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Someone here had to mention it. Just remember, when its after early morning on the west coast, say Nor'Cal is already tomorrow (22nd Dec 2012) in Australia, regardless of what the Mayan Calendar says...

Oh, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, if the comet doesn't get us first

R.

http://billioncountdown.com/

5 hrs 57 minutes left. Was nice to know y'all

adiós rockers & 'gators, catch you later on a fluffy cloud

goodbye cruel world

Are we too old to join the circus ?

^ no, federico got us covered :D

Just want to have the money people had spent for years for all kinds of nonsense in anticipation of the Final Day - e.g., for "End-of-the-World Champagne" [probably tastes terribly - I rather stick to Krug or Dom Perignon ]

But - don't worry: some other demented esoterics will come up with new prophesies and there is a good chance we can look happily forward to another prognostic apocalypse soon...

In the meantime - pack away your survival kit and enjoy a prosperous 2013 [and a merry X-mas]

Wolf ! Wolf !

Global warming is not an Algore hoax, and seven billion people is about five billion too many. It will come crashing down.

Maybe today was the tipping point. Don't discount them Mayans yet ....

The Mayas created a calender that works until 2012, most computer programmers (including me) wrote programs in the 80ies that didn't even work after 2000 ...
PS: Maybe it is time to update the Maya calender to 1.1 and make it Y2K12 compatible ...
Many Greetings and a Happy 2013 TOM:-)

Do you count yourself as one of the five billion too many or one of the two billion remaining?

None of the above, and it doesn't matter. It's simple science, doesn't play favorites. There are too many people for the health of the organism.

It would probably be better for the world if there were no people whatsoever but historically it looks like the place can support a couple billion. More than that and we just fuck everything up.

Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts.

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Not quite correct. The Mayans certainly did *not* create a calendar that works until *2012*. Firstly, 2012 in all of the surviving Mayan inscriptions is only hinted at once, on the El Tortuguero Monument 6 - but due to the damage of surrounding glyphs, its meaning is hardly clear. Secondly, Mayans just had a bunch of interlocking time cycles [as we do] and one of theirs happened to end now [the 13th bak'tun] before beginning the next one. Big deal. [We started Winter yesterday]. Thirdly, in fact, no-one can be sure of any precise starting date of their calendar either. We currently simply rely on the GMT correlation - but did the Mayans have no calendar related ideas of the years before 3114 BC?

BTW, in APL the niladic system function [or system variable, depending on the implementation] *) Quad-TS ever since returned a rank-1 array of shape 6 or 7 [depending on the implementation], including the *full* specification of the current year. So, there were never any problems with the switch from 1999 to 2000 at all [notwithstanding stupid programming, of course]...

*) The major difference between a niladic system function and a system variable is that the former can't be localized.

Oh, well have to wait until the next apocalypse, off the top of my head, Jan 19 2038, the end of 32bit UNIX time.

R.

Ah, an Encounter of the Third Kind