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I’ve heard a lot of things and I really wanna know from some who knows their stuff.

I assume that you are referring to the supposed “end of the world” myth that some people believe in because the ancient Mayan calendar ends in 2012.

Our calendar ends on 31st of December every year. What happens when our calendar ends? The answer to that will give you the answer you are looking for.

Even if the Mayans did think that the world was going to end in 2012, what makes people think that they were right? People have been predicting the end of the world for centuries and none of them have been right yet. Remember all the people who thought the world would end on the turn of the millennium? Before that there were people who said the world would end some time in the 1990’s when the planets in our solar system all lined up (they were only very roughly aligned anyway). Before that it was something else and so on and so on, going right back to prehistoric times.

Check out this page for a very comprehensive list of doomsday claims throughout history going right back to 90CE (about 1/2 way down the page under the heading “Hitting the Motherlode”.

http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/kook2.htm…
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http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/kook2.htm…

——— A lot of people actually believe that nothing happened on 01/01/00.

I had been working on software for a major corporation, and several of our computer systems certainly would have failed on that date, or the next day etc. And our main materials management planning system had started failing a full year earlier, or more. Any system that was heavily date dependent and used a 6 digit date was at risk.

So, yes, we fixed a lot of code over the 2 years leading up to 2000/01/01, and guess what, we had no failures left for that date. It was not because the concern was unfounded, but because we checked code and corrected it, tested it,
We had purchased software allegedly fixed for y2k, and when tested failed. Well that happens with fixed software. people miss problems or even see the problem and do not manage to fix it right.

What will happen on 121212? Well, there is nothing much should happen. But next month we will have a few programs that confuse month and year go belly up because month 13 showed up for the first time. This will now be rare, as most dates are now held in 8 digit format.

But that 8 digit format was not the norm in 1995.

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I was driving to cronulla the other night and noticed the significant amount of street lights when looking over the edge of the cliff we were on. Then i hatched this amazing idea that would cut heaps of tons of Australia’s annual emissions

It wouldn’t ’solve’ the greenhouse crisis, but it would sure help. If everyone thought like you, maybe we would achieve somthing.

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I think street lights have always been energy efficient by design. I used to wonder about the same thing until I found that out. Street lights don’t use conventional incandescent bulbs, they are already efficient (as far as I know).