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Whats next after 2012?

In 2037 all the computers that run the internet and still haven't been replaced will reset their clocks and we'll have the REAL Y2K problem as nobody alive will have ever worked on one.
 
Third Eye Open said:
So after the world fails to end in 2012, what is the next date conspiracy theorists will latch on too? I want to get a head start in debunking. Any ideas?
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'End' here merely means 'of a cycle'.
There will likely be some precessional stresses between the Sun, Moon, and Earth; maybe rising seas, a few cracks in the Earth crust, and things like that.
Life will go on just as it did about 12-13000 years ago when things also went somewhat pear-shaped globally speaking for the same reason as may cause some problems in the next century or two or so.
No big deal: We will still be here.
 
JWideman said:
In 2037 all the computers that run the internet and still haven't been replaced will reset their clocks and we'll have the REAL Y2K problem as nobody alive will have ever worked on one.
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Are you saying every 20 year old programmer who worked on original Y2K will die before he is 57?
 
This is serious.

2012 represents the end of the Mayan Long Count, and therefore the end of the world.

But good news!

I did some serious lengthy detailed scholarly research into this end-of-history-and-all-humankind problem and I discovered this on wikipedia:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar)

Inscriptions beyond 2012
Maya stelae occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque the following Long Count date was found: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (March 24, 603 Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol,[10] or October 21, 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.[11]

So now we know: The End of the World will occur on October 21, 4772.

Should we rejoice? Or should we prepare for the coming (if slightly postponed) catastrophe?
 
The world will end at 23:59:59 on December 31, 2008. One of them, at least. That time will occur twice (due to the inserted leap second), and the occurrence of 23:59:59 twice in a row will destroy the space-time continuum, and the world along with it.

Or it won't.

:D
 
krelnik said:
There's another "Y2K" type computer date overflow thingie that will happen on January 19, 2038.

It is because dates measured using a "Unix style" timestamp will overflow the size of a signed 32 bit integer on that day. (I.e. the date on that day will become larger than 2 to the 31st power seconds since January 1, 1970.).
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I'm familiar with the 2038 problem. However, It is a problem only for 32 bit executables. I'm not sure how many of them will be around by 2038. Besides, if I'm still alive by then, I will most likely be retired, so it won't be my problem.
 
Everything has already happened at some point
It just hasn't had the time to reach us yet.
 
They can always fall back on the Earth's impending magnetic pole shift. It has the added convenience of being unpredictable but eventual. IIRC there are some who believe that the landmasses will move as opposed to the poles switching. Some woo will "figure it out" and will set a date.
 
This idle speculation is pointless. We should confer with an expert on such matters.

Let's hear what Mr Timecube has to say:


Cubeless education- is a deadly evil.
Cubeless educators are evil bastards.
Humans are dumb, educated stupid,
and evil. They don't want to know
Nature's Cubic Order of Destruction.​



Now, who can argue with that?
 
krelnik said:
There's another "Y2K" type computer date overflow thingie that will happen on January 19, 2038.

It is because dates measured using a "Unix style" timestamp will overflow the size of a signed 32 bit integer on that day. (I.e. the date on that day will become larger than 2 to the 31st power seconds since January 1, 1970.).
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Y10K - when we go from 4 digit to 5 digit years.
 
Oliver said:
Won't happen. Humans will be stupid enough to find another set of some old stupid scriptures about a Messiah in the meantime ... and simply reset the calendar in honor of that guy.
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But "resetting the calendar" for a new Messiah, whenever it happens, will in itself crash all computers and bring down civilisation and end the world - so all those End Time stories about the Second Coming are True!!! Run, flee for your lives!
 
We should stop labeling years with numbers after 2012.
Start giving them funny names. Example 01/01/(Put silly name here).
 
Any doomsayer with a hint of business sense will pick a date at least two years past 2012. That will allow sufficient time to publish at least two books and conduct a world-wide tour before the date actually arrives.

Collect the cash, reset the date, repeat.
 
I have two teenagers in my house, it is terribly important for them to feel secure so that they can grow up emotionally healthy. It doesn't matter to me whether those theories about 2012 are true or not, there is not a single thing I could do to make any difference.
What I say to these children does make a difference.
Sometime last year while listening to my favorite radio show, Coast to Coast (restrain yourselves please), some one said that the calendars hadn't been properly calculated and that 2012 had already happened in 2007.
That's what I tell my kids, it helped them. I also tell them repeatedly that some people believe that the world will become a much better place after 2012.
 
Third Eye Open said:
So after the world fails to end in 2012, what is the next date conspiracy theorists will latch on too? I want to get a head start in debunking. Any ideas?
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There is no conspiracy theory: It is simply that on a certain date in December 2012, looking from the Egyptian pyramids, the rising Sun will exactly align with the centre of our Galaxy on the day of the completion of the precessional movement. The Mayan culture also observed this tied in with their knowledge of a Venus cycle.
'Conspiracy theory' notions attaching to the precession are trivial paranoia. On this basis it can just as easily be said that Homer's Iliad, which is understood by many as a legend transmitting the myth-knowledge-system of the precession, is also a 'conspiracy'!
 
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