One scientist put it a good way: My calendar stops at Dec 31. does that mean that's the end of the world? no
The other thing people dont realize is that the way the mayans calculated their very overly-complex calendar, Dec 21, 2012 just happens to coincide with 999999999 in their calculations. The mayans didnt say that's the end of the world... that's just as far as they wanted to calculate then go out for cappuccino and scones.
I'm paraphrasing here.
