# What will happen on Dec 21st, 2012? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871 "2008-11-29T02:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/41 "2008-11-29T14:24:04Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > My father will turn 77. Mine will turn 70. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/42 "2008-11-29T15:29:11Z")
Og willing, Mr. 'addi and I will be celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/43 "2008-11-29T16:21:59Z")
Same thing we do every Winter Solstice, Pinky. I’ll be freezing my ass off around a bonfire waiting for dawn and thinking maybe, just maybe, the sun will still rise if we don’t wait around for it. Then I’ll decide it’s better not to take the chance and pass around another bottle of ciderjack. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/44 "2008-11-29T17:09:46Z")
> [@SSG\_Schwartz](#): > > I don’t want to bring this thread down or anything, but Pres Obama will face his biggest challenge as there will be a dirty bomb deployed in, I am seeing Quetta, but am not entirely sure of the location. This story will be overshadowed in the news by an earthquake in South America. I can’t be more specific, as I do not recognize the terrain. > > I do see Obama winning the re-election, but I can’t say who the Republicans send up. > > SSG Schwartz A terrorist attack in the US being overshadowed in the news by an earthquake in South America?! I like your sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/45 "2008-11-29T17:26:18Z")
Last I checked, Quetta is in Pakistan, not the US. [Quetta - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta) ---
**Author:** ![Mumio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mumio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mumio)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/46 "2008-11-29T19:43:11Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuaR8KehEk) movie will be on a lot of channels around the world. Gaahhhh!!! :eek: :eek: I won’t be watching it that’s for sure-I’ve got a terrible fear of deep water, so much so that I get a high-pitched sound of rushing water in my ears whenever I see something like that. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/47 "2008-11-29T20:11:52Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I’m sure I’ll have a nice bowel movement. I’m rooting for you. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/48 "2008-11-29T20:24:01Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > My father will turn 77. My dad will be a few days past 60, and my mom will be almost 61. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/49 "2008-11-29T20:42:03Z")
It will be the shortest day of 2012. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/50 "2008-11-29T20:45:27Z")
The next cycle starts. These things are just arbitrary constructions, like the Julian epoch. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/51 "2008-11-29T22:33:17Z")
The sun will rise. And, I, for one, will welcome our new solar overlords. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/52 "2008-11-29T23:54:30Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Considering the Mayans couldn’t even keep their civilization intact I don’t think I’d put a lot of store in their ability to predict anything. But they predicted the downfall of their own civilisation. I bet you feel pretty silly now, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/53 "2008-11-29T23:59:19Z")
Some people using Mayan software may experience errors in date difference calculations, and the like. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/54 "2008-11-30T01:46:10Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > I figure on the 21st, people will want to make the mother of all mad rushes to the supermarket to stock up on the essentials: water, batteries and barbecue flavored Fritos. Could this be a self fulfilling prophecy? I mean, rushes on the stores, people camping out in the wilderness to escape whatever madness might happen.. Possible use of the date as a terrorist attack or something? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/55 "2008-11-30T02:16:51Z")
I will say everything is in accordance with the prophecy eg “We’re out of cheese.” “In accordance with the prophecy” “The sun is rising” “In accordance with the prophecy” “That is damn annoying” “In accordance with the prophecy” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/56 "2008-11-30T02:42:08Z")
The sun will temporarily go out. Then turn itself back on 37 minutes and 11 seconds later in a lovely shade of turquiose. While it’s out, marmosets will rain from clear black skies. The major story of 2013 will be the Plague of Marmosets. Cheese will ooze from the ground in central Quebec. Perhaps a nice Bree, but possibly “processed cheese product”. The poles will shift…three inches to the left. Every bottle of Champagne on the planet will go flat, simultaneously. Every rat, mouse and cockroach in Detroit will rise as one to slay the Humans. Most of us won’t notice anything different about the city. The French will suddenly start speaking perfect English, and insist that they’ve actually been speaking it all along. In less than 24 hours, every sign, every storefront, every book in French in the entire country will be replaced with an exact replica in English. But with inexplicable minor errors. The Aliens will finally arrive, positioning themselves above every major city in the world. However, all they’ll do is steal every guitar string on Earth and then leave, without ever having made contact. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/57 "2008-11-30T03:29:34Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > The next cycle starts. These things are just arbitrary constructions, like the Julian epoch. Oh great. Get the Julians involved. Remember what happened the last time they had their hands on things? ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/58 "2008-11-30T03:36:18Z")
> [@Governor\_Quinn](#): > > Celebrating the end of another semester? > [@WhyNot](#): > > Same thing we do every Winter Solstice, Pinky. I’ll be freezing my ass off around a bonfire waiting for dawn and thinking maybe, just maybe, the sun will still rise if we don’t wait around for it. Then I’ll decide it’s better not to take the chance and pass around another bottle of ciderjack. Both of these. At the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/59 "2008-11-30T07:05:39Z")
The aliens will show up, point and laugh at us all, and then leave again. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/60 "2008-11-30T13:28:53Z")
My Dad will turn 59, and in unrelated news I’ll be stressing that I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping yet and vowing to do it earlier next year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871.md?page=4)