End of the World 2012 What if the Mayans were right?

I have a friend with whom it is pleasant to think about the real conspiracies of our politicians of the day and imaginary of the superstition of our peoples.

One of these is the fact that the Maya predicted in their long count cycle, that after 5,125 years the world would end, dated for the 21 of December of 2012 and that over time the people of New Age and Gnostics have given a Delicious setting for an afternoon of leisure. In this regard, I loved on my last trip to Guatemala a creative banner at the airport that said:2012 is not a date. It is a place", With which tourism has turned a blind eye to the benefit of the local economy and culture.

So, here my 4 positions regarding the end of the world of the Maya:

1. First, my respect for this culture that when the best scientific research developments in Europe discussed whether the earth was round, they could define a smoky calendar, a solstice so special that it coincides with the point when the solar system passes on the other side of the milky way.

Unlike the calendrical wheel of 52 years still used today among the Mayans, the long count was linear, almost cyclical, and calculated the time in 20 units: 20 days ago uinal, 18 uinales (360 days) make a do, 20 tunes make a k'atun, and 20 Katunes (144 000 days) make approximately a b'ak'tun. In that way, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 baktunes, 3 katunes, 2 tunes, 10 urinals and 15 days.

I can not think of an idea how they came to that, with a stellar observation, without current evidence of telescopes or devices that could help them register positions with such precision. And after seeing many subliminal inscriptions and temples whose stones appear to have been cut with laser beams and placed with high precision cranes. As a contextual descendant of them, I am proud of their legacy, although time has shown that if they do an anthropological study they will find that their habit of building a city on the previous one, our politicians carry it in the DNA and for that reason they destroy good ideas every 4 years of government, replacing them with lower quality ones and more hair rolls.

And that with all the scientific capacity, to predict distant dates; or left in a spaceship or could not predict that destroying the ecology would be the collapse of their civilization. What it seems that they predicted because in a few years could happen to the whole planet; something that nobody would miss and so nobody is doing anything.

If there is something interesting in this, it is that the veil of mystery of this and other civilizations convince us that there is much that other people knew before, and that with time we have hardly learned to rediscover or reinvent.

2. Second, half of these things are a figment of the imagination.

If we could go 2,500 years before Christ to Copán, we interviewed Marcel Pérez's grandfather and asked him what the 21 / 12 / 2012 meant to them:Look m'ijo, right now I'm very busy trying to investigate dates related to the rain, because if I do not we starve"

This is not new, there were always predictions of the end of the world. The apocalyptic context has recently been integrated to this date of the Mayas, which also appears in other contexts with similar coincidence. Just as before for 1999, nothing happened; when the Y2K the only thing that left me in regret was that SAICIC 3.1 for DOS could no longer execute the explosion of inputs. But nothing catastrophic happened.

But I must admit that it is extremely fun, the human likes these pods. I loved the movie "Knowing", it has entertained me the photonic belt and to know that a generation identified that the solar system had a called planet Hercóbulus, whose orbit is in another plane but that in this date corresponds to him to pass ... and although we should already have it seen with our super telescopes, will give the mother to the planet in less than 12 days.

3. Third, let's enjoy life.

This 20, I have one of the last meetings when I will be with all my field team. The next I will not be able to have them all and once again I will tell you that the Spanish crisis has something cropped. But again I will thank you for turning your good intentions into technical skills that have brought development to more than 50 municipalities ... whether with a tape measure, a cadastral record, a calculator or a total robotic station.

Then I will go to enjoy the vacation with my children, I will lie down on the grass and when they throw themselves on me I will remember that:

... life is enjoyed at the moment, there is no time to guess if the Maya were right ... and if they had it, without Internet, without satellites, without electricity, without Twitter or Geofumadas ... there will be no way to communicate it.

See you around 22, when I hope to launch my technological predictions for 2012 and the goals I have for my children in a year that surely will be much better.