I'm waiting for dec 22nd of 2012 to arrive to mock some people.
I have no idea how the mayans wrote their calendar but really... at some point they must have run out of space? Isn't writing a calendar all the way til 2012 give you, you know... some room? At some point the calendar must end it can't go on and on forever.
Who came up with "the mayans predicted the end of the world on 2012"? Did they really specifically write that somewhere or was it some conclusion that people arrived to when they realized their calendar ended on 2012?
By the by, I really doubt the world would end. Humanity and civilization maybe, but the world itself is a pretty big rock. Nothing outside of a solar explosion or a planetary crash would put a dent in it.

2012 is end of the cycle. not the first time nor the last time. important date for Mayans so they calculated when it happens.
they didn't actually believe in the end of the world. that is really a myth and misconception.

I can see lots of idiots will commit suicide, and the rest of us will all be like "Meh."
Imagine the teenage population.

Here's what will really happen in 2012.
You see, the Mayans knew of their eventual extinction, and therefor devised a way to have eternal life. Their calender ends in 2012, because that is when the Mayans will rise from the earth, stronger and more powerful than ever before, and conquer the modern world!

The world will actually run out of time and come to an end January 19, 2038. It's been foreseen by the almighty Unix timestamp.

What's with all the forum bumps? This is annoying.

Bwhaha. I bumped this one because of the film trailer. Why make another topic?

Roland Emmerich is no stranger to apocalyptic films that may or may not be good (or scientifically accurate). I can't believe I actually want to see it.

Its distructoporn, seeing thousands die and everything blow up gets some people's rocks off.

I like watching things blow up. That's why I'm a fan of Mythbusters.
Not too sure about the former, though.

Fictionally or for real?
If the latter, sounds like a narcisses

Just fiction.

I just finished writing a distinction getting script for my screenwriting subject at uni that was about the end of the world, I should have thought to set it in 2012

Sorry to bring up an old board, but I really hate Doomsday Prophets (Nostradamus, I am talking to you.). All they do is frighten the mass population ignorant enough to believe them. IF 2012 EVER DOES HAPPEN, I will spend my last moments holding my gf in my arms (I'm just like that.). Also, I am quite the conspiracy theorist and really think it is all BS (2012 that is.).
So, no. It ain't gonna happen.

When you see things like North Korea getting their hands on nuclear weapons you can't help going "can't it?" and wonder if civilization will actually end and for some reasons the mayans lucked out on the date, but I still stand by my point that the calendar had to end somewhere and they never specified the date they chose to end it on meant the end of humanity's existence.