Information is Beautiful is a Really Cool Website by David McCandless that will make all the design/map gooby-geeks lovers who visit here absolutely wiggle. And since today sees the release of the Can-There-Ever-Be-Too-Much-Apocalypse film 2012, here’s McCandless on whether 2012 really will be the end of the world.
And look! You can indulge your infographic self on a regular basis here.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle. I see you over there…
PS: You’re all being very patient, thank you; and I actually do have things of my very own to say real soon now.
Ooooh. Very cool.
Yeah that is very cool!
It occurs though that the arguments both pro and con are sheer conjecture. Not a scientist nor any religious nor any kind of believer can convince me that they can predict the future so precisely.
Anyone can take a set of facts and decide what they would mean for anything at all based on history and probability, it’s still conjecture. It seems like a cool thing to stumble upon while checking out 2012.
I don’t mean to say that my mind is closed but I guess I can wait and see if an apple conks me or I trip over some sign that proves the theory. I’m not one of those gooby geeks at all, I’m the fool.
But the map is very cool!
Please take my attitude with a grain of salt. It’s been a rough week.
The whole 2012/apocalypse thing is just the Judeo-Christian world trying to retroactively imprint itself on Mayan beliefs. This is something the Judeo-Christian world has done presumably since its inception, as its whole calendar is aligned atop the pre-existing Pagan year cycle. If you don’t believe me, look up Mithraism. The Mayan calendar extends far beyond 2012, so saying that Mayans believed 2012 to be the end of the world is just hooey.
Additionally, the Nazca lines and the Pyramids at Giza were not made by exraterrestrials or gods; they were made by people who saw importance in getting things right, probably at least partially because a slow death by torture was on the menu if they didn’t. Human history is about human endeavor and human hardship. If divine retribution and divine intervention have happened, I think they’ve been kept to a minimum.
. . . And Wooley lied, folks – there is no continuous flood deposit at Ur, so let’s not even go there.
I am of course still seeing the movie, because, y’know, John Cusack rocks and I like explosions.