2012 is the fated end of the world. For real. No question about it.
Our only saving grace is a little overlooked thing called "leap year". You see, the Mayans didn't have leap years back then so you can't really blame them for overlooking it but 2012 is a leap year. Turns out that February 29 just couldn't be accounted for in Mayan, and it blew their minds just thinking about it. They were dumbfounded thinking that February 28 would
NOT be followed by March 1, that there would be some kind of hole in the space-time continuum. That's why they logically concluded 2012 would be the end of time. For them it's Armageddon, for us it's February 29.
Of course, when you realize just how many large rocks are whizzing by the Earth (
), maybe February 29th will be a day to call in sick.