And, as reported by Gillianren elsewhere:
Straight Dope: Does the Mayan calendar predict the end of the world in 2012?
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So when the Long Count calendar hits its limit on the 23rd (or 21st) of December four years from now, will that be it – the end of everything? There's no reason to think so, or to think the Mayans thought so. Just picture a very large and complex odometer flipping over to a long line of zeros and continuing on from there.
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