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December 21, 2012

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Solar maximum, alignments of galactic proportion, the end of the long count, particle accelerators online, Planet X, AI, Yellowstone, time travel, asteroids, comets, bears, oh my!

(I didn't do a search to see if this topic was posted 2189726763 times, sorry if this is 2189726764)
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It'll be the end of all this 2012 bullshit, but it'll probably be the beginning of a pile of 2016 bullshit.
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Yeah, we really need some kind of filler before the Y2038 bug.
 
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Since the dawn of recorded history people have been proclaiming the end of the world, so far all of them have been wrong.

I would say the odds are pretty good in me waking up on Dec 22 2012.
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For me the odds are pretty low I'll be waking up on the 22nd.................... or at least at a reasonable hour, because looking at the calendar that is a Saturday on what will likely be the first day of the two weeks I'll take off for Christmas that year. Sleeping in all day FTW!!!!!!!
 
Dec 21, 2012 the world will end for all the idiots that believe this stuff. I know because I am going to start immediately financing research on a genetically engineered virus that will kill them all.
 
The world will end in about 1.2 billion years when the sun swells to about 20% of it's current size and tidal drag slowly pulls the planet out of it's orbit and into the sun. Our planet- everything that ever existed in human history, will be destroyed.

In 100-250 million years, the sun will heat up, making Earth's oceans and atmosphere boil away, so all life will most likely end somewhere around there.

Be this time, we either better be living somewhere else, or have found a way to slap engines on the sides of the planet to scoot us around to more comfortable orbits.
 
Perhaps someone has already destroyed the universe thousands or millions of years ago, and that is the date that the wavefront of that destruction reaches us.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
The world will end in about 1.2 billion years when the sun swells to about 20% of it's current size and tidal drag slowly pulls the planet out of it's orbit and into the sun. Our planet- everything that ever existed in human history, will be destroyed.

In 100-250 million years, the sun will heat up, making Earth's oceans and atmosphere boil away, so all life will most likely end somewhere around there.

Be this time, we either better be living somewhere else, or have found a way to slap engines on the sides of the planet to scoot us around to more comfortable orbits.
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Sometime in the next 50 to 60 years I'll be worm food....so I don't care.

 
Hopefully it will be the end of hearing idiots talk about the world ending because the Myian calendar ends that day.

A few things.
1. Their calendar does not end of that date.
2. They thought weather was caused by the gods - how come we assume they are smart enough to predict the end of the world?
 
Originally posted by: dmw16
Hopefully it will be the end of hearing idiots talk about the world ending because the Myian calendar ends that day.

A few things.
1. Their calendar does not end of that date.
2. They thought weather was caused by the gods - how come we assume they are smart enough to predict the end of the world?
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No shit. Everyone knows the weather is controlled by George W. Bush.
 
Originally posted by: dmw16
Hopefully it will be the end of hearing idiots talk about the world ending because the Myian calendar ends that day.

A few things.
1. Their calendar does not end of that date.
2. They thought weather was caused by the gods - how come we assume they are smart enough to predict the end of the world?
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A couple things.
1. Their calendar does end on that date.
2. Their calendar appears to be based on cycles that take tens of thousands of years. Stuff they could not have known without watching the stars and recording their movements for hundreds of years.
3. A few is three or more.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: dmw16
Hopefully it will be the end of hearing idiots talk about the world ending because the Myian calendar ends that day.

A few things.
1. Their calendar does not end of that date.
2. They thought weather was caused by the gods - how come we assume they are smart enough to predict the end of the world?
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A couple things.
1. Their calendar does end on that date.
2. Their calendar appears to be based on cycles that take tens of thousands of years. Stuff they could not have known without watching the stars and recording their movements for hundreds of years.
3. A few is three or more.
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The end of that calendar cycle to be more specific. The new cycle begins on that date also.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: dmw16
Hopefully it will be the end of hearing idiots talk about the world ending because the Myian calendar ends that day.

A few things.
1. Their calendar does not end of that date.
2. They thought weather was caused by the gods - how come we assume they are smart enough to predict the end of the world?
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A couple things.
1. Their calendar does end on that date.
2. Their calendar appears to be based on cycles that take tens of thousands of years. Stuff they could not have known without watching the stars and recording their movements for hundreds of years.
3. A few is three or more.
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didn't they also have diffrent calenders for different activities? planting/harvesting/ceremonies.

 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
I'll be sure to be awake at 12:00 AM Dec 22, 2012 just so I can post on here "HA nothing happened suckas!" 😛
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Hey, that's a Friday night, it works out perfectly.
 
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