This happens once in a lifetime - tomorrow!

Originally posted by Kaboooomba
had to be you. lol.

Thank you.🙄

Originally posted by stocken
Could you provide me with a reference? If the mayans actually observed the galactic rotations around it's own core, then I'm mighty impressed. We can't even see the galactic centre of the milky way today, let alone calculate the time of one rotation. All we have are estimates based on what we can observe from our little planet at the edge of our huuuuuge gal even though they based their calendar on different observations), but I seriously doubt it.

Calendars are based, yes, on observations, but who says you have to see the observation yourself to use the calendar? I'm saying that some of the same people who say that the Mayan calendar is based on galactic rotations also hold that the Mayans may either have been such a truly ancient race as to have actually kept records and made generations-long observations of the rotation of the galaxy, OR were somehow simply "gifted" with the calendar, either from aliens, or handed down so many years that the origins were forgotten.

And yes, all that I say is hard to prove one way or the other, and I have no references at this time. Just info I've picked up here and there about what "they" say about the Mayan calendar. I personally think it is more likely that it is tied to the procession of the equinoxes and therefore describes a span of time around 23,000 years, although it's also possible that the Mayans knew of both and kept records of both.

Edit: And I missed something... the period of rotation of our Milky Way galaxy is well-known. I'm not sure what it is, but those in-the-know know...

Originally posted by Suzianne
I personally think it is more likely that it is tied to the procession of the equinoxes and therefore describes a span of time around 23,000 years, although it's also possible that the Mayans knew of both and kept records of both.

Fair enough. I'll back off. It's not all together impossible that the mayans got their hands on a truly galactic calendar somehow. I still think chessjester takes it a little far when he states that it is a galactic calendar when clearly there is no way of knowing that yet. It's a possibility, nothing more.

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Originally posted by stocken
Fair enough. I'll back off. It's not all together impossible that the mayans got their hands on a truly galactic calendar somehow. I still think chessjester takes it a little far when he states that it is a galactic calendar when clearly there is no way of knowing that yet. It's a possibility, nothing more.

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et voila! I cede you that point. 😀