The end is near...

[RagnaToad]

Either way we really shouldn't worry about whether or not its coming, and just carry on living. The media is constantly fearmongering to take our minds off the political crap thats going on.

Ironically, they're also doing the opposite: Wining about irrelevant political shit to get our minds of the real problems like global warming and HIV in Africa.

[Hyzenthlay]

Meteors have hit earth before. They aren't planet destroying, no matter how devestating they can be to the area they hit. To say that the world will end is stupid. Scientists are constantly telling us the world will end e.g- global warming. Global warming has been scientifically proven to have happened before. If sharks, crocodiles and turtles have survived it then humans can.

The same with the meteor. Nothing will end until the sun dies or the water dries up.

Hyz.

[RagnaToad]

Meteors have hit earth before. They aren't planet destroying, no matter how devestating they can be to the area they hit. To say that the world will end is stupid. Scientists are constantly telling us the world will end e.g- global warming. Global warming has been scientifically proven to have happened before. If sharks, crocodiles and turtles have survived it then humans can.

The same with the meteor. Nothing will end until the sun dies or the water dries up.

Hyz.

That depends on what you consider to be 'the end of the world'.

Is it the end of human civilisation? Is it the end of all animals being extinct? Is it the planet turning to dust?

[Midnight Panda]

i define the end of the world as the world can no longer support the human civilisation that live on it. but i think its going to be us that end the world

[Hyzenthlay]

That depends on what you consider to be 'the end of the world'.

Is it the end of human civilisation? Is it the end of all animals being extinct? Is it the planet turning to dust?

Thats exactly what I mean. The end of the world for humankind. The earth crumbling to dust... Wha!?
The end of the world as we know it would surely be what anyone means. Otherwise, how does it affect us? Why would it bother us? If the planet dies, we die. If water dries up, we die. If the sun dies, we die. That's the subject here, surely.
The end of the our world.

[Midnight Panda]

hy is exactly right. i think we are just going to use up all our waterand trees and destroy the ozone lair. or MAYBE it could be a possibility of the world colliding into a meteor. but i higly doubt it.

[Neo Necron]

it could be a possibility of the world colliding into a meteor. but i higly doubt it.

I love how that is worded... the world colliding into a meteor rather than the other way around, as would be the norm. It's the meteor that gets in the earth's path, not the earth in the meteor's path!

I bet not even Nostradamus considered that possibility.

[Midnight Panda]

hahaha what ever every one knew what i meant

[Che]

Nibiru, a planet which has an oblong orbit around the sun because it swings so far out it's affected by something else's gravity, is going to crash into Earth. It passes close to Earth every 3000 years and on December 31st, 2012 it will finally connect with Earth, on par with the end of the Mayan calender. Everyone knows this, it's science! Duh.

[Pete]

What do we do with a calendar when the year is done with? We throw the damn thing out.

The Mayan calendar is just a big ass version of a regular calendar. Think of it like the little calendar on your comp. Mine only goes til Dec 31 2099. HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE IN 2099 BECAUSE MICROSOFT SAID SO. I mean, Microsoft is a lot more advanced that a bunch of Mayans. Why? Cause they're all dead. But really, nobody cares about what's gonna happen in 2099 because we'll all be dead. I think maybe 2500 years ago when the calendar was created, they figured "shit, do you think it matters what happens in 2013? Cause it's only like 5BC right now. Maybe we got this covered for a while."



Plus they're all dead... or playing for the Mets. How reliable can they possibly be?

[RagnaToad]

What do we do with a calendar when the year is done with? We throw the damn thing out.

The Mayan calendar is just a big ass version of a regular calendar. Think of it like the little calendar on your comp. Mine only goes til Dec 31 2099. HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE IN 2099 BECAUSE MICROSOFT SAID SO. I mean, Microsoft is a lot more advanced that a bunch of Mayans. Why? Cause they're all dead. But really, nobody cares about what's gonna happen in 2099 because we'll all be dead. I think maybe 2500 years ago when the calendar was created, they figured "shit, do you think it matters what happens in 2013? Cause it's only like 5BC right now. Maybe we got this covered for a while."



Plus they're all dead... or playing for the Mets. How reliable can they possibly be?

That is one fine post, mate. Nice work with the Microsoft comparison. (EDIT: Mistake concerning the Mayans removed)

I say human civilisation will collapse when there are no more IP-address combinations.

Oh, wait. Isn't that like now?

Holy shit. We're doomed.

EDIT: Btw, this poll should definitely have been a public poll. I'd like to see those fuckers who voted 'yes' get called out for it.

