Roll call and head count

[Umbran]

Looked at some maps- the Mayans weren't in South America, they were in Central America, in a part located south of Texas & Louisiana.

You know, you're right. I'd thought they extended further south and east than that. Consider my previous statement retracted as incorrect.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Waitaminit...

2 people on the Internet had a minor disagreement and not only did it not get blown up into a (f)lame war, both sides admitted error courteously and moved on!


ITS THE START OF THE MAYAN APOCALYPSE!!!

 

[jonesy]

Yeah, all that show I shoveled out of my driveway and piled up may form a singularity from which not even light will escape. I take full responsibility. My bad.

You shoveled show out of your driveway? Just how much show did it rain there?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

So far, so good.

 

[billd91]

You shoveled show out of your driveway? Just how much show did it rain there?

D'oh!

 

[Umbran]

So, yeah. Really most sincerely not dead here.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'm posting this from beyond the grave -- I'm afraid I didn't survive.

 

[ghostcat]

It actually doesn't matter which time zone the Mayans were in. As the apocalypse was supposed to occur at 11 minutes past eleven UTC on Friday the 21st of December 20012; the exact minute of the winter solstice.

As its now Saturday, either it did not occur and I survived or it occurred and I am now living in the Matrix.

 

[Umbran]

It actually doesn't matter which time zone the Mayans were in. As the apocalypse was supposed to occur at 11 minutes past eleven UTC on Friday the 21st of December 20012; the exact minute of the winter solstice.

Given that the Mayans actually didn't predict an apocalypse, that's hard to assert, now isn't it?

There is the solstice as a moment (when the sun is directly overhead at noon over one of the tropics), and also as day (the longest/shortest day of the year, depending on which hemisphere you're in). My understanding is that the Mayan calendar still had the day as the basic unit of counting, so that the calendar would have flipped over at the end of the day, not the moment, such that any apocalypse based on the calendar would have had to be complete before the beginning of the new day.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

So, yeah. Really most sincerely not dead here.

You're not fooling anyone, you know.