FujimiLover Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 Okay people, read this and relax! http://news.aol.com/article/world-wont-end...insist%2F713074 Let's continue building those awesome model cars shall we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yea I agree with you. They can at least wait until a month after Christmas... Uh... the Mayans didn't have "Christmas"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Uh... the Mayans didn't have "Christmas"! 2012 will be the 50th anniversary of my HS Graduation, and my classmates and I plan on having a blast at our reunion! (then, it's on to the 60th Anniversary! And, I KNOW where I was in '62.) Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Uh... the Mayans didn't have "Christmas"! They didn't have the wheel, either. What does that tell you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) Well, the calender on my computer seems to go well beyond the next century so I'll go by that! Edited October 12, 2009 by FujimiLover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 They didn't have the wheel, either. What does that tell you? Probably that no Mayan ever received a wheel of cheese for Christmas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 All I know is by 2012 I'll be 42 and plan to have a larger house in a climate that doesn't have 5 months of triple digit temps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Probably that no Mayan ever received a wheel of cheese for Christmas? Or understood the concept behind 'Wheel of Fortune'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Or understood the concept behind 'Wheel of Fortune'. Actually the concept behind Wheel of Fortune (solving a letter puzzle) is pretty simple... even a Mayan could have understood it. The problem would arise when the Mayan MC told the Mayan contestant to "give the wheel a spin," at which point the Mayan contestant would say "Wheel? How the heck can I give the wheel a spin, you moron... we don't have wheels!" So you can see that "Wheel of Fortune" was probably never shown on Mayan TV... However, given the popularity of human sacrifice among the Mayans, one of the more popular TV game shows was "Take My Wife... Please!," which was hosted for many years by Quetzlcoatl "Henny" Youngman... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 (edited) As if our bombs aren't big enough? This kind of scares me! Just be glad it's on our side......................... http://news.aol.com/article/pentagon-wants...mop-bomb/714556 Edited October 13, 2009 by FujimiLover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefheart22 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 This thread is still going! Silly Mayans. Human sacrifice doesn't bring bountiful harvests. Everybody knows it stops volcanic eruptions instead. In all seriousness though -- there were enough computers that did not go past the date 2000. Just as the Mayan calendar doesn't go past 2012. So it's just a Mayan Y2-12 bug. We'll just make a patch. I mean literally. A piece of rock with a few more centuries. That solves the 2012 problem right there. PS: For the record, the Mayan calendar is a series of wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Speaking of 2012, anyone see the trailer for the movie '2012'? Looks like a CGI extravagana involving a giant earthquake in LA and a flying Lincoln Town Car limo.. As far as 'end of the world' disaster movies, I watched 'Knowing' the other night, a fairly incoherent flick w/ Nic Cage and a plot involving solar flares, strange kids, numbers, and aliens that drive old LTDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 I thought Knowing was strange. How about Armageddon, Deep Impact, Independence Day, etc'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Colmer Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I thought Knowing was strange. How about Armageddon, Deep Impact, Independence Day, etc'? Those are all good flicks. Just watched Armageddon again. Fun stuff. If you want to watch a really thought provoking flick about the future, try Solient Green. Yeah, it's got that 70's flair to it, but the vision of the future, while not very fun, it well thought out and interesting. On another note - Remember - All you fans of the Star Trek future can see what is really possible if you read Physics of the Impossible. Invisibility is closer than you think. Yikes! Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 If it's invisible, how do we know it doesn't already exist? LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Those are all good flicks. Just watched Armageddon again. Fun stuff. If you want to watch a really thought provoking flick about the future, try Solient Green. Yeah, it's got that 70's flair to it, but the vision of the future, while not very fun, it well thought out and interesting. Scott Ya, the '70s had a lot of good future shock sci-fi flicks... THX 1138, Logan's Run, Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog, up through the Mad Max movies (leading over to the car chase movie thread). One in particular I remember as a kid was called 'The Stranger'...an astronaut lands on a parallel world earth...just like Earth, even has '73 Plymouth Furys...but not Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 I'm still trying to find Collosal, The Forb's Project I think it is? It's a movie that can be said to pre-date WarGames and Terminator. Same theme, about a super computer that takes control over the world. It's an old black/white classic but still great flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Saw that trailer too. Crossing my fingers it doesn't do well stopping another wave of disaster movies. The late 90s was enough for me! I think it's from the same director that did Independence Day and The Day after Tommorow. Big CGI boom fest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I'm still trying to find Collosal, The Forb's Project I think it is? It's a movie that can be said to pre-date WarGames and Terminator. Same theme, about a super computer that takes control over the world. It's an old black/white classic but still great flick. Collosius: The Forbin Project...it's in color, saw it a couple years ago. Fun movie. The US and the USSR's super computers decide to wage war on each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) Collosius: The Forbin Project...it's in color, saw it a couple years ago. Fun movie. The US and the USSR's super computers decide to wage war on each other. Really? I thought it was black/white. I remember the computer had a really awesome sounding voice. Similar to the W.O.P.E.R, but deeper and more evil-sounding. The way I see it, Collosius, W.O.P.E.R, Skynet Am I missing one? Edited October 14, 2009 by FujimiLover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 PS: For the record, the Mayan calendar is a series of wheels. Apparently they understood the concept of a circle, but not of a wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old low&slo Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) 2012 looks like a cool movie to see up on the big screen as far as the mayans go my theory is the guy doin the calender just got bored and tired of working on it and said thats far enough the heck with it knowing was a cool movie. question : the people that took the 2 kids away were they aliens or angels ????????? what do you guys think ??? Edited October 14, 2009 by old low&slo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 knowing was a cool movie. question : the people that took the 2 kids away were they aliens or angels ????????? what do you guys think ??? My thought was they were aliens, and took the kids to an unidentified Class M planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefheart22 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Apparently they understood the concept of a circle, but not of a wheel. Now we're just splitting hairs. Wheels are circles that turn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujimiLover Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) Well yea. When was the last time you've seen a square wheel? Edited October 14, 2009 by FujimiLover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts