You mean I’ll still have to work past 2012?
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 5:28PM Unless you’ve been living under a rock… or just haven’t watched the History Channel lately, then you’ll have heard of the Mayan prediction about the end of the world happening in 2012.
According to some folks (let’s not call them scientists, okay?), some bad stuff is about to go down on December 21, 2012. End of the world, meteorites, sweet baby Jeebus coming down from his UFO… whatever, the Mayan calendar says that the world is ending. THE WORLD IS ENDING YA’LL!
Um, except no one told living Mayans about this.
I came across an AP article (is the AP going to come after me for linking to it?) by Mark Stevenson that says, actually, guys, Mayans are saying…. “Wait, what now?”
So let’s backtrack a bit, shall we? This doomsday prophecy is based on the end-date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which apparently lasts 5,125 years (there’s been a few arguments about this) and terminates on December 21 or 23, 2012. Some people think that this will mark the beginning of a new era… or that all hell will break lose.
There actually will be a change on that date- on the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. I mean, that’s cool in and of itself, right? So why can’t we look forward to that- a known natural phenomenon- without attaching some weird doomsday prediction or the “second-coming-of (insert your deity here)” to it all?
This reminds me of the Y2K meme. Everyone was sure that the world as we knew it would face a dramatic shift once all the clocks hit 00. Instead, a few lights flickered, a stray computer burped… and that was it.
Anyway, back to the AP article. Mayans aren’t saying the world is ending. In fact, most of the people spouting that nonsense are, uh, not Mayans.
So if the descendents of the folks who actually created the calendar are saying “You people need to chill out and quit with the end of the world stuff” on one side and pseudo-scientists are predicting a massive disruptive occurrence based on said calendar (which really doesn’t point to anything crazy happening) are on the other side… guess which side I’m leaning towards.
Anyway, keep an eye out for more media to focus on this end of the end of the world/2012 stuff as we draw closer to the date. Let’s see how much mass hysteria can be produced by fear mongers using big words and Indiana Jones-style drama to drum up new book deals and television shows on the History Channel (my favorite source for trashy reality shows now).
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"2012" is a hoax designed to scare children and adults who know nothing about science. There is no science behind it, and no scientists believe in it.
The world has existed for over four billion years. Is it reasonable to expect that it will come to an end in less than three years? And all because of a Mayan calendar? Use some common sense.
The most interesting astronomical events in 2012 will be an annular eclipse of the Sun on 2012 May 20, a total eclipse of the Sun on 2012 Nov 13, and a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun on 2012 Jun 06.
Scientists don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in the year 2012, or specifically on the date December 21, except for the solstice, which happens every year.
None of the "predicted" happenings for 2012 hold up under close scrutiny. "Planet X" and "Nibiru" simply don't exist. The Mayan calendar ends a cycle, but there were no predictions of the end of the world. The Sun doesn't line up with the galactic centre; it's 6 degrees off. No asteroids or comets are actually predicted to hit Earth.
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