Well this Mayan Apocalypse...

The big show will be in 5 billion years when the Sun goes all Red Giant on us. You'll need to wear lots of sunblock for that one. I have to admit I did have faint hopes that today would be the end of Indiana.

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The big show will be in 5 billion years when the Sun goes all Red Giant on us. You'll need to wear lots of sunblock for that one.
I have to admit I did have faint hopes that today would be the end of Indiana.

Yeah, I know. You're tired of a real state making you Ohioans look bad.

I'm only an Ohioan by accident of birth.

Isn't the difficulty here that the experts don't know from when the Mayan calendar is dated ie. 2012 was a guestimate by the experts (not the Mayans)?

I wouldnt disparage the theories of those ancient civilisations.

limerickman said:

Isn't the difficulty here that the experts don't know from when the Mayan calendar is dated ie. 2012 was a guestimate by the experts (not the Mayans)? I wouldnt disparage the theories of those ancient civilisations.

Nah, the difficulty was in misinterpreting the end of their long cycle (b'ak'tun) as an end of time. It's analogous to someone misinterpreting the end of our Gregorian calendar as the end of time. Why didn't the Maya construct another b'ak'tun? Well, they were conquered by the Spanish. The few Maya that live today thought all the hubbub was ridiculous.