Ya know, the world's suppose to end on the day I'm supposed to get out of school for Winter Break. Goddamnit school.
I intend to build a structured governing plan for building a tribal-based government. Because I've always wanted to have my own society of minions.
I know what we have to do! [video=youtube;-U2nsk4iI7E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2nsk4iI7E&feature=g-user-u[/video]
Actually, in any prediction made by the ancient Mayans that the earth was going to be destroyed or otherwise come to an end on 21 December 2012, daylight savings time was not accounted for. In this case, the world would have ended months ago.
... That's a very Pinkie thing to say... what with Daylight Savings not really having anything to do with the movement of the calendar.
Daylight saving's time doesn't really affect anything considering you only move the clock back and forth for one hour once every six months. Whatever prediction the Mayans made can only be off by one hour. No more, no less.
True, it doesn't affect out calendar, but that's only because we've accounted for it via leap years. They Mayan calendar had no such occurrences.
This. And considering 2012 isn't even the end of the Mayan calender, but rather an end of one of its cycles...
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date on which the calendar will go to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, will be on October 13, 4772. Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". She considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
That's... not why we have leap years at ALL! Seriously, the DST switch goes on and off, and when it's off, it's like nothing has changed. We don't actually lose or gain any time at all. DST's only something we have over here, most countries don't have it. In fact, a few good countries run on a different calendar.
Why is this now being serious talk? I should shout more. REPENT, REPENT. Planet X approaches. Follow me to my 34 mile deep bunker. We can form a secret society. I am destined to lead the future.
Oh, that's right, leap years are actually to account for the fact that the earth's rotation actually takes 23 hours and 59 seconds. I got my facts messed up there, sir.
LOL no, my thread. It was never meant to be taken serious. You want a "serious" 2012 thread go make one.
