You made it: Earth successfully survives predicted Mayan apocalypse

At noon Irish time, it turned midnight on some outlying US islands – meaning the entire world has passed December 21.

22/12/12 7,561 Views 42 Comments

The apocalypse: not happening today. Probably.

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IF YOU’RE READING THIS story, the world has not ended.

At noon Irish time, it turned midnight on some of the US’s westernmost islands – meaning the entire world has now made it to December 22.

It had been suspected by some that the failure of ancient Mayan calendars to extend beyond December 21, 2012 could indicate the end of the planet as we know it.

It evidently now appears that the Mayans had simply not bothered to calculate a calendar beyond the 5125 years that their South American civilisation had existed in.

In fact, not only has the entire world now made it to December 22, but it’s been December 23 in some parts of the Pacific archipelago nation of Kiribati for three hours now.

Take that, John Cusack.

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Ted Power 22/12/12 #

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I’m not dead but I’m dyin… Never again!

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- Dave Sherman 22/12/12 #
  
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  Ah Ted
  
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- James Ó Cianáin 22/12/12 #
  
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  And I kicked my boss up the arse on Thursday thinking I was going to get away with it as the world was supposed to end!
  
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Sandra Turner 22/12/12 #

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are you sure the world didn’t end? The wiggles Christmas dvd has been on repeat in my house all morning – feels like I’m in hell!

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cholly appleseed 22/12/12 #

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Anyone want to buy my stockpile of beans?

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jrbmc 22/12/12 #

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Ah sh* te now I’ll have to pay my credit card bill!

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Paddy Dunphy 22/12/12 #

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ah well

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- Ruairi O' Sullivan 22/12/12 #
  
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  On to the next doomsday BS scheme.
  
  Y2k was fake, the Mayan prophesy (which was actually made up btw) was fake………
  
  What will the idiots think of next…..I’m suggesting that donkies will evolve overnight and become our masters……
  
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- John O'Regan 22/12/12 #
  
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  We are being ruled by donkeys. And what’s more, we voted for them.
  
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- Michael Hennessy 22/12/12 #
  
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  To late they have…they are all stabled in the Dail
  
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- Graham Kavanagh 22/12/12 #
  
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  I thought we voted for asses…
  
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- Phillip O Brien 22/12/12 #
  
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  The mayan prophecy was not fake. It was exaggerated. It meant the end of one era and the beginning of a new one. Y2k was not fake either. Computers were not setup to that year so everything was to shut down before it was all updated. Fake is the wrong word but exaggerated would be the one you need
  
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Ruairi Mc Caul 22/12/12 #

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2013 Mayan Calendars on sale in Dunnes now… going cheap..

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M 22/12/12 #

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I predict the world will end in 7137, it will make me famous, you heard it here first

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mcgoo 22/12/12 #

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There’s my excuse for avoiding Christmas shopping out the window…

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Simon_Keelin 22/12/12 #

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It could be worse I suppose.*

* in a right cheery mood today.

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Pauric Duffy 22/12/12 #

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Does this mean the film 2012 will now be moved to the comedy section in xtra vision!!!!

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- Lj Traynor 22/12/12 #
  
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  When I have kids I’m guna make them watch that movie n yell them I survived it!
  
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George L Rockwell 22/12/12 #

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Even David Icke said it was a load of bull, that’s saying something

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- Paul Furey 22/12/12 #
  
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  It wasnt his god – that’s why.
  
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- howsaboutya 22/12/12 #
  
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  don’t know much about David Ike but he had been calling Saville a pedophile and necrophiliac for years.
  
  And the mad bastard was right.
  
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Neil 22/12/12 #

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I had some salad cream in the fridge that expired yesterday. Turns out it was mayanaise

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Tom Harpur 22/12/12 #

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Shit does this mean Christmas will be happening and I have to buy presents :-(

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Fiachra Maolmordha Ó Raghallaigh 22/12/12 #

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This hangover says otherwise. The €1 “end of the world” 80% vodka shots in Club Chonradh na Gaeilge have brought about the end of my mind, if nothing else.

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Graham O' Reilly 22/12/12 #

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Ah damn it anyway,ill have to pay the Credit Union so this week……

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Michael O'Reilly 22/12/12 #

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Maybe it did end….and we are all living in a dream….pinch yourselves just to make sure ! Ouch !!

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Warren McCreery 22/12/12 #

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They should have got the fat lady to sing…that would have done the trick!

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- Damien Flinter 23/12/12 #
  
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  Nope, when Mary Horney is bought, she stays bought.
  
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Shanti Om 22/12/12 #

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1. The Mayans didn’t predict the world would end, their calendar enters a different phase. As stated above, it extends well past now..

2. An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning ‘un-covering’), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, hidden from humanity in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation.

How exactly does this signify the end of the world? Because Revelations is the doomsday book? It’s not what the word means..
Looking at the correct meaning of the world apocalypse, and looking at all of the corruption scandals that have broken in the past few years, perhaps “apocalypse” is a fitting term for this time in history – the question is; will we learn from it and evolve?

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- Sandra Turner 22/12/12 #
  
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  relax. it’s not the end of the world…
  
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- Damien Flinter 23/12/12 #
  
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  Actually, Sandra, if science, rather than scaremongering misreadings of ancient cultures for the sake of generating noise and distraction from whats actually going down, is to be believed, we are well embarked on the 6th great extinction of species; brought to you by the attrition on ocean and terrestrian biospheres by chemical and genetic poisoning and parasitic over-extraction of resources with no thought for future generations.
  
  Hardly collective adult behaviour. Homo self-designated sapiens sapiens is not proving too sapient.
  
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Shane Kernaghan 22/12/12 #

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We made it..!! Put on the Kettle..!!
Heres to another few years on earth..!

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Richard Duffy 22/12/12 #

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Ancient Mayan calendars extend well beyond 5125 years. They refer to dates an octillion years in the future, and the calendar will work just as well beyond that. Our calendar will be hampered by then as the amount of digits in the year will be unwieldy, and also because the world really will have ended by then.

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- Paul Murray 22/12/12 #
  
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  By the time Octillion years have passes there won’t be any humans yet we will have evolved into something else and that is if the sun hasn’t expired and Earth will no longer exist. Anywho happy Christmas!
  
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- Richard Duffy 22/12/12 #
  
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  Yes, as I said, the world will have ended. The sun’s only got a maximum of about 5 billion years left beforw it explodes and destroys this rock. And an octillion years? The universe itself could be gone by then, though given that time itself will unravel then it’s kinda hard to guage how far away that might be.
  
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- Damian O'keeffe 22/12/12 #
  
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  The sun is to small to go supernova but it will expand to around the size of earths orbit baking us nicely in the process. However we do have 5 Bn yrs to play with.
  
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- Paul Furey 22/12/12 #
  
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  Only 5 billion years? The fecker!!
  
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fizi_water 22/12/12 #

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Boooo the world didn’t end, I want my money back!

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Declan Harkin 23/12/12 #

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Those Mayans are full of sh*t

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Mike Clinton 22/12/12 #

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Oh ship !!!.
Has anybody got a “Dear mr/mrs Revenue person,can you take a joke lol.

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Dave Bowery 22/12/12 #

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I spent like crazy over the past few weeks thinking I wouldnt have to pay my credit card bill due to the world ending, I feel silly now

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- Damien Flinter 23/12/12 #
  
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  Sounds like you got your apocalypse right there..shoulda listened to the Mayamen.
  
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