Turn up the David Bowie, break out the tinfoil hats, and stock up on canned goods: THE WORLD IS ENDING IN FIVE YEARS.

At least according to one of my favorite Eschatological Scenarios. You see, December 21, 2012 is the last date of the Mayan cycle of 13 b'ak'tuns or "Long Count, and thus as fine a date as any for the End of the World. There are plenty of theories about what, exactly, is going to happen, and you can read about most of them on the Survive 2012 website. Most deal with some sort of cosmological or geological event that causes the earth's crust to rapidly shift -- picture the skin of an orange coming loose from the fruit, and then moving relative to the fruit. Chaos, earthquakes, tsunami, war, famine, pestilence and death ensue. You can read more here and here. For good measure, Atlantis, the pyramids, and the Nazca Lines are thrown in.

Well, at least 5 years is plenty of time for me to finish sorting my mp3 collection.

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