[Rick Lee]

A once every 20k year event has happened many thousands of times over the course of the universe. It's but a blink of an eye. And how far ahead were those Mayans supposed to plan? Seems they had to stop somewhere.

Kinda funny that Orwell's 1984 seemed so futuristic at the time of its release and we're still not there yet, unless you live in North Korea. Rush's 2112 is probably an arbitrary number too. BTW, the story that inspired their song, Red Barchetta, was also a futuristic prediction about a time when cars would be banned. The story was written in 1973 and supposedly took place in 1982, though the Rush song came out in 1981. So we probably have a ways to go beyond 2012, unless that volcano under Yellowstone lets go. That's gonna be a doozie.