Anyone planning anything for December 20th 2012?

[dsheinem]

I am seriously considering doing something drastic and watching the movie 2012, as enduring it would either a) make it feel like everything inside me is dying and/or b) make me glad the world is actually ending.

[jp1]

Watch Strange Days instead so your night won't suck.

[IcKy99]

ill be in my underbed bunker playing SpiderMan on PS1 like i was on new years eve 1999

[vash23n]

I love this stuff! I looked it all up when the movie came out to see if there was any truth or even slight truth to what was being said. My favorite parts of Wiki regarding 2010:

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"There is nothing in the Maya or Aztec or ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to suggest that they prophesied a sudden or major change of any sort in 2012," says Mayanist scholar Mark Van Stone. "The notion of a "Great Cycle" coming to an end is completely a modern invention." In 1990, Mayanist scholars Linda Schele and David Freidel argue that the Maya "did not conceive this to be the end of creation, as many have suggested." Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012. "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday event or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." "There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."

Maya inscriptions occasionally reference future predicted events or commemorations that would occur on dates that lie beyond the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates" where some Long Count date is given, together with a Distance Number that is to be added to the Long Count date to arrive at this future date. On the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of the text projects into the future to the 80th Calendar Round anniversary of the Palenque ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal's accession to the throne (Pakal's accession occurred on 9.9.2.4.8; equivalent to 27 July 615 CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar). It does this by commencing with Pakal's birthdate of 9.8.9.13.0 (24 March 603 CE Gregorian) and adding to it the Distance Number 10.11.10.5.8. This calculation arrives at the 80th Calendar Round since his accession, which lies over 4,000 years in the future from Pakal's time—the 21st of October in the year AD 4772.

Another example is Stela 1 at Coba, which gives a date with twenty units above the b'ak'tun, placing it either 4.134105 × 1028 (41 octillion) years in the future,[20] or an equal distance in the past.[26] Either way, this date is 3 quintillion times the age of the universe, demonstrating that not all Mayans considered the 5,125-year cycle as the most important.

Mayan archaeologist Jose Huchm has stated that "If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea. That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain".

[YoshiEgg25]

Consider that the Maya used 365 day years back then, when we now use ~365.25. If you add all the lost time back from 3000 BC, when the calendars were made, the date ends up being in late June or early July, so about 4.5 years extra.

Honestly I think it's all bullcrap, but it's definitely not happening in 2012.

1. The Mayan calendar's last date is not completely known. Scientists argue whether the last date is December 21, 2012 or December 23, 2012. Would something like this be in any doubt as to when it ended?

2. The Mayan year was exactly 365 days. This means that their calendar is off one day every four years. To compare, our calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is off one day every 3,257 years. That means that, if it were accurate based on that calendar, and if there was an end to the world on that date, that it would happen 3.5 Mayan years late. That means that if there was an end to the world it wouldn't happen until 2016!

3. Let me show you all something interesting.

1 k'in
-1 day
--0.0027 solar years
1 winal (20 k'in)
-20 days
--0.055 solar years
1 tun (18 winal)
-360 days
--0.986 solar years
1 k'atun (20 tun)
-7,200 days
--19.71 solar years
1 b'ak'tun (20 k'atun)
-144,000 days
--394.3 solar years

December 2012 just happens to be the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. This could mean that they didn't want to make any more calendars, or that they knew there would be no chance of them still being around past then.

4. NASA disproved it.

Add it all up, and it won't happen. Good day to you.

[Luke]

It's a Saturday, so all I can say is that hopefully I won't be working.

[Para]

I'm gonna do what I did last time the world was supposed to end.

Gonna have a wicked party and play Road Rash 64.

[GSZX1337]

I'll probably be playing a Valve game. Every New Year's Eve I play a Valve game until about 1:00-2:00AM. I don't even plan it, it just kept happening that way for the past 5 years.

[benderx]

To be continued...2011

2012 wtf that's later, party now.

[Breetai]

Wait for the planet Nibiru to arrive with our creators, the Annunaki, who will lead us into the enlightened age of Aquarius.