2012 and the End of the World

Stringer/Getty Images
A Mayan calendar column in Quirigua, Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, Aug. 13, 1929.

We can blame it all on the Mayans. They created the Long Count Calendar,a time measurement system that had spiritual significance to theirculture. They organized their calendar into several cycles, the last ofwhich will end in December 2012. Some people think the Mayans haddiscovered that after 2012, the world would end.

Thereare dozens of theories about how this might happen. Some claim that2012 is when the Earth will experience a polar shift.Others say that after 2012, the Earth will experience a period ofterrible destruction followed by a new age of peace and enlightenment.A few claim that in 2012, a secret government will accomplish its goalof total world domination. What will actually happen? Check back withus (HowStuffWorks) on Jan. 1, 2013.

Stephen Sweet/Dreamstime
A traditional Mayan calendar

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

Are you a Member?

Welcome to the Flat Earth Society Homepage!

Btw
The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible forthe failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line duringWWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightingsoutside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the NabiscoInc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore,we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, whichmay possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmaticand dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision,Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred,citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pinederby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger,tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika,German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick,Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

MSNBC TV - The Presumptuous Nominee

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26228510#26228510

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

Burj Dubai - The World's Tallest Skyscraper

Burj Dubai is now the world's tallest structure ever built.

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

"In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations" except if it's the United States of America the invaders.

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

The Weather

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous

La Grotte de Trabuc - Visited yesterday - 2008-08-18

La grotte de TRABUC est le plus important réseau souterrain des Cévennes.
Située en périphérie du Parc National des Cévennes, c'est un site majeur qui attire chaque année des dizaines de milliers de visiteurs.La partie accessible au public, grâce à un aménagement de qualité et respectueux de l'environnement de la caverne, permet d'admirer ce qui retint, voici bientôt 50 ans, l'attention des premiers explorateurs : la diversité des coloris et des cristaux.Une grotte évolue dans le temps et les cristaux en fonction de leur age et de la présence de divers oxydes, se teintent. Ainsi peut on passer de la transparence à l'ocre la plus soutenue en l'espace de quelques mètres.

La visite de Trabuc est une découverte constante. Coudes de galeries et carrefours réservent des surprises, des paysages variés, des émotions. Curiosité unique au monde.

Et lorsqu'en fin de visite, on croit avoir tout vu, on reste médusé devant le spectacle des " 100 000 soldats ", 100 000 petites stalagmites hautes de 10 cm maximum, plantées sur le sol d'une vaste galerie. Mystère encore inexpliqué.

TRABUC : the most important cave in the Cevennes 

Posted by email from Sigalon's posterous