Re: Leap Years, 2012 & The Mayan Calendar

Go read The Diamond Age: goo.gl/jO8MY It's pretty great.
SciShow on the Mayan Calendar: • The Mayan Calendar & 2012
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[@Telawin]

The Mayan society is a great example of "if you don't finish something, it's not the end of the world"

[@KingNachos4]

Very true

[@Blade.5786]

If you're wondering how you're watching this video in 2021, some kid from Japan with the power of friendship defeated the main villain and averted the catastrophe.

[@Erionar]

No no, I'm pretty sure it was a guy named Desmond from a lineage of cool and influential acrobatic ancestors (like some pirates and revolutionaries!) who we should thank for saving our current present! Too bad he died in the process... :'(

[@citrusblast4372]

What anime is this reference to?

[@Engieman909]

@@citrusblast4372 probably just an anime trope

[@nanachichi1044]

americans also evaded alien invasion numerous times

[@squigly8r]

@@citrusblast4372 I’m pretty sure that Erionar is describing assassin’s creed.

[@thatfamiiiarnight3665]

This was the first video where grey was personified as the stickman with glasses.

[@DarthVader-ch4um]

Interesting fact, thanks!

[@PersonMann]

There’s an earlier video which shows the glass stickman (his 100k subscriber special)

[@ca-ke9493]

This video made me realise that as a citizen dwelling in a too hot too humid climate near the equator, the only reason we are using your standard Gregorian calendar is to trade with nations which have too many sets of clothes and too confusing sunrise/set times.

[@staalman1226]

As someone who lives nowhere near the equator, I can completely verify this

[@RascaldeesV2]

You're welcome.

[@poprocksxxcoke]

I tried to explain this to my friends... they thought I was crazy and said "KZbin isn't a credible source".

[@danese1636]

"No u." *Communist music plays*

[@Eric-qe6xz]

How stupid they must feel now

[@screamsinrussian5773]

@@danese1636 cring

[@AwesomeTheAsim]

@@Eric-qe6xz you mean 8 years later? Pretty sure they're not even friends anymore xD

[@Eric-qe6xz]

A Akd Nah, they might still be friends

[@josephjackson1956]

I like how he went around the fact that Caesar didn’t create the leap day, especially in 45 B.C.

[@PopeLando]

Caesar did create the leap day. Although it began with a few hiccups, after 8CE it was fixed and settled and leap years happened every 4 years from then all. By 1582 the calendar was 10 days out of sync with the seasons (specifically the Spring Equinox was happening around 11 March instead of 21 March). If there had been no leap days at all, the calendar would have actually completed a complete cycle of the seasons, ie around 700CE Christmas would have been at the peak of northern hemisphere summer time, and it would have cycled back around to winter around 1420.

[@ravensquote7206]

"Death is not fooled by your February 29th" Can confirm, died laughing at this joke.

[@anthillmobstars]

it's 2016...did i miss the destruction of the world?

[@matthewadams3565]

I think I so

[@BertGrink]

I think there are still tickets available, but it may be standing room only

[@chrispo7610]

I missed the show ;-;

[@stonedude1234]

Bartek Terbus I vote for that to be our new "2012 apocalypse" story to tell to generations after us XD

[@Flame-dt6ix]

Sakman Du i guess i missed it to.... it's 2018

[@horner385]

8 years ago the world ended Big sad

[@Saludin2]

@TK - 10AH - David Suzuki SS (2662) so it's 2048

[@FTLGuillotine]

@TK - 11CA 725841 David Suzuki SS I've seen multiple flat earthers try and say to me that the world will end in 2027, and that Jesus and his followers will come down from the heavens and strike down those who are not christian, and those of who think the earth is round.

[@ansomer]

hello!! There are some things that should be reconsidered in this video: 1. It is true that the Maya and the Aztec calendars are very similar. BUT: the theory of the 2012 is based in the long count (baktuns, katuns, tuns, winals and days) and not the short count. The Azted only used the short count and not the long count, so yes, the Aztec calendar was weird to use (not only because it is not a calendar) 2. The Maya didn't have seasons, but their agricultural system was based on the change between the humid and the dry season, which relies at the same time in the solar year. Thus, it was important for them to have an adjusted calendar. 3. There are some theories that in Mesoamerica they had some kind of adjustment: The Mesoamerican solar calendars (and here I include both the Aztec and the Maya calendars) are base in a 18 month system (each having 20 days). That makes 360 years, to which a 5 day period was added to adjust it to the solar year (wayeb in Maya, nemonteni in Aztec). These were considered dark days. Some experts argue that sometimes, an additional day was added to this period so the adjutment could be done. This has not been proved in a satisfactory way yet, and it is still a vivid academic discussion, but it is worth considering it. 4. Yep, the Maya did never say the world was going to end in 2012. Thanks for the video!! A Mayanist

[@davegreenlaw5654]

Now THAT was a blast from the past! (I'm talking about the Civ II improvements chart.)

