Fascinating.  Sounds as though it's going to be a big topic over the coming 36 months and a huge movie this year.  I wonder whether the predictions about the 2004 Acer tsunami and the financial crisis were specific or after-the-fact interpretations.  I'm sure most Maniacs remember the resurgence of interest in Nostradamus in the 1970s, when she took N's inscrutable, virido-linguistic utterings and concluded that he had forecast Napoleon, Hitler and JFK.  Maybe it's time to replace my umbrella?

 2008: the bees

2012: humankind?

I'm getting too angry to be Agnostic.

I wonder what that says about the Christian religion and how the US will handle that in the next 36 months. Who do we pray to this time?

Maybe someone needs to talk The Pope into upgrading the Virgin Mary into the official Christian Goddess? We need all the help we can get!

But I think I tend to agree with Adrian that the date is simply a re-set function of the Universal Clock... I guess we'll find out soon enough!

W... Adrian mentioned to me that the Mayan Elder, Carlos Barrios (pictured with Adrian above), has got a book deal now, so maybe he'll reveal via the Great God of Amazon how he made his predictions?!

So...if the sun rises on the morning of 22 December 2012 and the world isn't a charred ruin, do we start back at the beginning of the Mayan calendar, or do we count backwards from the end?

The Mayan Elder is sporting an interesting medallion...

...but as Earthquakes are predicted for the eventful day then I guess the token is appropriate.

I shall advise the mice to make ready a portal large enough for me to squeeze through, just in case a last minute multiverse trip is required.

Or maybe that is already planned for all of us at the fateful ‘Zero Hour’..?

P.S. I suspect The Bees have already made the jump and are now pollinating a whole ‘New World’ out there!

Does this mean my computer is going to crash like Y2K? All the calender says is that we cross the disk plane... all that will change is that the mayans will have to make a new calender just like the rest of us do every year... they just had a longer one, like those 18 month calenders you see at the mall in september or so... thats it... just dont get people all freaked out and scared because of this. The world will end in a few billion years when the sun expands into a red giant and vaporizes the atmosphere... if of course you believe in that science drivil...

Okay, you guys have really got me going now.

So, if 21/12/2012 is the end of a 26,000 year precessional cycle, then what DO we call the next cycle? Sod all this doom and gloom rubbish... we should be CELEBRATING the beginning of a new 26,000 year precessional cycle and it should have a NAME. 

And if it all goes wrong, it's not fair, Mort, for you to have your own private portal... I think we should plan to relocate the entire Universe, like they moved the island in Lost. 

Will ask The Termites to create a WORMHOLE via the Sideboard, large enough to accommodate a Universe...

I thought the medallion was interesting, as well... must remember to ask Adrian about that. 

Ah yes, The Termites are the ones to Coordinate such a complex operation.

I have let The Mice know that The Termites are on the case, but they are still building my portal! Do they have other plans for me..?

Let us hope that December 2012 is as you say a new beginning, so I for one will welcome the event. That is if The Mice haven't whisked me away before then...

 Hey, I thought we needed to get the Dolphins to take us with them if we give them some fish?  Should I start stock piling towels?