Live it up today, for in 2012 it’s all coming to an abrupt end.

Go ahead and stop saving your pennies to buy the car of tomorrow. Blow all your hard-earned cash on candy, tickets to a concert or a trip to Rio.

The end of the world is nigh.

At least according to the Mayans. Their calendar plays things out so that in just a few short years our ride on this big blue and green ball we call Earth is going to come to an end.

The forward thinking society came up with a way to measure time that has the year 2012 as an end date. Their system used circles of time with a huge disaster marking the completion of each loop. The Mayans’ demise as a dominating population actually coincided with one of these predicted end points.

If you’re not buying into that theory for the world’s big finale, how about some more scientific conjecture about the end of our planet.

How about a geomagnetic shift? Some speculate it has happened before and brought an end to all the dinosaurs. The shift screws up the atmosphere which makes the Van Allen Radiation Belt more porous so we all get zapped. Of course this one could take place at any moment, like maybe in the year 2012.

There’s a happy thought for you.

For those of you who think we’ll be around a lot longer than that, there’s the “heat death” theory. This idea points out that as the universe continues to expand there won’t be enough energy to maintain life. Eventually all the suns will burn out and life comes to a cold, quiet end.

The good news is none of us will be around to see that since it won’t happen for a gajillion, bazillion years, approximately.

The Purple Slinky breaks all these end games down in more detail.

Well, maybe you should put a few bucks back for a rainy day or the car of tomorrow.

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