blipblop said:
no I´m not crazy
science FTW
ninjas... ninjas everywhere.
Although he does give us the relevant information there, thoroughly debunking this idiotic idea... it's interesting to note that the mesoamerican calendar keeps on ticking long,
long after the next b'ak'tun. In six more of those, by the gregorian calendar it'll be October 13, 4772... which is the next piktun... and of course those count up to 20 and hit the next kalabtun which count up to hit the next k'inchiltun, which count up to hit the next alautun. It's actually quite possible to express dates that will occur 400 million years from now with that calendar (and a lot of chiseling).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
PureChaos said:
Seeing as the Mayan calendar didn't take into account leap years the world technically should have ended about 15 months ago so no
Leap years are an entirely Gregorian thing, to make up for the extra quarter turn or so the Earth makes each trip around the sun... trips around the sun aren't even measured by the mesoamerican calendar, so they'd have no need for a leap year. The turn of a b'ak'tun can land in pretty much any season, as seasons are also irrelevant to the mesoamerican calendar:
13.0.0.0.0 August 11, 3114 BCE (end of the world reset by the gods)
1.0.0.0.0 November 13, 2720 BCE
2.0.0.0.0 February 16, 2325 BCE
3.0.0.0.0 May 21, 1931 BCE
4.0.0.0.0 August 23, 1537 BCE
5.0.0.0.0 November 26, 1143 BCE
6.0.0.0.0 February 28, 748 BCE
7.0.0.0.0 June 3, 354 BCE
8.0.0.0.0 September 5, 41 CE
9.0.0.0.0 December 9, 435
10.0.0.0.0 March 13, 830
11.0.0.0.0 June 15, 1224
12.0.0.0.0 September 18, 1618
13.0.0.0.0 December 21, 2012
14.0.0.0.0 March 26, 2407
15.0.0.0.0 June 28, 2801
16.0.0.0.0 October 1, 3195
17.0.0.0.0 January 3, 3590
18.0.0.0.0 April 7, 3984
19.0.0.0.0 July 11, 4378
1.0.0.0.0.0 October 13, 4772
They didn't use it to track crop rotations, it was based entirely around astronomy.