Get your magnetic sun shields: The Mayan apocalypse has begun

Don’t be alarmed, but you know all that fuss about the 2012 Mayan apocalypse? Well, that began today. And if all the modern interpretations of the ancient kings are right, we've only got two months left to live. (That's obviously the bad news.) The good news is that if the forecasts are indeed true, it's poised to be one badass apocalypse: earthquakes, flooding, the flipping of the sun's magnetic field — seriously, the zombies have nothing on this. News of today's countdown unsurprisingly set the New Age sites abuzz with discussions about what the last day of the Mayan Long Count calendar means on Dec. 21, when some believe the world will end. Other, way less fun people say it's simply a time of spiritual transformation. Yaaawn. [Source]

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