# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/61 "2008-11-30T13:41:40Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I’m sure I’ll have a nice bowel movement. > > > [@jali](#): > > > > I’m rooting for you. I can imagine our Aussie Dopers are having a good snicker right now. ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/62 "2008-11-30T14:09:20Z")
> [@chacoguy420](#): > > It will be the shortest day of 2012. But aren’t all days 24 hours long? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/63 "2008-11-30T14:47:32Z")
Someone will be calling me _Mister_ Tripler? I dunno. Will it be the Mayan Zombies? I’ve always wanted to meet a Mayan Zombie. Tripler In accordance with the prophecy.[sub]thanks Doc![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/64 "2008-11-30T16:42:10Z")
When the Marmosets fall from the sky, will they still be alive? Or will we be shoveling up Marmoset Mush? I’d like a live one, please. ---
**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, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/65 "2008-11-30T16:55:25Z")
If we assume live marmosets, it can be concluded that some will land unharmed. Most small animals have a terminal velocity that is not fatal. So the many of the first wave will land alive, but with severe injuries. However, the subsequent waves will land not on the ground but on other marmosets. This will cushion their landings. So later waves shall land without injury. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/66 "2008-11-30T16:59:59Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > President-elect Sarah Palin will name her attorney general?:eek::eek::eek: Ah. So the world _will_ end after all! ---
**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, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/67 "2008-11-30T19:18:30Z")
Please don’t ask me why the Aliens consider 1 trillion marmosets and turning our sun a lovely shade of turquiose to be the perfect payment for all our guitar strings. They’re alien, their reasoning is likewise alien. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/68 "2008-11-30T19:28:10Z")
Egads… I had no idea guitar strings were so valuable. ---
**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, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/69 "2008-11-30T19:38:08Z")
Or perhaps they feel we are unworthy of having guitar strings. They are confiscating them, and changing the color of Sol and raining marmosets on us as a further punishment. There’s no way to know. Aliens aren’t just people with pointy ears or tentacles. They are truly other. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/70 "2008-11-30T19:56:44Z")
Will General Franco finally not be dead? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/71 "2008-11-30T20:06:49Z")
> [@chacoguy420](#): > > It will be the shortest day of 2012. I was gonna post that the sun will be close to its southernmost point in the sky. I believe the “day” will be as long as any other day, approximately 24 hrs. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/72 "2008-11-30T23:08:30Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Some people using Mayan software may experience errors in date difference calculations, and the like. [Like the universe simulator run on a laptop designed to take over after God turned himself into a porkchop only to be eaten by two friends from New York?](http://www.goats.com) Xibalba is for lovers ---
**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, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/73 "2008-11-30T23:16:29Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > Xibalba is for lovers And for virgins thrown into ceremonial wells. ---
**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, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/74 "2008-11-30T23:37:27Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Cheese will ooze from the ground in central Quebec. Perhaps a nice Bree, but possibly “processed cheese product”. And in a related story, there’ll be hamburger _all over_ the highway in Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/75 "2008-12-01T00:58:26Z")
I will be closing in on my 73rd birthday. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/76 "2008-12-01T01:03:01Z")
A common misconception is that the world will end. The end of the Mayan calendar only signals the end of LINEAR time. After this date, time travel becomes possible. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/77 "2008-12-01T01:47:50Z")
There will be a series of short clicks as the dials spin and all show “0”. The world will cheer in a joking manner, and then Australia will go “Hey, an ice cream stand! Can we stop?” Actually, I’m kinda proud I came up with the odometer idea independently of Dex. Makes me feel like a real Doper again. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/78 "2008-12-01T01:51:05Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > And in a related story, there’ll be hamburger _all over_ the highway in Connecticut. Well dammit, all we’re missing are the buns and condiments. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/79 "2008-12-01T02:25:58Z")
1. The Winter Solstice 2. Lots of newspaper feature stories on the end-of-the-world meme 3. Mayan long count date 13.0.0.0.0.1 – second day of a new katun 4. Christmas seasonal gifts in 2012 feature Mayan motifs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/80 "2008-12-01T02:26:40Z")
Nothing compared with what will happen on May 33, 2012. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871.md?page=5)