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When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
If the Mayans were so good at predicting, why didn't they predict their demise?
Springfield PA
teen steam fanI read in that article that Jeff posted that the Mayans believed that it will be an age of enlightenment.
FINALLY!!! The people of the world will take up Model Railroading. Just think of all the products that will come online.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Flashwave Phoebe Vet So it is entirely possible that model railroading will still be here but WE won't. ROFL. So the cats will evolve to a new species and decide that those contraptions their fathers thopught were toilets or bedsprings were actually kinda fun. Then they'll see threads about how not to shed on the layout...
Phoebe Vet So it is entirely possible that model railroading will still be here but WE won't. ROFL.
So it is entirely possible that model railroading will still be here but WE won't. ROFL.
So the cats will evolve to a new species and decide that those contraptions their fathers thopught were toilets or bedsprings were actually kinda fun. Then they'll see threads about how not to shed on the layout...
I am more inclined to believe that the next species to rise to the top of the food chain will be either squirrels or cockroaches. They are the two who seem to be able to adapt to any environment.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Hamltnblue If the Mayans were so good at predicting, why didn't they predict their demise?
Probably for the same reason the Psychic Friends Network went belly up in 1998. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n13_v93/ai_20318897/
They didn't see it coming.
Andre
SpaceMouse Of course, if the world were to explode it would be 10 years before Western Pennsylvania hears about it. I have 12 years good left before I have to think about it. Good luck to the rest of you.
Of course, if the world were to explode it would be 10 years before Western Pennsylvania hears about it. I have 12 years good left before I have to think about it.
Good luck to the rest of you.
Well if that is really true about Western Pennsylvania, you should have many people moving in so the hobby will get better. I guess the big problem would be no more internet shops to order from but you would not have to send in Federal taxes so you will have more money to spend on trains!!!
CZ
There's no point in gluing on the air horn, even with gluons (very clever by the way), since there will be no air for the air horn to horn. (Hunh?)
Tom
PS great thread!
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Hey...I just noticed that the B.L.I. production schedule actually ends 12-21-2012, Hmmmmmm...
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
With any luck, we'll have today's models (steam of course) at yesterday's prices. Well, we can dream can't we ?
Dennis
I think it will. I guess the week before I just won't buy anything else............Just in-case .
I did see on Discovery that if the power grid went out due to this it would be out for years!!!!!! So unless you have some battery controlled engines we are in trouble .
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hey nothing to worry about the end of the world is on back order from Walthers didn't anyone tell you?
If by chance it does happen figures it would have to happen on my birthday the day ad I can finally collect my pension figures screwed again. Well at least I'll go out with a bang
Darth Santa FeThe Mayans made a long calender to replace the short ones that had come and gone in the past. When 2012 hits, it will only be the end of a cycle, and the beginning of a new calender. And apparently, it's more likely they thought something super good was going to happen. Could it be that the Mayans predicted the end of the recession? Oh well, this is a pretty good page on 2012.
You know, things were a lot better back in the good old days before the wishy-washy, nanny-state, left-wing liberals abolished human sacrifice. World coming to an end? Cut out a few living hearts, and eveything is back to normal! That was the way to run a universe!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
I am fairly certain that if we were to put the US government in charge of the event that the event will probably never occur, especially if it required a unanimous vote of Congress.
Special press release, to be forwarded to all major news agencies and all significant media outlets.
NASA ANNOUNCES FASTER-THAN-LIGHT SPACE DRIVE!
Washington, DC, December 21, 2012.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency, after years of secret development, has perfected a propulsion system for spacecraft that is:
The drive will first be applied to the newly-commissioned U.S.S. Philadelphia. If the planned four month cruise to circumnavigate Polaris is successful, additional ships will be acquired, fitted with the drive and sent out to explore solar systems with possible Earth-size planets.
(Body of article, detailing technical factors and projected costs, deleted.)
As NASA Chief Jerry Pournelle was heard to say, "Gentlebeings, the Galaxy is ours!!!"
[And now you know what those ancient Mayans really meant...]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan on September, 1964 - when not writing science fiction)
Hm. Interesting thoughts. Especially the subscription. My subscription ends with the November issue so I guess that year maybe I'll buy my December issue at Wal-Mart. Or, maybe I'll just have them "bill me later".
Which of course brings a few things to mind for me.
1. Did they ever think maybe the Mayans just got tired of making calendars? Gotta stop somewhere.
2.If the Mayans could foresee the end of the world coming, why didn't they see the Spanish coming?
3. I do like the caboose. And since I model the current time frame, I could run with a caboose and only have to listen to the jibes for a little less than a year and a half.
4. I could get a home equity loan, a couple more credit cards and a personal loan, run them up to the hilt with MRR stuff really pour the coals to the layout and get a finished project. Before the banks and the law comes to collect everything I own......, it won't matter.
