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Originally Posted by simonmark6
I'm not too worried about the Mayans. The kids in my school are obsessed with the world ending in 2012 and some quote the Mayan calender theory. I explained the fact that they had about five hundred or so years left on the clock so the conversation could have gone:
Mayan Astrologer 1: Hey, Paco, we need to get the next thousand years of the calender done...
Mayan Astrologer 2: Don't be soft, we've got five hundred years left before we run out already, let's go see those funny white people, we can finish the calender tomorrow, what's going to happen? It's not the end of the world...
To back up my theory I pointed out that the whole T2K crisis came about because no one thought about what would happen if people wanted to use their computers after 1999...
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This is good stuff. My students are obsessed with 2012 as well and no amount of explaining the known facts about the Mayan calendar system will convince most of them that the 2012 end of the world "prophesy" is just a whole lot of bunk. I think this will actually help. Thanks!