how did people come up with december 21st being our last day alive ever?

It's the end of the Maya calendar. Some say the Maya's astronomical systems were more advanced and sophisticated than modern-day technology, so-much-so that some people have come to the conclusion that the ancient Maya civilisation had contact with extraterrestrial life. Debating whether or not the Maya people did infact predict the end of the world would be a more relevenat debate.

I don't think the world is going to end anytime soon, but I'll remain open to the slight possibility.

I think there are may different combining factors here, scientific research and knowledge which gets used by many different people within religions, people who love conspiracies and other random people. There is some truth to the cycle of the planets, not in our solar system but in our entire galaxy. Everything works in cycles, if you take the earth for example. You have winter and summer and you expect that to come around ever year, the cycles working on the greater scale take a lot longer to happen and most people are totally unaware of them. I personally do not know what will happen, I am neither skilled enough in science or able to see into the future. But all of these people who say yes this will never happen, I will bet money or my life on it, sure go ahead. But there is only one thing certain about the future and that is that the future is uncertain.

ANTI CONDOM wrote:

Nothing will happen. As a matter of fact, I will be having a bbq on December 22 2012. Every girl teenhutter is invited. Just remember, no condom users allowed. Tee Hee.

Lmfao when you catch an STI.

JCpatriots wrote:

Nothing is going to happen on December 21, 2012. I'm gonna be blaring Final Countdown by Europe on that day just for the lulz, but come December 22, 2012, I will be lawling. We'll be alive, and nothing will happen.

Yes. I'm going to do this.

2012 Forum • Index page Also, I'm planning on posting in this forum on the 22nd of December 2012.

bollocks.
They said the world would end in the year 2000, load of gash.

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Though its probably a good excuse to get drunk and party like mad on the new years eve

who is 'they'? lol, it is them again They said that the current system in place computer wise would not be able to handle the date, which was a rumor that got out of hand. I think this could well be another rumor but there are also a lot of scientific evidence supporting what COULD take place. It will be interesting to see what does happen, if anything and how people will react.I know of want it to happen because I think major world events make the place a little less boring and shake people up a bit. We all need a good shake up!

I dont know who it was, but i remember reading something about it ages ago, i cant remember.

yea I was just joking around. The world was not meant to end as such in 2000, but what was meant to happen didn't

ahhh haha ok.

Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or form, the Earth (or at least a large portion of humans on the planet) will cease to exist. Stop planning your careers, don't bother buying a house, and be sure to spend the last years of your life doing something you always wanted to do but never had the time. Now you have the time, four years of time, to enjoy yourselves before… the end.So what is all this crazy talk? We've all heard these doomsday predictions before, we're still here, and the planet is still here, why is 2012 so important? Well, the Mayan calendar stops at the end of the year 2012, churning up all sorts of religious, scientific, astrological and historic reasons why this calendar foretells the end of life as we know it. The Mayan Prophecy is gaining strength and appears to be worrying people in all areas of society. Forget Nostradamus, forget the Y2K bug, forget the credit crunch, this event is predicted to be huge and many wholeheartedly believe this is going to happen for real. Planet X could even be making a comeback. For all those 2012 Mayan Prophecy believers out there, I have bad news. There is going to be no doomsday event in 2012, and here's why…
The Mayan Calendar
So what is the Mayan Calendar? The calendar was constructed by an advanced civilization called the Mayans around 250-900 AD. Evidence for the Maya empire stretches around most parts of the southern states of Mexico and reaches down to the current geological locations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and some of Honduras. The people living in Mayan society exhibited very advanced written skills and had an amazing ability when constructing cities and urban planning. The Mayans are probably most famous for their pyramids and other intricate and grand buildings. The people of Maya had a huge impact on Central American culture, not just within their civilization, but with other indigenous populations in the region. Significant numbers of Mayans still live today, continuing their age-old traditions.The Mayans used many different calendars and viewed time as a meshing of spiritual cycles. While the calendars had practical uses, such as social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks, there was a very heavy religious element. Each day had a patron spirit, signifying that each day had specific use. This contrasts greatly with our modern Gregorian calendar which primarily sets the administrative, social and economic dates.
Most of the Mayan calendars were short. The Tzolk'in calendar lasted for 260 days and the Haab' approximated the solar year of 365 days. The Mayans then combined both the Tzolk'in and the Haab' to form the "Calendar Round", a cycle lasting 52 Haab's (around 52 years, or the approximate length of a generation). Within the Calendar Round were the trecena (13 day cycle) and the veintena (20 day cycle). Obviously, this system would only be of use when considering the 18,980 unique days over the course of 52 years. In addition to these systems, the Mayans also had the "Venus Cycle". Being keen and highly accurate astronomers they formed a calendar based on the location of Venus in the night sky. It's also possible they did the same with the other planets in the Solar System.Using the Calendar Round is great if you simply wanted to remember the date of your birthday or significant religious periods, but what about recording history? There was no way to record a date older than 52 years.The end of the Long Count = the end of the Earth?
The Mayans had a solution. Using an innovative method, they were able to expand on the 52 year Calendar Round. Up to this point, the Mayan Calendar may have sounded a little archaic – after all, it was possibly based on religious belief, the menstrual cycle, mathematical calculations using the numbers 13 and 20 as the base units and a heavy mix of astrological myth. The only principal correlation with the modern calendar is the Haab' that recognised there were 365 days in one solar year (it's not clear whether the Mayans accounted for leap years). The answer to a longer calendar could be found in the "Long Count", a calendar lasting 5126 years.I'm personally very impressed with this dating system. For starters, it is numerically predictable and it can accurately pinpoint historical dates. However, it depends on a base unit of 20 (where modern calendars use a base unit of 10). So how does this work?
The base year for the Mayan Long Count starts at "0.0.0.0.0". Each zero goes from 0-19 and each represent a tally of Mayan days. So, for example, the first day in the Long Count is denoted as 0.0.0.0.1. On the 19th day we'll have 0.0.0.0.19, on the 20th day it goes up one level and we'll have 0.0.0.1.0. This count continues until 0.0.1.0.0 (about one year), 0.1.0.0.0 (about 20 years) and 1.0.0.0.0 (about 400 years). Therefore, if I pick an arbitrary date of 2.10.12.7.1, this represents the Mayan date of approximately 1012 years, 7 months and 1 day.This is all very interesting, but what has this got to do with the end of the world? The Mayan Prophecy is wholly based on the assumption that something bad is going to happen when the Mayan Long Count calendar runs out. Experts are divided as to when the Long Count ends, but as the Maya used the numbers of 13 and 20 at the root of their numerical systems, the last day could occur on 13.0.0.0.0. When does this happen? Well, 13.0.0.0.0 represents 5126 years and the Long Count started on 0.0.0.0.0, which corresponds to the modern date of August 11th 3114 BC. Have you seen the problem yet? The Mayan Long Count ends 5126 years later on December 21st, 2012.Doomsday
When something ends (even something as innocent as an ancient calendar), people seem to think up the most extreme possibilities for the end of civilization as we know it. A brief scan of the internet will pull up the most popular to some very weird ways that we will, with little logical thought, be wiped off the face of the planet. Archaeologists and mythologists on the other hand believe that the Mayans predicted an age of enlightenment when 13.0.0.0.0 comes around; there isn't actually much evidence to suggest doomsday will strike. If anything, the Mayans predict a religious miracle, not anything sinister.Myths are abound and seem to be fuelling movie storylines. It looks like the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is even based around the Mayan myth that 13 crystal skulls can save humanity from certain doom. This myth says that if the 13 ancient skulls are not brought together at the right time, the Earth will be knocked off its axis. This might be a great plotline for blockbuster movies, but it also highlights the hype that can be stirred, lighting up religious, scientific and not-so-scientific ideas that the world is doomed.
Some of the most popular space-based threats to the Earth and mankind focus on Planet X wiping most life off the planet, meteorite impacts, black holes, killer solar flares, Gamma Ray Bursts from star systems, a rapid ice age and a polar (magnetic) shift. There is so much evidence against these things happening in 2012, it's shocking just how much of a following they have generated. Each of the above "threats" needs their own devoted article as to why there is no hard evidence to support the hype.But the fact remains, the Mayan Doomsday Prophecy is purely based on a calendar which we believe hasn't been designed to calculate dates beyond 2012. Mayan archaeo-astronomers are even in debate as to whether the Long Count is designed to be reset to 0.0.0.0.0 after 13.0.0.0.0, or whether the calendar simply continues to 20.0.0.0.0 (approximately 8000 AD) and then reset. As Karl Kruszelnicki brilliantly writes:
"…when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, it just rolls over into the next cycle. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January. So 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan calendar will be followed by 0.0.0.0.1 – or good-ol' 22 December 2012, with only a few shopping days left to Christmas." – Excerpt from Dr Karl's "Great Moments in Science".
NOW STOP WORRYING. IT'S A HOAX.
For more stuff like that go to Universetoday.com

2012 is as likely to happen as an african american becoming president

oh wait

oompaloompas wrote:

2012 is as likely to happen as an african american becoming president

oh wait

I lol'd.

2012 is an epic fail gimmic just so some corporation can make some money off TV shows about it.

It's not gonna happen..
If we did, I spent my whole life in school >.> which sucks ass...

Ikr, I'll probably be leaving home around then. -.-

noway, but I'll look like an idiot if it does

For anyone that thinks it will I hope it does for them. They really don't deserve to live on the same planet as me. It's a film. People sometimes mention some supposed Mayan calendar but what did you expect? that it would run on eternally? That isn't quite possible. Had the Mayans continued to tis day they would have just extended the calendar. Oh and above all that why has anyone started to believe what some ancient south american group had to say could possibly be true? They didn't predict it and if they did so what? they also used to mutilate living people as a sacrifice to their "gods" do you believe in that too?

Techno Viking wrote:

For anyone that thinks it will I hope it does for them. They really don't deserve to live on the same planet as me.

Don't flatter yourself.

Realising that there is no reason to think the world will end in 2012 doesn't make you smart. It just means you aren't painfully stupid enough to think it will. So I really amn't flattering anybody.