The fact is that the Maya calendar is cyclic, and it happens it will end a cycle in 2012 and start another one. Kind of like the new millenium if you want my opinion. The difference though is that the Maya calendar is base upon cosmology, and a new cycle end with a so-called "
galactic alignment", during which the Earth will be at the receiving end of a
gravitational lens which is said to bombard us with so much gamma rays that we will be fried. The fact is that this gravitational lens isn't so much focalized on us, and because of that we have actually entered the "fry zone" since 2 years already. So well, missed again I supposed, we aren't going to fry because of a galactic alignment this time

The real sign that someone has become a fanatic is that he completely loses his sense of humor about some important facet of his life. When humor goes, it means he's lost his perspective.
Wedge Antilles
Star Wars - Exile