If the world ends tomorrow

ruby.monkey said:
I think the Mayans were rather better at understanding calendars than are the morons harping on about the end of the world.
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They must have been pretty nifty with numbers as IIRC they used to work in base 20, and some of the temple calculations were done in base 60. As someone who is just about literate in good old base 10, I have visions of a frustrated Mayan scribe hurling down his abacus and screaming "That's it! 2012 is far enough ahead for all the god's sakes, I'm stuffed if I'm going any further!"...:angel:

Personally I plan to watch the apocalypse from my window, inside in the warm, with a glass of Brain's Dark to hand. Nothing, nothing, will get my last glass of Dark out of my hand before the end.

Adrian
 
I actually have a bunker at my disposal! :D

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The world can't end tomorrow. I don't have my Rollei 35S to bring with me to the next realm... It's off getting a CLA done. :)

G
 
and I have three lenses and bag coming USPS over the next several days. It's just going to have to wait!

Hiya Godfrey! :)
 
If the world does indeed end tomorrow I don't think I'd bother with a camera. Who would be left to see the images. But if it's one of those zombie outbreak/plague things where humanity may survive. I suppose I'd grab the M9 with 35 cron and probably my battery powered Epson PM225 to make some prints during the apocalypse. Though I'd have to shoot in JPG.
 
swoop said:
If the world does indeed end tomorrow I don't think I'd bother with a camera. Who would be left to see the images. But if it's one of those zombie outbreak/plague things where humanity may survive. I suppose I'd grab the M9 with 35 cron and probably my battery powered Epson PM225 to make some prints during the apocalypse. Though I'd have to shoot in JPG.
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Zombie plague, eeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmm, on second thoughts a nikon F would be handy, makes a great weapon when swung arround on a strap:)
 
lxmike said:
Zombie plague, eeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmm, on second thoughts a nikon F would be handy, makes a great weapon when swung arround on a strap:)
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When I was a young sailor, a million years ago, one of my fellow Photo-Mates told me that, as a young airman, he'd been stationed at the photo lab at Great Lakes and had been detailed to go photograph the crowds for the 1968 Republican convention riots in Chicago as SecNav (or somebody) wanted to see if there were any sailors involved. His camera of choice was a Speed Graphic... for that very reason. Folded, the old Speeds made a great shield, and in a pinch, a useful bludgeon. ;)
 
If the world comes to a quick end tomorrow (West coast time) the bunkers will be filled with politicians who will claim that their survival is essential for a future world. Talk about a shallow gene pool!!!
We are supposed to be shipped to Planet X (Panatomic?) - I would prefer Planet XX or XXX.
I like all of those with digital cameras and batteries - obviously convinced that electricity will still be available to charge them. I will trust a couple of M2's and some IXMOO's loaded with XX and hope that the rivers in the New World will the D76 with springs of hypo at regular intervals!
 
Right there with you, Tom.
We don't need no stinkin' batteries.
Got a Leica M4, Nikon SP and a good selection of lenses along with a few cans of XX, a few dozen brand new Kodak snap caps and four Nikon reloadable canisters.

Phil Forrest
 
I only have 2 questions:

(1) Why would anyone believe that the Mayans were able to predict the end of the world, yet they were unable to foresee the invasion of the Spanish army which ended their civilization?

(2) Is no other person aware that this year, researchers from Boston University and the University of Texas unearthed a Mayan Astronomy vault in the ruins of the ancient Mayan megacity of Xultun?

The walls of the vault were covered with astronomical calculations and tables tracking the moon, Venus, and Mars.

And BTW---the tables reference dates 2,000 years into the future, beyond 2012.

So much for incomplete information taken to heart by the weak intellects who inhabit today's media!

Texsport
 
"It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard."

Phil Forrest
 
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