Do you believe the world will end in December?

[c_house]

Just seeing how many people actually believe this. Damn Mayans and their calendar.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

The answer is "no".

 

[aalokishere]

the world's ending in December???
Damn my school still doesn't have it's own Gangnam Style video

 

[pyromaniac123]

You forgot to add the option "Don't be so fucking stupid."

 

[Foxi4]

It's been scientifically proven (meaning, by linguists, mathematicians and archeologists) that the Mayan calendar does not set the date as the end of the world - it's just the end of a cycle. The entire "End of the World" prophecy is pure fantasy born from the fact that in the past, we could not decipher the complete meaning of the calendar.

In fact, this is just the date on which... the calendar for a given cycle ends and moves on to the next cycle.

Does the world end each time you change your calendar, meaning each December? No, of course not, that's ridiculous. Our calendar has 12 months, their calendar had several cycles, and one of those cycles will be ending now - no more, no less to it.

"Contrary to prior popular belief, the Mayans did not mark December 21, 2012 as the end of the world as their oldest calendar has been unearthed. In fact, the planet has quite a bit of time left and nobody living today will have to fear doomsday at all.

The recent unearthing of the Mayans' oldest calendar suggests that the notion of a December 21, 2012 apocalypse was, in fact not only wrong, but highly misinterpreted. According to Live Science, the calendar was found on a beautifully painted wall within the ruins of a city in the Guatemalan rainforest.

"The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future," said University of Texas archaeologist David Stuart, who studied the red and black painted hieroglyphs. "Numbers we can't even wrap our heads around."

The glyphs accompany a colorful mural featuring a seated king boasting a scepter and blue feathers along with his attendants. As Irish Times reports, the glyphs were consorted with columns of bars and dots (the dots being the number one and the bars being the number five) noting the positions and movements of stars and planets.

The glyphs and murals were apparently used as reference material for count scribes back in 800 A.D. These scribes being the equivalent of modern day think tank participants.

The previous idea that the Mayans predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012 was due to the fact that it was the end of the 13th calendar cycle or "baktun," which last 400 years or 146,000 days. In the past the earth's life was only said to span these 13 baktuns, but as International Business Times reports, this newly-unearthed calendar in fact has 17 seasons. All December 21 is supposed to mark is a new beginning, and not a fiery end."

Source

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

Load of tomfoolery / bollocks.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Well, good thing about being a naysayer: We don't have to hear any "I told you so" if the world decides to go boom.

 

[NightsOwl]

Hahahahahahahahaha.....

You serious?

 

[Satangel]

No

 

[AeroblitzR]

i believe whenever you hear about the end of the world, it's because som1 needs to sell you somthing.

think about Y2K (god now i feel old...) everyone bought new computers, Prepping supplies, generators, TP you name it.
i remember people were claiming to be "experts" and thet'd go around testing for "y2k compliancy" in peoples electronics.

now with this you see all these guys prepping and buying more stuff.

personally i think climate change is more important than some mystical Mayan calendar.
also i bet the only reason their calendars lasted 1000+years is because it was really freaking hard to chisel a calendar out of stone

 

[gameandmatch]

What's wrong with you?! The world already ended when twinkies, that are suppose to survive a nuclear apocalypse, ended.

 

[Qtis]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/nati...an-calendar-discovered-doesnt-end-2012/52191/

'Nuff said

 

[Ace Overclocked]

Yes, just cause Assassin's creed 3 said so and we all know gaming=reality.

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

Even if there was some mass extinction event, it's unlikely the world would actually end. As we haven't seen anything headed right at us from space, it's unlikely that the planet will shatter, so it'll endure even if we're gone. Additionally, it'd take a hell of a punch to take out every form of life on the planet.

 

[Shoat]

Just seeing how many people actually believe this. Damn Mayans and their calendar.

Any scientifically reasonable event capable of extincting all of mankind within less than 24 hours can be predicted months, if not years, in advance.

This is just like the past 5000000 times someone claimed "the world will end on this day X" to make some quick and easy money off of stupid people and/or get attention.

 

[emigre]

Anyone voting yes should be banned imo.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Anyone voting yes should be banned imo.

Then promptly unbanned a day later for no real reason.

 

[frogboy]

Then promptly unbanned a day later for no real reason.

And then perma-banned on December 22nd.

And no, it's not gonna happen.

 

[emigre]

Then promptly unbanned a day later for no real reason.

And we call that the GBAtemp way!

 

[Black-Ice]

What a load of crap.
The only way I see the world ending is when one genius decides to start a nuclear war.