The Mayan's "civilization" didn't even make it to the end of their own calendar. What's that tell you? And how "civilized" and "enlightened" is a culture that practiced human sacrifice anyway? Besides their calendar didn't predict the end of the world in the first place so it is all a bunch of sensationalist made up bullshit anyway just like every other so called prediction of the end of the world has been and will be. When the physicists and astronomers say a big assed comet or asteroid is on a collision course with the earth then I might pay attention and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference if I did or not. I think the cartoon is closer to the truth. They probably just got tired of doing the math.