Leap days?

[linemile]

Well, with another leap day behind us, I thought that it would be fun to bring this topic up.
The Mayan calendar was created before the advent of the leap-year calendar. Because the Mayan calendar hasn't used any Leap Days, according to the Mayan calendar, December 21st 2012 actually happened seven months ago.

What do you think about that? Believers? Non-believers?
In my opinion, there's change around the corner, but it has nothing to do with Mayans or Armageddon or huge meteors or aliens. :p

[Stillwater]

In my opinion, there's change around the corner, but it has nothing to do with Mayans or Armageddon or huge meteors or aliens. :p

I tend to agree with this thought.

It is clear that powerful currents are brewing that will change the face of the planet: we have massive economic shifts of wealth and commodities, centering precariously around oil, set to dangerously shift the balance of force in the world again; phenomenonally unpredictable revolutions are also set to occur in the next 40 years in the fields of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology that will re-define the meaning of humanity, and will take any number of unforseen courses that could lead us into anything from world-war, to extinction, to unparalleled increases in human understanding and development; and all of this will happen on a backdrop of half the world readying for industrialization.

We don't need to resort to any "special" explanation to expect radical change in the not-so-distant future.

[Szaxx]

Hi,
Stillwater hits the nail on the head.
A victorian studying the growth of the slums said they would remove society by the year 2000. He said a new great learning will be needed to curtail this.(can't remember who).
Looking at todays exponential technological growth, he knew this.
Vorsprung durch teknic.... (forward through technology).
As for the Mayans, we are pretty good with weather forcasting....

[Contenteo]

Remember that any major transformation in transportation(which we are due for one following the 80 year cycle) was unimaginable to the generation going into it.

It was Napoleon himself who said covering a boat in iron and moving it by lighting a fire in it's hull was an absolutely ridiculous idea. Then we said hello to the rise of the steamboat and and eventual hello to one of the most prominent method of commercial transportation to ever change the face of our global economy, the shipping industry.

Cheers,
Contenteo


PS: Here's a quote:
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck...I have no time for such nonsense." -- Napoleon, commenting on Fulton's Steamship