2011 be gone, welcome to 2012. If you have been anywhere near a media outlet you are aware that in 356 days, on December 21, the Mayan calendar is over. This phenomena has been interpreted to mean the end of humanity. Thoughts about this being the extinction of the human race have been entertained. Any of the Saw movies, the Holocaust, every foreign dictator (seemingly): these are all horrible things thought about by cruel, sick people but none hold a candle to the thought of the end of the world. Just to clear this up, 12/21/2012 is scientifically as the end of the Mayan calendar, it took a sick wacko to create this as the murder of all humanity.
We know very little about the Mayans; they were natives of the Yucatan, suddenly 'disappeared' and were excellent astronomers. There is nothing strange about the Yucatan, astronomers are just nerds, and suddenly disappearing doesn't make strange, there is a whole tv channel devoted to it. Here's a similar scenario, in any (random location) cult (nerdy extremists) they drink the kool aid and disappear(well, their bones woulda eventually been fossils too hard to recover).
So where'd they go? Aliens? Really modern science and technology, we can find the Titanic (needle in a haystack) but not thousands of people with no modern technology. How about a volcano, or dragon attack, or even global warming?
Throughout it all, nobody has disputed the end of a calendar, but you know, I get a new one every year and it's last day is New Year's eve, but we still manage to see it as a celebration. Maybe the end the of the Mayan calendar is the end of their ream of papyrus scroll or maybe yet it symbolizes the end of Mexico (no more reefer). If the countdown is really on, then how do you spend your last days of paradise? One thing is for sure, you better read the new Twilight because it may be gone.
