all these conspiracies were started by idiots with no common sense, who saw the mayan calendar and went, oh shit, it ends on december whatever 2012, must mean the world will end!!!They can easily be compared with the people who's odometers end on their car and assume its done for good....The mayan calendar isn't the same format as ours (obviously) its done with weird shit, kinda like binary or something.... but it represents a cycle in the solar system, stars and shit. I think it has something to do with the sun and polarities etc. but the end of the calendar is just the end of a cycle, it will start again from 00000000000