I think the Olympics are happening around then too.
So - er - just thought you ought to know.
Or not know. I forget now.
Someone just told me that no one knows how microprocessors work because there's an equation inside them (sic) in which x+infinity is divided by y+infinity, and this isn't mathematically possible.
Where do these people come from & why don't they go back there?
...the Mayans migrated North, and then it's something about Lunar calendars and Omaha indians
Oh why not.
And I'm sure they had lead acid battery powered astronomical computer as well.
And pyramids.
And an advanced non-industrial civilization taught to them by the Space Beings.
(It's all covered-up by the government, you know.)
In that case we will only have to wait some 1 500 million years for six more galactic spins. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
(Although, the predicted solar maximum for 2012 might do a number on our communications, and that would certainly leave its mark globally.)
Sheesh. People need to relax.
"People need to relax if that's what the whole thing's about."
Having satellites knocked out by solar storms wouldn't be fun (and I refuse to watch Knowing-- no solar flares for me, thank you). But now I wonder if the galactic things we're supposed to see are really just intense auroras!
Only he got it completely wrong, and the Mayan cycle really ended a few years ago.
I'll admit I'm fascinated by this constant need to try to prefigure apocalypse. If it's not the imminent end of the world, it's the antichrist. Or maybe some variation of ascension into paradise by way of the return of Jesus, the Rapture, the arrival of the space people, or a technological singularity.
Also available on video.
Astonishingly, the date of Mother Shipton's predicted end of the world appears to have been shifted to 2012.
Still, it all came in useful when some blithering child of sick fundamentalist parents started scaring my daughter by telling her she wasn't going to live to get to high school because God Was Coming.
My own experience and ten minutes on the internet proving how many people had made themselves look really stupid with these predictions soon cheered her up.
And if she had any residual worries, I should think three years of high school has pretty much wiped them out.
There is actually a whole other 2012 contingent that doesn't think it wil be the end of the world, just an ending or change in how we view something. I think they mean other than 2012 prophecies. ;-) Kind of like how the Internet/Web changed communication and commerce, only on more of a psychological/spiritual scale.
The beginning of the last Baktun saw, possibly, the emergence of modern humans. The oldest dated remains found at Crô Magnon are around 35.000 years old. You can't be me, I'm taken
Or a culture looking for patterns over any many generations. I don't think we, today, have any idea what it feels like to be part of an ongoing effort to find patterns in the celestial or terrrestrial - over hundreds, if not thousands of years.
The only thing that was important to the Mayans (for example), imo, was that there HAD to be a Tellurian pattern. It was beyond preservation. You can't be me, I'm taken
