Originally posted by Fooglmog:
Not that I subscribe to the end of the world crap, but that's a horribly written article with a few glaring omissions.
For example, if you were to try to calculate a date based upon their explanation you'd never get it right. This article leaves the reader thinking that all 5 slots on the Long Count Calandar are base 20... but that's not the case. The central numeral is actually base 18.
There's also good reason to believe that the furthest left numeral only goes up to 13. Essentially, all Mayan calandars consistantly end at the same spot before rolling over. One wouldn't end at 4.0.0 one time and 5.0.0 the next. The current Long Count cycle began the day after the date upon which Mayan's believe the world was finished being made. The time it took for that to occur was 13.0.0.0.0. In otherwords, this calandar last cycled at 13.0.0.0.0... and there's no reason to suspect it would be expected by the Mayans to cycle at a different point now.
There's strong reason to believe that the date in question is, in fact, the end of the Mayan Long Count. However, I'm a skeptic that this has any significance to the world as a whole.
-Fooglmog
Guy with no clue.
It's still fairly unlikely that the calender actually ends then if all the slots being 20 only gets us to 13.0.0.0.0
Originally posted by AoS:
Well, at least he managed to kill SOMETHING.
I keed, I keed.
I R A KILLER
