I find it amusing that because some old mathematicians only felt the need to plan out their calendar 700 years into the future, everybody thinks we're gonna get abducted by aliens or something.

I find it much more likely that some underpaid Mayan astronomy intern decided to take a coffee break right before the entire civilization mysteriously disappeared.

As long as Bilbo the Hobbit comes out before that.

Ever seen the skit that was done by Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson (plus a few others) at the Hollywood Bowl? It was part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and it's on Youtube. Basically a bunch of really goofy people think the world is about to end and sit and wait for it. When it doesn't happen they all walk off and say, "Ok, same time tomorrow?"

Is that a game or a movie?

The movie(s).

My hopes and dreams for a Fallout-esque world is ruined...

I'm hopeful for a 2012 apocalypse because it'll cheese a lot of people off.

The question is this: what kind of apocalypse do we want?

I'm looking out for breaches in the spacetime continuum, so that everything turns into Rifts.

I actually think that a full-scale nuclear war with China is totally possible. It'll probably have to do with pandas.

The National Zoo refused to return one of their pandas to China when the lease was up a couple of years ago, and there was some heated diplomacy before they agreed to have the lease extended.

Pandas are serious business, and it would hardly be the silliest excuse for a war so far.

What joke?

That makes me a sadddddd Panda.

You do know that you will be one of those people affected by an apocalypse unless you live in some kind of underground vault with everything you need and want from life.

If the Fallout games have taught us anything it's that it's better to take your chances in the nuclear fire than step in a Vault.

China may attempt to smuggle nuclear devices into the country, hidden in the bellies of rescued Pandas. The next Dan Brown book is ready to be written.

I remember a really recent newspaper article that shown that they made a mistake in the calculation (not the Mayans, but the archeologists). Apparently they were off by 116 years. So the real date was 2128.

And beside, every historian would tell you that it isn't the end of the world. Simply the end of an age and the beginning of a new one. No end of the world per se.