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Nice to see a fellow Wapsi fan. Not sure how he's gonna stretch this out another four years, and where the heck has Tepoz been lately, what with the librarian in the house and all? --Kels 14:26, 6 January 2008 (EST)

At this point I'm kind of lost. Probably need to go back through the archive and get things set in my mind again, but I'm really just reading in the hope that things will start making sense again.WazzaHello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me... 06:28, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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I just moved this here:

" (one wonders how the Mayan priests had enough time to calculate astronomical events for several millenia)"

This seems like a completely gratuitous and even for RW, silly question. We don't wonder how our scientists (After all the Mayan priests were also their scientists) have the time to calculate the age of the universe, many billion years old, or have the time to figure out how long until gravity either pulls us into the Sun or tosses us out into the cold, so why be confused about the Mayans? Pseudo indeed.
Carptrash 16:38, 6 December 2008 (EST)

" (one wonders why the Mayans bothered making a calender 2012, when they were in something like 30 CE)"

Pretty much the same reason. Both comments were dropped in by some BoN, and don't make much sense. ħumanUser talk:Human 17:18, 6 December 2008 (EST)

That was me. And those are legitament questions. And one really does wonder at which the Mayan priests get bored and say, "What the heck, I'm getting bored, this isn't doing anything of value, etc." As for our scientists, well, they have more free time, don't they. --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistoris Rodney McKay 20:00, 4 January 2009 (EST)
That's not even a meaningful question. The reason their calendar has 2012 in it is because it can count that high. You might as well ask why our calendar has the year 8472 in it. EVDebs 20:42, 4 January 2009 (EST)
My point is that they had no reason to go past 2012 (or heck, even that far), and that that is why they stopped counting. --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistoris Rodney McKay 20:44, 4 January 2009 (EST)
I don't see your point. You're criticizing them for creating an open-ended design. They created it that way for the same reason the Oxford English Dictionary adds dozens of neologisms every year -- someone might need the information. Would you perhaps prefer they used a uniformly flat address space? Does it even matter? While trying to figure out how they derived it would certainly be interesting (I've seen some amusingly tortured speculations on the Babylonians' use of base-60 measures), the reason they did it in the first place was that there was no compelling reason not to in the first place, and a few advantages to doing it that way. EVDebs 20:48, 4 January 2009 (EST)
What I mean is, they had no reason to tell what astronomical events would occur 2013. Do we have astronomical calenders for the year 4000? (and I mean predicting every phase of the moon, every esclipse, etc.) --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistoris Rodney McKay 20:51, 4 January 2009 (EST)
We could if we wanted to, and they, for whatever reason, wanted to -- it's called "basic science". Orbital mechanics are pretty well understood, as are the mathematics of our date system, so we could do it to a fairly high level of certainty. I can assure you that someone, somewhere, has calculated planetary conjunctions and solar eclipses out several thousand years, up to the point where orbital drift and gravitational effects render the picture too murky to go further. This is information no one alive might ever need to know, but it's still good to have around in case something comes up a hundred or a thousand years in the future. Most assuredly the Mayan astronomers were following the same logic. (Heck, who knows -- some of their descendants are probably looking through telescopes doing something similar at this very moment.) EVDebs 21:01, 4 January 2009 (EST)
Perhaps the priests go sick of making calenders, procrastinated, and used the excuse 'the world's gonna end' as an excuse. --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistoris Rodney McKay 21:38, 20 January 2009 (EST)
Perhaps they got sick of making colanders, quit washing their veggies, and succumbed to horribly painful cases of food poisoning? ħumanUser talk:Human 22:29, 20 January 2009 (EST)

I've just stumpled upon the actual reason. 18:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


" which extends by a digit on the date corresponding to our December 21st 2012 CE" what on earth does this mean? ħumanUser talk:Human 03:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

That is weird. Do you think we need to discuss the seasonal cycles? The fourth on is completed on December 21st 2012 CE. - π 04:08, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed one of the citations is wrong. It talks about Midwinter, ignoring the fact that the Mayan's lived in the southern hemisphere. - π 04:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


Could we also debunk some of the claims of what would asplode on dec 21 2012?

Like for instance the claim that Betelgeuse will explode.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message801497/pg1— Unsigned, by: Orderbel / talk / contribs

Beetlejuice asplodes every time I step on a beetle. ħumanUser talk:Human 04:21, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
It may very well explode in 2012, but given it is 430 light years away, it will not hurt us. - π 04:23, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, but 2442 might suck for our grand-larvae... ħumanUser talk:Human 04:27, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
If it had exploded 430 years ago, and the Maya had somehow had the technology to figure out it was going to... OH MY GOD IT ALL MAKES SENSE WazzaHello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me... 06:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

About the galaxy alignment, wouldn't that happen once a year any way? - π 01:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, but it supposedly happens on the solstice (or something) that year. JS Leitch 01:40, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
So the Earth will be sticking its south end out a little bit, how is that different? - π 01:45, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
I think you just debunked it in its entirety, Pi. JS Leitch 01:58, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Stupidity

Ah. Didn't notice that up there... but, does it really belong? That section is more of a straightforward description of the Mayan calendar. The eclipse thing kind of comes out of nowhere, don't you think? JS Leitch 01:14, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Well make it more obvious if you like maybe a level three section inside the calendar description. - π 01:20, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Spelling

Also, are "Mayan" and "Mayans" even correct? Wikipedia just says "Maya". JS Leitch 01:57, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Mayan is the correct adjective. My dictionary lists both Maya and Mayan as a noun. - π 02:17, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, all right. I still say it looks funny. JS Leitch 02:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
My suspicion is Maya is technically right, but people have used Mayan so long it is recognised as a word. If you want to replace all occurrences then go for it. Just keep it consistent. - π 02:45, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

The Restored Church of God

Here's more rubbish inspired work from The Restored Church of God, see Is the End Near?. Proxima Centauri 17:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

In 2012

The London Olympics Apocalypse will occur.

