It's December 21st -- anything happen?

Me too.....got duty on the ship and so far haven't had to send out any SITREPs. Most folks I know in Japan are still alive as well.
 
douglas393 said:
Interestingly it appears that the continent is still attached to Florida, and that apparently is a good thing.
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The world ended for someone today. I thank God I woke up this morning. I still have children to raise...
 
Something really serious happened. It's absolutely horrific.

The Mayans no longer know what day it is.
 
Ron Levy said:
I'm still here...
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I'm here as well. :thumbsup:

Reminds me of the scene in War Games with Matthew Broderick, where a surprised Airman in Grand Forks, I think, says that he's "still here" after the computer was showing that there were inbound nukes to that airbase.

Good times, good times. :)
 
If you have any Mayan friends, a calender would make a great Christmas gift this year since theirs ran out.
 
This is all fun.
What is scary, is that a significant percentage of the population believes such crap.
Darwin was correct. We need to weed out more of the un-fit in the gene pool to remain viable as a species.
 
It is supposed to go down to 33degrees here in Daytona Beach. That "feels" like the end of the world to me. Maybe I should have moved farther South. Global warming is just taking to long to get here.
 
and good to see you Ron - I'm still waiting for the end but I feel it's not going to happen. How many of these "end of the world" parties can I have?
 
Something happened here.

The dog got me up at 6:08 this morning to take her out. I checked to see if the neighborhood still existed, before stepping outside of our lanai. Everything seemed to be where I left it last night, so I started breakfast.
 
We're having an "end of the world" party. Double chocolate brownies, cinnamon rolls, sausage biscuits...

Just in case we wake up in the morning, there's a bunch of no-sugar stuff in the pantry too.
 
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I don't know. It could be the end of the world. The plumber showed up a couple minutes early. :D
 
bflynn said:
We're having an "end of the world" party. Double chocolate brownies, cinnamon rolls, sausage biscuits...

Just in case we wake up in the morning, there's a bunch of no-sugar stuff in the pantry too.
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You're too late, it's been December 22nd for almost ten hours already.
 
It was ISA +16 today at FL360 over Dixon NDB. It's freaking December folks! Towards the end too. I thought fer sure that was a sign of the end...but alas we landed uneventfully in PBI. Guess I got some Christmas presents to buy now.
 
Good thing the Mayans aren't here to see the scale of their failure. :D
 
Anything Happening?

Yes the worst storm and snow fall the north Cascades has seen in years.

winds over 75 MPH up to 4 feet of snow over night.

North Cascades are now 150% of snow fall for the year, with 3 more months of snow to come.
 
Anybody got contact info for the head Mayan guy? I'm going to ask for his side of the story.
 
Captain said:
It was ISA +16 today at FL360 over Dixon NDB. It's freaking December folks! Towards the end too. I thought fer sure that was a sign of the end...but alas we landed uneventfully in PBI. Guess I got some Christmas presents to buy now.
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You seen the depth of that low - I'm surprised its not +20C . . .
 
Tom-D said:
Anything Happening?

Yes the worst storm and snow fall the north Cascades has seen in years.

winds over 75 MPH up to 4 feet of snow over night.

North Cascades are now 150% of snow fall for the year, with 3 more months of snow to come.
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Well, that is good news for us skiers.
 
wabower said:
Anybody got contact info for the head Mayan guy? I'm going to ask for his side of the story.
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There is a fortune teller shop near my office. I always wondered how they stay I business, but it appears there is some demand for people who want to talk to dead people.
 
John221us said:
There is a fortune teller shop near my office. I always wondered how they stay I business, but it appears there is some demand for people who want to talk to dead people.
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You mean a congressional hearing? :rofl:
 
Hey, there's still time! It's only 11:37 where the Mayans used to live. Maybe they're plotting to destroy everything at 11:59 PM their time just to keep us on our toes!
 
What fruitcake decided that just because some ancient calendar ends that the world is going to magically end on the same day?
 
IF we're actually aligned with the center of the galaxy, it makes some sense that this date would offer the least obstructed path from the center to Earth via a very high speed ship that might require near-straightest line vectors.

Even though 12/21 would be the best, the era of lesser obstruction could be 100s of years long in the 26,000 year cycle....
 
Dave Krall CFII said:
IF we're actually aligned with the center of the galaxy, it makes some sense that this date would offer the least obstructed path from the center to Earth via a very high speed ship that might require near-straightest line vectors.

Even though 12/21 would be the best, the era of lesser obstruction could be 100s of years long in the 26,000 year cycle....
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Huh? What does this date have to do with the center of the galaxy? It's a reference point in relation to the sun that doesn't affect anything.
 
NY Times article and CNN report this morning say this whole thing is due to a misinterpretation. Apparently, we've merely come to the end of the 13th "bak'tun" (a "bak'tun" being about 394 years by our calendar) and now we're into the 14th. IOW, it's the end of the year, not the end of the world -- toss last year's calendar and start the new one.

Wonder if we'll see the same hoopla in 2406?
 
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