Sunday, January 29, 2012

Misplaced Apprehension

December 21st, 2012 approaches. On that day the world will cease to be, or something like that. It actually seems that the ancient Mayans were aware that on that day the solar system crosses the galactic plane, astonishingly. How did they know it?

The situation brings to mind Y2K, with the hype leading up to December 31, 1999, and the widespread fear that chaos would ensue the following day.

Amusingly, the whole world celebrated the end of the second millenium and the end of the 20th century one year too early, and when December 31 2000 arrived, the true last day of the millenium, nobody cared. How human. How massively mathematically ignorant. Somehow, how humanly appropiate.

We all know that this coming December 21st nothing special will happen, except astronomically.

That doesn't stop us from having fun with it.

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