The 2012 Mayan doomsday prediction is a present-day cultural meme* proposing that cataclysmic and apocalyptic
events will occur in the year 2012. This idea has been disseminated by numerous books, Internet sites and by
TV documentaries. The forecast is based primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count
calendar, which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December 21 or 23, 2012, along with
interpretations of assorted legends, scriptures, numerological constructions and prophecies.

IS the World going to end on the Mayan calendar date of:
December 12, 2012 at 12 O'clock, High Noon?
(Answer)

* A meme (pronounced /`mi:m/, rhyming with "cream"), is a postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices,
and is transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. (The etymology of
the term relates to the Greek word mimema for "something imitated".) Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural
analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures. Memeticists have not empirically proven
the existence of discrete memes or their proposed mechanism, and memes do not form part of the consensus of mainstream social sciences.
from Wikipedia | See also, 2012 - The Movie