Do you think the world will end in 2012?

[Richie]

Yeah, the world could end on December 21st 2012. The world could also end on February 17th 2011. It could also end on October 25th 2086, or maybe even January 4th 2054.

You never know. It's highly unlikely, and I personally think that it almost certainly won't happen - but there's always, a chance.

Good point however I highly doubt this was a random guess.

Thousands of years ago the Mayans managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out.

These same people also predict that the world will end on December 21, 2012.

[GommeInc]

"The Mayan's predicted it" is aload of horse crap, they never actually said it would end, they just ran out of wall to make a calendar. Besides, would you really want to believe a race that never saw its own demise? There's no logical reason for them to actually "predict" it, they never had the resources to look up at the sky in great detail (suspected object to hit the earth being one idea), nor were they believed to be mind readers, psychic or so forth. Again, this points back at "if they were so clever, why did their system fall apart? They were no cleverer than modern man, they couldn't hold a civilisation together if it bit them on bum :/

[Gullable]

21.12.2012 is when the mayan calendar ends and just starts again, the world wont end, sheesh kebab.

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh hell noooo, you did not make this thread!

[Jahova]

No. We are safe and sound.

[Ardemax]

no it's a load of bull

[-:Undertaker:-]

North or South Korea.. Or the Russians trying to prove a point -.-'

North Korea only has a few nuclear weapons which are very weak and they don't have the missiles to deliver them, if they did fire however many they have (3 or so & which they'd need the missiles to carry them) they would instantly be shot down by NATO. Meanwhile South Korea has no nuclear weapons.

I don't believe the world will end, wasn't it supposed to end last year aswell?

[GommeInc]

It's constantly meant to end 2000 is a prime example of computers killing us pointlessly The Maya are probably spinning in their shallow graves wondering why people are misinterpreting them Like God, I bet he's wondering why people are praying. He only wrote a novel-come-self-hep-book like Harry Potter and the whole world goes crazy! Poor beggar

[Black_Apalachi]

... I don't believe the world will end, wasn't it supposed to end last year aswell?

It's constantly meant to end 2000 is a prime example of computers killing us pointlessly The Maya are probably spinning in their shallow graves wondering why people are misinterpreting them Like God, I bet he's wondering why people are praying. He only wrote a novel-come-self-hep-book like Harry Potter and the whole world goes crazy! Poor beggar

I'm pretty sure it was meant to end on numerous occasions. Didn't Nostradamus predict it to happen on some date that has now passed?

To be honest, I don't know much about this Mayan thing but from the little I've read, all this hype is based on the fact they successfully predicted something to do with the moon to within a few seconds so therefore their prediction on this must be accurate. Even if the two things can be somehow related (the behaviour of the moon vs something that may or may not happen n the future :S), whoever follows that sort of logic needs to wake up. Science doesn't work by relying on one-off occurrences.

[GommeInc]

I'm pretty sure it was meant to end on numerous occasions. Didn't Nostradamus predict it to happen on some date that has now passed?

To be honest, I don't know much about this Mayan thing but from the little I've read, all this hype is based on the fact they successfully predicted something to do with the moon to within a few seconds so therefore their prediction on this must be accurate. Even if the two things can be somehow related (the behaviour of the moon vs something that may or may not happen n the future :S), whoever follows that sort of logic needs to wake up. Science doesn't work by relying on one-off occurrences.

Pretty much the logic, despite modern man being able to find things out as fact or near-to accurate is beyond the conspirators. I'm sure you'd agree, finding out the distance in time between the moon in an accuracy of just under a few seconds, is nothing compared to how poorly they failed their civilisation(s). The Maya supposedly got bored of the system in place, and opted for disbanding and moving back into the forests in seperate groups (only read part of the story, got bored )