Whatever Happened to the Old Chief Delphi?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I don't want to drag this thread further off-topic, but I've always wondered what the difference is between 12/12/2012 and 12/12/1912, 12/12/1812, etc. They're all 12/12/12 :/ All of the "OMG 12/12/12 WE'RE GONNA DIE BECAUSE IT'S FREAKING 12/12/12" comments that I see everywhere always annoy me for that reason.
I always figured that all of this "end of the world because the Mayan calendar says so" business is just a result of the Mayans not calculating far enough into the future, and modern people just mis-interpreting that. I mean, come on, we can probably calculate into the 3000s with our fancy computers, but they didn't have any of that Maybe they just gave up after that point.

It has nothing to do with them not calculating far enough. In fact, they calculated further than that. But, some Mayans believed that 12/21/2012 (note that it's NOT 12/12/2012) would be the end of the fourth cycle of the world, and has importance in their astrological calendar.