Lartely, I've been watching these History Channel specials about the impending doom that awaits us when a "special" alignment of planets brings about the end of the world, according to some Mayan calander, and the prophecies of Merlin.

Funny, I always thought Merlin was a fictional character. My bad.

Anyhow, I seem to remember the same thing from a show called Ancient Prophecies that predicted the same types of catastrophies, and yet these never occured. As with this special alignment of planets, I'm thinking that this will finally be the right moment in time when Marvin the Martian gets that Illudium Pew-36 fuse for his Acme XJ19 Explosive Space Modulator Cannon. Ahhhhh yes...it all comes together now!

So, now with the new hysteria revolving around 2012, what will happen when that day comes and goes?

On the bright side!

ScottHar

I think it's a little strange how the History Channel's been running so many doomsday scenario shows lately. Apocalypse, Nostradamus 2012, etc.

They've also got it wrong, Nostradamus has prophecies that go all the way to the year 3797.

The 2012 date comes from the Mayan calendar and it's always misinterpreted. 2012 is not the end of the world, that is just when their calender runs out and must be "restarted". That's when another "new creation cycle" begins called a Baktun.

Here's a c&p that explains it:

The Mayan calendar doesn’t end on 12-21-2012. The Long Count calendar rolls from Baktun 12 to Baktun 13 on that date, but that’s not an end. It can go up to Baktun 19, and even then (in the year 4770+), it doesn’t end, it goes to Pictun 1 (! Pictun=20 Baktuns. 1 Baktun=~400 years)

Actually, I was thinking Palin gets elected in 2012.

Which just might be the end of the world as we know it....

Gotta admit, that's funny there.

Ron

I do believe that it is predicted to end in late 2012 though.. i think Nov or Dec...

On the bright side!

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If that's the case, then it looks like I'll still have to buy my wife a b-day gift. I can never catch a break...

Our taxes will have to double.

I think it's a little strange how the History Channel's been running so many doomsday scenario shows lately. Apocalypse, Nostradamus 2012, etc.

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Ever watched MSNBC, Fox, CNBC, or CNN lately? Lots and lots of doomsday prophesizin' goin' on there.

"It's the worst since the Great Depression!"

"We'll never recover!"

"Oh woe is us!"

As far as I'm concerned, 2012 is a just a small blip on the map.

Oh, wait, that was some 9 yrs ago...

The funny part about it is, if you actually READ the Bible, that the world does not end in cataclysm. In fact, books like Revelations and Isaiah clearly state this. They call those times of tribulation "birth pangs" for a new world.

Acccording to the Bible, the world ends LONG after the time of tribulation (about 1000 years).

Yet, they'll dredge up some whack-job with a divinity degree to go on claiming that the end of the world is nigh. And people will beleive him or her. Hysterical.

Don't forget Y2K!

Oh, wait, that was some 9 yrs ago...

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Yes, I haven't forgotten Y2K. I remember ALL of the doomsday predictions that came out - stuff would stop working because of the roll-over issue.

Frickin' hysterical.

I remember one guy running around claiming that microwaves and vacuum cleaners, and cars would stop working because of the rollover problem. And that idiot got on major news outlets, and was given a serious voice to spread all that nonsense.

The problem was that, at that time, things like vacuums weren't microprocessor-driven. Plus, your average microwave isn't affected by what date it has encoded in its firmware. Your vehicles are sorta the same way. If the date rolls over (which wasn't really an issue in the first place with many embedded devices), it starts at zero - no big deal.

Nothing beats a good, full-out mindless panic to keep ones self entertained.

What was kinda sad was the fact that so much money was thrown at the Y2K problem, and come 2001 a lot of those people who had good-paying jobs in fixing Y2K issues were out of work. Some of them took months, if not years to get a new job. They got labeled as Y2K coders, and few employers around here thought they could bring any genuine development experience to the table.

Which contributed to the recession we had in Michigan.

But at least the talking heads had a crisis to discuss for several years.

Same as always, we pick a new day! Remember Y2K?