# Mels Hole \*time killer\*

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**Created:** [September 28, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mels-hole-time-killer/36087 "2007-09-28T04:04:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mels-hole-time-killer/36087/37 "2007-09-28T06:44:31Z")

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[quote=“BikerFry,post:36,topic:36087"”]

The Mayan calendar is actually fairly impressive.

> **[Mesoamerican Long Count calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar)**
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> The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.\[a\] The Long Count calendar was widely used on mo...

Base 20 numbering system. :jawdrop:

The end of the 13th baktun is December 20, 2012. So many fun loving free thinkers have taken that as a sign that on that day Christ will return to Earth, aliens will come to Earth, a comet will hit the earth and cause a magnetic pole shift, etc.

🙂

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funny they said the same thing about the Y2K thing and nothing happened

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