Stop it with the end-of-the-world theories already!

[Mike Wehner]

• A researcher is arguing that the true "end date" of the Mayan calendar is June 21st, 2020, due to differences in the calendars.
• The theory appears to have many errors of its own and has been miscalculated.
• The world isn't going to end in 2020, though it certainly feels like it could.

Hey, so, funny story: Remember back in 2012 when a bunch of people thought the world was going to end? The apocalypse was scheduled for December 21st — just four days before Christmas, what a bummer! — but it never actually happened. That's good news (I think), but now at last one scientist is saying that the dates of the supposed end times were miscalculated at the time, and if the end of the world is coming, it should happen this week instead.

The original end-of-the-world hysteria was brought on by readings of the Mayan calendar. The calendar had an "end date," which was believed to fall on December 21st, 2012. But there are many ways to calculate time, and apparently, the doomsday prophets got it all wrong.

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