end of earth?

[quote name='p1ngpong' post='2350157' date='Oct 25 2009, 06:38 PM']Well the Mayan calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, and who are we to call them liars?[/quote]
They just got bored making a calendar to be used around 1100 years later.

[quote name='spinal_cord' post='2351147' date='Oct 25 2009, 05:56 PM'][quote name='Kalisiin' post='2350391' date='Oct 25 2009, 02:53 PM']Remember, in the 16th century, I believe, eleven days were added to the calendar, because it was only then that they went and realized about leap dyas or some happy-crappy like that, so, already, that date is even wrong...it would make it thus Dec 10 then.[/quote]

Um... I really doubt that.

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Doubt all you want. THEN I WILL SHOVE IT IN YOUR FACE THAT I AM RIGHT!!!

http://community.wolframalpha.com/viewtopi...f=32&t=1116
or, this, from Wikipedia....

Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 to account for 29 February 1700 (Julian). Claims that rioters demanded "Give us our eleven days" grew out of a misinterpretation of a painting by William Hogarth. After 1753, the British tax year in Britain continued to operate on the Julian calendar and began on 5 April, which was the "Old Style" new tax year of 25 March. A 12th skipped Julian leap day in 1800 changed its start to 6 April. It was not changed when a 13th Julian leap day was skipped in 1900, so the tax year in the United Kingdom still begins on 6 April.

In Alaska, the change took place when Friday, 6 October 1867 was followed again by Friday, 18 October after the US purchase of Alaska from Russia, which was still on the Julian calendar. Instead of 12 days, only 11 were skipped, and the day of the week was repeated on successive days, because the International Date Line was shifted from Alaska's eastern to western boundary along with the change to the Gregorian calendar.

In Russia the Gregorian calendar was accepted after the October Revolution (so named because it took place in October 1917 in the Julian calendar). On 24 January 1918 the Council of People's Commissars issued a Decree that Wednesday, 31 January 1918 was to be followed by Thursday, 14 February 1918.

The last country of Eastern Orthodox Europe to adopt the Gregorian calendar was Greece on Thursday, 1 March 1923, following Wednesday, 15 February 1923.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

The only thing I got wrong was that I adjusted backwards instead of forwards...silly me, because I wasn't thinking right...so...it would not be Dec 10, but rather Dec 21 PLUS 11 days, Dec. 32...which would actually BE....get this, folks...January 1....2013!!

Maybe the Mayans DID know something when they ended their calendar, because it's weird that it would actually end right on Jan. 1 now, isn't it?

But, yeah...I knew it was sometime in the 16th or 17th century that we skipped like 11 or 12 days...I remembered reading something about that.

Now I remember...it was from when we went from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

HA I AM SO RIGHT AND YOU ARE SO WRONG, SPINAL CORD...
ADMIT IT...LEARN IT LIVE IT, LOVE IT...
I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG!!

the world wont end in 2012. if you believe it will, then you're a dumbass.

the Mayan calander goes in long cycles like ours just much, MUCH longer and this is just the end of the cycle NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

since we are going to line up with the galactic center, and there is a supermassive black hole in that spot, isn't it a possibility of a gamma ray burst hitting us? thats my theory and I'm sticking to it

Don't be a bunch of dumb morons! Everybody knows the world is gonna end in 2005... Oh wait.

We'll all will be dead before the world's end which will be a good 4 billion years from now.

2012 isn't going to be the end of the world, you all are paranoid.

WE'RE ALL DOOMED!

You're all just in denial.

Will the world end due to natural causes beyond humanly control on said date?
Almost certainly not.

That being said, however;
With a major movie, and at least 20 documentaries on the subject playing over and over and over, it is kinda likely that some less-than-sane person or group will take it upon themselves to cause a catastrophe on that date.
Don't be surprised if and when you hear about suicide cults trying to hitch rides on passing spaceships, extended families hunkering in bunkers, or similar stories.

Here's some music for the occasion.

