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Originally Posted by kurto
I've never understand the kooks fascination with when the Mayan calendar ends. The Mayan civilation has been gone for 1200 years-ish, right? I'm actually surprised their calendar was written out this far in advance. It seems obvious to me that there would be no practical reason to map out the calendar past a point that's useful.
Perhaps they ended it in 2012 because the was something arbitrary like 20 centuries ahead of when they were first devising it? (that should be long enough to allow everyone to plan their vacations.)
My guess: the relative lack of diversions. Mapping out the stars and determining a repeating pattern in time might be extremely interesting to us as well if we didn't have TV, internet, cars, etc...