[Clint]

People definitely need to stop buying into conspiracy theories. The world isn't going to end any time soon. People are going to die, and I say, "How dare they," but they never listen to me. People not listening to me is the exact reason why more people are dead than they are alive, despite that the human population continues to rise. The only reason why people think the world is going to end at the end of 2012 is because that's when the Mayan calender mysteriously ends. But it's quite simple to figure out why they chose that date in 2012 to end the calender. There are a few reasons. One, they knew that if they continued to make stone calenders, they would miss the opportunity to get killed off by the Spanish, which they predicted they would (strangely, even though they knew they were going to get killed off, they didn't do anything to prevent it, like, I don't know, hide.) And two, they knew that they weren't even going to be alive in 2012, so why should they even care about what happens then? Even if the Mayans wanted to carry on their calenders forever, they couldn't, because they all died, and as we all know, death really puts a damper on stone calender making abilities. For example, my aunt used to make blankets, but she doesn't anymore, because she's dead.

[Sean]

The only flaw was that the Mayans were around until the Spanish (as in, future South, and North, Americans) killed 'em all. But still a great point you're making

I say human civilisation will collapse when there are no more IP-address combinations.

Oh, wait. Isn't that like now?

Japan has already adopted IPv6, which hosts a possible 2^128th possible addresses, which is..... a ****ing lot. Cisco's pushing for American adoption of IPv6 with the smart electric grid reworking that's currently in the works. No one thought the internet would be anything more than business oriented when the IP Addressing scheme was originally undertaken, so they settled on IPv4 and it's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx combination of 32-bits of binary numbers, vs IPv6's xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx combination of 128-bit hexadecimal characters.

Once the entire world is on the IPv6 address scheme, there will be enough that everyone's personal cell phones, pdas, and individual computers could have it's own public IP address, with enough left over for.... well every living animal.


Also, The Mayans were long gone before Cortez and his Spanish arrived in modern-day Mexico. That was the Aztecs. The Mayans were around 2600BC to around 900AD, with their peak being at 300-900AD, then suddenly vanishing. There's no historical evidence showing they were slaughtered by another tribe or race, and they lived in relative seclusion from the way history is even presented considering no one knew this part of the world existed until 1492.

North Americans are (mostly) descendants of Europeans. North America was settled by Great Britain in the 1700s, with some parts by France and other European Nations. The Spanish set up their empire in South America in 1500s. Well, well after the Mayans disappeared.

Not to derail the thread. Already made my two cents on it. >_>; I fully endorse Pete's post, though, I found it most humorous. Pretty much my whole argument against it. I'm pretty sure they just got bored of carving some shit into stone and decided to leave it to another generation, and go sacrifice a virgin to their gods or something. <.<;

Note: Che, I thought you were serious until I read the poster's name.

[RagnaToad]

Japan has already adopted IPv6, which hosts a possible 2^128th possible addresses, which is..... a ****ing lot. Cisco's pushing for American adoption of IPv6 with the smart electric grid reworking that's currently in the works. No one thought the internet would be anything more than business oriented when the IP Addressing scheme was originally undertaken, so they settled on IPv4 and it's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx combination of 32-bits of binary numbers, vs IPv6's xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx combination of 128-bit hexadecimal characters.

Once the entire world is on the IPv6 address scheme, there will be enough that everyone's personal cell phones, pdas, and individual computers could have it's own public IP address, with enough left over for.... well every living animal.

...

I.
know.

Also, The Mayans were long gone before Cortez and his Spanish arrived in modern-day Mexico. That was the Aztecs. The Mayans were around 2600BC to around 900AD, with their peak being at 300-900AD, then suddenly vanishing. There's no historical evidence showing they were slaughtered by another tribe or race, and they lived in relative seclusion from the way history is even presented considering no one knew this part of the world existed until 1492.

I know that too, just didn't correct myself after I saw it. And it doesn't really matter since most Mesoamerican civilisations used pretty much a variation of the original Mayan calendar. But to be fair, you are completely right about the Mayans.

I'm more interested in the Teotihuacan people though. And the Incas, but the latter ones lived in South America.

And shit, I know a lot of stuff you can do with a virgin other than sacrificing her for your god.

[Josh_R]

i thought it was the Aztec calender that was done?

it might be im not sure been a while since i have had a basic history class...all i have is government classes...

[Lily]

No.

