I can imagine our Aussie Dopers are having a good snicker right now.
But aren’t all days 24 hours long?
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]
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.
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.
Ah. So the world will end after all!
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. 
Egads… I had no idea guitar strings were so valuable.
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.
Will General Franco finally not be dead?
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.
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?
Xibalba is for lovers
And for virgins thrown into ceremonial wells.
And in a related story, there’ll be hamburger all over the highway in Connecticut.
I will be closing in on my 73rd birthday.
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.
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.
Well dammit, all we’re missing are the buns and condiments.
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The Winter Solstice
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Lots of newspaper feature stories on the end-of-the-world meme
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Mayan long count date 13.0.0.0.0.1 – second day of a new katun
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Christmas seasonal gifts in 2012 feature Mayan motifs
Nothing compared with what will happen on May 33, 2012.