Dec. 21, 2012- The end of the Mayan Calander- End of the world?

[thehogs]

Sure you can calculate the position of the Sun, but how accurate is it.

really really accurate

[Corcaigh]

really really accurate

Fair enough. Now what does it tell you?

[More Complete]

Just to clerify, the Mayan calandar does NOT end on Dec. 12, 2012....

Where do people get this stuff from? Even if it did............who cares!?

Well, yes and no. People care because it's interesting.

December 21st, 2012 - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).[1] The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years.

The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.[2] However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The December solstice for 2012 also occurs on this day.

[Mufumonk]

Why does Edgar Cayce come to mind?

Cayce was a nutjob. What does he have to do with the Hopi Indians?

[China]

Phew! 2012 Doomsday Date May Be Wrong

Mayan Calendar's Doomsday Date May Be Off by 50 to 100 years, Research Shows

Doomsday believers, you might be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

The much-hyped "prediction" that, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, may be based on a miscalculation.

According to recent research, the mythological date of the "end of days" may be off by 50 to 100 years.

To convert the ancient Mayan calendar to the Gregorian (or modern) calendar, scholars use a numerical value (called the GMT). But Gerardo Aldana, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says the data supporting the widely-adopted conversion factor may be invalid.

In a chapter in the book "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World," Aldana casts doubt on the accuracy of the Mayan calendar correlation, saying that the 2012 prophecy as well as other historical dates may be off.

"One of the principal complications is that there are really so few scholars who know the astronomy, the epigraphy and the archeology," Aldana said in a UCSB press release. "Because there are so few people who are working on that, you get people who don't see the full scope of the problem. And because they don't see the full scope, they buy things they otherwise wouldn't. It's a fun problem."

Researcher Questions Accuracy of Mayan Calendar's 2012 Prophecy and Other Dates
The GMT constant, named for early Mayan scholars Joseph Goodman, Juan Martinez-Hernandez and J. Eric S. Thompson, is partly based on astronomical events. Those early Mayanists relied heavily on dates found in colonial documents written in Mayan languages and recorded in the Latin alphabet, the release said.

A later scholar, American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, further supported the GMT constant.

But, through his research reconstructing Mayan astronomical practices and reviewing data in the archeological record, the release said Aldana found weaknesses in Lounsbury's work that cause the argument behind the GMT constant to fall "like a stack of cards."

"This may not seem to be much, but what it does is destabilize the entire argument," he said.

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[Chachie]

Cayce was a nutjob. What does he have to do with the Hopi Indians?

Nothing, but why do you call him a nutjob?

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Pretending that I know what I'm talking about...the Mayan were pretty smart astronomers.

Believe it or not, using their calendar identifies 21/12/2012 correctly as the date on which the Sun, on its path through space, crosses the line of the Galactic equator. So there.

The Galactic Equator?!!...well, you know those picture you see of other galaxies and they have that black band across the middle of the galaxy? well thats the equator of the galaxy. Like other galaxies, the suns motion means that it will be in line with our galaxies equator at that date. The Mayans obviously saw this as a major astronomical event.

Winter solstice suns were crucial in old times - it told people that on the one hand they were in the darkest time of the year but also that the dark winter was coming to an end and moving towards longer days.

I thought I heard someone say on the Discovery Channel or something that the December 21 2012 date is not in reality the day we cross the galactic equator. Supposedly we did that in like 1998.

I just have a vague recollection of seeing something like that on TV.

[China]

Pink Visual, Valley Porn Studio, to Construct 'Coolest Underground Bunker Known to Man' for 2012 Apocalypse

The May 21 "Rapture" passed without incident -- mostly just an excuse to party and make fun of religious extremists. And the December 21, 2012 apocalypse, the second leg of Harold Camping's predictions, is promising much of the same.

One L.A. porn studio in particular, Pink Visual in Van Nuys, is taking a giant leap of faith -- or, more likely, a giant leap of PR genius -- in hopes of "riding out the 2012 apocalypse in style."

Spokesman Quentin Boyer tells the Weekly that 1,200 to 1,500 very important persons will be allowed into an "enormous underground bunker" beneath the studio on the night in question. It will include, according to the company's zany presser, "multiple fully-stocked bars, an enormous performing stage and sophisticated content production studio."

But from there, says Boyer, anything goes.

"If nothing else, it'll be a fantastic one-night party, after which well emerge from underground, red-faced, to go home, and the company will be left behind with the coolest bunker known to man."



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[Tulane Skins Fan]

That is disgusting. Seriously, gross.

[Rocky21]

This bump is....apocolyptic.

[China]

It's starting. From Revelations 16:4 "The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood."











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[Dan T.]

It's the end of the world as we know it? I feel fine.

[spjunkies]

It would be just our luck that the Redskins are 10-4 and then BOOM the world ends.

[SnyderShrugged]

something that I thought of last year at this time. Knowing that the calendar that we use has undergone substantial changes over the years, how can anyone know when the Mayan equivalent of their final date is? For all we know, it passed us years ago, or that we wont see it for years to come?