We've had this THE WORLD IS ENDING ONOES malarky before, if that was the case, then there should only have been one prediction and we should all already be dead

NOt that Im arsed about it ending December 2012, make it the 16th and I'l never have to see 30. Awesome

[Midnight Panda]

haha lol... its just something i have thought of and decided to think of what ppl on the web had to say about this... but honestly i dont thnk it will

[TobiasRainey]

The end has been near since the beginning of time, just because the Mayans were too lazy to go any further than 2012 doesn't mean we'll all die. They just thought "We'll cross that bridge in a few centuries..." Live for today and maybe you can die happy when the end does come.

[Josh_R]

I dont believe I'm just stating a fact..the mayan calender ends dec 2012 is this signifacant who knows for sure whether it will end or not...not of us thats for sure...

[Midnight Panda]

the aztecs or mayans or who evers calender is ending beleive that after each one of their calenders end there is a possibility the world will end, i heard that there was sometime around the 1600 hundreds the last time one of them ended

[RagnaToad]

the aztecs or mayans or who evers calender is ending beleive that after each one of their calenders end there is a possibility the world will end, i heard that there was sometime around the 1600 hundreds the last time one of them ended

1. Another one of your great posts which could just have been a part of a previous post of yours and doesn't add to the discussion or respond to any point made explicitely.

Way to raise your (meaningless) post count, pal.

2. The Mayans didn't believe the world would 'end'. Like I stated before: What does that even mean?

All that 2012 crap is just a misinterpretation of the Mayan Calendar. Just because a measurement they used ends in what we call '2012', doesn't mean those people predicted that something apocalyptic would happen in that year. It's just the end of an era. Some New Agers just abuse the calendar of a dead civilisation to fund their crazy theories.

[Rikkuffx]

I have reasearched this. The mayan calender supposedly ends on dec 21st 2012. They could have exticnt before they finished. I also have read articles that have stated that all planets blow up like stars when they die,and that ours is only so many years old and it won't happen for a very long time. So I think all the hype about this is because the movie is coming out in Nov,that's where all this came from.

oh and wasn't it supposed to end in 2000?
and sometime in the 80;s or something?

I don't think we will know til it happens.
Although someday they may have the technology and the research to figure out an estimate the earth will die.

[Midnight Panda]

ya it was supposed to end in 2000 hence Y2K Year 2 thousand. and also once around the 1600's and the '80's. what movie is coming out? i havent heard of it yet

[RagnaToad]

ya it was supposed to end in 2000 hence Y2K Year 2 thousand. and also once around the 1600's and the '80's. what movie is coming out? i havent heard of it yet

Do you only read the last post every time you go to this thread?

For the one starting it, you seem to know nothing about these 2012 theories. If it genuinely intrigues you, why don't you look up some shit? You come up with these numbers (1600's, 1980's), rambling away, but you don't give any further information as to where they are coming from. I think by now we've established the fact that you 'have heard' some stuff about the world ending in this or that year.

And obviously Rikkuffx was referring to the movie called '2012' coming out in 2012. Of course, it's going to be crap, but a real movie nontheless. And it will definitely add to the whole 2012-hype, if you can call it a hype.

[Josh_R]

And obviously Rikkuffx was referring to the movie called '2012' coming out in 2012. Of course, it's going to be crap, but a real movie nontheless. And it will definitely add to the whole 2012-hype, if you can call it a hype.

I feel all this movie will cause is a full blown panic when it comes out...

[RagnaToad]

I feel all this movie will cause is a full blown panic when it comes out...

I seriously doubt it.

Or mankind is even more stupid than I thought.

[Che]

I'd actually like to see people freak out about it. The website was enough for some people. It'd just prove my point that most humans shouldn't be "intelligent life". If aliens were to search the universe for signs of intelligent life, they'd probably skip right over us.

[RagnaToad]

I'd actually like to see people freak out about it. The website was enough for some people. It'd just prove my point that most humans shouldn't be "intelligent life". If aliens were to search the universe for signs of intelligent life, they'd probably skip right over us.

Now I regret giving you rep already for another post.

Humans are susceptible in that way. I think some people have to accept that there is no 'meaning of life' and that it's going to go on long after they're gone. Maybe go to the local library and look for Friedrich Nietzsche.

Or be happy with whatever idiotic religion they're into.

[Che]

Now I regret giving you rep already for another post.

Humans are susceptible in that way. I think some people have to accept that there is no 'meaning of life' and that it's going to go on long after they're gone. Maybe go to the local library and look for Friedrich Nietzsche.

Or be happy with whatever idiotic religion they're into.

Hmm? Meaning of life? The **** are you talkin about sir?

[RagnaToad]

Hmm? Meaning of life? The **** are you talkin about sir?

I was implying that most people who come up with shit like this are just looking for an apocalypse, because it would make the time they have more valuable.