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Originally posted by sajuek
Sorry to burst your bubble. But Voyager won't enter interstellar spece until 2015, so I think you will have to reschedule your, awakening, or whatever you were expecting.
Oh and the Mayans also didn't predict anything would happen on 21/12/2012, their calender just moves on to the 13th Baktun.
I love how people say "These things are unrepdictable. Scientists can never predict the sun/earthquakes etc etc!" etc etc.
But people with limited scientific instruments sitting around in caves can get it down to the day 2,500 years in the future.
Originally posted by sajuek
reply to post by Helious
Sure. But without any empirical evidence there's no reason to ever assume that.
Archaeological and historical records of Aztec and Mayan civilizations are extensive (Like the Egyptians and Chinese, they were good record keepers), and while they did some amazing things, there's nothing to suggest that such technology, or the means to create it ever existed. The Mayans never figured out how to forge metal or make glass, for example.
While I wouldn't suggest that we have all their secrets, there's simply no way they would be able to take measurements thousands of years ago which supersede anything we can do today with the telescopes other sensitive instruments which we have available to us today.