OR, I could assume that like our yearly calendar, theirs will just start over again. Personally I will be glad when their calendar runs out. Not very practical. " Hey, how old are you?" "Well I was born 12.17.8.8.19 and today is 12.19.17.9.1 that makes me.....um.....well, I don't know."
If they are right, with my luck on the 20th of December 2012 I'll finally get weathering down and the color of concrete right.
Oh well, better start picking out which old TYCO I'm going to sacrifice this weekend.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
The subscription is a month early, so you'll have to get December and January, 2013 before the big bang.
HamltnblueIf the Mayans were so good at predicting, why didn't they predict their demise?
While we are out there--the Mayans are not gone, just hiding out. Might explain all the Big Foot sightings around the country.
Jay
SpaceMouseWith all this talk of doom and gloom, I thnk someone should point out the bright side.-Track cleaning will become obsolete-No one will be complaining about Malcom Furlow’s layouts.-Everyone’s structures will be weathered like George Selios’s.-There won’t be any equipment made by the Chinese.-You won’t have to worry about switching to DCC.-Cat’s won’t pee on your layout and mice won’t nest in your tunnels.-N scale won’t appear too small.-Your engines will have exactly the same number of rivets as the prototype.-Your neighbor won't poke fun at you for not being able to reach the turnout in the corner. -No one will be running Tyco cars.-You’ll finally get to meet John Allen.
http://signalshaper.blogspot.com/2005/07/is-life-backwards.html
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
See.......had the Mayans had trains they would have had something to live for after 2012. No trains..............might as well end it on that page!
Roger Huber
BobL609I am fairly certain that if we were to put the US government in charge of the event that the event will probably never occur, especially if it required a unanimous vote of Congress.
That's a great idea, actually. If they nationalize Armageddon, it will never happen. It will just be added to the national debt, which is pretty much the same thing.
fiatfan There's no point in gluing on the air horn, even with gluons (very clever by the way), since there will be no air for the air horn to horn. (Hunh?)
Well, there won't be any air for an air horn to blow, or even make a funny noise like a kazoo. Which reminds me, no one has mentioned that steam locomotives will be useless, because water will simply vaporize and freeze... or is that freeze and vaporize? Either way, building up boiler pressure is going to be a pain in the caboose.
In space no one can hear you steam.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
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Darth Santa FeAlso on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
Flame wars will return upon reentry into the next world.
garr Darth Santa Fe Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars. Flame wars will return upon reentry into the next world.
Darth Santa Fe Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
Everything will be back to normal then--------
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
It will mean the final demise of the local hobby shop.
Sometimes, I think that the Mayans may have stopped their calendar on that date because they ran out of funding. They were going to continue into the next age once funds were appropriated, but other pressing matters and politcal infighting kept that from happening.
There will be some who will think the world as they knew it, will have ended on a Tuesday the month before.
Jeff
Notice to all you Doomsday Armageddonist getting ready for the impending Apocolypse in 2012.
Before you drive off to Idaho to seal yourselves in your underground survival shelters. Please remember to send all your soon to be vaporized model trains to my address. I'll take good care of them in the time left before the Earth does the big firework.
PS any noises you hear on the evening of Dec 21, 2012 will not be me with a fleet of cement trucks dropping a couple cubic yards of concrete on each of your bomb shelters hatches, it really really is the apocolypse taking place! fire! doom! ...
PS PS Please do not tell any of these doom'n'gloomers that the Mayan Long Calender on Dec 21, 2012 will simply click over Long Calender cycle B'ak'tun 13 to the next Long Calendrical cycle B'ak'tun 14...the only cataclysm will be the seperation of alot on money from doom'n'gloomers pockets as they stock up on survival gear. no one apparently remembers the Y2K yahoos and that malarky.
Have fun with your trains
I've already claimed their equipment. I even offered to pay for it.
The Mayans did predict thier own demise. I thought they predicted massive flooding, if so, just think of all the model bridges that will need replacing.
I for one believe that the Mayans are perpetrating a gigantic fraud - let's not forget that they were famous for their pyramid schemes.
vsmithPS PS Please do not tell any of these doom'n'gloomers that the Mayan Long Calender on Dec 21, 2012 will simply click over Long Calender cycle B'ak'tun 13 to the next Long Calendrical cycle B'ak'tun 14...the only cataclysm will be the seperation of alot on money from doom'n'gloomers pockets as they stock up on survival gear. no one apparently remembers the Y2K yahoos and that malarky.
Go long on the survivalist companies then----
I can see some pharmas could make serious $$$$ from this-----
Oh, I remember Y2K very well. My boss and I spent the night at work to be there in case there was any date related system failure. God, we were bored. As I recall, we both agreed that it was the Yawn Of A New Millenium.
Anyone remember Gary North and his apocalyptic predictions? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/01/33445
I will here refrain from comparing good ol' Gary to any other Prophet O'Doom who has either been mentioned or actually appeared here.