is 2012 actually going to happen ?

badcompany · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:33

Angilion said:
The Mayans used several different calendars. The Mayan long count calendar has a little under 2 million days. It doesn't stop in 2012 - there are references to dates more than 2000 years later than that carved on Mayan stone pillars. It's a combination of Mayan religion and the standard Mayan format for recording dates. In the same way, using a 6-digit base 10 format for counting days since the birth of Jesus would result in a cycle ending in 2737, i.e. thend end of day 999999.

why would they count from the birth of jesus?

Aleksandrs · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:48

Won't happen, but if any hot chick asks... it will.

deusexlumina · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:50

The Mayans also said Bulldozer would be better clock for clock than Sandybridge.

trojan698 · 7 Jan 2011 at 02:41

Tombstone said:
Swine flu will mutate and become exceptionally deadly like the Spanish flu of 1918 which affected 500 million people and wipe most of the globe out

It didn't wipe most of the globe out..
3%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

matthewhotdude · 7 Jan 2011 at 04:27

sponge999 said:
It is impossible to predict something 3 years in advance. All total BS.

This! They cant even predict the weather on earth 3 weeks in advance accurately

regulus · 7 Jan 2011 at 07:10

So after 2012 comes and goes, what is the next 'Year of Terror' predicted by the nuts? Poor souls had to wait TWELVE year after **** all happened in 2000. How long are they waiting after 2012? Not too long I hope.

regulus · 7 Jan 2011 at 07:11

matthewhotdude said:
This! They cant even predict the weather on earth 3 weeks in advance accurately

Try 3 days. With all this rubbish happening at Heathrow last month, I kept checking the weather the last week before Christmas. Not one single day did they have it right, Really, not one.

Parsifal · 7 Jan 2011 at 07:15

From Wiki

Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of catastrophe in 2012. Mainstream Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the existing classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history.[3][5] The modern Maya do not consider the date significant, and the classical sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean.

Kind of a relief.

regulus · 7 Jan 2011 at 07:19

Parsifal said:
Kind of a relief.

But not for the fools losing face when bugger all happens. They'll slither away for a year or two and come back in force with a new Dooms Date.

rsatd · 7 Jan 2011 at 08:00

regulus said:
and come back in force with a new Dooms Date.

Looking forwards to finding out about some other obscure thing that kills us all

grudas · 7 Jan 2011 at 08:05

we'll see ;] i want to believe... but the end of the world has been going for ages now.. if it happens.. well w/e not like i can stop it.

Priapus · 7 Jan 2011 at 08:44

Do I believe 2012 will happen? Yes. As I believe 2013,2014,etc will happen. The world was meant to end 11 years ago. it did not.

I believe there will be damage to certain electronics and maybe some power grids. But the very idea that we all going to die etc....please, get real!

'Wes · 7 Jan 2011 at 08:48

This kind of crap would follow us if we colonised another planet, after a few days of say moving to Mars, suddenly nob jockeys would conjure up again some bizarre way the world will end.

Tefal · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:07

regulus said:
But not for the fools losing face when bugger all happens. They'll slither away for a year or two and come back in force with a new Dooms Date.

yeah based on threads here, garlic should be banned water prescription only and America and Iran and Israel should all have been nuked (all by America)

Also apparently there sa few fleets worth of a American ships that set sail for Iran 2 years ago but seem to have gotten lost.

8of9 · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:08

Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.

Cosimo · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:12

Aleksandrs said:
Won't happen, but if any hot chick asks... it will.

That won't happen.

koolpc · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:21

Wish my inlaws lives would end!! lol

cHk4 · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:35

kwerk said:
If the mayans were so smart where are they now?

Oh yeah they are selling fish tacos outside a petrol station in mexico.

LOL!

Tombstone · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:40

trojan698 said:
It didn't wipe most of the globe out..
3%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Technically I didnt say that it did wipe out most of the globe.

I said it would mutate and become exceptionally deadly like the spanish flu...... and wipe out most of the globe. (as in the mutated swine flu would wipe out most of the globe, not the spanish flu). The section of my sentence which came after the "and" was referencing the first part of my sentence (swine flu), not the second part of my sentence(spanish flu). Had I meant that the spanish flu wiped out most of the globe I would have said "and wiped most of the globe out" rather than "and wipe most of the globe out" as it would be referring to the past event rather than the future event.