The Millennium-Bug Dome will finally flip over and walk away on its legs.

Public Transport unions will go on strike (no knowledge of statistics, crystal ball gazing or betting shops required for this one).

Six different red-top publicity stunts, sorry political scandals, will occur.

And the rest of us will go on living as before. — Unsigned, by: 82.198.250.3 / talk / contribs 18:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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.... and on 22 December people will start writing the next 'apocalypse whenever' books.

Any suggestions as to what? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Bumping up to silver

I like this one. It looks good and is pretty comprehensive by our standards. Scarlet A.pngnarchist 13:52, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Totally. - π 14:24, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

What's missing

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Need more cover articles. I just polished this a bit, but I can see lacking:

  • History of the woo itself
    • Terence McKenna and similar drugfucked nutters
    • When the idea was mooted and when it entered pop. culture
  • Pepper with cites. (The Wikipedia article is good for cribbing references.)
  • Feels like it needs MOAR of er something. | Eira suggests look left --->

Anyone else? - David Gerard (talk) 17:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Can't we just redirect this to http://2012hoax.org? Or fork their articles (it's a wiki)? --ZooGuard (talk) 18:54, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Those short sections at the end need far more content. Scarlet A.pngnarchist 10:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Could mention these guys who seem to be making plans. I got this as a link from people in the area who seem to know nothing about the project. Which could explain why The Sun article on the subject seems not to mention them.--BobSpring is sprung! 10:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
9th series of The X Factor, dear fuck it's going to be a bad decade... Scarlet A.pngnarchist 11:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

o_O?

http://www.escapeearth2012.com/ Scarlet A.pngnarchist 18:46, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

From their FAQ: "EscapeEarth2012™ sells novelty gifts and related merchandise (collectively, “Merchandise”)." "We at EscapeEarth2012™ will not be held responsible for any acts of violence, self harm or harm to others that somebody or some peoples might resort to as a result of our product. This site was made to be a funny gag gift and should not be taken seriously." I hate exploitative slime. --ZooGuard (talk) 18:50, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
You can send it to 2012hoax.org. If you have a Twitter account, theirs is @2012hoax. --ZooGuard (talk) 18:54, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

"Mayan to Maya"

Why? (dictionaries) --ZooGuard (talk) 10:43, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


The predictions will be right

About what happens in London 'come the Olympics.' I predict: a) The London Transport unions will have a field day with strike brinkmanship, b) Certain right wing newspapers will predict doom and gloom involving masses of illegal immigrants, c) Assorted scare stories. And in the US Presidential elections there will be a major defeat for one of the Presidential candidates, while several candidates and politicians at lower levels will be caught out in dubious activities.— Unsigned, by: 86.173.239.201 / talk / contribs

Ditto the Putin-Medeyev election.

Several notable politicians will be caught out in dubious activities (with persons not their spouses, excessive appropriation of funds and all their usual sins of omission and commission.

Several 'notable' sportsperson will be caught out with persons they are not married to/match fixing/going on a booze/drug fuelled rampage.

Any more dead cert predictions? 212.85.6.26 (talk) 17:14, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Mayan predictions

According to a news article on Yahoo the latest discoveries show the Mayan 'apocalyptic prediction' to be little more than 'go back to square one and start the game again.' 212.85.6.26 (talk) 14:03, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Another prediction

...involves it being day after the 31st anniversary of the last episode of Blakes 7. 82.198.250.2 (talk) 17:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Wasn't that the show where the larval stage of Jean-Luc Picard made his first appearance? Just what is a "spiv," anyway? Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 18:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

That was 'I, Claudius' (but Brian Blessed appeared in both series).

I don't see the connection with spivs, but see [1].

Blakes 7 is notable for having most of the lead characters being shot at the end of the last episode (all, by the sound effects on the closing titles). 82.198.250.70 (talk) 17:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

... it is the actual 31st anniversary.

The only survivors are the chief baddie and the ornery computer. 82.198.250.70 (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

If you're British, male, and of the right age, Blakes 7 was notable for Servalan. Hot and evil! Yes! Innocent Bystander (talk) 17:22, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
My mistake. I seem to recall a former co-worker (Croydon public-school boy, and a thoroughgoing twit) claiming that Patrick Stewart played the lock-picker (hence spiv character, in his words) and only made it big after some voice coaching spiffed up his accent. WP tells me that was Michael Keating's character, and doesn't support the code-switching bit. I must be firing on three synapses again, sorry.
Either that, or the ex-public-school boy was full of it as usual. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 19:10, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I know some of the public shcool-boys from the Croydon area. I suspect you're right. Scarlet A.pnggnosticModerator 19:28, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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Dunno if we can get this to gold in two weeks, but it's worth a try dammit. What's lacking? - David Gerard (talk) 16:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

For the world to actually end? Scarlet A.pngpatheticModerator 16:56, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
It's on the cover! Scarlet A.pngssholeModerator 17:02, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Please do this on the 21st. For the lulz. Osaka Sun (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Oh totally. Scarlet A.pngpatheticModerator 17:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes! Humorless fascistsociopath 18:19, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Im going to be laughing my ass of the day of "the apocalypse" watching all the frantic maniacs blogging about how their going to spend their last hours. Im going to do nothing, because i still have a good 60+ years to live and ill take the whole apocalypse thing with a grain of sodium chloride (aka salt) — Unsigned, by: Alwaystruth / talk / contribs

I think it's worth gold now. Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:56, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Since no-one has an objection, I'm just going to go through the goldiferication-wannabe process - David Gerard (talk) 20:56, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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