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"2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220
boombaard writes "News is spreading quickly here that scientists writing in a popular science periodical (Dutch) have debunked the 2012 date (google translation linked) featuring so prominently in doomsday predictions/speculation across the web.
On 2012-12-21, the sun will appear where you would normally be able to see the 'galactic equator' of the Milky Way; an occurrence deemed special because it happens 'only' once every 25.800 years, on the winter solstice. However, even if you ignore the fact that there is no actual galactic equator, just an observed one, and that the visual effect is pretty much the same for an entire decade surrounding that date, there are major problems with the way the Maya Calendar is being read by doomsday prophets." I wonder what Amazon's return policy on a box full of 3 doomsday wolves shirts is?
Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Now we're going to have to deal with a rehash of all of that "You shouldn't call it the Millennium Bug, the new Millennium doesn't start until 1/1/2001, morons" BS...
Does this mean we have to endure another round of shitty movies in 2217?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
now we are gonna get another terrible movie, and its gonna be called... "2020"
On 2012-12-21, many geeks were about to have sex from the new agey women who believed that it was the last day of the Earth.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Those pesky end of life deadlines keep getting pushed back, even though we'll all be on Windows 666, the "fastest most secure OS we've ever launched"
So now this song will go like this?:
Now I'm [still] waiting for the big boom
And it know where I'm [was] gonna be
The big boom
I'm always getting closer to
The big boom
And it will catch up to me
The big boom
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Every 25.8 years? That doesn't seem so spectacular. All we have to do is add 25.8 to the last doomsday and we'll know for certain. Did the last doomsday happen in 1994 or 1986? I don't remember either being particularly bad, except maybe for the music.
My credit card will be paid off by then making Minimum payments.
Whew - I'm glad you cleared THAT up!
-- I really need to bleed off some of this
In short, you can't reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into.
... that approach can run into problems with myths and religious beliefs "No, it DID happen, but it was a SPIRITUAL end to the world" ...
That's when you make the sign of the Devil and tell them: "Glad to see you're still here. I'd like to be the first to officially welcome you to the team. I always enjoyed your work."
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
until they realized they have miscalculated it again, and they find the date to be less than the year 2000. Now that's going to be embarrassing.
Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
That's just what they want you to think.
+5 Informative. I agree. It's good to know what they want me to think. Wait what?
As an example, here's what *today's* Babelfish thinks of the article:
To be fed up: ' 2012' is just over two centuries
By: At Keulemans
In the film 2012 that this month in premiere, fall the cities and continents go at small woods, if the world fares. Toch moan that research has shown exactly that it ' end of the tijden' of 21 December 2012 there probably clears two centuries beside zit.
It's a Cyrillic alphabet. It's like all those keys you never push on a calculator.
There's always going to be some date in the future that some group of people think is going to be the end of time. When that date passes, they will find some way to reconcile it and come up with a new date. Or they will just be vague about it and claim "well we are in the end times now, thats why all these bad things are happening in the world".
I just wish the end would come now, suddenly, on a date of no importance or significance to anyone, and in a way completely unlike any prophesied before; I wish it would happen so completely unambiguously unlike anything ever imagined that it would put to end every stupid belief surrounding every one of those doomsday scenarios.
Thats the only true end of times: the one that proves everybody wrong.
It should happen right about.. now... *
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Wow! Base 20! So they also counted their toes?
http://dilbert.com/2010-12-13
No... it's a meta-mod joke. Moderators will often mod clearly funny paranoia "insightful" or "informative" to add to the comic value.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
This means I'll have to wait until 2038 when Linux time ends? Gonna be a bit harder to convince the chix with the crystals on that one. Would everyone please help curtail the x64 transition until then?
K'thx!
Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes and fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments...
No... it's a meta-mod joke. Moderators will often mod clearly funny paranoia "insightful" or "informative" to add to the comic value.
I've also heard of the mods giving Informative or Insightful posts a Funny mod - just to make you stop and wonder what the hell the joke was supposed to be.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
They'll still being going on about this non-sense for years. I was looking forward to nothing happening, so in 2013 they could finally shut up.
Jeez, what a Godwin's Law Nazi...
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