2012? "End of the World, Dad"!

[tabs]

Lets Party like it is 2012...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

MUST you drag religion into this? Sheesh. Believe what you want I guess, but there are those among us (most of us, probably) that think the biblical interpretation of the "end of days" is rubbish.

I think the "world" ending isn't so much the death of reality or Armageddon as it is simply the collapse of the human species. Our planet and other life forms on it will outlive us.

It makes for a great story and good drunken reading though.

[MRM]

Is there some basis behind the theory that 2112 is going to be the end of the world other than the Rush album and the coincidece of reading the same forward and backward?

I'm willing to go along with the 2112 prediction, but I need some more details. What if 2112 is the preordained end of the world and we are measuring time by the wrong calendar? Or what if we started the current calendar with year 1 AD when it should have been 3 or 5 AD? No one is really sure which year the real 0 AD should have been. Does the 2112 prediction take leap years into consideration? Are years the same length now as then? Inquiring minds need to know!

[mattdavis11]

MRM, don't forget about time zones! There might be some benefit, say a couple extra hours.

[Sunroof]

Actually MRM its 2012!! If you go to the net and look up 2012, their must be a couple hundred blogs. It is interesting reading especially the tie-ins on the NASA sites, the big deal over the Myan calender, add depletion of the magnetic poles, core magma deceleration, pole reversal, add a dash of biblical prophecy (only 12 pope's predicted), toss in Einstein's bees, USA, New York Times articles and now a kids cartoon series coming out to soften the blow and you have the end of the world!!!!! Oh, I forgot the trillions hidden by the Pentagon to build underground shelters, the folks advising you to blow your limits now on your credit cards on the net and a plethera of data, data, data and you have in the end the destructionof the earth through storms, tsunami's, flood's, earthquakes and a wonderful long lasting nuclear winter!!!! Heck, forgot the asteroids!!!!

Gee, and as a kid all I had to worry about was if my dad was going to build that fall-out shelter in our basement with plans presented by LOOK and LIFE magazines!!!

Entertaining stuff............

Bob

[tabs]

Dec 22, 2012 is a once in 20,000 year event when all the Planets, Sun line up with the center of the Galaxy. The Mayan calander is accurate down to seconds over thousands of years. It predicted the arrival of Cortes to the week. The Mayan calendar is broken down into 500 year blocks of time. We are in the last of their blocks of time with nothing predicted for after 2012.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Just means nothing of significance will happen after then. No biggie. Nothing of real significance seems to really happen now either.

[Racerbvd]

[JeremyD]

[slakjaw]

John Titor said that 2012 is the year that everyone will launch NUKES and what not.

It will be something like this: http://www.endofworld.net/

Anyway, I hope the world does end in 2012.

[slakjaw]

And now I am off to pop 2112 into the CD player.

[Aerkuld]

Originally posted by tabs
Dec 22, 2012 is a once in 20,000 year event when all the Planets, Sun line up with the center of the Galaxy. The Mayan calander is accurate down to seconds over thousands of years. It predicted the arrival of Cortes to the week. The Mayan calendar is broken down into 500 year blocks of time. We are in the last of their blocks of time with nothing predicted for after 2012.

Perhaps they simply couldn't be bothered to write anymore after 2012...
As the acncient Mayan leader said;
"That will do lads, if they haven't figured out their own calander by then, well F@#* 'em!"

[Porsche-O-Phile]

WTF mate?

[nostatic]

the world already ended. This is just one big communal acid trip of the collective conscious.

[bigchillcar]

damn. now what..?

[KFC911]

Originally posted by Aerkuld
Perhaps they simply couldn't be bothered to write anymore after 2012...
As the acncient Mayan leader said;
"That will do lads, if they haven't figured out their own calander by then, well F@#* 'em!"

...if they'd just translate that bit on the bottom of the calendar, it probably says "continued on back..."

[onewhippedpuppy]

Will we be destroyed by timezone? If so, does that mean I get to watch for a few hours?

[bigchillcar]

you can expect full media coverage, matt. hopefully, geraldo will be live to cover the first timezone..

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I'll offer to pay for Rosie O'Donnell's one-way ticket to New Zealand just so she can be killed first. Actually let's have Paris Hilton pay for it (she can afford it) and go with her.

At least the rest of us will get 20-something hours of blissful Rosie-free (and Paris-free) existence.

*****, throw the Backstreet Boys in there too.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I'll offer to pay for Rosie O'Donnell's one-way ticket to New Zealand just so she can be killed first. Actually let's have Paris Hilton pay for it (she can afford it) and go with her.

At least the rest of us will get 20-something hours of blissful Rosie-free (and Paris-free) existence.

*****, throw the Backstreet Boys in there too.

I'll take some of that action. Could we also include Carrot Top and Al Gore?