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[Junior Asparagus]

The world isn't going to end this year!

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...an-calendar/4N1XsIVaItmKxhDXLhbMZJ/story.html

Another set of numbers painted on a section of wall undermines an idea that has been embraced in popular culture -- including the movie “2012” -- that the Maya predicted the world would end in “13 baktuns” or about 5,000 years, which works out to the end of 2012. That idea has long been dismissed by scholars, who explain that the Maya calendar is like a car’s odometer that turns over when it reaches that date, not a doomsday prediction. The new find reinforces that the Maya’s conception of time was not finite, because it contains a calendar that extends 17 baktuns, about 7,000 years.

 

[JGS]

Phew!

 

[strafer]

dammit

 

[SentientStone]

4012 is the new 2012?

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

The world isn't going to end this year!

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...an-calendar/4N1XsIVaItmKxhDXLhbMZJ/story.html

FAKE!

 

[Suikoguy]

Dammit, now we have to deal with this shit in 2000 years.

 

[echoshifting]

Completely unsurprising, but those who most need to hear about this won't see it or won't accept it.

 

[KHarvey16]

Surely this will put the issue to rest.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Well there goes my end of the world orgy.

 

[Patryn]

I don't think people will be cancelling their "End of the World" parties over this.

 

[StuBurns]

I read the Mayan's mentioned dates beyond this year years ago, I think it's even been on Wiki for a couple of years.

 

[Speevy]

Hopefully a filmmaker as inept as Roland Emerich won't exist then.

 

[Biggzy]

I can rest more easily now.

 

[teruterubozu]

The new find reinforces that the Maya’s conception of time was not finite, because it contains a calendar that extends 17 baktuns, about 7,000 years.

Ah, so 9012 then.

 

[benzy]

It took them until the last year to find this. Lol

 

[Clydefrog]

I shouldn't have spent all my savings on hookers and blow...

 

[Invisible_Insane]

Everyone who was planning to get laid behind this 2012 business had best hop to it before this news gets out in a big way.

 

[Vilix]

Those damn Mayans and their "just in a nick of time" tactics.

 

[smurfx]

dammit! would this terrible world just end.

 

[echoshifting]

It took them until the last year to find this. Lol

Not really, no. We've known the Mayan calendar extends beyond 2012 for some time. It's just in the spotlight now, so it's "NEW."

 

[GK86]

Wtf?! Now I have to pay that loan shark...

 

[Raistlin]

This is obviously just governmental propaganda to keep civilians orderly before their demise.

FIGHT THE POWA!!!

 

[Escape Goat]

Time will continue on whether the Earth is inhabited or not.

 

[B.K.]

Those damn Mayans and their "just in a nick of time" tactics.

The way things are, humanity will be lucky to exist in another 2000 years.

 

[Dunk#7]

The December 2012 date that everybody mentions passed long ago anyway.

The Mayan calendar did not incorporate leap years

 

[KarmaCow]

I was just about to ask what will the crazies latch onto after 2012.

 

[Anteater]

But strange things are still going on around the world

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Thinking the world was going to end in 2012 is the same as thinking the world was going to end in 999 AD: they just added another digit and kept going.

 

[teruterubozu]

But strange things are still going on around the world

Like Obama supporting gay marriage? Yeah, it's probably the end of the world for many folks.

 

[Escape Goat]

But strange things are still going on around the world

Like Anteaters wearing suits and using the internet.

 

[echoshifting]

I was just about to ask what will the crazies latch onto after 2012.

Well, that's what everyone was asking around Y2K, too...always something new to hop to. The world is always just about to end.

 

[Snake]

Roland Emmerich just got a rager.

 

[strafer]

But...but I had everything planned out.

Where to take a girl and survive man.

Screw this.

 

[massoluk]

Can you guys hush this news for a bit? I'm still accepting paypal for my doomsday survival bunker construction kit.

 

[GungHo]

Well there goes my end of the world orgy.

It doesn't have to... just find some chicks that haven't heard of Boston University.

 

[a secret-boss]

Lies
Just to calm people down for the inevitable End

 

[qcf x2]

But...but I had everything planned out.

Where to take a girl and survive man.

Screw this.

Odds are pretty decent you'll be affected by war or mass viral outbreak in your lifetime, so keep your spirits up, don't forget that lucky spot!

 

[mantidor]

How true are the claims that the big baktuns of the Maya actually go in hand with the solar system rotation period around the galaxy?

 

[SpecX]

Does this mean they now have a reason to make a sequel to the movie 2012?

 

[V_Arnold]

2012 is not the end of the world, it is the end of an era, and a beginning of a new one.

 

[KarmaCow]

How true are the claims that the big baktuns of the Maya actually go in hand with the solar system rotation period around the galaxy?

I don't know how long a big baktun is but I doubt Mayans had any idea of the Milky Way much less how long a galactic period is since it's far longer than entire existence of humans.

 

[teruterubozu]

2012 is not the end of the world, it is the end of an era, and a beginning of a new one.

What era? Some weird New Age - Age of Aquarius type thing?

 

[Messypandas]

sweet

 

[Ace Harding]

The December 2012 date that everybody mentions passed long ago anyway.

The Mayan calendar did not incorporate leap years

But I think the people who calculated that it's 2012 did?

Anyway, irrelevant now. Rejoice!

 

[Mr. B Natural]

What era? Some weird New Age - Age of Aquarius type thing?

If I remember my Mayan Studies in college, Jay Leno

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

So does that mean I can lose my virginity before we all die a horrible death now?

 

[ComputerMKII]

 

[Utako]

Why is the article written so poorly? Because it's Boston?

Is it 4012 or 9012?

 

[Orayn]

2012 is not the end of the world, it is the end of an era, and a beginning of a new one.

My money's on it being a complete non-event, apart from potential erratic behavior from rash people who believe otherwise.

What era? Some weird New Age - Age of Aquarius type thing?

Howdy Doody's past the House of Aquarius, bring me more whiskey and rye!

 

[Raistlin]

This is perfect actually.

Now Roland Emmerich can envision a futuristic society where man has spread out across the solar system ...
















... and then blow it all up.



4012 - Coming Soon To a Theater Near You