Junior Asparagus
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The world isn't going to end this year!
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...an-calendar/4N1XsIVaItmKxhDXLhbMZJ/story.html
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 cars odometer that turns over when it reaches that date, not a doomsday prediction. The new find reinforces that the Mayas conception of time was not finite, because it contains a calendar that extends 17 baktuns, about 7,000 years.