The End Is Postponed

Phew. Turns out the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world in 2012 is probably off by many decades. Blame it on a mathematical error.

Feel better? Now what are we going to do with all those apocalyptic movies in the works and already out. No problem, I like a good apocalypse...

Live Science: End of the Earth Postponed

...Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events.