2012 Mayan Calender discussion

[fsci123]

You don't have 8 million dollars...

Well it wont matter when the end of the world happens...

 

[jedidia]

A 'pole shift' will not occur either. Doomsayers would have you believe that these shifts happen suddenly, displacing everything in a matter of minutes.

It's worse. Some are not only claiming that the poles could shift in a matter of seconds, but that this would reverse the rotation of the earth. :rofl:

 

[MattBaker]

It's worse. Some are not only claiming that the poles could shift in a matter of seconds, but that this would reverse the rotation of the earth. :rofl:

Well, as long as it's just reversed, what are the differences? Sunrise in the West, sunset in the East, worst thing I could think of would be a climate change, because the winds are going the other way round, but that's nothing that would kill humanity...

 

[Solar424]

Here is an excellent video on 2012 that sums up everything:

Also, if you're lazy, you can watch the summary video:

 

[Luke Skywalker]

When December 21 is almost here.
I'm gonna watch that 2012 movie.
Sit in my couch.
and laugh.

 

[MattBaker]

When December 21 is almost here.
I'm gonna watch that 2012 movie.
Sit in my couch.
and laugh.

The movie can't be on December 21st, they go camping, in Yellowstone (Wyoming). So, the father is actually Bear Grylls and loves camping in snow, but because we can't see snow my bet goes to anti-Al Gore-effect, it's warm and dry, not cold and wet.
It's simply Hollywood, making money with stupidity and gullibility of the people.

 

[T.Neo]

Of course the world will end on December 21st, 2012. I absolutely and utterly know this fact. And I know it because the world has ended on every single New Year's Eve in the Gregorian calendar. Just as it ended on the 29th of Febuary last month. And on the 31st of January before that. And just like how the world ended at midnight yesterday...


Furthermore there's no evidence to correlate any wars, famines, orbital-mechanics defying Nibiru collisions, wacko galactic core alignments, gigantic solar flares, bolide impacts, Emmerichian instant global-warming-ice-age-death-freezes, impossible crustal shifts, continental submergements, Easter Island Moai rampages, Neutrino-Core-Microwavement-Events, toaster revolts, alien invasions, birdemics, or Walmart Global Dominations to December 21st, 2012.

When January 1, 2013 comes around, I am going to phone/email/message up everyone I know who believes in the "2012 phenomenon" (which is pretty much nobody, but nontheless) and give them a great, long, loud, hearty laugh. And I know it will antagonise those people, but it will be so awesome anyway.

And of course, if the world ends in 2013, it doesn't count because they'll still have been wrong.

 

[Mattyv]

Easter Island Moai rampages

:rofl::rofl: I'm interested in seeing this particular theory.

 

[garyw]

I'll post this here. It'll come in handy after on December 22nd ->

 

[mojoey]

I sense that the birth rate will skyrocket in August of 2013

 

[Urwumpe]

It would be more interesting, if the Maya would actually believe in a doomsday. But they don't. The Maya theology knows no doomsday predictions. Contrary to Christian theology.

 

[Rtyh-12]

The 2012 'disaster' is definitely the most well-known doomsday prediction and quite a lot of people (well, relatively) believe in it. I can't wait until 21st of December this year, it's gonna be fun...

 

[jedidia]

Well, as long as it's just reversed, what are the differences?

Inertia's the difference

 

[Luke Skywalker]

I can't wait until 21st of December this year, it's gonna be fun...

Oh, it will be alot of fun indeed.....

 

[Urwumpe]

Inertia's the difference

Depends on the kind of reversal. A true polar wanderer would happen without changes in inertia, only by the transfer of momentum from one major axis to the other... but even then, we speak of 1° every million years.

Otherwise, even the popular internet hoax of Earth standing still for 24 hours would be pretty interesting from a thermodynamic point of view. Every deceleration of Earth, that is faster than 10 years would mean Earth explodes, rather than slowing down, because of the huge amount of energy that need to be transfered (Slowdown in 24 hours = surface of Earth emits a flash of X-Rays before evaporating at 17000°C after a few seconds of deceleration).

And even slowing down in ten years would mean some hot feet and strong Earthquakes.

After all, what such hoax developers always ignore: Earth is liquid inside. And has no vortex baffles.

 

[Eccentrus]

they don't have any end-of-world scenario except for the end of the 52 year cycles

 

[Urwumpe]

they don't have any end-of-world scenario except for the end of the 52 year cycles

Not that right, 2012 is a special date in the Meso-american calendar.

Every past creation of the gods did only last 13 Baktun (about 13 * 20 * 20 = 5200 years, subtract that the Maya year was only 360 days long, add still unknown leap months), Then they destroyed it, because it did not develop life.

Now you could shoot quick and say: Why shouldn't this happen in this world? According to the Maya (and similar tribes, all there share very similar creation myths), this fate will not happen to the current world, because life had been created from Maize this time and worked like the gods intended.

I like theologies with fallible gods.

 

[IronRain]

Released by JPL

 

[Face]

It is actually sad to see that institutions like JPL have to counter those nonsense doomsday theories, while mankind faces REAL problems that get more and more evident every day.

As if over-population, foreseeable energy-shortage, environment pollution and wars are not bad enough, no... we need some hollywood Nibiru with planetary alignment causing a pole shift to go down in style, all on one day - for the impatient. Because it can't be that we are guilty of destroying our home all on our own stupid selves, or can it?

 

[HAL9001]

well, after all the mayan alender doesn't include leap years, it would already be 2013 by now... but I'm not sure if that's right - I guess the people translated calculated the date from the mayan into your calender knew about leap years...