So....2012 almost overwith and it looks like the Mayans were probably wrong

[LynneSin]

Anyone want to guess why??

[geardaddy]

1. They forgot to convert to metric time?

It's 80 past 20 on October 59th.

[ohiosmith]

2. They weren't wrong! It's a cookbook!

[MicaelS]

3. Not enough cowbell? n/t

[sadbear]

4. I'm not counting chickens before they hatch, or something.

But I am putting them all in one basket.

I expect the end to be sudden and dramatic.

[4th law of robotics]

5. There's still plenty of time . . .

I wouldn't tempt it.

[Duer 157099]

6. Ask again after December 21st n/t

[CanSocDem]

7. They didn't account for....

...the American proclivity to ignore disaster. "Probably."

.

[pinboy3niner]

8. All we found of their calendar...

...was Part I.

[charlie and algernon]

9. the best "end of the world" saying I heard was that an asteroid may not strike Earth for 10,000 yrs

but it could also strike tomorrow.

[charlie and algernon]

10. Of course, this is my favorite cartoon on the Mayan doomsday thing

[HopeHoops]

11. They ran out of space on the wheel.

[taterguy]

12. They were dumbasses

Exhibit B: Getting their asses kicked by the Spainards.

Who the fuck loses a war to Spain?

[warrprayer]

13. the conquistadors were badasses

[LiberalEsto]

14. There is also the 1752 switch to the Gregorian Calendar

Britain and the British empire, including the eastern part of what became the United States, subtracted 11 days from the previously-used Julian Calendar to bring it into step with the Gregorian Calendar.

Wednesday, September 2, 1752 was followed by Thursday, September 14, 1752.

I'll bet those Mayans didn't adjust their calendar accordingly.

[Moondog]

15. Because their calendar is cyclical.

And, like ours, it just rolls over, and starts a new cycle.

Perhaps they knew and understood that, and figured everyone else would too. Like us, they assumed folks would just get a new calendar when it rolled over. And that the end of the calendar did not portend the end of the world. Just the end of the cycle.

Yeah, I hate boring prosaic explanations too.

But Occam's Razor, and all that.