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 basic 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 IP addresses. Does this mean the end of the world? )
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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
[...] to some, since the Mayan calendar ends 12/21/2012, time as we know it ends. There have been differing interpretations on what happens after that [...]
[...] The Mayan calendar ends in 2012. [...]
Even in hindu’s myth, the date is closer and in 2012 !!! when the third world war will broke out (this is guessed against between western alliance with india Vs chinese alliance with islamic nations ) This happens when china attacks india on that date. Check out for kalki purana on google and recent article by a defence expert of india here http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentID=3072430
Very interesting reading Alter. Thank you very much!
ANYONE THING THEY JUST RAN OUT OF ROCK??? REALLY THOUGH KEEP THE FORCE ACTIVE BRING YOUR PEACE TO LIGHT , MAKE THE WAY CLEAR -BLEND INTO THE FRAGMENTS TO WHO KNOWS WHERE!!
nothing will happen ! your life will go on like normal 12/21/2012 is just another day like any other
now if the world should (haha) end then it won’t matte as no one will be here to complain i was wrong – now if the poles shift then i guess we will have to reverse the terminals on the batteries on the cars other that =i do not think any thing is going to happen =have thy given a time ? besides a date that the world will end ? no an thats because they don’t know ! no one knows if they did they would not tell the mass’s that would just cause rampages an all sorts of unrest n we can’t have that as a community an country of people if it is the end well nice knowing you all if its not life will just go on like normal =no reason to do any thing but go on as you have been !!
in the bible it never sys the world will end in fact it says the world will last forever some place in relvaltions not sure where but it says world with out end ? so i guess the calanders were wrong? ill tell you on the dec 23 2012 !!
just a quick thought what could we do about it any ways = answer nothing grad a sheet an crawl slowly to the nearest cleared area? what could you do if the world is hit by any thing like that planet or bif rock what could we do =nothing why worry just another stress thats not needed till that date we have to live life to its fullest an enjoy what we have cause if its going to end well its going to end an there is nothing an i mean nothing any one can or could do !!
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL EVERYTHING FOR OUR GOOD SAKE
oh god why did i have to log on to this thing i’m freaked out and refuse to believe that the world is gunna end. i don’t want it to,