[Drizzy Drake]

I did have a huge ****ing post about 2012, but my computer froze so ya'll can do your own research.

Short version : Mayans have uber calender that goes on for thousands of years as one calender (not twelve months repeated) but stops on December 21st, 2012. Orginally believed to be some world ending apoclypse, is now more commonly believed to be the shifting of the polar ice caps which will brig upon a new Ice Age.

Discuss.

[Eugine]

Well, we know Obama is the anti-Christ, so I will not be surprised if the world ends in 2012. It's all coming to play.

Now, let us look at the world problems:
- The world is in a recession.
- The world is very dangerous and unstable. We know Obama sucks at making good decisions. Currently, he is making the US look weak, embolding Russia and others.

And who the US elects? A guy who has troubling associations... an unknown who simply rose to power out of nowhere. Anti-Christ signs imo.
We know he has a band of blindless followers who shout "YES. WE. CAN"... "O..BA..MA", like mindless zombies. We know people consider him "THE ONE" and the "MESSIAH".
So yeah, it's destiny. Start going to church people!

... but then, who knows, a new world leader may emerge to save the world from death and destruction in 2012! Sarah Palin, Boby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty comes to mind :P

[Golden Legacy]

Eugine cracked me up so hard with that. Poor guy is still in denial.

The world was supposed to end in 2000 with the Y2K bug.
We'll be waking up on January 1st, 2013 and forgetting all about this. On to 2020.

[Moonear]

Eugine, on Nov 13 2008, 10:04 PM, said:

Well, we know Obama is the anti-Christ, so I will not be surprised if the world ends in 2012. It's all coming to play.

Now, let us look at the world problems:
- The world is in a recession.
- The world is very dangerous and unstable. We know Obama sucks at making good decisions. Currently, he is making the US look weak, embolding Russia and others.

And who the US elects? A guy who has troubling associations... an unknown who simply rose to power out of nowhere. Anti-Christ signs imo.
We know he has a band of blindless followers who shout "YES. WE. CAN"... "O..BA..MA", like mindless zombies. We know people consider him "THE ONE" and the "MESSIAH".
So yeah, it's destiny. Start going to church people!

... but then, who knows, a new world leader may emerge to save the world from death and destruction in 2012! Sarah Palin, Boby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty comes to mind :P

That was pretty funny, I've gotta admit. The fact that some of these idiot think that Obama is the antichrist is the most absurd thing I've ever heard, even more so than the fact you think Sarah Palin would be a good leader.

[Golden Legacy]

Now now, political discussion for the right topic please.

But yeah, Mayan calendars, supposedly infallible? Interesting enough, to say the least. What did the Mayans themselves think of an "apocalypse"?

[Toasty]

When the world ends.

[Golden Legacy]

Har har.
I meant their perception as to what caused it, what forces were a part of it, how it would be brought about, etc.

[Ironsight]

The Mayans also tore out the hearts of living sacrifices and offered them to their gods.

[Toasty]

Golden Legacy, on Nov 13 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

Har har.
I meant their perception as to what caused it, what forces were a part of it, how it would be brought about, etc.

The apocalypse caused it, of course.

[Ironsight]

How do you think it will end, Toasty?

[David]

December 21, 2012, huh? Dammit.

...*****es couldn't even wait til Christmas.

[Toasty]

Miley Cyrus, on Nov 13 2008, 08:50 PM, said:

How do you think it will end, Toasty?

Starts with between 900million and a billion or so people disappearing, followed by an imense earthquake which opens up a huge-ass rift in the earth, succeeded by 7 years of really bad ****.

And then the earth goes *poof*

Or something like that.

[Drizzy Drake]

Eugine, on Nov 13 2008, 10:04 PM, said:

Well, we know Obama is the anti-Christ, so I will not be surprised if the world ends in 2012. It's all coming to play.

Now, let us look at the world problems:
- The world is in a recession.
- The world is very dangerous and unstable. We know Obama sucks at making good decisions. Currently, he is making the US look weak, embolding Russia and others.

And who the US elects? A guy who has troubling associations... an unknown who simply rose to power out of nowhere. Anti-Christ signs imo.
We know he has a band of blindless followers who shout "YES. WE. CAN"... "O..BA..MA", like mindless zombies. We know people consider him "THE ONE" and the "MESSIAH".
So yeah, it's destiny. Start going to church people!

... but then, who knows, a new world leader may emerge to save the world from death and destruction in 2012! Sarah Palin, Boby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty comes to mind :P

Lmao. I still can't believe that you really think Salin Palin would be a good leader. She though Africa was a ****ing country..

Golden Legacy, on Nov 13 2008, 10:09 PM, said:

Eugine cracked me up so hard with that. Poor guy is still in denial.

The world was supposed to end in 2000 with the Y2K bug.
We'll be waking up on January 1st, 2013 and forgetting all about this. On to 2020.

The world was NEVER supossed to end in 2000. All the worlds electronic devices however were going to stop, which would **** us over. They fixed it only like 2 monthes before December 31st 1999.

[Ironsight]

Neophyte, on Nov 13 2008, 10:32 PM, said:

The world was NEVER supossed to end in 2000. All the worlds electronic devices however were going to stop, which would **** us over. They fixed it only like 2 monthes before December 31st 1999.

Oh, right. That whole thing with the internal clocks or whatever reading the date as 1900 on New Years, right?

[Caael]

In the mayan calendar beforehand, the world has ended several times. One time it ended because a god ate the sun, and another time the world floodeed and 2 humans survived by climbing a tall tree.

[Ironsight]

So according to them the human race is a bunch of inbreds?

[Toasty]

Miley Cyrus, on Nov 13 2008, 10:45 PM, said:

Oh, right. That whole thing with the internal clocks or whatever reading the date as 1900 on New Years, right?

Yeah. Apparently the software that most things ran on wasn't specifically designed to accomodate dates past 1999.

Though really, I'd imagine that the only problem would be that some software/demos would quit working due to the reset date, but it wouldn't be anything serious. Certainly wouldn't cause a nuclear meltdown/winter.

[Ironsight]

Yeah, they weren't to clear on how it was supposed to end the world.

[Toasty]

Not in the slightest....

Anyway, Windows 98 was supposed to take care of the problem. In the end, it was unnecessary. All previous operating systems and BIOS's just went right on to 2000 wihout a hiccup.

[Drizzy Drake]

Miley Cyrus, on Nov 14 2008, 01:45 AM, said:

Oh, right. That whole thing with the internal clocks or whatever reading the date as 1900 on New Years, right?

Mhmm. Because orginally they only used the final two numbers (hence Windows '95, '98), so when 2000 rolled around, you're right, it would've read as (19)00 and shut off all eletrical power.

Toasty, on Nov 14 2008, 03:16 AM, said:

Yeah. Apparently the software that most things ran on wasn't specifically designed to accomodate dates past 1999. Though really, I'd imagine that the only problem would be that some software/demos would quit working due to the reset date, but it wouldn't be anything serious. Certainly wouldn't cause a nuclear meltdown/winter.

Look above. It WAS going to happen. Not a nuclear meltdown, but everything that ran on electrical power would stop. TV, computers, light, traffic lights, etc. EVERYTHING. It would cause chaos, but not the apoclypse. They fixed it a few monthes early though to read 4 digits, instead of two.

[Golden Legacy]

I do remember an amusing case of a newborn girl in Denmark who arrived at exactly midnight on Dec 31 1999/Jan 1 2000, and the computer recorded her age as 100 years old.

[Saturos S.]

CERN finally get the Large Hadron Collider to work, we get sucked into a black hole. Bye bye world.

... Though I admit, Judgement day seems a lot cooler.

[Drizzy Drake]

Golden Legacy, on Nov 14 2008, 10:40 AM, said:

I do remember an amusing case of a newborn girl in Denmark who arrived at exactly midnight on Dec 31 1999/Jan 1 2000, and the computer recorded her age as 100 years old.

Fucking A.

[Toasty]

Neophyte, on Nov 14 2008, 12:52 AM, said:

Mhmm. Because orginally they only used the final two numbers (hence Windows '95, '98), so when 2000 rolled around, you're right, it would've read as (19)00 and shut off all eletrical power.



Look above. It WAS going to happen. Not a nuclear meltdown, but everything that ran on electrical power would stop. TV, computers, light, traffic lights, etc. EVERYTHING. It would cause chaos, but not the apoclypse. They fixed it a few monthes early though to read 4 digits, instead of two.

Why would electrical power shut off because of a clock malfunction? The "malfunction" wouldn't even be seen as one by the computer, since it was just doing what it was designed to do.

But it would've taken far more than a few months to "fix" the problem. You'd have to update both the operating systems of any computer that only changed the last two digits, and it's BIOS as well.

[Drizzy Drake]

Because it would have read it as 1900, and for some reason, that would have made the computers think "hey, there wasn't any of his in 1900." Don't quote me on it, but that's what was supossed to happen.

[Toasty]

I know. That's what a lot of people thought. I'm just saying that from a technological point of view, it doesn't make sense. If anyone's messed with the system clock before, you know that it only affects demos that have an expiration date (setting the clock back will make most new ones no longer usable, as it's seen as an attempt to bypass the expiration), or programs that depend heavily on the system clock.

I suppose there might have been important programs that were supposed to do things on certain dates, but it certainly wouldn't effect things like a system virus scan that scans every day at a certain time. The only think the "y2k bug" would have effected was the year.

[Drizzy Drake]

I don't know how it was gonna happen, but it was.

I beleive that you know what you're talking about, but that's what was gonna happen. Computer programmers were freaking out because that's what was gonna happen. There wouldn't have been such a commotion if there wasn't a reason to fret.

[Toasty]

I know there must've been some kind of reasoning behind it, but I think a lot of the fuss was just exaggeration. Kinda like a game of telephone. The programmers tell some people that something's gonna happen, they tell others, those people tell other people, and then the news gets a hold of it. By that time, people are worried about accidental nuclear winter.

http://en.wikipedia....ar_2000_problem

Basically, y2k affected equally both those countries who spent a lot of money to prevent it, and those who didn't. Hinting to the fact that the Y2K bug may not have had any effect at all.

[Drizzy Drake]

But it could have been somthing. We'll never know though, because they fixed it. I can't wait for the 9999 bug. :). 5 digits niggas.

[Toasty]

Well you don't have to worry about it, because you won't be around by then.

Nor will anyone else, for that matter.

[Saturos S.]

Besides, they'll have changed year count back to 0 by then.

[Drizzy Drake]

With the new Messiah?

[Saturos S.]

Yeah, or some genius.

I'd like to nominate myself.

[Golden Legacy]

Neophyte, on Nov 15 2008, 12:45 AM, said:

But it could have been somthing. We'll never know though, because they fixed it. I can't wait for the 9999 bug. :). 5 digits niggas.

Toasty, on Nov 15 2008, 02:01 AM, said:

Well you don't have to worry about it, because you won't be around by then.

Nor will anyone else, for that matter.

You don't say! Seriously? You mean it? No one will be around? I don't believe you! That's impossible!

[Drizzy Drake]

GL just merked somebody? Never thought I'd see the day.

[Toasty]

Golden Legacy, on Nov 15 2008, 09:50 AM, said:

You don't say! Seriously? You mean it? No one will be around? I don't believe you! That's impossible!

Was that quite necessary, good sir?

[Golden Legacy]

Well of course. It's the sign of the apocalypse that I would do something like that.
See what I did there?

[Gio]

Golden Legacy, on Nov 15 2008, 10:26 PM, said:

Well of course. It's the sign of the apocalypse that I would do something like that.
See what I did there?

you funny man. you funny.

to heck with this 2012 crap. if it happens then so what and if it doesn't then w/e

[Legolastom]

Borris jonson wins all the gold medals in the London Olympics and the universe implodes.

[Saturos S.]

Gio, on Nov 16 2008, 07:17 AM, said:

you funny man. you funny.

to heck with this 2012 crap. if it happens then so what and if it doesn't then w/e

We'd all be dead, I'd say that that's a rather big issue.

[Gio]

I know, but I really don't see us being completely wiped out by something we could control so it will most likely be something we can't control, so why worry about it.

[Saturos S.]

Yup, and if we don't know the reason why we'll just blame the French. Just like in the good ol' days.

[Toasty]

Saturos Striker, on Nov 18 2008, 09:06 AM, said:

We'd all be dead, I'd say that that's a rather big issue.

DEATH IS BUT A MEAR BUMP IN THE ROAD OF LIFE

[Ironsight]

Saturos Striker, on Nov 18 2008, 09:06 AM, said:

We'd all be dead, I'd say that that's a rather big issue.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8263/m125242399120101014smdrom8.jpg
EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE.

[Drizzy Drake]

Saturos Striker, on Nov 18 2008, 12:06 PM, said:

We'd all be dead, I'd say that that's a rather big issue.

Acutally, if the Ice Caps shift, and we get a new Ice Age, we'll survive. Well, we might nit, but people will. The human race survived the first one, we can survive this one.

[David]

Neophyte, on Nov 18 2008, 11:34 PM, said:

Acutally, if the Ice Caps shift, and we get a new Ice Age, we'll survive. Well, we might nit, but people will. The human race survived the first one, we can survive this one.

Good thing I invested in those feety pajamas.

[Ironsight]

Luckily I have enough guns at home to fend off any zombies or raiders.

[Toasty]

Unfortunately, that'll change as soon as Obama officially becomes President.

[Saturos S.]

Real men do that with baseball bats.

[Toasty]

Saturos Striker, on Nov 19 2008, 11:02 PM, said:

Real men do that with baseball bats loaded with bullets.

Don't you know it!

[Saturos S.]

Russians would just wrestle the zombies, but they're bat-**** drunk on vodka most of the time.

Still, that's the most awesome way to do it.

[TheEnglishman]

If the apocalypse does come in 2012, at least we won't have to suffer it for long.

[Saturos S.]

Kind of sucks though, I'd be halfway my bachelor...

[Nosferatu]

http://www.anar-chic.com.au/I%20Zim%20-%20prepare%20for%20doom.jpg
There we go. /topic.

[Ironsight]

When the class of 2012 takes over the world will end.

[Lightning Star]

That sucks. I graduate college in 2013. Can't they wait a year?

[TheEnglishman]

At least Christmas will be cheaper:
'What are you getting me for Christmas?'
'Nothing, you'll be dead before then.'
'You suck Dad.'

[Ironsight]

At least I get to enjoy one year out of school before we all meet our doom.

[Drizzy Drake]

Hope you know you're gonna die before you can ever legally drink eh Miley. :P. That goes to all you 15 and lower year olds.

[Ironsight]

Oh godamnit.

[Caael]

Drinking age is 16 here, so **** you

[Saturos S.]

I thought it was 18 in the UK.

Actually, I'm pretty sure of it. Since I tried to order a beer last year in England, and the parents of my friend there looked... well schocked.

It's 16 here up to 15%, above is 18.

[Caael]

It's weird in the UK; 14 to drink at home under supervision, 16 to drink, 18 to buy and drink in pubs.

I'm not entirely sure though.

[Golden Legacy]

In the USA, you can drive at 16, vote at 17, join the army at 18, and no sip of alcohol until 21.

[Drizzy Drake]

Caael, on Dec 2 2008, 05:20 PM, said:

It's weird in the UK; 14 to drink at home under supervision, 16 to drink, 18 to buy and drink in pubs.

I'm not entirely sure though.

Canada.

18 to drink, 18 to buy liqour. Tobacco products however you can buy at 16. Fancy that. I can buy a bong, which people only really use for weed, before I can drink. Bullshit posturing in my opinion.

[Saturos S.]

Over here for driving and strong liquor (15%+) you have be at least 18. Alcholic beverages (15% and under) is 16, in pubs, supermarkets, everywhere. Tobacco products are 16 as well.

O, and you're never allowed to drink beer on street or on main street ie. unless you're in a pub or something like that or on private property (assuming your own or someone you know)

[Mycarayne]

Golden Legacy, on Dec 3 2008, 08:48 AM, said:

In the USA, you can drive at 16, vote at 17, join the army at 18, and no sip of alcohol until 21.

I find it funny that your allowed to go and kill people before you can have a beer.

How are you supposed to celebrate the killing of the people?

[Toasty]

Golden Legacy, on Dec 2 2008, 03:48 PM, said:

In the USA, you can drive at 16, vote at 17, join the army at 18, and no sip of alcohol until 21.

Where in god's name can you vote at the age of 17?

[Split Infinity]

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/thumb/4/49/Bandit_Keith.PNG/230px-Bandit_Keith.PNG

...in America!

[Ironsight]

Toasty, on Dec 3 2008, 01:50 AM, said:

Where in god's name can you vote at the age of 17?

I think it's 18 here in California. Not sure though.

[Toasty]

I thought it was 18 everywhere.

[Golden Legacy]

Unless I'm mistaken, there's a law in some states that you can vote if you will be 18 years by the end of the calendar year i.e. if your 18th birthday is after Election Day.

That, and my comment flowed better with "16, 17, 18, bam 21", as opposed to "16, 18, 18", which would be not quite as epic.

Mycarayne, on Dec 3 2008, 05:30 AM, said:

I find it funny that your allowed to go and kill people before you can have a beer.

How are you supposed to celebrate the killing of the people?

That's America for you. Better yet:

http://www.goldensun-syndicate.net/forum/public/style_images/gssv3/snapback.png' alt='View Post' />Split Infinity, on Dec 3 2008, 06:26 AM, said:

...in America!

[Kuchiyose]

Quote

It's weird in the UK; 14 to drink at home under supervision, 16 to drink, 18 to buy and drink in pubs.

I'm not entirely sure though.

Actually its the age of 5 that kids can drink alcohol under supervision, but it doesn't mean a group of 5 year olds get hammered every Friday and Saturday night within a household.

In UK you have to be 18 to be served alcohol, you can't drinking anywhere under that age, if caught under age, its usually a slap on the writs, resulting in having the alcohol taken off you.

[TheEnglishman]

Guys! I know why we're gonna die in 2012!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081213/ten-ke...ce-ea4616c.html
In four years time, the aliens will see the movie, realise it sucks, then take only a few days to come here and kill us all.

[Ironsight]

Holy crap.

[Kuchiyose]

Quote

Guys! I know why we're gonna die in 2012!
http://uk.news.yahoo...ce-ea4616c.html
In four years time, the aliens will see the movie, realise it sucks, then take only a few days to come here and kill us all.

hmm looks like a good film too, I hope it odes justice for the old version but yeah, shooting beams into space? We're all doomed

[Ironsight]

We already beam radio and tv signals into space. Have been for years. So I doubt this will make any difference. It's just funny so think about it.

[Yuki]

Lol, you guys are so freaking supersticious.

The Mayan calender has been translated and speaks NOTHING of an apocolypse.
We're actually going to pass the Sun's equator, which will cause everything on earth to gain at least 2 pounds.
We won't notice.
Since we'll be changing along with it.

I honestly don't believe the world will end.
They said that about the year 2000.


FYI:

We're in 2008.

[Ironsight]

Yuki, on Dec 25 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

Lol, you guys are so freaking supersticious.

The Mayan calender has been translated and speaks NOTHING of an apocolypse.
We're actually going to pass the Sun's equator, which will cause everything on earth to gain at least 2 pounds.
We won't notice.
Since we'll be changing along with it.

I honestly don't believe the world will end.
They said that about the year 2000.
FYI:

We're in 2008.

I demand Sauce, this interests me.

[Yuki]

Miley Cyrus, on Dec 25 2008, 03:31 PM, said:

I demand Sauce, this interests me.

Saw it in a news report on a local station.
I'll try to find it on Youtube for you.

[Nemphtis]

2012 is when Duke Nukem Forever is launched.

[Neon]

we all know something will happen in 2012 that everyone will interpret as the fulfillment of the prophecy. That's how they work, they're vague and people love to believe them so they make a connection between, say, the formation of an independent country and the end of the world as we know it

[Split Infinity]

Yuki, on Dec 26 2008, 10:28 AM, said:

The Mayan calender has been translated and speaks NOTHING of an apocolypse.
We're actually going to pass the Sun's equator, which will cause everything on earth to gain at least 2 pounds.
We won't notice.
Since we'll be changing along with it.

Whoa really? That's kind of bizarre.

I'll be in my second year of uni in 2012. I'd rather the Large Hadron Collider didn't malfunction before I even get my infotech degree. -_-;

[Toasty]

Yuki, on Dec 25 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

Lol, you guys are so freaking supersticious.

The Mayan calender has been translated and speaks NOTHING of an apocolypse.

Supposedly the Mayan calender only goes up to 2012 (or some other year, can't remember), which many archeologists infer as to being their prediction of when an apocalypse will happen.

[Blue]

The fact that it went to 2012 means that they sure thought that their empire would last a long time. Oh wait, their all dead already.

I did see a movie trailer though, I don't know what the movie is though, just showed a monk banging a gong and all of a sudden a huge tidal wave came crashing through the monastery. It then told me to google 2012. O.o

[Saturos S.]

Just look it up on wikipedia.

[Kuchiyose]

2012 is when the Olympics start in UK... WE MUST STOP IT!!!11!!

[Yuki]

Toasty, on Dec 25 2008, 09:12 PM, said:

Supposedly the Mayan calender only goes up to 2012 (or some other year, can't remember), which many archeologists infer as to being their prediction of when an apocalypse will happen.

;)
INFER.
Not CONFIRM.

There's a difference.
It's just a hypothesis.

[Split Infinity]

The Mayan calendar works in cycles, this is just the end of one and the start of another.

[Nemphtis]

Mayan calendar sucks anyway, 4chan calendar is much more convenient.

Today is Caturday, f*ckers.

[Toasty]

HAH! The Kyoto Protocol expires on the very last day of 2012.

Predictions? Global warming will suddenly go out of control because the Kyoto Protocol is obviously doing such a good job at preventing it. [lawl]


But whoa dang. There's a crapload of stuff that's supposed to happen in 2012.

[Mycarayne]

Too bad for all those who made plans in 2013 ey?

Quote

The Mayan calender has been translated and speaks NOTHING of an apocolypse.
We're actually going to pass the Sun's equator, which will cause everything on earth to gain at least 2 pounds.
We won't notice.
Since we'll be changing along with it.

I honestly don't believe the world will end.
They said that about the year 2000.

So, if everyone gains at least 2lbs, then does apocolypse translate too "lots of fat chicks" in Mayan? Just curious. And just kidding as well.

I read in a Magazine about a whole heap of stuff thats supposed to happen in 2012 that's going to end the world as well. Something about nano-technology finishing a major project involving the creation of micro-organisms that can modify the structure of neighbouring particles so much so, that that become one of these micro-organisms. Called the "grey-goo theory", or something. They said that once these little buggers take off, the whole world will basically become one big ball of self replicating micro-organisms. Fun fun.

Read it ages ago though, can't remember the finer details.

Also some volcano is due to erupt.

And Like 10 other things.

Oh yeah, and that partical collider thing that they were playing with a few months ago was supposed to end the world as well, according to this magazine.

If ya ask me, the whole lot is a load of crap. =) Viva 2013.

[Saturos S.]

Mycarayne, on Jan 4 2009, 08:59 AM, said:

Oh yeah, and that partical collider thing that they were playing with a few months ago was supposed to end the world as well, according to this magazine.

Yeah, that thing broke down before it had a chance to destroy the world.

[Mycarayne]

It did? I thought the whole project was successful? Excluding the whole "Tear the Earth apart" theory.