SameOldVardoger said:ramonmercado said:SameOldVardoger said:Finally the day we have been waiting for since Y2K, because that was a disappointment. I see another disappointment on the horizon.
Hopefully the 21 dec fanatics will shut their mouth when the day has passed.
Unfortunately I've already read about new dates, like 05/05/15, I think it was.
Y2K was a disappointment because of the Trojan work by people like myself making legacy systems Y2K compliant.
You did a great job. I remember around 1995, it was: "Y2K, WTF now?" in the media. And people was worried computers would stop and electricity shut down.
ramonmercado said:SameOldVardoger said:ramonmercado said:SameOldVardoger said:Finally the day we have been waiting for since Y2K, because that was a disappointment. I see another disappointment on the horizon.
Hopefully the 21 dec fanatics will shut their mouth when the day has passed.
Unfortunately I've already read about new dates, like 05/05/15, I think it was.
Y2K was a disappointment because of the Trojan work by people like myself making legacy systems Y2K compliant.
You did a great job. I remember around 1995, it was: "Y2K, WTF now?" in the media. And people was worried computers would stop and electricity shut down.
A monument should be built to the analysts and programmers who stopped the planes from falling.![]()
So, Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!rynner2 said:A graph of the sun's declination declines from its northerly maximum in June to reach its southerly minimum on December 21st, at 1112 UTC..
And then what happens? The sun starts to trundle back north again! 8)
Winter solstice celebrated at Stonehenge
People are gathering at Stonehenge later to mark the winter solstice.
etc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-20797129
rynner2 said:Raises glass: "The solstice!"
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Mythopoeika said:rynner2 said:Raises glass: "The solstice!"
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Mytho raises pint of Red Bull: "Cheers!"
Zilch5 said:Me? Just a bottle of Chardy - how boring!
Got to do better on the next doomsday. By the way - what IS the next doomsday? Is anyone predicting yet?
Nah, actually the general response would be "But Y2K was all a beat up. I mean, nothing happened, so there was never a problem to start with."SameOldVardoger said:ramonmercado said:SameOldVardoger said:ramonmercado said:SameOldVardoger said:Finally the day we have been waiting for since Y2K, because that was a disappointment. I see another disappointment on the horizon.
Hopefully the 21 dec fanatics will shut their mouth when the day has passed.
Unfortunately I've already read about new dates, like 05/05/15, I think it was.
Y2K was a disappointment because of the Trojan work by people like myself making legacy systems Y2K compliant.
You did a great job. I remember around 1995, it was: "Y2K, WTF now?" in the media. And people was worried computers would stop and electricity shut down.
A monument should be built to the analysts and programmers who stopped the planes from falling.![]()
If you came asking for that the response would have been "Why did you fuck it up in the first place?"
World's end passes without incident
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 21720.html
ALEXANDRA ALPER in Chichen Itza, Mexico
Sat, Dec 22, 2012
Dawn broke over ancient holy sites in southern Mexico to celebrations yesterday, ushering in the start of a new era for the Maya people that had been billed as a possible end of the world. A mix of mystics, hippies and tourists from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak’tun – a period of about 400 years – and many hoped it would lead to a better era for humanity.
After the sun went up in Mexico and the world continued to spin, visitors to the Maya heartland gave thanks.
The end of the bak’tun in the 5,125-year-old Long Calendar of the Maya had raised scattered fears around the globe that the end is nigh or that lesser catastrophe lay in store. However, to the people congregating in the imposing ruins of the city of Chichen Itza, a focal point for the celebrations in Mexico, it was quite the opposite.
Fears of mass suicides, huge power cuts, natural disasters, epidemics or an asteroid hurtling toward Earth have circulated on the internet ahead of December 21st.
A US scholar said in the 1960s that the end of the 13th bak’tun could be seen as a kind of Armageddon for the Maya. Over time, the idea snowballed into a belief by some that the Maya calendar had predicted the earth’s destruction.
A few minutes before the north pole reached its position furthest from the sun yesterday, a spotlight illuminated the western flank of the Temple of the serpent god Kukulkan, a 100-foot pyramid at the heart of Chichen Itza. Then a group of five English-speaking tourists dressed in white faced the pyramid with their arms raised. As the sun climbed into the sky, a man with dreadlocks played a didgeridoo at the north end of the pyramid while a group of tourists meditated on brightly coloured mats.
In Turkey, thousands of tourists flocked to Sirince, a picturesque village east of the Aegean Sea that believers in a potential cataclysm had said would be spared.
In Bugarach, France, a village that was said to be harbouring an alien spacecraft in a nearby mountain that would enable people to survive an apocalypse, authorities cordoned off the area, fearing an influx of doomsday believers. But on Friday, journalists and party-goers outnumbered the survivalists. – (Reuters)
Armageddon still awaits if Mayan calendar theory proves correct
It might seem like the end of the world, given the events of the past few months because of COVID-19 and various global event,s including the ongoing protests in the U.S.
According to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, the reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong.
And while the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012, the date originally pegged by calendar readers, Mayan doomsday is some time this week or next.
“Following the Julian Calendar, we are technically in 2012,” scientist Paolo Tagaloguin tweeted last week, according to the Sun. “The number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days … For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years.”
The series of tweets has since been deleted.
NO, THE MAYA DID NOT PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD ON 21 JUNE 2020
Oh, ridiculous and utterly wrong conspiracy doomsday theories. Will you ever die?
Probably not. Even ones long dead rise, zombie-like, to eat people's brains.
So it's no surprise that the newest one is, paradoxically, an old one. The claim is this: The Maya calendar predicts the end of the world, you see, and due to an incorrect calendar conversion it wasn't on 21 December, 2012, as originally thought, but actually on 21 June, 2020. This weekend. ...
First off, the Maya never predicted the end of the world. That whole 2012 stuff was wrong from the get-go. The Maya calendar, it was said by doomsday mongers, ended on 21 December 2012, and the Maya believed the world would end on that date. ...
Except their calendar didn't end then. They had units of time they counted, just as we do. They didn't use weeks and months and years, but it's the same idea. It turns out that on 21 December 2012 one of their big units rolled over, similar to our date of 1999 turning into 2000. So it's like a new decade or century, that's all. ...
This time, various "news" venues are repeating a story that scholars got the date wrong, and the actual date is next week, on 21 June. They say that a scientist, Paolo Tagaloguin, tweeted about this. In these tweets (since deleted, they claim), Tagaloguin says:
Following the Julian Calendar, we are technically in 2012… The number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days… For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years.
Here's the thing: This is wrong. The Gregorian calendar does not lose 11 days per year! Basically, the Julian calendar, which was widely used a long time ago, didn't account for leap years very well, so hundreds of years ago countries started switching to the Gregorian calendar, which does a better job (though it's a little complicated). When they did, the calendar had to jump forward a bunch of days to compensate for days missed— usually about 10 or 11 days — but it was only done once. Not every year. So the claim that somehow 8 years have been skipped is wrong.
Second, that doesn't matter anyway, because the 21 December 2012 date was converted from the Maya calendar to the Gregorian one in the first place. So there's no reason to even bring the Julian calendar into this. It doesn't make sense. ...