The world didnt end!

[DaOld Man]

Its getting to where you cant trust ancient Mayans anymore!

[brad808]

I put as much faith in a 5000 year old calendar as I do in 5000 year old medical practices.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

[BadMouth]

Are we in the clear yet?  I was giving it until the end of the day.

Nothing makes me feel like a bigger sucker than working on the day the world is going to end. 

[ChadTower]

[lordnacho]

Its getting to where you cant trust ancient Mayans anymore!

I got some Incan buddies and they have always said this about them.

[wp34]

Its getting to where you cant trust ancient Mayans anymore!

Or John Cusack.

[saint]

[Howard_Casto]

I've never laughed so hard. 

[danny_galaga]

Its getting to where you cant trust ancient Mayans anymore!

I wonder if they predicted their own demise...

[DaOld Man]

I wonder if they predicted their own demise...

I doubt it, cause that really happened.

[Howard_Casto]

Joking aside a misconception that the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to mean the end of time.  In their various writings and what not they clearly state that they expect the world to go on thousands upon thousands of years past the end of their calendar, but they never ask anthropologists or archaelolgists on these shows, they ask the crackpot with the Babylon 5 haircut on the history channel. 

The reason the Calendar ends at 2012?  Because like most ancient cultures, the Mayans made things decorative as well as functional.  So they made their calendar round... a huge round stone to be exact....  they ran out of room around 2012.

Check it out:

http://www.davidsmerdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/story-12-1a3-mayan-w-170350.jpg

Carving stuff that small in stone is hard, so they made the thing to last.  I'm saying a few thousand years into the future is a safe stopping point myself. 

[danny_galaga]

Joking aside a misconception that the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to mean the end of time.  In their various writings and what not they clearly state that they expect the world to go on thousands upon thousands of years past the end of their calendar, but they never ask anthropologists or archaelolgists on these shows, they ask the crackpot with the Babylon 5 haircut on the history channel. 

The reason the Calendar ends at 2012?  Because like most ancient cultures, the Mayans made things decorative as well as functional.  So they made their calendar round... a huge round stone to be exact....  they ran out of room around 2012.

Check it out:

http://www.davidsmerdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/story-12-1a3-mayan-w-170350.jpg

Carving stuff that small in stone is hard, so they made the thing to last.  I'm saying a few thousand years into the future is a safe stopping point myself. 

I think everyone is aware of this. In fact, there seemed to be more NASA scientists and whatever debunking this, than there were actual crackpots. News had a hard time making anything of it. It's always fun to laugh at survivalists, but you can only laugh so long...

[Louis Tully]

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[DaOld Man]

Whats up with this guys hair? Back when I wore my hair long, in the morning, when I first woke up my hair would look like this guys. But before I left the house, the hair would be washed and combed.
Did this guy just wake up and had no idea he was going to be on TV?

[danny_galaga]

Whats up with this guys hair? Back when I wore my hair long, in the morning, when I first woke up my hair would look like this guys. But before I left the house, the hair would be washed and combed.
Did this guy just wake up and had no idea he was going to be on TV?

[Samstag]

Whats up with this guys hair? Back when I wore my hair long, in the morning, when I first woke up my hair would look like this guys. But before I left the house, the hair would be washed and combed.
Did this guy just wake up and had no idea he was going to be on TV?

He's being abducted very slowly.

[lilshawn]

Myans...ppfftt!

why didn't the calendar go past that date? the same reason computers had the y2k bug, they didn't think they needed it.

the world has been so for billions of years and will continue to do so for billions of years after we are dead and gone.

[danny_galaga]

Myans...ppfftt!

why didn't the calendar go past that date? the same reason computers had the y2k bug, they didn't think they needed it.

the world has been so for billions of years and will continue to do so for billions of years after we are dead and gone.

You think?

[DaOld Man]

He's being abducted very slowly.

Abducted or just probed?
And why is his beard not growing? Enquiring minds want to know!

[EightBySix]

So what if he does have crazy hair? It's not like its the end of the world

[ark_ader]

To celebrate my 3K post count, I will go on record saying the EOTW will be 2036, which should be enough time for my 6K post count. 

[DaOld Man]

Congrats on the 3K post! I just missed mine. I was so worried about the end of the world and that alien guy's hairdo that I completely over looked it! Oh well, heads up for 4K.

[lilshawn]

An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for California who became trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cunningdale and students have found a time capsule left by the settlers which contains many predictions for the future. They predict that nations will abandon traditional methods of conflict and resort to the use of biological warfare. In 2016, one such disease will spread and kill all of the humans on the planet.

My money is on 5 billion years from now. The sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and will expand, becoming a red giant. As a result, swallowing the Earth's orbit... or at the very least roasting it to a cinder crisp. It happens on Doctor Who, so that means it will happen unless it doesn't (because of the changes the Doctor made to the timeline). Either way, watch out for Daleks.

[CoryBee]

My money is on 5 billion years from now. The sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and will expand, becoming a red giant. As a result, swallowing the Earth's orbit... or at the very least roasting it to a cinder crisp. It happens on Doctor Who, so that means it will happen unless it doesn't (because of the changes the Doctor made to the timeline). Either way, watch out for Daleks.

[Drnick]

Wait, a minute, What,  The world didn't end.      I suppose I better head on back up from my Protected bunker deep in the earth.  Oh well someone will come up with a new end of the world date soon I suppose. 

[Howard_Casto]

My money is on 5 billion years from now. The sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and will expand, becoming a red giant. As a result, swallowing the Earth's orbit... or at the very least roasting it to a cinder crisp. It happens on Doctor Who, so that means it will happen unless it doesn't (because of the changes the Doctor made to the timeline). Either way, watch out for Daleks.

Come on now... there isn't any science in Dr. Who what-so-ever.  Now if you had cited Star Trek..... 

Everybody with BBCA remember that the Christmas Special is on at 9 tonight!

If the human race manages to stay around for 5 billion years like it did in Dr. Who (extremely unlikely, we are too dumb) my guess is we might be able to master things like the Sun's hydrogen depletion. 

[Player 3]

The world did end. You're just in denial.

[SNAAKE]

The world did end. You're just in denial.

denial within denial

[Thenasty]

The world did END! We just got left behind.

[DaOld Man]

Suddenly I feel like the dog in National Lampoons Vacation.