By: mule98J
loguatious: So. I actually used to believe or want to believe some of this stuff, too. There's a lot of 35-50 year old ex ravers and/or burners out there who now have nice jobs as programmers,...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
This is actually important because there were/are a lot of otherwise smart people - particularly in the Burning Man/rave and new-new age hipsters - who were believing in some form of this apocalyptic...
View ArticleBy: Doroteo Arango II
They are not only among you. They are posting comments under your username.
View ArticleBy: IvoShandor
Fair enough, and the cost doesn't really bother me. More the fact that they would feel the need to come out with something like that... So, really, what you actually oppose isn't NASA, it's idiots....
View ArticleBy: forscience
So weird that these posts went to NASA -- I mean why would NASA know anything about the end of the world?
View ArticleBy: never used baby shoes
that NASA wasted time (and thus, tax dollars) explaining it to idiots who trust long-dead shamans over modern science? NASA was receiving emails from folks who were taking this seriously enough to be...
View ArticleBy: pla
Navelgazer : That said, this was obviously a very inexpensive video to produce and spun the superstition into actual interesting knowledge, so I'm happy with it. Heh... Fair enough, and the cost...
View ArticleBy: wemayfreeze
The line "they couldn't even predict their own demise" doesn't deserve beanplating but ... You can predict a certain kinds of events with a significant amount of success and fail at other kinds. We...
View ArticleBy: ArkhanJG
Personally, I think NASA should have just had a big banner on their website saying 'Told You So'.
View ArticleBy: neil pierce
NASA Experts recently gathered in a Google Hangout to share their findings Oooookaaayyy....
View ArticleBy: John Cohen
I'll pay double my share and you can be off the hook. Except it doesn't work that way.
View ArticleBy: restless_nomad
I suspect elizardbits was referring to the description of a reasonably large and very much living culture as "obsolete" or "extinct" - not that pla is in any way the only person to propagate that bit...
View ArticleBy: Navelgazer
To hopefully clarify, I don't believe pla was referring to the Maya as "superstitious morons" but rather those who were buying into the apocalyptic nonsense. That said, this was obviously a very...
View ArticleBy: pla
elizardbits : Oh wow, idiotic racism as the very first comment, who ever could possibly have predicted this. NOT ME CAUSE I'M JUST AN IGNORANT SAVAGE. Okay, 'splain it to me, Lucy... What the hell does...
View ArticleBy: ersatz
How do we know the world didn't end? Is there a test for the existence of existence? I think not. ergo...
View ArticleBy: billyfleetwood
It's simply an observation that if the Mayan magic wasn't good enough to foretell the end of Mayan civilization, why would we think it was good enough to correctly foretell the end of the whole world?...
View ArticleBy: benito.strauss
The American Calendar predicts the end of the world in 9999! They didn't plan for another digit!The Long Now Foundation (est. 01996) has got you covered:The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates,...
View ArticleBy: salishsea
pla is wrong on two counts. First NASA is indeed educating. For example, this is a very accessible little video for kids who might have been hearing about all the hoopla and were wondering what the...
View ArticleBy: benito.strauss
It's simply an observation that if the Mayan magic wasn't good enough to foretell the end of Mayan civilization .... It's not magic, it's a calendar. Modern idiots treat it like magic, but they...
View ArticleBy: Malor
Oh, and: elizardbits: Oh wow, idiotic racism as the very first comment, Assuming that a comment hasn't disappeared, that pla's first reply is what you're referring to, I see zero racism there. It's...
View ArticleBy: Malor
paleyellowwithorange: As if future science will not correct our current understandings, only build upon them. Actually, that might be closer to the truth than you think. I'm not aware of any really...
View ArticleBy: charlie don't surf
Oh don't be ridiculous, everyone knows the world ended in the 2nd Century during the Apocalypse and the Rapture. All of us heathens got Left Behind and are enjoying life now that Jehovah decided to...
View ArticleBy: elizardbits
Oh wow, idiotic racism as the very first comment, who ever could possibly have predicted this. NOT ME CAUSE I'M JUST AN IGNORANT SAVAGE.
View ArticleBy: IAmUnaware
The overwhelming "HAHAH those primitive people were dumb" that's been going on the last few weeks is really quite unpleasant. 'Superstitious morons'? Really? You read "Send another probe anywhere - I...
View ArticleBy: normy
How do we know the world didn't end? Is there a test for the existence of existence?"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it...
View ArticleBy: paleyellowwithorange
I agree. We have a tendency to believe that our understanding of the world around us is - after all these generations - finally complete. As if future science will not correct our current...
View ArticleBy: xiw
The overwhelming "HAHAH those primitive people were dumb" that's been going on the last few weeks is really quite unpleasant. 'Superstitious morons'? Really?
View ArticleBy: paleyellowwithorange
Mezentian, that's what I was thinking - perhaps 'the world' was a more localized thing. Also, oops! 'Maya', not 'Mayans'. Thanks for the clarification.
View ArticleBy: Caduceus
I gotta admit, I was still holding out a little bit of hope for the Awakening.
View ArticleBy: DU
The American Calendar predicts the end of the world in 9999! They didn't plan for another digit!
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
Thanks to 21/12/12 I have learnt: The Maya never died out They are called Maya and not Mayans. That weird stone circle face isn't Mayan. Mayan cosmology was really, really odd. paleyellowwithorange - I...
View ArticleBy: Tell Me No Lies
Oh yeah, that's really going out on a limb releasing the video a day early. I'll take all sorts of bets if nobody will be around to prove me wrong.
View ArticleBy: paleyellowwithorange
So the had no damn clue. Period. So does anyone know how to reconcile this apparent cluelessness? If (as the narrator says), 'According to Maya theology, the world was created 5125 years ago', why are...
View ArticleBy: migurski
The Maya never died out."Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the...
View ArticleBy: paleyellowwithorange
that NASA wasted time (and thus, tax dollars) explaining it to idiots who trust long-dead shamans over modern science? That bothers me. NASA seems like a reasonably trustworthy source. I've basically...
View ArticleBy: TwelveTwo
How do we know the world didn't end? Is there a test for the existence of existence?
View ArticleBy: hattifattener
So weird that these posts went to NASA -- I mean why would NASA know anything about the end of the world? I also thought it odd that all the 2012pocalypse imagery on the net seemed to center around...
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
The world might not have ended, but: Tourists who flocked to Guatemala for end-of-the-world parties have reportedly damaged an ancient Mayan stone temple. (There were also Islamists in northern Mali...
View ArticleBy: Smedleyman
We don't realize that the less considerate members of future generations will look back at us and think, 'HAHAH those primitive people were dumb.' If we're lucky.
View ArticleBy: ymgve
So weird that these posts went to NASA -- I mean why would NASA know anything about the end of the world? Because one of the leading theories for how the world would have ended included a...
View ArticleBy: 2N2222
What's ridiculous is that this is probably one of the more practical things NASA can do. I suspect elizardbits was referring to the description of a reasonably large and very much living culture as...
View ArticleBy: mule98J
salishsea: It's strange actually that we don't have the easy ones covered on a regular basis. There is far more of a real threat from nuclear weapons and global warming than an asteroid or a dark...
View ArticleBy: salishsea
Do we simply not have a cultural referent for the end of the world other than giant impacts any more? No skies rolling back like a scroll? No boiling seas or endless winter? No plagues or famines? No...
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