We won't die 2012
by Illidari | 13/02/2008 21:47:46 It's true we won't. Im Blastoise. |
by Draztal | 14/02/2008 11:46:38 Aviendha, that's probably one of the best explanations I've seen about the Mayan calendar. Personally, I always find amusing this kind of big announcements, as they lack real argumentation, or rely on things yet to be proven. Their philosophy implied that there was no end on the universe, just cycles, and starting from there, it makes no sense to believe they would make a calendar to say "hey look, we have 18.000.000 days left before our world ends". And I'm almost sure that digging somewhere on the numerous websites about them, we can find why the calendar starts 1200 years before the earliest evidence from them (the first day of the world comes to mind). There're also those funny videos about Nibiru, Planet X and the like, which are shown always from time to time, predicting a painful death to all life on Earth, and forgetting so many basic astronomy concepts that you can't really take them seriously. I don't know if there was an english version of that, but, for some time, a few years ago, there was a chain mail in Spanish where it was said that during a few days, we could see Mars on the sky being bigger than the Moon, because the planet would be really close to the Earth, and that event happened only each can't-remember-how-many-thousand-years. The same applies here, if Mars were coming that close to the Earth, both planets would collide. So yea, we won't die in 2012 because the Universe will shrink or because a calendar happens to end on that day when it's converted to our calendar system. At least that's how I see it :-P |
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