We won’t know until December if the Maya were right to end their calendar at the end of the 13th b’ak’tun (or cycle). Maybe they just ran out of room on the old calendar stone or they just got tired of counting and felt 13 was a good number to stop on (actually 13 and 20 were favorite Mayan numbers, according to WikiPedia). It certainly outlasted their own civilization (as it had existed then, probably at it’s height), though the Maya people are still around, at least genetically, if not as a coherent civilization.
My point is, don’t cash in your chips (blue or otherwise) just yet. Let’s take a wait and see attitude. After all, if the end comes in December, there’s not a whole lot we can do about it, not knowing exactly HOW our civilization will come to an end. As for the Earth, well I have to believe it’s still got a few billion good years in it. And even if all life on the planet ceases to exist, and as the fossil record shows clearly, there is a very good chance that evolution will continue with whatever organic material is left and the planet will see a repopulation of life again. Of some sort, at any rate.
