yeah that was pretty much my point.

to an extent y2k had reason to be worried about, to a small degree.

there is no reason it should have been blown up to biblical proportions and thought to be the destruction of the world as we know it.

as far as the software errors, im sure it would be fine, i can change the date on my computer to back and forward all day without any problems.

cpu failure comment was a joke, it was ment to make the mushroom cloud explosion look like a fire cracker.

vouch. a year is a year is a year. they are based seasons, not numbers of days.

also

you underestimate their mathmatical/astronomical abilities! they surely knew a year was actually 365.25 days.

This post was edited by juliusjuice on Nov 8 2010 12:53pm

Disclaimer: pulling this from my bank of information that I presume to be correct...i.e. I cannot remember where I obtained the following info...

I think your argument regarding the 1/4 extra day rotation of the earth is completely flawed. The Mayan calander does not just "mysteriously" end, it is a very deliberate end date and has nothing to do with the gregorian date of 12/21/2012. IIRC is has something to do with a special allignment regarding the center of the galaxy. But you're attempting to compare two calendars and drawing conclusions about one based on the properties of another which just isn't right. The Mayan calendar has been incredibly accurate and has shown no signs of calibration problems so I don't know why they would just all of a sudden be off by 1/4th of a day * however many years. I'm pretty sure the Mayans knew how long a year was, and they probably didn't measure it in integer days...

Yeah, you probably did read that somewhere, but that's been debunked. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
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