UPDATE: We have put the show announcement up for Thursday’s End of the World Special on FastForward Radio.
As we all know, the last day on the ancient Mayan calendar is December 21, 2012. To commemorate this historic landmark, FastForward Radio will be doing a special Countdown to the End of the World show starting at 11 PM EST Thursday, December 20.
We’ll be sharing more details about the show over the next couple of weeks, but for now we can tell you that our good friend science comedian Brian Malow will be joining us to ring in the apocalypse, along with special guest host P.J. Manney.
On the show, we will announce the winners of the What are your plans for the end of the world? contest, which you can enter by leaving a comment below telling us…what your plans are for the end of the world. We will be sharing some of the most creative answers on the show. There will be several prize winners with a very special grand prize: an Apple iPod fully loaded with the entire FastForward Radio series — all 250+ shows!
Entries must be received by 3:00 PM PST on Thursday December 21 2012
Also, we’ll be making a huge announcement about the future of The Speculist and FastForward Radio.
Don’t miss out. The end of the world is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of a deal. (At best!)
UPDATE: Reader Barbara Riggs points out that we were inadvertently showing an Aztec calendar. How embarrassing! Corrected.
20 Comments at "It’s the End of the World as We Know It"
I'll get this started. I plan to face the end of the world the old-fashioned way — by hosting a podcast. Also, I'll probably go off my diet a day or two before.
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I plan to live my last day like I lived the rest of them. prayers, always.
I won't be wasting any money on Christmas presents this year.
Instead of yelling at the kids to get off my lawn, at 11:59 PM I plan to go outside, look up and shake my fist at the Asteroid of Doom(tm) and yell at it, “You Space Rocks stay off my lawn!!!”
Funny thing is, a little over eleven months ago the 2,011th Common Era calendar ended. Unexpectedly, a 2,012th one began the very next day.
I don’t know about you, but I’m going to party like it’s 1999!
The End-Of-The-World happens past my bedtime. I’ll be asleep.
First of all. That is the Aztec calender, not Mayan. However, we are having an end of the world dinner party on the 20th with a big ham so we can have leftovers just in case the world doesn't end. Never hurts to plan ahead.
I plan to spend the end of the world immersed in wine and dark chocolate. Perhaps with a croissant, to round it out. And a steak, rare, as a midday break.
Funny how no-one mentions a different Mayan calendar found at Coba that concerns a date so far into the future that it it makes our timespans almost non-existent. From Wikipedia: "Thus this inscription anticipates the current universe lasting at least 2021×13×360 days,[47] or roughly 2.687×1028 years; a time span equal to 2 quintillion times the age of the universe as determined by cosmologists." I'm still going to do the Christmas shopping this year..
my plan is simple, I go back to my spaceship and take part to the attack :-p
I believe doomsday has been cancelled, although you couldn't tell by watching the History Channel.
I am perfectly OK with this being the end of the world! I will enjoy the wailing, gnashing of teeth, (insert dramatic pause here) and putting as many out of misery as I can before my turn.
To the eschaton and Terence Mckenna!
I’m going to lock myself in the bathroom and tether my body
to a dozen airbags.
I've had many thoughts about what I was going to do on End-of-the-World day since I learned about what people believed and the whole media hype that would invariably happen. Most of said plans involved going to a nearby town steeped in hippie and new-age culture (lovely place, if a bit tiring) and just seeing how people were behaving.
However I'll have to do that on the day before and the day after instead – on Friday, I've got a prior commitment which I agreed to before I realised what date Friday would be: the local Lantern Festival.
December 21st, and the predicted end of the world, will see me carrying a lantern in the shape of a 1.5 metre minke whale with an airship gondola hanging from it's belly, through the park and down the high street along with a small cross-section of the rest of the the town's population.
I will be gleefully browsing comments on the outrageous apocalypse theory Facebook pages I have collected over the past month. It will be a fine day for Internet tourism, and I’ve got snacks and a front row seat!
Eat like there is no tomorrow.
Eat like there is no tomorrow.
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