The impact of Y2K was highly overrated by many humans. This is a common and frequent tendancy.
2006-07-11 01:18:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Well, if 2000 couldn't kill our computers and computer run events, it is highly possible that 2012 will have even less affect than that. Not only that, but 2012 will not have the hysteria surrounding it that 2000 did.
You see, computers were programmed for all years to begin in 19xx. Even in the 1990s programmers were still oblivious to the fact the the 2000s were around the corner.
We will have none of these uncertainties in 2012.
2006-07-11 02:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by lcmcpa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan Calendar is not necessarily your average, run-of-the-mill calendar. It is, among other things, reputed to be the most accurate in the world. This is due in part to the fact it is also a relatively complicated calendar, using cycles of 13 and 20, relating to the cycles of other planets (e.g. Venus), and in general incorporating some 22 (at last count) different sub-calendars, such that every contingency can be accounted for.
The Mayans did not elaborate in great detail about what would happen in 2012 A.D., just that their calendar would end. However, there has been no end to the possibilities being forecast by modern day interpretors of what the Mayans might have meant.
2006-07-11 03:34:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dec. 21st, 2012AD is simply when the Mayan calender(the most accurate to date-no pun intended!) ends, ready to start another 'Long Count'. It's akin to our 1999 turning to 2000. It may be of some reassurance to know that the Mayan calender does not actually cease, until around 4775AD.
The Mayans did make some prophesies about 2012, but as with all prophesies, they can be taken out of context and meanings, not necessarily true, are often associated with them.
What IS interesting though, is that a 10th 'planet' was discovered in 2003, on a massive elliptical orbit that only passes into our solar system every few thousand years. Around 2012, it should be passing us. If historical and scientific evidence of cataclysmic events on Earth and other planets(the gigantic rip in Mars, the unusual fact of Uranus's poles facing the sun, different from the other planets), caused by celestial bodies(gods, to primitive man, perhaps?)are to be understood correctly, this 'may' point to something we should perhaps look into...
Should I also mention the fact that the Sunspot Cycle reaches it's maximum on that year too...?
;)
2006-07-11 01:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are sort of two different things. Both dates have meaning in different texts regarding the apocolypse, but...
The big hysteria around Y2K had to do with the possible programmatic errors that would occur when programs failed because of the two digit date. These programs might control key infrastructure, such as electricity, financial systems, missle defense systems, etc..
It was a non-event, and was largely over hyped. However, was it a non-event mainly because it was taken seriously, and most critical systems were corrected before Jan. 1st 2000?
2006-07-11 02:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by Danny42378 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the year 1000, there was massive, widespread hysteria. Apocalyptic cults gained popularity, people gathered on mountaintops to await the end of the world, etc.
The world, of course, didn't end.
There just is this fear and desire for the apocalypse in the human nature, but regardless, the world goes on.
2006-07-11 01:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by Torero In Red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm.. I dunno.. unless.. maybe some mayan computers shutdown then..
the impact of Y2K was significant.. many financial institutions had to invest millions of dollars to prevent it from having a major effect on world finance.... and it was not just a few institutions.. but all that had computers and software more than 5 or so years old.
2006-07-11 02:21:54 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.. i don't think so..
The impact of Y2K is about computer, isn't it? it was made by humans.. so humans can fix it..
but about 2012.. i heard it's about the earth and the galaxy.. it's something that human can't do about it, isn't it ?
2006-07-11 02:10:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is supposed to happen in 2012?
2006-07-11 01:23:41 · answer #8 · answered by lunatic_no9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, very likely.
2006-07-11 01:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by Jack Nicholson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HI,, we have to make it that long first,,, there are no gurantees to living more than one day at a time......
good luck....
2006-07-11 01:20:37 · answer #10 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