Mayan Calendar doesn't account for leap years

That means it would be July 2013 today in Mayan Calendar, looks like you guys are gonna have to use condoms after all.

Actually the Mayan calendar calculated the length of the year down to 4 decimal places, so I'm pretty sure it takes leap years into account. Nice try though.

I doubt the aliens care.

Aliens will come but not nowwii60_3

Tomorrow?

[QUOTE="wii60_3"]Aliens will come but not nowStorm_Marine

Tomorrow?

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

[QUOTE="wii60_3"]Aliens will come but not nowTheWZRD

Tomorrow?

O_o

Who's we?

Actually the Mayan calendar calculated the length of the year down to 4 decimal places, so I'm pretty sure it takes leap years into account. Nice try though.

hartsickdiscipl

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Actually the Mayan calendar calculated the length of the year down to 4 decimal places, so I'm pretty sure it takes leap years into account. Nice try though.

Frame_Dragger

What's funny about that?

Who cares if it doesn't account for leap years, the world isn't going to end. Nothing is going to happen

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Actually the Mayan calendar calculated the length of the year down to 4 decimal places, so I'm pretty sure it takes leap years into account. Nice try though.

What's funny about that?

Who cares if it doesn't account for leap years, the world isn't going to end. Nothing is going to happen

Bane_09

Keep telling yourself that.

Leap years only apply in the gregorian calender where the actual year is longer than that portrayed on the calender, about 1/4 of a day in fact. so every 4 years, we add another day on our calender to make up the difference.

The Mayan calender, presumably, is accurate in measuring the correct length of a year, so it has no need for leap years

Who cares if it doesn't account for leap years, the world isn't going to end. Nothing is going to happen

Bane_09

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] :lol: You really crack me up hart.Frame_Dragger

What's funny about that?

When doesn't he say something nonsensical

:cool:

Leap years only apply in the gregorian calender where the actual year is longer than that portrayed on the calender, about 1/4 of a day in fact. so every 4 years, we add another day on our calender to make up the difference.

The Mayan calender, presumably, is accurate in measuring the correct length of a year, so it has no need for leap years

AGM3002

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

Who cares if it doesn't account for leap years, the world isn't going to end. Nothing is going to happen

Frame_Dragger

We can only hope your calculations are wrong :shock:

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

Who cares if it doesn't account for leap years, the world isn't going to end. Nothing is going to happen

Storm_Marine

Keep telling yourself that.

The aliens told me themselves

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

What's funny about that?

When doesn't he say something nonsensical

[QUOTE="AGM3002"]

Leap years only apply in the gregorian calender where the actual year is longer than that portrayed on the calender, about 1/4 of a day in fact. so every 4 years, we add another day on our calender to make up the difference.

The Mayan calender, presumably, is accurate in measuring the correct length of a year, so it has no need for leap years

Frame_Dragger

Does that mean we are already dead or that we are going to die a little later than expected? I am too lazy and sleepy to think about the implications of that, so I need someone to explain it to me.

Does that mean we are already dead or that we are going to die a little later than expected? I am too lazy and sleepy to think about the implications of that, so I need someone to explain it to me.

Pierst179

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"]

[QUOTE="AGM3002"]

Leap years only apply in the gregorian calender where the actual year is longer than that portrayed on the calender, about 1/4 of a day in fact. so every 4 years, we add another day on our calender to make up the difference.

The Mayan calender, presumably, is accurate in measuring the correct length of a year, so it has no need for leap years

AGM3002

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] :lol: You really crack me up hart.Frame_Dragger

What's funny about that?

You're way off base and really need to stop insulting me, especially since you're wrong. The Gregorian calendar uses the leap year every 4 years to make up for the fact that the year is roughly 365 and 1/4 days long. The Mayans had it calculated to basically the same number, but actually more accurately, to the 4th decimal place. So by default, any calendar (such as their long count) based on that would take leap years into account.

