Mexican government releases New Mayan Alien Artifacts for Documentary

Sure, and I always keep some supplies on hand in case the weather turns rotten or there is a power failure. How many people went to extremes? As I recall, portable power generator sales boomed and one person that used to live in my neighborhood at the time had stockpiled about 10 portable generators and a lot of fuel for them. Not to mention all the guns and ammo and food supplies. For the record this neighbor was a war veteran and I respected his service to the U.S.A, but also he had lingering PTS problems and didn't always see things in a.....rational way. I even triple checked all his computers that he had and assured him that they would handle Y2K with no problems and repeatedly assured him that he had way more then enough supplies and should consider donating some of the generators and fuel to neighbors that may want or need them. I didn't want to try to get him to get rid of any of his guns as I knew that would be bad and some of the neighbors likely wouldn't be able to handle some of his guns anyway. Anyway, long story short, Y2K didn't trigger the end of all things and he felt rather foolish for having hoarded so many things. It took him awhile to get rid of all but two of the generators and fuel and a few years later he moved away for whatever reason.

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Some new artifacts suggest that the beginning of the long count and the end marks the when Quetzalcoatl was believed to have come to the Mayans and when he's marked to return. It's not an end of the world prophecy per say, but it is a prophecy of something.

Some might say we're not far from that now

Interesting, so depending on your mind set, the date could mark either - nothing (as it's just a myth), the return of an actual god, the return of a giant feathered serpent or the return of extraterrestrials?

This reminded me of a special I saw about zombies. It was about how there is a group of people who are making sure that everyone else has enough supplies, knowledge, and skill to survive a zombie outbreak. Their reasoning for this wasn't that there was going to be a zombie outbreak and we were all going to die, but that if you have the ability to whether a scenario as apocalyptic as a zombie outbreak, then you'll be able to handle pretty much any natural disaster that comes your way.

And that... is pretty cool.


EDIT: BTW I think that if you include the time that leap years take away we are well in 2013 already, so there is no worry about everyone dying off on that day.

The Mayans accounted for that. Their calendar was very very accurate, hence our fascination of them.

Pretty much. Or you could also think of it this way, the Mayans were sophisticated enough to predict when the alignment of the Earth and Sun to the center of the galaxy (which they called Hunab-Ku) had last happened and when it was slated to occur again.

Edit: If you think about it in that light, it shows just how important the end of the long count is...it really is the biggest new years event there is.

Indeed and of course (back to the OP) it begs the question how could they possibly have obtained that knowledge...

Well since they didn't have cable TV they had plenty of time to look up at night and track the stars. Sometimes having hundreds of years to look and think about things can overcome the general lack of basic technology we take for granted today. Ancient peoples didn't always need to rely on "extraterrestrials" to get some things right.

See, now you're understanding!

The Mayans tracked the stars and figured out when important astronical events will occur and they built their calendar around those events kind of how we track astronical events now on our calendars (the Earth revolving around the Sun and the cycles of the Moon), and they built legends around them. Though their way is arguably much more accurate and detailed.

BTW: The aliens thing was just a joke. It seemed appropriate and timely

As I recall, wasn't Quetzalcoatl more of a "benevolent" deity? If such is the case and it is marked to return, then it could be a good thing.

Presuming that said deity exists at all of course. Call me understandably skeptical.

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In their culture Quetzalcoatl created mankind as well as being a border between earth and sky

Did you mean the center of the galaxy? 'Cause I'm not sure we even know where the center of the universe is now. Other than the vague description that Tatooine is the planet farthest from it.

Yeah, I meant galaxy. Sorry multitasking error.

Edit: Fixed OP so people won't keep correcting me.

Part of it is that you learn to not panic. Sure, you might not be able to handle every conceivable scenario, but if you panic, you're dead for sure.

There's lots of things that could happen to interrupt services and things that we are used to having. Like a war interrupting oil/gas supply or drought taking its toll on the food supply or a solar flare/something sun related knocking out electronics.

Then there's just common sense stuff like having vegetable seeds on hand. Learn to plant & take care of a garden. Not only are you prepped for a disaster, but you can also reduce your food bill and have healthier foods on hand. It would also give your kids something to do during the summer.

I don't trust anything that can't make up its mind to be one or the other. Bird or snake! Not both!

And don't get me started on platypi...shifty little things. They're plotting something I tells ya!

This is really all that needs to be said.

Green-skinned space babes you say? Oh... I'm totally there!

Are there any other kind of space babes than green-skinned?