Are people psyched about Dec 21st 2012?

[UncleWai]

It would be pretty damn cool if something spectacular really happen on Dec 21st 2012. It's the end of time/end of world according to the Mayan calender. Quite frankly I don't have much to lose right now in life. I wouldn't mind trading it in for the spectacle of end of world and finally an ancient prophecy comes true.

I really want to see some ancient history breakthrough during my life time.
My most wanted list:
Atlantis!
Hall of records in Egypt
Noah's Ark
The real tomb for Qin Shi Huangdi (China's first emperor)
Some relics of the Statue of Zeus and/or Colossus of Rhodes


oops should be 21st, i passed my bed time.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
It would be pretty damn cool if something spectacular really happen on Dec 12th 2012. It's the end of time/end of world according to the Mayan calender. Quite frankly I don't have much to lose right now in life. I wouldn't mind trading it in for the spectacle of end of world and finally an ancient prophecy comes true.

Umm...yeah.

 

[Eli]

If the world did end on 12/12/12, it sure would fsck a lot of peoples realities up.. Not that it would matter at that point, I guess..

 

[paulxcook]

I'm much more excited about 11/11/11.

 

[HN]

wouldn't it be unfortunate if something disastrous happened on dec. 11, 2012? mayans wouldn't seem so cool then, would they?
it'd be like, "sure, the mayans were a great civilization and built those cool pyramids and pillaged those smaller tribes dwelling in the outskirts, but they couldn't quite predict the end of the world, could they? buncha losers."

 

[So]

I'd say that it would worry me more if a society that didn't collapse under its own weight was making predictions.

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
It would be pretty damn cool if something spectacular really happen on Dec 12th 2012. It's the end of time/end of world according to the Mayan calender. Quite frankly I don't have much to lose right now in life. I wouldn't mind trading it in for the spectacle of end of world and finally an ancient prophecy comes true.

my thoughts as well. lol.

 

[CKent]

I'd love it, but I don't expect anything to happen. Though the animals... erm, "Muslims" may well nuke us at some point, I don't believe in clairvoyance to predict it.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Wasn't the world supposed to end in 2000? What happened to that?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: CKent
I'd love it, but I don't expect anything to happen. Though the animals... erm, "Muslims" may well nuke us at some point, I don't believe in clairvoyance to predict it.

quoted for idiocy

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Wasn't the world supposed to end in 2000? What happened to that?

It seems to come along every couple of years that some group's prediction comes and goes. Eventually some one will be right, or will be close enough (some big disaster within a month of their date) to cause a ruckus.

 

[TheKub]

What a wonderful 32nd birthday gift!

Must be one hell of a party if its going to casue the end of the world!

 

[UncleWai]

The 2000 "prediction" doesn't really have much basis. If you look at the sophistication of the Mayan astrology, you really have to give this date some credit. The pole shift is going to happen in 2012? It doesn't really have to be the end of the world. Just something significant enough to prove the Mayan will be grand.
The world we live in now is so dull compare to the good old days. Industrial revolution really takes away a lot of the mystic of human civilization.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Wasn't the world supposed to end in 2000? What happened to that?

Yeah... 5/5/2000

IIRC... And I may have been a little drunk that day... But I'm pretty sure nothing happened.

Or maybe we're all dead and we just don't know it yet.

Or maybe that's the birthday of the anti-christ.

Or maybe it's a random day picked by someone irrelevant who was looking for some attention.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
The 2000 "prediction" doesn't really have much basis. If you look at the sophistication of the Mayan astrology, you really have to give this date some credit. The pole shift is going to happen in 2012? It doesn't really have to be the end of the world. Just something significant enough to prove the Mayan will be grand.
The world we live in now is so dull compare to the good old days. Industrial revolution really takes away a lot of the mystic of human civilization.

Or maybe after they got 1000 ahead of themselves, they just stopped adding days to the calander?

"We'll get back to this later"

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Eli
If the world did end on 12/12/12, it sure would fsck a lot of peoples realities up.. Not that it would matter at that point, I guess..

Welcome back, Eli! :beer:


It's 12/21/12. And it's not necessarily the end of the world according to the Mayans, just the end of the "long count" calendar. It's the galactic alignment, where the winter solstice sun will be aligned with the center of the galaxy. The sun on that day will be aligned exactly with the center of the Milky Way on that night. This happens once every 26,000 years.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I'm much more excited about 11/11/11.

10/10/10, FTW.

 

[Queasy]

Sadly, we will never see 01/01/1010

 

[StevenYoo]

i'm more excited for 3/14/16

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: CKent
I'd love it, but I don't expect anything to happen. Though the animals... erm, "Muslims" may well nuke us at some point, I don't believe in clairvoyance to predict it.

There needs to be a 'u' in your screen name.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i'm more excited for 3/14/16

You turn 21?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i'm more excited for 3/14/16

LOLCANO

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i'm more excited for 3/14/16

What's sad is I remembered Pi Day this year and watched people from the math department celebrate, and then I later remembered it's also my mom's birthday whoops?

 

[Vic]

The arrangement of the numbers of any calendar is purely arbitrary. As far as I am concerned, the universe came into existence approximately 8 months, 1 day, and 35 years ago. Your opinion of that may differ.

 

[manowar821]

I can't wait. I can't wait to laugh when the world keeps frickin turning and they're all left standing there wondering what happened to their nutty end times belief.

I laughed on the millennium, I laughed on y2k, and I'm going to continue laughing until I die of old age, because I just know that people are going to keep thinking that the end is near.

<3