Actually the Mayan calendar calculated the length of the year down to 4 decimal places, so I'm pretty sure it takes leap years into account. Nice try though.

hartsickdiscipl

[QUOTE="Pierst179"]

Does that mean we are already dead or that we are going to die a little later than expected? I am too lazy and sleepy to think about the implications of that, so I need someone to explain it to me.

Frame_Dragger

Well, that sucks! :(

Death strangely feels a lot like living, though, which is odd...

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

What's funny about that?

You're way off base and really need to stop insulting me, especially since you're wrong. The Gregorian calendar uses the leap year every 4 years to make up for the fact that the year is roughly 365 and 1/4 days long. The Mayans had it calculated to basically the same number, but actually more accurately, to the 4th decimal place. So by default, any calendar (such as their long count) based on that would take leap years into account.

Did the people who translated the calendar translate it exactly as 21 of December or did they take the mayancalender and translate it to coincide with the gregorian calendar?

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] Oh, just that you think the Mayan calender accounts for an artifact of the Gregorian calander... you know that's what a leap year is, right? I understand, you're um... vouching... for the accuracy of the Mayan calender (which I'm not disputing), but in your eagerness to do so you said something genuinely nonsensical.Frame_Dragger

You're way off base and really need to stop insulting me, especially since you're wrong. The Gregorian calendar uses the leap year every 4 years to make up for the fact that the year is roughly 365 and 1/4 days long. The Mayans had it calculated to basically the same number, but actually more accurately, to the 4th decimal place. So by default, any calendar (such as their long count) based on that would take leap years into account.

I'm not convinced that the world is going to end on 12/21/12.. but I'm not going to be an idiot and say that it's definitely not either. Unless that's what the joke's about, I'm not sure what's funny.

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] Oh, just that you think the Mayan calender accounts for an artifact of the Gregorian calander... you know that's what a leap year is, right? I understand, you're um... vouching... for the accuracy of the Mayan calender (which I'm not disputing), but in your eagerness to do so you said something genuinely nonsensical.Frame_Dragger

When doesn't he say something nonsensical

I think he just likes the attention

[QUOTE="TheWZRD"][QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

Tomorrow?

Storm_Marine

O_o

Who's we?

I don't think it will happen but I'd be ok if the world ends.

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

You're way off base and really need to stop insulting me, especially since you're wrong. The Gregorian calendar uses the leap year every 4 years to make up for the fact that the year is roughly 365 and 1/4 days long. The Mayans had it calculated to basically the same number, but actually more accurately, to the 4th decimal place. So by default, any calendar (such as their long count) based on that would take leap years into account.

I'm not convinced that the world is going to end on 12/21/12.. but I'm not going to be an idiot and say that it's definitely not either. Unless that's what the joke's about, I'm not sure what's funny.

[QUOTE="AGM3002"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] :lol: You should indicate when you're directly quoting a site...

Frame_Dragger

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="Bane_09"]

When doesn't he say something nonsensical

I think he just likes the attention

[QUOTE="AGM3002"] Yes, how nice of you to noticed....

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] :lol: You really crack me up hart.Frame_Dragger

What's funny about that?

Let me put this in simple terms. The leap year exists because the Gregorian calendar has an extra 1/4th of a day tacked onto the 365, because that's how long the year really is. The Mayans had the same 1/4th of a day tacked onto their 365, abeit slightly more accurately. Since the 12/21/12 date was calculated off the Mayan long count, which was calculated using their year length (which had the same "artifact)," you're going to have leap years factored in by default. Do you get it now?

[QUOTE="AGM3002"][QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] Lets just say that it seemed a bit too ordered for your usual post, and amazingly pasting it into google matched it almost perfectly. Really... you should put it in quotes...

Frame_Dragger

Aliens will come but not nowwii60_3

i'd like to see some aliens

Dammit! Now I'm going to have to reschedule my end of the world piss up :x

Anyone who believes the world is ending on dec 21st is a fvcking moron

My only hope is that these doomsday people commit suicide on the 20th so that we never hear about it ever again.

"oh the mayan calender, they forgot to carry the one.

the world will end in July 2013."

if they aren't all dead it'll never stop