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Discussion: End of the World?
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the Mayans didn't consider leap years, which were invented by Julius Caesar, so technically the world was supposed to end August of last year.
just a fun fact
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Originally posted by J03Y
the Mayans didn't consider leap years, which were invented by Julius Caesar, so technically the world was supposed to end August of last year.
just a fun fact
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Sorry but your fact is inaccurate
Some people here have already given good answers regarding leap year in the Mayan calendar. But the Mayans actually had three calendars: one that was essentially a solar calendar, another that was a religious calendar, and a third calendar that was used for keeping historical records. This third calendar is the only one that's relevant to your question, because this is the one that some people are using to predict the end of the universe.
This long-count calendar isn't a calendar as much as a counting system. You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modifed base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc.
We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on pure math. I've got no opinion of whether the calculated date of Dec 12, 2012 as the end of the cycle is accurate
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Member Since: 6/6/2012
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Originally posted by J03Y
the Mayans didn't consider leap years, which were invented by Julius Caesar, so technically the world was supposed to end August of last year.
just a fun fact
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I don't think that matters... they didn't have months/days as we did, their calender was translated into how we have our calender, and the end of their cycle falls on December 21 in our calender. I'm pretty sure whoever translated it didn't overlook leap years.
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As we speak ... Only 54 days and 6 hours left
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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if you dont believe in this i feel sorry for you son. i got 99 problems and the worlds ending.
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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I'll let all you psychos breakdown over this stupid assumption and laugh at y'all faces when we wake up after "the world supposively ends"
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Member Since: 2/4/2012
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Originally posted by Signs
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Exactly my fantasy
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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This day is going to be awesome even if nothing happens!
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Member Since: 3/12/2012
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There will be a next day, we had a lot of theories of this and never came true.
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Member Since: 9/4/2011
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I wonder how many believers will commit sucide that day..
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Member Since: 3/8/2012
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The world is not ending. Can't believe so many people actually believe in this smh
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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Maybe the prediction is 2 months off. With the recent weather, I donno if we're going to make it to next week.
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Member Since: 4/21/2012
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Even tho the world isn't ending, I'm still not leaving the house that day. Imagine all of the idiots that'll be out in the streets causing madness.
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Originally posted by iLays
Source?
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Member Since: 8/17/2012
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Wasn't there some crazy lady who killed(shot?) her daughters the last time the world ended?...I believe it was after some man published a book about it?...
Either way, when the world ends this year...here's what I'll be doing.
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Member Since: 11/26/2011
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Originally posted by LoudR
I wonder how many believers will commit sucide that day..
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I wonder this too. It'll be quite sad if people do
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Member Since: 6/6/2012
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I don't think there will be suicides that day, this isn't a date from some religious cult.
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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Originally posted by Signs
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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Originally posted by Kaqkavalli
Sorry but your fact is inaccurate
Some people here have already given good answers regarding leap year in the Mayan calendar. But the Mayans actually had three calendars: one that was essentially a solar calendar, another that was a religious calendar, and a third calendar that was used for keeping historical records. This third calendar is the only one that's relevant to your question, because this is the one that some people are using to predict the end of the universe.
This long-count calendar isn't a calendar as much as a counting system. You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modifed base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc.
We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on pure math. I've got no opinion of whether the calculated date of Dec 12, 2012 as the end of the cycle is accurate
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oh well we learn something new everyday
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Member Since: 12/2/2011
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Originally posted by Kaqkavalli
Sorry but your fact is inaccurate
Some people here have already given good answers regarding leap year in the Mayan calendar. But the Mayans actually had three calendars: one that was essentially a solar calendar, another that was a religious calendar, and a third calendar that was used for keeping historical records. This third calendar is the only one that's relevant to your question, because this is the one that some people are using to predict the end of the universe.
This long-count calendar isn't a calendar as much as a counting system. You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modifed base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc.
We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on pure math. I've got no opinion of whether the calculated date of Dec 12, 2012 as the end of the cycle is accurate
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you're going a little too hard for something that isn't gonna happen
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