I was just watching a movie with my sister and she began to tell me about her friend who "heard that the earth was going to end in 2012". I told her that it was a load of BS and asked, out of curiosity, how this might come to pass. So, she phoned her friend to get more information.

So.. it turns out that the Mayan calendar ends on Dec 21, 2012 (which we both agreed was a bummer to happen a couple days before Christmas). At the end of this calendar is the end of the great cycle... a period of 26… Continue