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[DDM PLAGUE]

Xantars, on 19 June 2012 - 07:36 AM, said:

yup no clans deal with it space cadet

oh but their will be,,,after the release.. they are .....................PENDING!

[Trog16]

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.

End of the world stuff aside. The amazing thing about the Mayan calender is that it didn't need leap years, that is an artifact of the imprecise Gregorian calendar. The Mayans figured out how to make a calendar that just worked and took into account the real orbit of the earth. Just saying.

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.

[FatSpiderman]

+1 for the guy above

but anyway, i see it like this. clock reset every 360 degrees right? (i say that cuz i saw a 24hr clock once lol) so their circular calendar will do the same as our clocks do, slide from 11:59 (or etc.) to 12:00 (or etc.). If anything, the theorizers should say tht mayan calendar proves that history repeats itself lol.

[th3 fr4gil3]

read up on shadowrun, it's not the "end of the world" but the end of the 5th world and the start of the 6th world (iirc).
so just means people will start mutating into dwarves,elves,orcs etc.
oh and that means we get cyberware people

[Arbalister]

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."

[GHQCommander]

Cold hard truth is we need half of the human population to be gone, soon. Maybe December 2012 was not meant to be the end of the world but is the deadline for having solutions in place to start solving global problems.

Obviously it wasn't. Probably. But the world should just look at it that way for its own good.

The world might not end all at once in Dec 2012. But we will still play our mechs and escape in the game knowing that there is little we can do about a planet slowly dying and suffering.

Just as good a reason to escape as any. Pending doom of 6 billion (maybe 10 billion when it gets bad) humans is not an easy thing to deal with.

[Kenaris]

Trog16, on 19 June 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:

End of the world stuff aside. The amazing thing about the Mayan calender is that it didn't need leap years, that is an artifact of the imprecise Gregorian calendar. The Mayans figured out how to make a calendar that just worked and took into account the real orbit of the earth. Just saying.

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.

Good Job Doctor Spock...

Glad the Scientific reason for the Myan Calendar ending in 2012 is because they where just tired or had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome