no.

the whole thing started out because THEIR calender mysteriously ended 12-21-2012

that is the "dooms day date"

your statement is completely absurd and extremely incorrect.

i would love to know were you derived that from, other then the depths of your ass.

your trying to tell me that the mayans knew the exact rate the earth's rotation is slowing down and created a mathematical equation allowing them to successfully predict the relation between the gregorian 2012 and there 2012, when the gregorian calendar did not exists at the time?



aside from all that, that is just when there calendar stopped. 12-21-2012. so tell me, if theirs stopped in 2012, and you were adding up lost time from earths slow rotation, how does it equal up to 2012 still?
it would be a LOT farther into the future. But none of that is the case. The only thing to be said about your post is, your an idiot and have no business posting in this forum, let alone working a computer, im appalled that you can.

This post was edited by foefoe on Nov 7 2010 11:29pm

Wow, that was taken seriously No, I meant to say that the revolutionary period of the earth was slowed. Obviously it's hardly going to be a noticeable amount of time in just a few thousand years, given the age of the solar system.

However, earth's rotational period IS slowing daily, but that's due to tidal forces between the earth and the moon, not the earth and the sun (n.b. the earth-sun tidal fores might actually be slowing its rotation, but the earth-moon tidal forces are undoubtedly many magnitudes greater).

I'm just trolling, though, don't mind me. I love these 2012 nutjobs just as much as you, haha

idk i just hate these idiots that got there mind wrapped around this end of the world shit. same fucking thing 10 years ago with y2k.

regardless, the timing of the mayans 2012 and modern 2012 is off.
the up coming 2012 holds no significance what so ever. Just another day.

lol i just had to do some major trolling off your post and he gets so mad.

and just so ya know i WAS just fucking around. i dont believe in this 2012 nonsense.



so i cant have any fun at all perpetuating baseless arguments on a retarded baseless subject.

lighten up. like i said i was just spewing some bullshit. from your reaction i trolled the fuck out of you.

This post was edited by lone500 on Nov 7 2010 11:45pm

hmm. i agree, i would play the troll card my self. i went back n read my post and found out i was pretty harsh and humiliated your childish logic, i dont blame you for trying to play it off.

This post was edited by foefoe on Nov 7 2010 11:44pm

Well (no trolling here) y2k was a very real problem, we just recognized, addressed, and solved it before it became an issue. There was a nonzero chance that SOMETHING would go wrong when the date changed in computers who stored the year using only two digits. Out of curiosity, I'm going to keep a computer with a 32-bit operating system alive until the year 2038. I forget the exact month/day/time, but Y2K38 is when the time limit of a 32-bit operating system is reached. Whether it hits the fan and the computer melts or whether he computer just keeps on ticking along, at least I'll have satisfied my curiosity.

what if the computer morphed into a transformer? guess you would have a 32-bit megatron.

Uh-oh... I'd better have two computers, then. One running Windows and one running some flavor of Linux. Naturally, the Windows one will be Megatron, and the Linux one will be Optimus Prime.

lol, thats witty.

in response to the y2k thing, that is not a real problem.

knowing the mechanics you would realize that it would just reset back to 00 or stay at 99

its not ganna cause the computer to blow up, for one there is nothing explosive in a damn computer. worst case scenario, the processor would fail. that alone is highly unlikely, that causing an apocalypse is something of sci-fi proportions.

cause a nuke to launch? yeah fuckin right. you think a damn clock is linked in any way possible to the fire and targeting mechanisms of a fucking nuclear war head?

This post was edited by foefoe on Nov 8 2010 12:05am

yeah, I know a thing or two about computers (my background is physics and electrical engineering, plus I worked for a few years in IT while in undergrad). I know it'd definitely reset the date to 00, and that hardware-wise it'd all likely be fine. The only real question would be what type of software errors would arise when the date suddenly became 00 -- would it be understood as 1900, or would it continue counting up, resulting in no change whatsoever? If it registered as 1900, would the software suddenly realize new data points are farther back in time than the ones that were there the day before? The extent of the damage really would have been a case-by-case, program-by-program scenario, which is why so many people spent a long time fixing it line-by-line.

I can't say i bought into the hype of nukes launching and "the grid going down" like some people believed (I was 13 at the time :P), but I remember watching the ball drop that night, looking around for a few seconds afterward, and thinking "Well, that's that." Luckily I was raised in an environment where I was encouraged to think, rather than to have all my thinking done for me. I think if the world's nuclear stockpiles had been stupidly controlled by a single computer and could be launched without any human input at all, then something MAY have gone wrong, but even today I don't think the process would be totally automated.