The end is near...

[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.

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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.