Curse

Evasion Twenty · Aug 19, 2009, 02:01 AM // 02:01

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

If it does, oh well. If it doesn't, oh well.

The Mayan thing isn't entirely accurate though... it is just the end of their calendar cycle, not the end of time as we know it.

I bet they were throwing darts.

....blindfolded

Lord Sojar · Aug 19, 2009, 03:02 AM // 03:02

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Originally Posted by Evasion Twenty

I bet they were throwing darts.

....blindfolded

No, they were creating one of the first real, and accurate calendars on the planet, and the cycle (and thus effective calendar) was set to be redesigned millennia later. The Mayans were killed off though, and the Julian system came to be the standard for calendar systems.

They Mayans were genius, and their calendar was absolutely amazing. There were no darts involved, only extremely advanced mathematics for the time.

The 2012 date is simply the end of the first full long cycle of their calendar. It would simply restart from there and go for millennia to come.

Evasion Twenty · Aug 19, 2009, 03:05 AM // 03:05

....k then.

It was a joke?

Lord Sojar · Aug 19, 2009, 03:10 AM // 03:10

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Originally Posted by Evasion Twenty

....k then.

It was a joke?

Mathematics is not a laughing matter!

Evasion Twenty · Aug 19, 2009, 03:12 AM // 03:12

It is to me.

lol

Lord Sojar · Aug 19, 2009, 03:33 AM // 03:33

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Originally Posted by Evasion Twenty

It is to me.

lol

Then you should find this hilarious!

1/0 =

and don't you dare bring up Φ....

WORLD ENDING RIGHT THERE!!!

Winterclaw · Aug 19, 2009, 03:59 AM // 03:59

1/0 = 1 id (imaginary division)

42/0 = 42 id

Yes I just made that up but it might have some mathematical use like the square root of a negative number. Only time will tell.

awesome sauce · Aug 19, 2009, 04:35 AM // 04:35

In my experience, 1/0 = you ****ed up, go back and redo the problem.

Lihinel · Aug 19, 2009, 05:59 AM // 05:59

Its not too late people, the world is going to end, the elder gods are comming for you!
Accept the truth now!
You can not hope to be saved.
But you can manage to get eaten first.

Narcissia · Aug 19, 2009, 07:27 AM // 07:27

i dont really care if the world ends or how, as long as some people get turned into zombies! especially if some people, myself included, somehow live and become zombie hunters

Painbringer · Aug 19, 2009, 01:04 PM // 13:04

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

Then you should find this hilarious!

1/0 =

and don't you dare bring up Φ....

WORLD ENDING RIGHT THERE!!!

Well in my line of business it actually means something (trade size for industrial chain diameters) and the funny thing is that there is no rhythm or reason in there mathematics

1/0 = .177" (Straight link coil / Straight link machine)
1/0 = .12" (Twin loop)
1/0 = .023" (Brass Plumbers chain)

(there are more but to save you I will not put them down)

Only thing I can assume is the Goober numbering system. Its bigger than that one but smaller than this one

talon994 · Aug 19, 2009, 01:25 PM // 13:25

Let the world end...as long as me and some hot super model are the last ones on the planet

. But seriously if I 100% knew the world was ending tomorrow i would probably empty my bank account and go ape shyt at a KFC somewhere.

Pony Slaystation · Aug 19, 2009, 04:07 PM // 16:07

As there is no scientific evidence that any significant change will happen to Earth in 2012, many theories out there suggest that 2012 will not begin armageddon, yet will be the beginning of a "New Age", often associated with great human change. Whether it will be good or bad, we'll just have to wait and find out.

Ghost Omel · Aug 19, 2009, 05:28 PM // 17:28

...2012...

Remember this number.... Remembered it?
... ...

Now its gone..

I think Dostrict 9 is more likely to come true then 2012 theory....

ANd when 2012 will come and we are not ruled by aliens i will sit back near the pool,take a glass of wine, call my closest friends, wait for their arrival, and then we will have huge fun with fireworks, and when they blow up they will make a picture saying " IN your FACE Muda****ers"

El Presidente · Aug 19, 2009, 06:57 PM // 18:57

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

The Mayans were killed off though, and the Julian system came to be the standard for calendar systems.

Rahja, the Maya were not killed off. There are an estimated 7 million Maya, with at least 500,000 full-blooded still living in Mexico and Central America. 66% of Yucatan state in Mexico alone is Mayan population.

True, the Julian system was the basis for modern calendars; however, due to an error in it, the Gregorian calendar is the one commonly used today (not the Julian) and was thus made standard due to a papal (Catholic) decree in 1582...though Greek Orthodox countries used the Julian into the 1900s (religious differences).

The Mayan calendars are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout their empire and date back to at least the 6th century BC; far long before the Spanish arrived (early 1500s AD) and are still more accurate than any modern day 'standard' calendar. The Aztec even adapted the Mayan calendar and made a 365 day agricultural cycle, again, long before Spaniards arrived.

Even the 2012 date is subject to debate according to other Mayan ruins. Inscriptions found in Palenque (southern Mexico) that were written about a thousand years after the Long Count calendar was made point to the date of "relevance" as being Oct 28, 2011 and not Dec 21, 2012.

So...2011? 2012? or not anywhere even close?

SonofGrenth · Aug 19, 2009, 10:44 PM // 22:44

Maybe not 2012 but I think we are pretty close to the end

if you look at the world now its completely screwed. Good thing I can enjoy life (and still have a good life), It wouldnt bother me if it ends in 2012.

awesome sauce · Aug 20, 2009, 03:11 AM // 03:11

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Originally Posted by SonofGrenth

Maybe not 2012 but I think we are pretty close to the end

if you look at the world now its completely screwed. Good thing I can enjoy life (and still have a good life), It wouldnt bother me if it ends in 2012.

People have been thinking the world would reach its immanent doom for the past ten thousand years. I think that the world "as we know it" will change like it has many times, but human civilization will still be here in a thousand years. The problem right now is that we are in a dark age of sorts. While we can land a man on the moon we still can't solve some of the most basic problems such as poverty, war, and corruption... and that holds us back. Although we've come a long way, many still hold the barbaric beliefs of nationalism, ethnocentrism, and religious superiority. One day I believe the whole world will be educated and united enough to work for the progress and sustainability of the entire race, but I don't think I will see it in my life time.

Evasion Twenty · Aug 20, 2009, 03:53 AM // 03:53

I believe the Myans were killed off.

Tyler...what've you been doing?

pumpkin pie · Aug 20, 2009, 03:57 AM // 03:57

confess now!!!! before its too late!

Evasion Twenty · Aug 20, 2009, 03:58 AM // 03:58

I'm sorry......I'll put away my knife.