well then start the calendar over from day one, or adopt a different calendar (Gregorian seems to be popular). am i really the only one that thought of that?
And gregorian theoretically doesn’t end… just goes in cycles. Which, oddly enough, so may the mayan calender, hence, no end of the world in 2012, just… another couple of millenia until another possible Y2K fanatacist group pop’s up
Actually my response to the people who go bat-crap crazy about what’s supposed to happen after the end of the Mayan calendar is how do you know it wasn’t one of two things:
1) the guy making the calendar was laid off when his employers decided “well, that’s long enough, we’ll make another one long before then”
or
2) for the end of the calendar they had not yet thought to add the line for the stupid people that reads “please see pharmacist for new calendar”
The funny part is the balanced people usually see my point and let it go, the truly unbalanced ones just get spun up even worse, so I grab the popcorn and enjoy.
Going back through the archives… and actually reading comments. Here’s a footnote to it all: The Mayans had multiple calendars running in concert with each other. A short one, a long one, and a third one I can’t remember from the class. They also didn’t overlap the same way, so the Long would reset off-cycle with the Short. (If I remember correctly.)
I can only assume it was someone who read the Long Calendar and claimed “it all ends”, or it was the one time in millennia when all the calendars cycle to the next iteration at the same time
Well, it’s kind of funny to think that a kid born on the same day the first strip of this comic was posted will today (date of this post) be almost 16 years old!
Back in 2001 it must have felt like 2012 was sufficiently far off that surely this comic would be over by then. Even in 2007 there were five years left. And here we are in 2017 still reading and the comic is still updating…
In another decade or so I’ll probably go archive diving again and come upon this comment that I’d have forgotten all about.
well then start the calendar over from day one, or adopt a different calendar (Gregorian seems to be popular). am i really the only one that thought of that?
just a joke, don’t take it seriously
Not taking it seriously, but you do know that the Gregorian Calendar IS the calendar we use, right? Was that part of the joke or an honest mistake?
Sure, WE use gregorian, but somehow I don’t think that’s the one the calendar machine functions by =)
And gregorian theoretically doesn’t end… just goes in cycles. Which, oddly enough, so may the mayan calender, hence, no end of the world in 2012, just… another couple of millenia until another possible Y2K fanatacist group pop’s up
Actually my response to the people who go bat-crap crazy about what’s supposed to happen after the end of the Mayan calendar is how do you know it wasn’t one of two things:
1) the guy making the calendar was laid off when his employers decided “well, that’s long enough, we’ll make another one long before then”
or
2) for the end of the calendar they had not yet thought to add the line for the stupid people that reads “please see pharmacist for new calendar”
The funny part is the balanced people usually see my point and let it go, the truly unbalanced ones just get spun up even worse, so I grab the popcorn and enjoy.
I like the way you think!
Going back through the archives… and actually reading comments. Here’s a footnote to it all: The Mayans had multiple calendars running in concert with each other. A short one, a long one, and a third one I can’t remember from the class. They also didn’t overlap the same way, so the Long would reset off-cycle with the Short. (If I remember correctly.)
I can only assume it was someone who read the Long Calendar and claimed “it all ends”, or it was the one time in millennia when all the calendars cycle to the next iteration at the same time
Na, go with the Julian Date, no pesky years to remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
Ahhh, the far far future of 2012 😉
Well, it’s kind of funny to think that a kid born on the same day the first strip of this comic was posted will today (date of this post) be almost 16 years old!
Back in 2001 it must have felt like 2012 was sufficiently far off that surely this comic would be over by then. Even in 2007 there were five years left. And here we are in 2017 still reading and the comic is still updating…
In another decade or so I’ll probably go archive diving again and come upon this comment that I’d have forgotten all about.