[ExI] mayan forecast

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2012-12-21 22:27, John Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:26 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net
> <mailto:spike66 at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     > According to the Mayan calendar, the world is supposed to end today.
>
>
> I'm not very impressed with the Mayan ability to predict disaster, they
> were not able to forecast that a few dozen Spaniards would destroy a
> complete civilization in just a few months.

You are thinking of the Aztecs or Incas. The Maya collapse occurred 
around AD 900, while Spain was Al-Anadalus.

But yes, they did not seem to have seen the collapse of the classical 
civilization as coming.


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University