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2012 is coming! STOCK UP!
Switchblade:
--- Quote from: Cam on 27 Mar 2008, 21:19 ---IIRC, the Mayan calender was based on the stars and in 2012 there is some kind of alignment or change that happens every 20,000+ thousand years. I am willing to bet, at that point, their really fucking long period of time counter goes up by one and the calender starts over again. Or, if you are superstitious, Holy crap, end of the world!!!
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That's close to being accurate, except that the interval in question is a "mere" 394 years, not 20,000.
a quick explanation, for those who care (if not, disregard the rest of this post)
The mesoamerican "Long Count" calender notates as follows:
B'ak'tun . Ka'tun . Tun . Winal . K'in (although the actual Mayan notation was vertical, with the largest interval at the top, as opposed to the far left as presented here)
A k'in is one day. There are:
20 K'in in a Winal - 20 days
18 Winal in a Tun - 360 days (about a year)
20 Tun in a Ka'tun - 7,200 days (19 years, 11 months)
20 Ka'tun in a B'ak'tun - 144,000 days (394 years, six months)
Here's today's date (March 28, 2008) notated in the Long Count:
12.19.15.3.11
Here's the Long Count notation for December 20th 2012:
12.20.20.18.20
here's the long count notation for December 21st:
13.0.0.0.0
This will mark the start of the 13th B'ak'tun, the 1,872,000th day since the beginning of the Long Count. That's approximately five thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight years and nine months.
The whole thing about the Mayan calendar being a "countdown to 0" is complete bullshit.
Switchblade:
Double post. I suck cocks.
NarwhalSunshine:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 28 Mar 2008, 08:54 ---I don't think the Army Survival Manual would really help much. My dad was a Colonel and commander of a cavalry batallion of tanks. I remember reading his copy of it a long time ago, actually. I'm sure the version of the Survival Manual he had was older than the one they're selling, but it doesn't really say anything other than pure common sense.
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It's pretty much the same, the boy scout manual would be much more useful.
negative creep:
Switchblade, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't taht mean the beginning of the 14th B'ak'tun rather than the 13th? Like the year 2008 is in the 3rd millenium, not in the 2nd?
thegreatbuddha:
--- Quote from: Switchblade on 28 Mar 2008, 12:55 ---Here's the Long Count notation for December 20th 2012:
12.20.20.18.20
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Err, shouldn't that be 12.19.19.17.19?
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