Mayan Calendar Ending Recalculated

[jsgolfer]

Looks like Scholars have recalculated the end of the Mayan Calendar.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/weird/scholars-release-the-latest-date-for-apocalypse-june-3-4-2016_-255927.html

Apparently the world is going to end either June 3rd or 4th.   

 

[Chilli Dipper]

 

[billchao]

2 hours ago, jsgolfer said:

Looks like Scholars have recalculated the end of the Mayan Calendar.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/weird/scholars-release-the-latest-date-for-apocalypse-june-3-4-2016_-255927.html

Apparently the world is going to end either June 3rd or 4th.   

 

Never understood the whole doomsday predictions based on the Mayan calendar stuff. It'd be like freaking out every December 31st because the Western calendar ends.

News flash: all non-digital calendars have an end date.

[Buckeyebowman]

Well, here it is, June 5th. Let's just say it plainly, the "scholars" were wrong. It might be tempting to say that the Maya were wrong, but that would be a mistaken idea. The "scholars" have simply misinterpreted their calendar. The Maya (BTW, there is no such word as "Mayan") were skilled astronomers and mathematicians. They reckoned time a little differently than we do. In a way they were similar to the ancient Hindu with their endless "cycles" of time.

And not long ago some fire and brimstone Bible thumper with the last name of Camping who was predicting the same thing. He, like everyone else who predicts the apocalypse, was wrong!

[boogielicious]

6 hours ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Well, here it is, June 5th. Let's just say it plainly, the "scholars" were wrong. It might be tempting to say that the Maya were wrong, but that would be a mistaken idea. The "scholars" have simply misinterpreted their calendar. The Maya (BTW, there is no such word as "Mayan") were skilled astronomers and mathematicians. They reckoned time a little differently than we do. In a way they were similar to the ancient Hindu with their endless "cycles" of time.

And not long ago some fire and brimstone Bible thumper with the last name of Camping who was predicting the same thing. He, like everyone else who predicts the apocalypse, was wrong!

If we keep digging, we may find their start of the next calendar. They took time to make you know!

[iacas]

8 hours ago, Buckeyebowman said:

BTW, there is no such word as "Mayan"

define:mayan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages

[Buckeyebowman]

My source was a professor of Anthropology.

[Hardspoon]

25 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

My source was a professor of Anthropology.

I think what the professor was referring to is that the term for the people is "Maya"...a lot of folks get that wrong (and say "Mayans").

"Mayan" is still a word, though; it's an adjective.

 

[billchao]

On 6/5/2016 at 7:44 AM, boogielicious said:

If we keep digging, we may find their start of the next calendar. They took time to make you know!

If Mayan calendar carvers were like some contractors that I know, they probably said something like "the next calendar won't be needed for 400 more years, let some other generation make it" 

[Buckeyebowman]

On 6/5/2016 at 10:46 PM, Hardspoon said:

I think what the professor was referring to is that the term for the people is "Maya"...a lot of folks get that wrong (and say "Mayans").

"Mayan" is still a word, though; it's an adjective.

 

Well, not according to the guy I talked to. It's kind of like the word deer. You don't say one deer, two deers. No, it's one deer, two deer, a herd of deer. The singular and plural are the same.

8 hours ago, billchao said:

If Mayan calendar carvers were like some contractors that I know, they probably said something like "the next calendar won't be needed for 400 more years, let some other generation make it" 

That is great! People are people it seems. No matter where they are or when they are!

[iacas]

19 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Well, not according to the guy I talked to.

That guy is wrong.

[Patch]

OK, so they screwd up on the date. Big deal. What I want to know is how much more time do we humans actually have left? I still have a lot of golf to play. 

[Pretzel]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

That guy is wrong.

Indeed. Mayan is an adjective to describe something pertaining to the Maya people. Sort of like how American can be an adjective to describe things related to America, or Chinese can describe things pertaining to China. It also appears to have usage as a noun to describe "a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya and Quiché."

Ex: We studied the Mayan ruins in our American high school, in a class taught by a Chinese teacher. 

10 hours ago, billchao said:

If Mayan calendar carvers were like some contractors that I know, they probably said something like "the next calendar won't be needed for 400 more years, let some other generation make it" 

To be fair, I don't know that most digital calendars even go 400 years into the future, and that's certainly a lot less work than carving it into stone would be.

[Lihu]

6 hours ago, Patch said:

OK, so they screwd up on the date. Big deal. What I want to know is how much more time do we humans actually have left? I still have a lot of golf to play. 

Relax, there's no correlation between dates on the Mayan calendar cycle and the end of the world.

Play more golf.

[Hardspoon]

7 hours ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Well, not according to the guy I talked to. It's kind of like the word deer. You don't say one deer, two deers. No, it's one deer, two deer, a herd of deer. The singular and plural are the same.

That's exactly what I said. Plural is "Maya" - "Mayan" is an adjective.

5 hours ago, Pretzel said:

To be fair, I don't know that most digital calendars even go 400 years into the future, and that's certainly a lot less work than carving it into stone would be.

Looks like my 474th birthday is on a Saturday!

[CarlSpackler]

As far as we know, the world ends every night and reboots every morning...

[Lihu]

41 minutes ago, CarlSpackler said:

As far as we know, the world ends every night and reboots every morning...

With my luck, we'd blue screen every morning before having to hit F1 then ctrl-alt-del three times before it boots back up...

[Pretzel]

3 hours ago, CarlSpackler said:

As far as we know, the world ends every night and reboots every morning...

Speaking from experience, it doesn't go down every night for maintenance. At least it hasn't on the nights that I haven't been allowed to go down for maintenance myself. I can't speak for all the other nights though.