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#390518 10/21/10 10:21 AM
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it's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed


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I was worried that the world might have already ended and no one told me. You don't know how relieved I am especially now that my house in Belize is finished.

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Does that mean that I can plan another fishing trip to Caye Caulker??

If you live on CC...please pass along my regards to "Vilma" at Roses cafeand..."Tell her I still love her".

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Won't be back down there until the 4th. If I remember right you fish with Pernel and I'm sure he'll find time to go fishing. Did you get out to BluHole Lodge?


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