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[quote name='Vulpes Abnocto' post='2352727' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:00 PM']Don't be surprised if and when you hear about suicide cults trying to hitch rides on passing spaceships[/quote]
Actually, that would come as a surprise. Suicide cults usually aren't really prone to life-extending activities like trying to escape imminent doom by, say, hitching a ride on a spaceship.

[quote name='Kalisiin' post='2352352' date='Oct 26 2009, 04:30 PM'][quote name='spinal_cord' post='2351147' date='Oct 25 2009, 05:56 PM'][quote name='Kalisiin' post='2350391' date='Oct 25 2009, 02:53 PM']Remember, in the 16th century, I believe, eleven days were added to the calendar, because it was only then that they went and realized about leap dyas or some happy-crappy like that, so, already, that date is even wrong...it would make it thus Dec 10 then.[/quote]

Um... I really doubt that.

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Doubt all you want. THEN I WILL SHOVE IT IN YOUR FACE THAT I AM RIGHT!!!

http://community.wolframalpha.com/viewtopi...f=32&t=1116
or, this, from Wikipedia....

Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 to account for 29 February 1700 (Julian). Claims that rioters demanded "Give us our eleven days" grew out of a misinterpretation of a painting by William Hogarth. After 1753, the British tax year in Britain continued to operate on the Julian calendar and began on 5 April, which was the "Old Style" new tax year of 25 March. A 12th skipped Julian leap day in 1800 changed its start to 6 April. It was not changed when a 13th Julian leap day was skipped in 1900, so the tax year in the United Kingdom still begins on 6 April.

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HA I AM SO RIGHT AND YOU ARE SO WRONG, SPINAL CORD...
ADMIT IT...LEARN IT LIVE IT, LOVE IT...
I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG!!
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I have no doubt in my mind that they had to correct the calendar by 11 days, what I doubted, was that it had anything at all to do with the end of the Mayan calendar, so no matter if it is dec.21 or dec.11, it makes no change to that fact that it has nothing to do with the fact that we are near the end of the calendar.

I hope 2012 doesn't hurt as much as Y2k

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_on_..._apocalypse2012

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I've just noticed that the calendar on my wall ends on the 31st of December THIS YEAR!!! We may have less time than previously speculated.

i can guarentee that the world wont end for about 80 years or so..maybe more but no less than that

[quote name='Depravo' post='2352801' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:44 PM']I've just noticed that the calendar on my wall ends on the 31st of December THIS YEAR!!! We may have less time than previously speculated.[/quote]
LOL Nice one.

[quote name='Depravo' post='2352801' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:44 PM']I've just noticed that the calendar on my wall ends on the 31st of December THIS YEAR!!! We may have less time than previously speculated.[/quote]
LOL You sir, just made my day.

[quote name='anaxs' post='2352838' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:58 PM']i can guarentee that the world wont end for about 80 years or so..maybe more but no less than that[/quote]
You can't guarantee shit.

[quote name='luke_c' post='2352848' date='Oct 26 2009, 10:03 PM'][quote name='anaxs' post='2352838' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:58 PM']i can guarentee that the world wont end for about 80 years or so..maybe more but no less than that[/quote]
You can't guarantee shit.[/quote]
Can you prove him wrong?

[quote name='Veho' post='2352735' date='Oct 26 2009, 04:07 PM']Actually, that would come as a surprise. Suicide cults usually aren't really prone to life-extending activities like trying to escape imminent doom by, say, hitching a ride on a spaceship.


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This one tried to do just that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Ga...eligious_group)

Can you prove him right?

[quote name='Vulpes Abnocto' post='2352857' date='Oct 26 2009, 10:05 PM']This one tried to do just that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Ga...eligious_group)[/quote]
Oh yeah, I remember those.

While the group was formally against suicide, they defined "suicide" in their own context to mean "to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered"

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So it all depends on your definition of "suicide" then. Or rather, their definition. They were formally against suicide, however taking poison and dying was not actually considered suicide so it was completely acceptable.





[quote name='luke_c' post='2352861' date='Oct 26 2009, 10:05 PM']Can you prove him right?[/quote]
Yes. You'll have to wait 79 years, though.