Oops - World Not Ending in 2012
Never mind the difference between "end of time" and "end of an epoch" - apparently the Mayan calendar hasn't been properly converted to our calendar, either:
According to the new book Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World, we should stop believing that doomsday will come in 2012 because that's when the Mayan calendar ends, since scientists didn't convert the Mayan calendar into the modern calendar correctly and could be off by as much as 50 to 100 years.
Quick, someone call Roland Emmerich :)
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Re: Oops - World Not Ending in 2012
[anonymous] October 21, 2010 17:01:08.445
Not to mention that the Mayan calendar, culture and religion make no such predictions of the world ending any way. The calendar merely ends because it was so far off in the future for them.
Re:Oops - World Not Ending in 2012
[W^L+] October 21, 2010 17:06:28.845
I think I remember something about the Mayan calendar from some 1970s TV show or movie, too. Only, I'm pretty sure they said December of 2011.
I guess we'll have to figure out how to solve our problems now that it might not be moot.
Re: Oops - World Not Ending in 2012
[TwizZ] October 22, 2010 0:20:44.644
My calendar ends on December 31st every year... Nothing has happened yet.