2012, the movie

You should probably ask for a RPG and a few thousands bottles of water and rations. Or a spaceship.

 

Here's a five minute clip of the movie taken from WWTDD.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid41190866001?bctid=43167929001

 

ID4 was the original tagline for Independence Day. So yes, he is referring to the movie.

Nostrodamus also predicted that it would be the end of the world. As did the Book of Revelations from the Bible.

There are some crazy conspiracy theorists out there that claim there's a planet, called Planet X or Niribu, that is going to crash into the Earth. Go to YouTube and search for it. I think I spent an hour and a half one night watching these batshit crazy videos about the end of the world. Good stuff, good stuff.

I know what's really going to happen. Marvin is going to get ahold of his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and we're all toast.

 

3 points!

 

See below:


The Mayan calendar consists of many different cycles that work together. These include the long count, the calendar round, the short count, and the 819 day cycle among others. The dating system that doomsday entrepreneurs use is the long count. The long count is made of several cycles that work like an odometer. For Mayan era dates, as well as modern dates, five cycles need to be used. From the largest to the smallest they are -

B'aktun = 20 k'atun
K'atun = 20 tun
Tun = 18 winal
Winal = 20 k'in
K'in = 1 day
An example of a long count would be 9.15.10.0.0. There a 9 b'aktuns, 15 k'atuns, 10 tuns, and no winals or k'ins.

The long count that is supposed to be the end of the world is 13.0.0.0.0. The day before is 12.19.19.17.19. The main significance of 13.0.0.0.0 is of course the number of zeroes.

However, the long count does not end at that point. There are many cycles beyond the b'aktun that can be used to describe any date. The are several instances of extremely large dates used. Coba Stela 1 has a long count that adds up to 41,943,040,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Also, Macanxoc Stela 1 has a long count in the initial series that is 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 .13.13.13.0.0.0.0. Their is no limit to the long count other than the size of the writing surface used and the patience of the scribe.

The other problem with 13.0.0.0.0 is determining the equivalent Gregorian calendar date. To do this you need a correlation between the two systems. Most Mayanists use the astronomical (584285) or the GMT (584283) correlation. Using the astronomical correlation places 13.0.0.0.0 on December 21, 2012 and the GMT gives a date of December 23. However, there is some question as to how accurate these correlations are.

The following paper describes some of the problems with the GMT correlation and points out that GMT may be off by 260 years!

K'in in the Hieroglyphic Record: Implications of a Pattern of Dates at Copan, Honduras by Gerardo Aldana.

Other correlations place 13.0.0.0.0 anywhere from December 11, 1614 (Willson 438906) to August 12, 2532 (Weitzel 774078).

I should also point out that classical Mayan civilization collapsed around 900 AD (using GMT) and the last long count inscriptions were from around the same time. That would be somewhere around 10.3.15.X.X, which I don't think was predicted.

 

I have to say it's strangely entrancing to watch landmarks, etc. get destroyed like that, but the trailer hit over the top less than halfway in and just kept going.
I don't know...maybe that's a good thing.

 

So, newspapers only have three more years to die, before we all die?

 

Damn. Saw the park where I played baseball. Penmar Golf Course and Dewey Street heading from there to the airport. I bet the LAObserved guy could see his house before it got pummeled.

 

I don't know about the Bible, but I clearly remember at least two dates in the past that were supposed to be the day Nostradamus predicted would be the end of the world.

 

Ah, the road to "the end of days." I can see it now...

• Oct. 28, 2012: The Cleveland Indians win the world title, rallying to a 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the World Series.
• Nov. 4, 2012: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin elected President of the U.S. in a landslide victory after the incumbent, Barack Obama, found to have been born on Krypton.
• Nov. 17, 2012: Scientists at Johns Hopkins announce they have unlocked the human genome, paving the way to treat all disease. Full details to be discussed in January issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• Nov. 22, 2012: New documents released show that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy, and Patsy Kline was the shooter that killed JFK. Investigators claim she "just went 'Crazy.'"
• Nov. 23, 2012: The American public is stunned and horrified as longtime football announcer John Madden springs from retirement to work the Thanksgiving Detroit Lions-New York Jets game. While hosting the halftime show, a wardrobe malfunction exposes the beefy announcer's pierced right nipple.
• Dec. 1, 2012: Shadowy cult figure D.B. Cooper is finally revealed to be 90-year-old Nashua, N.H. retired schoolteacher Floyd Burrows when, upon his passing, he leaves what remains of the fortune to fund several college scholarships for students contemplating a career in aeronautical engineering.
• Dec. 7, 2012: On the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, archives finally released by the Japanese government reveal the attack was a case of mistaken identity. The Japanese navy intended to attack Monster Island, in hopes of staving off a series of 1950's attacks by an overgrown lizard-like creature with radioactive breath. Embarrassed by the blunder, leaders decide to deny the error, act as if the U.S. was the target.
• Dec. 12, 2012: Cleveland Browns take step closer to undefeated season with a 3-0 win over Cincinnati, led by QB Michael Vick's last-second heroics to get the Browns into field goal range. Dawg Pound confused, not sure how to react for the 14th straight week.
• Dec. 15, 2012: President-elect Sarah Palin says she will not take office after a fiasco set off by shooting an elk while on a hunting trip. The elk, one Dudley Furman, age 76, had been just leaving his lodge meeting when Palin found him in her sights. Her blunder is exacerbated by her insistence on taking the Naperville, Iowa man's carcass to a local taxidermist for stuffing. Vice President-elect Ann Coulter will become the nation's 45th president.
• Dec. 19, 2012: NCAA announces it has evidence of a littany of violations by Duke University basketball team, going back decades. They will release a full account of the program's misdeeds in the coming weeks.
• Dec. 21, 2012: Newspaper concern, including leaders of all the nation's media chains, announce they have found a way to make print journalism instantly profitable and will begin hiring thousands of out-of-work journalists back immediately to ramp up the effort. They schedule press conference for next day for the landmark announcement.

 

Awesome. Simply awesome.

 

Nicely done, Killick.