Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Mayan Calendar
Did you know that on Dec. 24th 2012 the Mayan Calendar runs out? The date 2012 has been thrown around a lot. Some scientists a while ago predicted that a comet would hit the Earth then or something like that. What do know about A: the Mayan Calendar or B: some other cosmic event in or around 2012?
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Ah, Wikipedia:
January 31 — 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (~26.8 million kilometers; ~16.6 million miles). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on 1996-02-17.[1]
April 17 — The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.
Sometime in 2012: Freedom Tower in New York City: Construction will be finished.
And, most importantly:
California's ban on the production of foie gras will take effect.
Hilarious.
What I know about the Mayan calendar is that it was WAY more accurate than the contemporary western calendars. It accounted for things that Dark Age Europe wasn't too concerned about and which ultimately resulted in a giant calendar clusterfunk in 1582. Depending on where you lived in Europe whole months disappeared to get everything jived up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
cool post
I think they constructed some calendars out of pure chocolate. There is always a cosmic event coming up, just around the corner.
Did you know that scientists believe that the moons craters were all made about the same time in history? I was taken back by this statement because I know that small meteors hit the moon and Earth all of the time.
I guess it was on a colossal scale back in the day?
Apt phrase, 'back in the day'. Was the Universe ready for us on Day One?
No, that was on the sixth day. :)
Too-shay.
As the solar system coalesced into the form we know it there was increasingly less chunks of stuff flying around on it's own. The sun's gravity, along with the gravity of all the large bodies, organized the debris (asteroid belt, rings of various planets) or absorbed it and reduced the amount of shit flying wild around the solar system.
All I know is, we are all doomed.
All I know is, we are all doomed.
When you stutter it sounds twice as bad.
It's a result of blogspot postitis.
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