User blog comment:Nentendoboy/ironic, no?/@comment-4957147-20120420142058/@comment-3519940-20120420164538

ACTUALLY, (:D) the Mayans did not say that it would end on December 21st. That's just when their calender ended. They had this this thing that was called a long count which is like 5126 years, and December 21st was just the beginning of a new longcount. Here, this is a NASA interview. You can read here.