"2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 600
boombaard writes "News is spreading quickly here that scientists writing in a popular science periodical (Dutch) have debunked the 2012 date (google translation linked) featuring so prominently in doomsday predictions/speculation across the web.
On 2012-12-21, the sun will appear where you would normally be able to see the 'galactic equator' of the Milky Way; an occurrence deemed special because it happens 'only' once every 25.800 years, on the winter solstice. However, even if you ignore the fact that there is no actual galactic equator, just an observed one, and that the visual effect is pretty much the same for an entire decade surrounding that date, there are major problems with the way the Maya Calendar is being read by doomsday prophets." I wonder what Amazon's return policy on a box full of 3 doomsday wolves shirts is?
Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
No boom today... (Score:5, Funny)
Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
Greeeeeat..... (Score:5, Funny)
2220? (Score:5, Funny)
great (Score:2, Funny)
now we are gonna get another terrible movie, and its gonna be called... "2020"
From the virgin geeks - Thanks a lot! (Score:5, Funny)
On 2012-12-21, many geeks were about to have sex from the new agey women who believed that it was the last day of the Earth.
Its ok, m$ will still be supporting XP then too (Score:0, Funny)
Those pesky end of life deadlines keep getting pushed back, even though we'll all be on Windows 666, the "fastest most secure OS we've ever launched"
Re:2220? (Score:5, Funny)
Nope. The Sex and The City sequel comes out next spring.
Revised JoCo lyrics? (Score:3, Funny)
Now I'm [still] waiting for the big boom
And it know where I'm [was] gonna be
The big boom
I'm always getting closer to
The big boom
And it will catch up to me
The big boom
Re:2220? (Score:5, Funny)
Date divider (Score:4, Funny)
Every 25.8 years? That doesn't seem so spectacular. All we have to do is add 25.8 to the last doomsday and we'll know for certain. Did the last doomsday happen in 1994 or 1986? I don't remember either being particularly bad, except maybe for the music.
Re:Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
Funny.
According my reading of the calendar - it's right here on the wall, in my office - the whole thing goes tits-up, Dec 31, 2009!
Re:2220? (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean we have to endure another round of shitty movies in 2217?
Yes, of course you will. Why would you think 2217 would be different than any other year?
Oh thats good news (Score:4, Funny)
My credit card will be paid off by then making Minimum payments.
Re:No boom today... (Score:3, Funny)
That's similar to what Popeye said when disguising himself with a wig on Goon Island:
"Hair today, goon tomorrow."
Re:My favorite thing about the 2012ers... (Score:5, Funny)
Whew - I'm glad you cleared THAT up!
Re:How do you debunk a myth? (Score:5, Funny)
In short, you can't reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into.
... that approach can run into problems with myths and religious beliefs "No, it DID happen, but it was a SPIRITUAL end to the world" ...
That's when you make the sign of the Devil and tell them: "Glad to see you're still here. I'd like to be the first to officially welcome you to the team. I always enjoyed your work."
Just wait.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My favorite thing about the 2012ers... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Actually... (Score:4, Funny)
That's just what they want you to think.
+5 Informative. I agree. It's good to know what they want me to think. Wait what?
Re:What I found amazing... (Score:5, Funny)
As an example, here's what *today's* Babelfish thinks of the article:
To be fed up: ' 2012' is just over two centuries
By: At Keulemans
In the film 2012 that this month in premiere, fall the cities and continents go at small woods, if the world fares. Toch moan that research has shown exactly that it ' end of the tijden' of 21 December 2012 there probably clears two centuries beside zit.
Its never going to stop.. (Score:2, Funny)
There's always going to be some date in the future that some group of people think is going to be the end of time. When that date passes, they will find some way to reconcile it and come up with a new date. Or they will just be vague about it and claim "well we are in the end times now, thats why all these bad things are happening in the world".
I just wish the end would come now, suddenly, on a date of no importance or significance to anyone, and in a way completely unlike any prophesied before; I wish it would happen so completely unambiguously unlike anything ever imagined that it would put to end every stupid belief surrounding every one of those doomsday scenarios.
Thats the only true end of times: the one that proves everybody wrong.
It should happen right about.. now... *
Re:Assuming... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
There's not exactly a Mayan Rosetta Stone so even all that we know about the language is still premature.
Oh, I think that if you'd consulted Dr Daniel Jackson, you may have received a more informed opinion.
Re:No boom today... (Score:3, Funny)
On a totally unrelated note, NASA will try launching its new ARES X-1 rocket tomorrow. [nasa.gov]
Re:Wrong diagnosis (Score:2, Funny)
Wow! Base 20! So they also counted their toes?
Re:Assuming... (Score:3, Funny)
your right thats exactly what just happened!!!! i wonder who's door she will walk through next!!
Re:Actually... (Score:5, Funny)
No... it's a meta-mod joke. Moderators will often mod clearly funny paranoia "insightful" or "informative" to add to the comic value.
Re:Assuming... (Score:3, Funny)
the mayan calendar, is actually a replacement calender, and 2012 is the year we replace our current one. this is due to the realization of galactic time. This is like an expansion pack, to the current reality perception. The calender will predict, galactic plasma integrations and the overall understanding of how the machine of the universe works, will cause a great awakening. This awakening to galactic time will also be accompanied by alien communications, animals telepathing with humans, and telepathic awakining worldwide. the effect of this will be almost total elimination for the need to have wars. Because wars are a result of limited communication, lies, deception, and hidden motives. This will no longer exist in the same way.
Re:Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
It's fun to calculate what the sky will look like 3 months from now, and then see how accurate you are (with a bit of research)
We must have different ideas of fun.
Re:Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
Uh-oh, this is going to be a big problem for the United States since our entire fiscal policy is to deficit spend and avoid really solving any problems until the planet explodes in 2012. It is going to be mighty embarrassing when the debt collectors come a knockin' in 2013. "There's nobody home, go away!"
Next Stop... The Y2K38 Bug (Score:3, Funny)
This means I'll have to wait until 2038 [wikipedia.org] when Linux time ends? Gonna be a bit harder to convince the chix with the crystals on that one. Would everyone please help curtail the x64 transition until then?
K'thx!
Re:Assuming... (Score:3, Funny)
Because we tend to worship corny things as well?
Re:Assuming... (Score:4, Funny)
OK. In exactly which direction should I be pointing my telescope when things go "tits up"?
Re:Assuming... (Score:4, Funny)
Look, I don't know about any apocalypse or anything. I just know 2220 is a long time to wait for the LHC to come online!
Re:Actually... (Score:5, Funny)
No... it's a meta-mod joke. Moderators will often mod clearly funny paranoia "insightful" or "informative" to add to the comic value.
I've also heard of the mods giving Informative or Insightful posts a Funny mod - just to make you stop and wonder what the hell the joke was supposed to be.
Re:Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
I think it'd be reasonable to presume a modern day Mayan would be unable to communicate with an ancient Mayan due to generational changes in dialect and word-set
Not to mention the whole "being dead" thing.
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Re:Assuming... (Score:3, Funny)
Someone mod this funny.
Damn it! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:the Discovery channel (Score:4, Funny)
Jeez, what a Godwin's Law Nazi...
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Re:Assuming... (Score:3, Funny)
No self respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits."
Re:Assuming... (Score:2, Funny)