[Scarlett.]

Youtube video

Ok so we survived "Doomsday 10/9/08"

but will the end of the Mayan calendar signify the end of the world

(Never got round to watching the full video this morning as I had to go to College)


Btw, this is most likely not to happen

[Spike]

When will people stop believing this rubbish?

[Xander]

Right, the Mayans never predicted that the world would end in 2012. They celebrated the end of a full cycle(Which 21/12/12 is.)

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.[12]
"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.

Nor did the King at the time believe it would end in 2012.

The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.[11]

[Tom]

Time is a man made concept so if the planet goes on forever we'll run out of years, just as they have run out of the calendar. Thats all there is to it.

The world is always ending these days, first it was some day a few years ago, then 6/6/06 then yesterday and now that ...

[Novo]

the black hole returns 2012

[Firewire]

The Large Hadron Collider will be switched on at full power on 21/10/08.

A possible second Doomsday.

The 21/12/12 which I do not think is Doomsday although the Mayan calendar has been wrong many times before.

[Shaun]

No it won't happen. I don't see the Mayans still around so I doubt their calendar has any real credibility - ignoring the fact that time is a man-made concept, as Tom said.

[DamonJ]

Originally posted by andy-dale-win
the black hole returns 2012

ROTFL!
"I'm back suckazzz!"

[Scarlett.]

That would be hirrarious

[Markymark]

Originally posted by Tom
Time is a man made concept so if the planet goes on forever we'll run out of years, just as they have run out of the calendar. Thats all there is to it.

The world is always ending these days, first it was some day a few years ago, then 6/6/06 then yesterday and now that ...

A year is just a number and numbers are infinite so how can we run out?

[Xander]

Originally posted by Markymark

A year is just a number and numbers are infinite so how can we run out?

When the Sun goes KA-BOOM!
But the sun is already through half of its life.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Markymark

A year is just a number and numbers are infinite so how can we run out?

On a practicality level they would, because I don't think they'd decide to have year numbers that by the time you have written them its the next year which would probably happen

[Markymark]

I guess when we get to 100,000 we will start from 0 again and the "AD" will change to different letters. Can't see us surviving that long anyway althought the Earth itself will still be here.

[Scarlett.]

Yeah, some other species will have took over (either that or an evolved Human) or maybe we will dump this planet for another

[acidburn08]

Its human nature to predict these things.. All of them so far were wrong(Otherwise we wouldn't be here )

[30stone]

ohh **** thats after england have messed up the olympics we could have got away with messing it up if the world ended...

[acidburn08]

Yeh, if we do bad in olympics I'd probably hope it would end

[*mazedsalv**]

I actually still believe in this lol
But in the last 5 years they have predicted that the world would end about 3 times now. And why is it always the 21st Dec?? Thats really weird because my grandad died on the 21st Dec 2005.

[acidburn08]

Doesn't matter anyway, if it happens it happens, and we can't do anything about that...So it doesn't bother me if it happens or not.

[arista]

Originally posted by Spike
When will people stop believing this rubbish?

Big Money to be made on it.

[30stone]

Yeh acidburn i try not to look at these things, because if it happens ill not really know about it before hand and wont worry.

[acidburn08]

Xander made a good point though, the calander just ends on 2012, but they don't actually know what the mayans stopped for.. Maybe they ran outta ink xD

[acidburn08]

Originally posted by 30stone
Yeh acidburn i try not to look at these things, because if it happens ill not really know about it before hand and wont worry.

I read them anyway, I'd rather know what they think will happen rather than guess :L

[Saph]

2012 haha the olympics!

[Sam!]

What a load of ****.