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tecnoscythe said:
well the mayans coudnt of made the calender go on for ever thats impossible without the writing of it through over 100000000000 centuries i mean c'mon they have to stop one time :thinking:


Any calender goes on forever - it's just a system of numbers. The point being is that it's usually not necessary to set a date, say, a million (or even a thousand) years in the future since no one live now will be around then to care.

For instance, there's nothing stopping the Gregorian calender (the system most use now) from being say... January 1, 10000 except for the fact that most people will probably stop for a second at a 5 digit year. Every modern system outside of academia doesn't even support it - and for good reason. Do you think you'll be using your computer 7991 years from now? ;)

The only time it's relevant is for scientific purposes, ritual, spiritual, or religious purposes.
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Posted Jul 7, 2009, 6:12 am
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Bastiel said:
I like seeing the French smack Americans :)


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Posted Jul 7, 2009, 8:07 am
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looks ok,

and will probably be entertaining. But it looks too politicaly correct and full of hopefullness.

what happened to just the downright anarchic view of the apocalypse like in mad max. People are going to turn ugly, its not about how many landmarks are going to be destroyed, its about what happens to humanity's values and sense of morality. Ah for the days of acting over special effects and computer animation.
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Posted Jul 7, 2009, 5:59 pm Last edited Jul 7, 2009, 6:03 pm by Six Gun Jack
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well the mayan callender was first created as a very simple yet complex stoneslab with numbers and dates set in three rows a stone slab can only hold such dates intill it times out which could have been any time 2014,2018,2056,maybe even 2178 but it still has to stop if that one stone slap represents there calender
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Posted Jul 8, 2009, 7:37 pm
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tecnoscythe said:
well the mayan callender was first created as a very simple yet complex stoneslab with numbers and dates set in three rows a stone slab can only hold such dates intill it times out which could have been any time 2014,2018,2056,maybe even 2178 but it still has to stop if that one stone slap represents there calender


Your confusing a physical implementation with the conceptual idea behind it. That would be like saying that time restarts every year because you have to buy a new calender.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
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In theory, this system could readily be extended to delineate any length of time desired, by simply adding to the number of higher-order place markers used (and thereby generating an ever-increasing sequence of day-multiples, each day in the sequence uniquely identified by its Long Count number). In practice, most Maya Long Count inscriptions confine themselves to noting only the first 5 coefficients in this system (a b'ak'tun-count), since this was more than adequate to express any historical or current date (with an equivalent span of approximately 5125 solar years). Even so, example inscriptions exist which noted or implied lengthier sequences, indicating that the Maya well understood a linear (past-present-future) conception of time.

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Posted Jul 9, 2009, 4:08 am
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