Cough. Excuse me kind sir, but I was never worried. Granted, I know next to fuckall about Mayans and their culture and beliefs, but I always did figure, as the article says, that a lot of their science was ushered by religion and spiritual beliefs. It’s bound for a lot of miscalculation and fabrication, although the Mayans seemed pretty bad assely accurate on moon phases and planet sighting stuff. Although I did actually think that their calendar stopped around 2012 based on all that stuff about the end of the world, I never believed in the end of the world part. I just thought it was like the year 2000 thing, where some computers still in use for various things were old enough to not register anything after 1999. Where was it ever even said that they predicted the end of the world anyways? Was it ever? Or was it because until recently, it is to be presumed, their calculations didn’t cover anything beyond our current dates, and people just went, oh shit!? They were a very spiritual people…hell, they went and got themselves sacrificed willingly. If there was an end of the world for them to predict, or some kind of apocalypse, they wouldn’t have been as subtle as just going; you know what, man? This calendar stops here. Fuck you guys, this is where it ends.
Cool and interesting article, although I admit, I was kinda hoping to see something about xenomorphs and predators in it.
Also, this; Maybe the scribes were “geeks… who just got carried away with doing these kinds of computations and calculations, and probably did them far beyond the needs of ordinary society.
Mayan nerds. That fuckin rocks.