on Earth perishes, I will pay a million dollars to every poster in this thread. I have nothing to add, I’m only posting to get my million bucks…oh wait a minute… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/43 "2008-12-02T15:03:27Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Now, now. Mayan prophecy doesn’t say the world will end in 2012, it’s merely the end of the [Long Count](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_count) cycle. All these millennia of the Long Count, and they _still_ haven’t drawn the Aztecs offsides. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/44 "2008-12-02T15:13:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The world will end with a bang, followed by a whimper. 😉 Don’t know about the end, but this is how yesterday morning started, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/45 "2008-12-02T17:32:58Z")
I was curious about how many Ends Of The World I’ve lived through already. According to [this list](http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm)on the website [ReligiousTolerance.org](http://ReligiousTolerance.org), it’s more than I expected. I fear that I must question the sincerity of Superdave the Wonderchemist, however. There has to be an ethical way to profit from the End Of The World. Obviously one shouldn’t go around actively encouraging the notion unless you’ve got real proof; but what about offering to assume legal possession of other people’s troublesome worldly goods when the Day arrives? Would that be wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/46 "2008-12-02T18:22:44Z")
> [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > OK, makes sense to me… I’m conscious of a round Earth though. For all I know, I may not be come June 30, 2025. All matter may look square to me then.:D:D:confused: Just because you haven’t been down to the corner, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And all those pictures were faked by the same people who did the moon landing. Remember, there’s nothing to sphere but sphere itself. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/47 "2008-12-02T19:22:05Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > June 19, 2023. On this date, the world will be covered with a blanket of Geico advertising fliers so thick that no living organism will be able to survive. > > And I predicted that John McCain would be the losing Republican nominee more than three years ago, so I clearly have great predictive powers. Ahhh bullpucky. You youngins probably don’t remember this but dire predictions of the end of the World was for 2000…due to a blanket of AOL disks covering the world. That didn’t happen (though it WAS a close call) so I call bullpucky on this. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/48 "2008-12-02T20:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] Just because you haven’t been down to the corner, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And all those pictures were faked by the same people who did the moon landing. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: Everyone knows the earth is round. It’s shaped like a large pizza (with sausage, pepperoni and extra cheese). There ARE no corners on a flat round earth of course. Haven’t you ever heard the scientist types refer to the earths ‘crust’??? And the thing with all of those pictures is they AREN’T faked…they simply show a round earth. -XT 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/49 "2008-12-02T21:08:15Z")
By the year 2054 AGW will have surpassed the tipping point and human life will be well on its way to extinction. Even the conservative movement will have tired of paying more for Air Conditioning and many will begin a reluctant march to Greenness. This march to Greenness will cause the Right Wing to vote into the Presidency a candidate who is Green but has a hidden agenda: Extreme Liberal Values including Homosexual Unions. When the Right Wingers realize what they have done, they will begin killing themselves in atonement and despair. The surviving few will then turn their wrath on the rest of the world and use their arms caches to slaughter the namby pamby left, who have long since managed to disarm everyone but the Right Wing Nuts. AGW will slowly decline due to a diminished population and TEOTWAWKI from AGW will be averted. In the year 2065, as the earth is recovering from the close brush with AGW, a large Comet will smite it and finish off everything but a few deep sea bacteria. The end. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/50 "2008-12-02T21:33:00Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > By the year 2054 AGW will have surpassed the tipping point and human life will be well on its way to extinction. Even the conservative movement will have tired of paying more for Air Conditioning and many will begin a reluctant march to Greenness. :rolleyes: As if conserving power on air conditioning follows political lines. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/51 "2008-12-02T22:56:34Z")
Sure it could end in 2012, but it might end sooner. Can you take the chance? As a caring heretic, I offer a post-repture pet care package for true believers who are concerned for the care of pets that may be left behind. For a small monthly fee, I will contact you on a schedule of your choosing, and if you are no longer there, I will see that your pets are cared for to your specifications. Other services offer to care for your pets “when news of the rapture streams from every television set.” I will not make the mistake of assuming that there will be enough people taken up to make the news, but will contact you personally, daily if necessary, to ensure that your pet is not abandoned. The number of the elect may be few indeed and I envy you your assurance of eternal bliss. I can offer a notarized attestation of non-belief, so that you need not worry that your pet care backup will be lost to heaven. Call now for quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/52 "2008-12-03T13:53:12Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > There has to be an ethical way to profit from the End Of The World. End of the world _insurance_! For only $19.99 a month, we guarantee to pay out $1 billion in the event of the end of the world. Some of you may be thinking – “I can’t collect on that, because I’ll be dead!” Well, for only $29.99 a month, you’re covered for mildly catastrophic events in which up to 2% of humans actually survive! All that’s necessary is for all civilisation, government, laws, currencies and technology to be a thing of the past and you can cash in! Just think of the comfort you and your loved ones could live in, as billionaires! ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/53 "2008-12-03T15:16:03Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > :rolleyes: As if conserving power on air conditioning follows political lines. Whoooosh… Or did you miss that part of the OP? The thread’s a joke, see? It calls for humorous speculations, see? It’s not a Real Debate, see? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/54 "2008-12-03T15:54:01Z")
[The world will end when the ratings drop.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancelled_(South_Park)) ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/55 "2008-12-04T03:23:40Z")
[Exit Mundi](http://www.exitmundi.nl/) says it all. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/56 "2008-12-04T05:48:18Z")
The world will end when some ultrageek succeeds in his plan to engineer a zombie virus, or zombie nanites, or [zombie tree sap.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severed) This will happen in roughly 2035, because that number seems science fiction-y enough. > [@Mijin](#): > > End of the world _insurance_! For only $19.99 a month, we guarantee to pay out $1 billion in the event of the end of the world. > > Some of you may be thinking – “I can’t collect on that, because I’ll be dead!” > Well, for only $29.99 a month, you’re covered for mildly catastrophic events in which up to 2% of humans actually survive! All that’s necessary is for all civilisation, government, laws, currencies and technology to be a thing of the past and you can cash in! > Just think of the comfort you and your loved ones could live in, as billionaires! _gasp_ I can’t lose! I was going to sign up to **Yllaria** pet thingy, but I’m sure my pets will forgive me. Waaiiit a minute… I don’t own any pets! It’s all a scam! _runs from post, cackling_ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/57 "2008-12-04T06:56:02Z")
Clearly, the world ended yesterday, because there are no mods to move this to IMHO or MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/58 "2008-12-04T10:43:50Z")
The world will end many years from now when the sun expands and roasts the planet. Human life might go extinct before then, most likely by meteor strike. It might be diminished by some kind of global nuclear catastrophe but there will be some survivors. The world will _not_ end by means of a particle physics experiment. If the world does end in the Mayan prophetic sense, it won’t mean the end of humans. There were four Mayan worlds before this. It will just be the start of a new world, for whatever that metaphorically means. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/59 "2008-12-05T01:44:33Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > 10010001…am. > > -XT With that clock it ends when it hits 2;) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194/60 "2008-12-05T04:19:44Z")
Does the 2012 date have anything to do with South Park? They are contracted to the end of 2011. Are the last known words going to be “oh my God, they killed everybody” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-in-2012-yes-indeedy/475194.md?page=4)