What happens December 22, 2012?
May 20th, 2008 by Moonage
I’ve always heard the world will probably end December 21, 2012. The logic is very simple. The Mayan calendar runs out on December 21, 2012, so therefore there are no days after December 21, 2012. Simple. Now, I’ve never bought into that doomsday prophecy for simple reason that if the Mayans knew the future, they would have known their calendar would serve them no purpose long, long, long, before 2012. So, since they had no days long before 2012, the logic they could predict the future with a calendar seems seriously flawed to me. However, Universe Today explains it even more logically. Namely, the reason their calendar runs out on December 21, 2012 is because their date will look something like this:
13.0.0.0.0
Look familar?
Looks a lot like an IP address to me.
The Mayans used basically an arbitrary cross of base-13 and base-20 numbering to mark passing years and their version of months. I’m not sure if the Mayans or Ian O’Neill at Universe Today simply used this format to make it easier to understand. But, the basica concept is the same as IP addressing that is the heart of basically all communications and data exchange for the human race at this time. Now, this leads me to wonder that since someone figured out that if there are no days left after the Mayan Calendar runs out, what happens when we run out of IP addresses? Will the ability to communicate via internet cease to exist as well?
Just gotta wonder, dontcha?
( Quickie update: No sooner than I posted it, the ICANN people came out and said we’re running out of UP addresses. Does this mean the end of the world? )
I have never heard that the ‘world’ will end on that date. That is a new one on me. I always heard that ‘time’ will end on that date. And it follows that a new cycle will begin.
Never heard of the doomsday prophecy, did that come from the mayans too?
The link I provided is the story as I have always heard it. The title of the page is “The End of the World”. I have never heard that time simply starts over and everything is the same as it was. I have always heard it as they have heard it, time ends for everyone. That, is the end of the world as we know it.
i won’t believe that world going to end