planet x isnt even real, all that shit in there is bogus "the body of a 36 foot tall giant was found" im fucking sure, take that shit to dr.dino and the creationists.
I didn't want to make another thread for this, so I apologize for the necro, but I thought this information was fascinating.
Apparently, 2012 may not be the date that brings about the end of times. A recent research study says that a conversion error between the Gregorian calendar (our standard calendar) and the Mayan calendar may have occurred, due to a misallocation of the GMT constant. A constant based on astronomical events that was devised by several Mayan scholars in past years, the GMT constant's veracity has been disputed by one Gerardo Aldana, who claims that certain weaknesses in the establishment of the GMT make the argument fall apart "like a stack of cards".
According to Aldana, the correction he's made to the GMT constant would place the "end of the world" date 50 to 100 years after 2012.
On November 05 2010 03:13 Aeres wrote: I didn't want to make another thread for this, so I apologize for the necro, but I thought this information was fascinating.
Apparently, 2012 may not be the date that brings about the end of times. A recent research study says that a conversion error between the Gregorian calendar (our standard calendar) and the Mayan calendar may have occurred, due to a misallocation of the GMT constant. A constant based on astronomical events that was devised by several Mayan scholars in past years, the GMT constant's veracity has been disputed by one Gerardo Aldana, who claims that certain weaknesses in the establishment of the GMT make the argument fall apart "like a stack of cards".
According to Aldana, the correction he's made to the GMT constant would place the "end of the world" date 50 to 100 years after 2012.
On November 05 2010 03:13 Aeres wrote: I didn't want to make another thread for this, so I apologize for the necro, but I thought this information was fascinating.
Apparently, 2012 may not be the date that brings about the end of times. A recent research study says that a conversion error between the Gregorian calendar (our standard calendar) and the Mayan calendar may have occurred, due to a misallocation of the GMT constant. A constant based on astronomical events that was devised by several Mayan scholars in past years, the GMT constant's veracity has been disputed by one Gerardo Aldana, who claims that certain weaknesses in the establishment of the GMT make the argument fall apart "like a stack of cards".
According to Aldana, the correction he's made to the GMT constant would place the "end of the world" date 50 to 100 years after 2012.
Really, I don't think anybody sane actually believed the world was going to end on that exact date. It was interesting poking fun at the Mayan calendar, now this is becoming plain silly.
On November 05 2010 03:13 Aeres wrote: I didn't want to make another thread for this, so I apologize for the necro, but I thought this information was fascinating.
Apparently, 2012 may not be the date that brings about the end of times. A recent research study says that a conversion error between the Gregorian calendar (our standard calendar) and the Mayan calendar may have occurred, due to a misallocation of the GMT constant. A constant based on astronomical events that was devised by several Mayan scholars in past years, the GMT constant's veracity has been disputed by one Gerardo Aldana, who claims that certain weaknesses in the establishment of the GMT make the argument fall apart "like a stack of cards".
According to Aldana, the correction he's made to the GMT constant would place the "end of the world" date 50 to 100 years after 2012.
i still don't get why people think they can understand the reasoning of a people that died off long ago....
their calendar ends in 2012 (or maybe not according to recent research, see above post) but they used a cyclic calendar.... this is just the end of one of those cycles.... why haven't they made a calendar to follow it then? Erm... because europeans killed off what remained of them, and their civilization was already in decine anyways.
The mayans probably couldn't imagine the earth still being around in 2012, mainly because they had no idea just how long the earth has been here.....its made 4.5 billions years without a complete extinction... many close calls... but never completely....even if there was a major disaster... life would continue.
Simple fact is, if they did think the world was going to end, why should we care? They were good astronomers... so were the chinese and egyptians....... guess what..... modern astronomers are EVEN BETTER! yay! And modern scientists tell us the world will end in about 5 billions year time..... personally I'll take the word of the people who spent years studying to get degrees and masters degrees and actually study real science over people who can't read mayan, don't understand the culture properly and are just either trying to sell a book or be a fear monger.
Did the mayans know about the upcoming solar system alignment? Perhaps..... except they wouldn't have been able to see half of the planets involved, they may have been able to discover part of. How can this cosmic allignment end the earth? It can't.... any good scientist can tell you that ;p
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