It's Official: The Mayan's were 4 billion years off

[Afigueroa22]

Have they predicted (in other words make **** up) what that will do to life on earth?

We could not survive being that far away from the sun.

 

[Cythim]

I can't remember where but I saw one of those pictograms or whatever they are called and it talked about the Mayan prediction which didn't include leap year because that was invented by Caesar. As a result, the end of the world should have happened some time last summer I think.

That is false, the calculations were done on a day for day basis not year for year. The Mayan year is only 360 days long so if this leap year thing were true the prediction would be off by 80 years instead of 7 months. Let me know if this makes any sense.



Back to the galaxy thing... that looks amazing.

 

[rkell87]

We could not survive being that far away from the sun.

what are you even talking about?

 

[daschoo]

No rational person ever thought the world was going to end in the first place based on the Mayan count. I sure as hell didn't.

I've questioned before how a civilization with such omnipotent forecasting couldn't see their own demise.

Wasn't meaning to have a go at you mate.
The whole thing just irritates me. The Mayans set out calenders covering 3 large spans of time. That is ending this December (or at least is widely reported as ending then.) I may be wrong but as far as I'm aware at no point did the say that this was the end of the world therefor I don't see why the world is more likely to end than at the end of December when a conventional calender ends.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Wasn't meaning to have a go at you mate.
The whole thing just irritates me. The Mayans set out calenders covering 3 large spans of time. That is ending this December (or at least is widely reported as ending then.) I may be wrong but as far as I'm aware at no point did the say that this was the end of the world therefor I don't see why the world is more likely to end than at the end of December when a conventional calender ends.

Yet, just to be safe. I'm not doing my Christmas shopping till the 23rd.

 

[jobberone]

Our solar system could survive the entire thing without damage. Of course it could get slung completely out of the Milky Way. We are on the far outside edge of the Milky Way now. They say there is around a 8-10% chance that we get slung out of the galaxy and become a rogue solar system floating in space not attached to a galaxy anymore. Obviously, the worst thing that could happen is another solar system collide with ours causing massive chaos and / or complete and utter destruction.

Nobody knows exactly what will happen to our solar system. There are a lot of moving parts and a lot of time for them to move. While galaxies have huge amounts of mass clumped together, clumped together is relative as there is enormous amounts of space between the solar systems in a galaxy. We could just fly right through it and find a new orbit in the new galaxy.

All that said, if humans still live 4 billion years from now. I don't think it will matter much. We will probably be planet / galaxy hopping by then finding new planets. I don't think the resources of the Earth will last another 4 billion years not to mention there will be a severe over population problem. On top of that, our Sun has probably between 4-5 billion years left of fuel to burn. So by the time Andromeda gets here, the Sun will be close to burning out / going super nova. When that happens, Earth is be completely engulfed in the Sun as it grows to a red giant. ie, Complete destroyed.

Just park an asteroid at the right place and move the earth gradually to the new habitable zone. Everyone knows that trick.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Have they predicted (in other words make **** up) what that will do to life on earth?

 

[jnday]

to be fair it was a calender not a prediction of the end of the world. it was just on a longer term scale than the one hanging in your kitchen, the point remains though that the world doesn't end on the 31st december every year

I really like your signature and avatar. I have a t-shirt ordered that is similar to your avatar. Celtic pride, great stuff.

 

[SwervinCurvin]

All that said, if humans still live 4 billion years from now. I don't think it will matter much. We will probably be planet / galaxy hopping by then finding new planets. I don't think the resources of the Earth will last another 4 billion years not to mention there will be a severe over population problem. On top of that, our Sun has probably between 4-5 billion years left of fuel to burn. So by the time Andromeda gets here, the Sun will be close to burning out / going super nova. When that happens, Earth is be completely engulfed in the Sun as it grows to a red giant. ie, Complete destroyed.

You got most of that right, but our sun won't go supernova because it's not massive enough. It's predicted that it will grow into a red giant which will likely kill all inhabitants on Earth long before it engulfs us. Then it will become a white dwarf.

 

[Afigueroa22]

what are you even talking about?

If our solar system was to get slung out of the Milky Way, I doubt we would maintain the same distance from the sun. We currently are in perfect position, any farther and we would freeze.

 

[SwervinCurvin]

If our solar system was to get slung out of the Milky Way, I doubt we would maintain the same distance from the sun. We currently are in perfect position, any farther and we would freeze.

Finely tuned.