For a while now, people, nut jobs, conspiracy theorists, and the common people have been wondering about 2012. For those of you who don't know, around December 23, 2012 the Mayan long calendar ends, supposedly bringing the end of the world. I only ask one question: Would it have the same impact as the Y2K Problem?Or would it be just an excuse for people to do something incredibly stupid?
2006-07-01 11:57:08 · 7 answers · asked by chachoregard 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
You start out with a series of incorrect assumptions and then make a grand pronouncement.
Y2K was a computer-related bug having to do with the fact that most dates were stored in databases in YY format (89) rather than YYYY format (1989) and some databases may have thought 00 was 1900 instead of 2000.
The so-called "end date" of the Mayan long count calendar is NOT 12-23-2012, it's 12-21-2012, and it's not the end of anything. It's the first day of the 13th baktun (rather like our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 without the computer glitches). A baktun is 396 years long. The calendar goes up to 20 baktuns, or even beyond, so there's about 2800 years left before anyone could say it "ends".
Also on 12-21-2012, there will be a grand astronomical alignment which only happens every 26,000 years. The sun will conjuct the dark area of the Milky Way at dawn on the Winter Solstice. The Maya believed this dark area was the birth canal of the universe (and it is indeed very close to the center of the galaxy where stars are born). So that morning the sun comes up through the birth canal and is reborn. This is an energetic event. It does NOT signify the end of this world (which is already over), it's the beginning of a new world age (26,000 years).
Read "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog or my regular website for other information on that day.
2006-07-04 05:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no, Y2k was computer related, and since computer controll pretty much everything, and the bug in the computers handling the data past 12/31/1999 issue ( which really wasn't that much if a problem), the nut jobs feared all hell would break loose once banking, ect.. all shut down.. and thus the coming apocalypse of mankind. bummer..
so i guess 2012 is another for the nutjobs who believe in such crap.. if it end the world.. great.... if it does not...bummer...
2006-07-01 12:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y2K was a computer problem, so no it would not have the same impact. People have been predicting the end of the world for centuries.
2006-07-01 12:08:15 · answer #3 · answered by qwerty456 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it will be just a reason to ask tons of stupid questions about it....remember 06.06.2006 when some months before yahoo answers was full of questions about that date? until 2012 we`ll be sick of questions about it...and nothing will happen then...
2006-07-01 12:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, comp problems were feared and in the mayan belife the world will kablooy. never know what could happen
2006-07-03 11:27:38 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a start of a new era. Hopefully people will become more
conscious about there actions.
2006-07-01 22:18:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know Mayans invented computers too...
2006-07-01 12:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by iwastypingthat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