BeforeLife, on 19 June 2012 - 06:38 AM, said:
If the world was going to end based on the myans then it would have already, you know why? Leep years. The leep year was put into place AFTER the myans. So if the world was going to end based on this, it would have last year. Suck on that myans.
Grus, on 19 June 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:
actually if you take out the days from when leap years started to now, the "end of days" was supposed to happen a few years ago :/
Leap years weren't necessary in the Mayan calendar. Here are the actual resulting "year lengths" for a true astronomical year, the adjusted (with leap years) gregorian calendar, and the mayan:
Length of the year according to modern astronomy : 365,2422 days
Length of our present, corrected Gregorian year : 365,2425 days
Length of the year according to the Maya astronomy : 365,2420 days
The Mayans a were actually more accurate - a variance of .0002 days as opposed to .0003 for the currently used calendar. Note though that the mayan calendar is a tiny bit less then "actual" where the gregorian is a tiny bit *longer* then an "actual" year.
Trog16, on 19 June 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:
The real reason the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 is. . . have you made stone calenders? that **** is hard physical work and after you plan out for a couple thousands of years, you just need a break.
That's always been my argument. After carving out 10,000 years of calendar info, I'd say a) he ran out of space, and

looked at the next big stone wheel and said "screw it, I'm not going to be here."