The Orion Prophecy & 2012

It is meaningless, due to inumerable changes in the duration and types of calendars used in the millenia before our practically-globally-accepted standardized calendar.
 
LW said:
If that wasn't enough to convince you all, Cotterell also shows that the Egyptians knew the magnetic cycles of the sun: the Tutankhamun's tomb had 16 stairs of which 6 were repaired and 6 * 16 = 96 which is the number of magnetic cycles in one sunspot cycle. See it all fits in, the world ends in 2012.
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Dude! What would the Egyptians have done if after all that work with the proper number of repaired stairs, they had broken one on the way out? A clumsy workman could have eliminated this vital link to ancient Egyptian sunspottery!

Man, we dodged a bullet there.
 
I believe I recently (last 12 months) saw a program dealing with the Earth's magnetic pole about to to a reversal -- and soon too. Not by 2012, but within 200 years or so, which is quite soon, really. The risk, as mentioned earlier, is solar radiation. Hmmm ... I wonder how we'll deal with it?
 
Just thinking said:
I believe I recently (last 12 months) saw a program dealing with the Earth's magnetic pole about to to a reversal -- and soon too. Not by 2012, but within 200 years or so, which is quite soon, really. The risk, as mentioned earlier, is solar radiation. Hmmm ... I wonder how we'll deal with it?
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Some sort of hat, perhaps? A tin foil one?
 
CapelDodger said:
The year 2000 for A-Day was good until, well, 2001 I suppose. 2012 was near enough to attract attention but good for a decade's sales. The next date will probably be in the 20's or 30's.
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Probably 2038. 03:14:08 UTC on Tuesday, January 19 to be exact
 
I love the fact that the Mayans are supposed to be the font of some supper wisdom because they had zero and were good at math. They didn't have the wheel for Ed's sake. And, they essentially killed each other off, well before 2012. WHich only means that their civilzation was as messed up as all of the others and not particularly top-loaded in insight and prophetic ability (funny, they could see a polar shift, but not their own dying out or the arival of the spanish).

Also, once their language was deciphered, it tended to be a lot like every other culture's ...monuments to kings and their battles, etc. not particularly wise or presceint.

BTW, the book, 1491, on the Natives in America before the Spanish is facinating...
 
Babylon Sister said:
AAARRRRGGGGHHH! Please stop this! The Maya DID know about the wheel. Wheeled toys have been found. They did not use the wheel for transportation because they had no suitable draft animal!
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But why not construct wheelbarrows , small carts, or even rickshaws?
 
Ladewig said:
But why not construct wheelbarrows , small carts, or even rickshaws?
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Without draft animals a cart is not particularly useful. Then too, the area in which the Maya lived did not lend itself to road construction. The ground is very rocky. More like limestone cobbles with a little dirt than dirth with a few rocks. Even today rural areas are more easily accessed by foot or along narrow trails than by car or truck. Streams and rivers were the highways of the Maya.

As for the wheelbarrows and rickshaws, I guess I don't know, aside from the fact that none of these types of vehicles have been discovered in the archeological record. Just the drawings and carvings that show the people carrying things on their backs in large baskets with a head strap. Having worked in the area, icarrying things is much more practicle than trying to get a wheelbarrow over that lumpy ground.
 
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Babylon Sister said:
Without draft animals a cart is not particularly useful.
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I disagree. I use a small two-wheeled carts and four-wheeled carts to move stuff around the garden all the time.

Then too, the area in which the Maya lived did not lend itself to road construction. The ground is very rocky. More like limestone cobbles with a little dirt than dirth with a few rocks. Even today rural areas are more easily accessed by foot or along narrow trails than by car or truck. Streams and rivers were the highways of the Maya.

As for the wheelbarrows and rickshaws, I guess I don't know, aside from the fact that none of these types of vehicles have been discovered in the archeological record. Just the drawings and carvings that show the people carrying things on their backs in large baskets with a head strap. Having worked in the area, carrying things is much more practical than trying to get a wheelbarrow over that lumpy ground.
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I see your point. Still, they did have a few cities, didn't they? Wouldn't the odd cart or wheelbarrow be useful there?
 
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