Creative Destruction

March 15, 2012

Mayan Calendar Miscount

Filed under: Content-lite,Current Events,Geekery,Navel Gazing — Brutus @ 12:10 pm

This image has been making the rounds:

I admit to being initially taken in by the apparent discrepancy in counting methodologies, but as with so many things, I lack the expertise to fully evaluate the accuracy of the claims. It was no surprise that someone else did, however, as can be appreciated with this YouTube video:

Of course, I never believed in the first place that the Mayan prophesy meant the end of the world. Rather, it was merely the equivalent of the odometer on the car turning over 100,000 back when there was no display for the hundred thousands place, meaning it would reset to 00,000.0.

1 Comment »

  1. I personally wonder the reason why you titled this specific blog, “Mayan Calendar Miscount @ Creative Destruction”.
    In any case I actually appreciated the blog! Thanks for the post,Lorenza

    Comment by Lorenza — January 16, 2013 @ 5:14 am | Reply


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