Sunday, December 23, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
End of the world?
As the supposed Mayan Apocalypse
nears we can peer back into the past to find other failed end of the
world predictions. Those interested in the Mayan Apocalypse are turning
to the internet in droves to find out more information. If you happen to
google “Apocalypse past predictions” you’ll find that hundreds of
predictions have failed to come true even within our lifetimes.
According to Space.com
the source of all the apocalyptic anxiety is the Mayan Long Calendar,
whose bak’tun, a 144,000-day cycle milestone, marks the end of a cycle
of creation. Doomsdayers have seized on this coincidence and declared
the world must end, gripping the American imagination with even the Chinese being affected.
Experts in Mayan history disagree, saying the Mayans likely would have
celebrated the event and rolled the calendar over to a new bak’tun. NASA isn’t expecting any giant asteroids or solar storms, either.
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