What I am saying (apparently not very clearly) is NO calendar is more accurate since they are all based on an arbitrary event.
It is the celestial objects that are giving us the accuracy - not the other way around. Another words, if you base a calendar on astronomical events then it will be accurate - because it is arbitrary. I'm not saying that they didn't achieve some great accomplishments because they did. But no better than any other primitive peoples and at a much later date that the folks in the fertile crescent area.
But if you'd like me to nitpick - I will go in order..
1) so the calendar is accurate within a day - holy cow! amazing.
2) they were off by a year and some guy picks an arbitrary occurrence and says the calendar predicts it? this ain't even close to science my friend. Here is the news - pick any day/time of any epoch and i guarantee you can find some celestial event occurring during that time. Today for example, there is a shadow transit of Europa, and an eclipse of both Ganymede and IO and as a bonus - there is an occultation of IO - oh no! what do we do?
But this guy did worse than that - he picked a great conjunction and then assigned it to the calendar and then worked backwards from that. Very deceitful and complete bunk.
3) as did the Egyptians, Sumerians, Persians, etc.. since Venus is clearly visible and easily studied - while amazing - this is certainly no super-human feat.
4) So they made a calendar that was accurate for 18 months containing 20 days. I'm sure they could make one that was 20 months with 12 days or any other ARBITRARY number in there. This ain't rocket science - an accurate calendar would be worthless so of course the calendar is accurate but it isn't as accurate as our calendar since it measures different things. It's the equivalent to saying a yardstick is better than a meter-stick. Neither is better or more accurate - they are measuring two different things.
You keep giving me these science-free links and then telling me we are getting nowhere. But I present a mountain of scientific evidence and you just send me more pseudo-science which makes me think you don't know the difference.
I have given you evidence that planetary conjunctions mean absolutely nothing for climate/potential for disaster on earth and they sure as hell don't have any effect on solar cycles as one of the many, many non-science links i've browsed thanks to you inferred. And what is your response? you said - we'll see. Not - boy i better study some astronomy or cosmology before these assholes fool me again. Not you - you just keep on believing.
Now i have demonstrated ad naseum the myth of the Mayan calendar prophesy/accuracy and yet you still persist. There are many, many links debunking your claims - what is it about them that makes you not believe them (is it because they are using hard science?) and what is it about the pseudo-science links that make you believe? Is it because you believe in other conspiracies so naturally distrust what scientists say?
I apologize if I am sounding cynical and facetious but I am building a strong case of evidence and you won't budge.
Do you really, I mean really believe that ancient folks are able to predict the end of the world because of a planetary conjunction and modern astronomy /astrophysics and cosmology can not?
If your goal is to convince to believe something without evidence - you have a slight chance - but now you are asking me to believe in something DESPITE the evidence and i'll tell you right now - no way in hell. You might as well try to convert me to some religion - you'll get just as far.
I will conclude by asking for your indulgence if anything I've said is insulting. I mean no disrespect. I am just frustrated debating with someone who isn't swayed by evidence.
Well that went nowhere. Like I said before....only time will tell. However, I will have to argue about the Mayan calender being the most precise.
History & info - the Mayan calendar
The True Meaning of the Mayan Calendar
Maya calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Van De Bogart
I could go on for hours with this but I'll stop here. Your saying that all of these people are wrong? The Mayans based their calender off of the celestial cycles which IMO is pretty damn accurate.