Mayans, how could you?

This month is drawing to a close it seems and St.Patty's day is fast approaching, despite what the church says. I will be painting my beard green...I will also be growing a beard...starting now.


That leaves us only a few more years before the real doomsday on 12-21-2012 or 12-23-2012. It seems people can't decide if the Mayan calendar runs out on the easily catchy assortment of ones and twos or the sort of choppy 23rd. They also cannot seem to come up with what it means to end. Did the Mayans mean that the cycle ends and begins again or did they mean pack up your soul its quitting time?

My thought is the former as most calendars work in a circular way it seems. The 365 days my grandparents had are the same that I inherited etc. It also doesn't make sense that we put so much emphasis on their calendar as being the prediction of it all. Certainly they were an astrologically and astronomically gifted people, capable of predicting eclipses and such to a high degree of accuracy, but we can do that as well. Maybe the Mayans should be worrying about when our calendar stops

It will be an interesting day, however, as several different astronomy related things happen. The Earth completes a wobble which is cool, the sun hits solar maximum so we will probably see the aurora in Indiana again and the sun lines up with the center of the galaxy which might give us the chance to see a clearer picture of it.

Ready the bomb shelter, I'm bringing the sloppy joes.