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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScholars Release The Latest Date For Apocalypse - June 3-4, 2016
As four years after the deadline for the end of the world (as set by the Mayan calendar) came and went without incident, scholars across the world have been trying to put their heads together to understand how the advanced knowledge of the Mayans had gone wrong.
Turns out, it hadn't.
Modern day scholars were the ones who got the date wrong. A series of miscalculations led to the faulty date, which has now been revised to five days from today, June 3-4 this year!
It was earlier believed that the end of the calendar marked the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. This would mean a new era of positive energy on Earth and the beginning of a new age. This is believed to be a cryptic message marking the end of the world.
As far as we know, the people of Mesoamerica, the Maya included, didnt care about leap years, Anthony Aveni, an expert in ancient Mesoamerican astronomy at Colgate University told the National Geographic.
Our philosophy about leap year is a complicated scheme to make the seasons jibe with the calendar, Aveni said. They were more concerned that time should be unbroken, not interfered with, and that the count of time should have continuity.
Oh, my.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Your words are reminiscent of an old song I posted at DU, long ago.
pscot
(21,023 posts)this evening. I was thinking about hauling some stuff to the dump. I'm glad now I put it off.
brush
(53,467 posts)mint chocolate chip . . . and repeat since there's no tomorrow.
No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)Should I put my garbage out for pickup, just in case it's a little late?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)jehop61
(1,735 posts)we don't have to worry about. Trump presidency.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)csziggy
(34,119 posts)And will never know who will get the Democratic nomination!
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I had better post the Daily Holidays in the Lounge a bit early for the weekend.
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)But you should plan on going to your dentist. Mine would still charge me if I failed to show up after the end of the universe.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)When I woke up the last time they predicted the end of the world, I was freaking out thinking it was the end of the world. But no, it was just a bad hangover.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Ya can't take it with ya, unless you're a repug.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)in Vegas!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Scholars? Really? No real scholar would believe that crap.
Adding quotes from a scholar to a pile of manure does not turn it into gold.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There's a total solar eclipse I just read about that's scheduled to go over most of the United States in August 2017. Nertz.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)lapislzi
(5,762 posts)And, dammit, my favorite jeans are in the wash.
Sometimes things just don't go your way.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)elleng
(130,126 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)Scientific
(314 posts)Pretty lame to do your own figuring and then announce yoru own Apocalypse, and try to pin it on the Mayans. Sensational slop.
hatrack
(59,436 posts)a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)archaeo-astronomer.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)I wonder what the end of the world looks like in Florida?
malaise
(267,784 posts)Do you need my address/account to abandon your earthly distractions and give away your earthly bank accounts to me
lindysalsagal
(20,433 posts)Hope the chunky monkey's fresh!
Bucky
(53,795 posts)No, I mean the other Indians.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)LOL
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)I really, *really* wish actual scholars (Anthony Aveni, though he only commented that Mayas didn't care about leap years) would not have their names dragged through the mud in these stupid kinds of stories. And I wish they wouldn't be published. Every single semester I have to undo the "knowledge" instilled in students by this kind of garbage, or its ancient aliens ilk.