[@Raj_Dave]

5 year old comment

[@bigbootros4362]

I've watched this video in 2019 does that mean I'm dead!?! I'm so scared and confused!

[@bobmcguffin5706]

Sorry, you are now dead and so am I

[@bikr2381]

Big Bootros samme

[@skyloveup]

Absolutely

[@eeveegaming4798]

Big Bootros no your just natural selections next target

[@skylark.kraken]

It's 2019 everyone is dead inside

[@matthewpolmanter8294]

seriously? People got upset about referring to the Maya as stone age? That's exactly what they were! and he even went on to explain it! Very sad that people had to get upset about something so small and essentially pointless to argue.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

Well people are dumb enough to believe that the world will end on a day that the numbers look cool for it. Same as they believed about 2000 and 6/6/2006 would be the day of the apocallypse and things like that.

[@starsstolen7558]

I think people got upset cause they mistook "stone age" to mean "stupid". In other words, they suspected Grey of comparing Mayan people to "savages" and that would be pretty messed up.

[@ibbi30]

Not a historian or archaeologist here, but the term "stone age" was created to describe European archaeological cultures and is not a very useful description of other societies since they developed differently. Say you know that a set of inventions generally appeared within a society in the bronze age in Europe. Then me telling you that a specific European society was a stone age society tells you something useful, that they probably didn't have said set of inventions. You can't make the same deduction with a pre-Columbian society. While he is technically right a much more practical term would have been f.e. pre-modern.

[@ZeroneDY]

Stone age is a technological definition specifically referring to a civilisation that has not developed metallurgy and has absolutely nothing to do specifically with Europe, but the whole human race. Archaeologists refer to the Maya as a stone age culture.

[@ibbi30]

ZeroneDY A quick search of wikipedia reveals this: "The terms "Stone Age", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age" were never meant to suggest that advancement and time periods in prehistory are only measured by the type of tool material, rather than, for example, social organization, food sources exploited, adaptation to climate, adoption of agriculture, cooking, settlement and religion." And this: "While it is possible to speak of a general 'stone age' period for the whole of humanity, some groups never developed metal-smelting technology, so remained in a 'stone age' until they encountered technologically developed cultures. The term was innovated to describe the archaeological cultures of Europe."

[@Alex87865]

Who here in 2020 when the world feels like its gonna explode soon

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

All we need is someone showing up with a calendar that says 2020 is where it all ends, and it’ll be complete.

[@detoxnixon6052]

Alexander Christopher I just created that calendar you’re Looking for. Just send 1,000$ and I’ll give u a look.

[@damonyotropa4100]

@@detoxnixon6052 Here's your 1,000$ now let me look.

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

If by feels, you mean hopes.

[@kingtreedede7303]

Thanks for the spoilers

[@jpbet]

Fuck me did people actually get angry at the phrase stone age... Humanity is doomed. I love how smart they tried to sound "you're so ignorant, blah blah blah"

[@louis922]

+Salmon Salad but they are saying the truth and people who are getting offended because he said stone age are ignorant...

[@yacqubmahamoud2874]

Learn Quick well they did sacrifice humans to random gods and didnt know much about metal so yeah id say they are pretty ignorant

[@hedgehatchet3578]

Yacqub Ma They sacrificed humans to gods because they believe that it will stop the end of the world (read up on their mythology for more on that). They also believe that the death of a human will always be replaced with the life of one. In other words, they kill humans because they believe that when a human dies, they just take a quick stopover to the afterlife before popping up as another human, that's their view on things. As for the metal bit, like Grey said, their civilization wasn't advanced enough to progress from the Stone Age to the Metal Age because they didn't know about metal. But that doesn't mean they're ignorant, what if somebody called you ignorant for not knowing much about that you didn't even know existed, huh? I rest my case.

[@ashtoncrockett5455]

Salmon Salad then why am I alive

[@CommanderNissan]

@@ashtoncrockett5455 “still alive!”

[@therisenchampion2023]

Now that almost a decade has passed since this video was made, can we all accept that the REAL tragedy here is that the Maya thought that they needed a calendar that went that far forward into time?

[@boxinabox6608]

The Georgian Calendar goes on forever

[@something9005]

@@boxinabox6608 In 8000 years it will be off by one day.

[@chillin794]

What I have always found hilarious is that the Mayan calendar that we have found could be just one of many more that keep going even longer.

[@danese1636]

Humans 1,000 years from now: OH MY GOD, THIS AMERICAN CALANDER ENDS ON THIS DATE!!! END OF THE WORLD IMMINENT! AHHHH!

[@BeetaroniPizza]

Whenever I try to explain things like this to my friends they act like I am slow and dont believe me because they are so set in their stubborn ways, so its nice to have something to show them to get them to shut up and listen instead of sit and not believe. Love your videos. :)

[@kerentan9446]

hi... who's here in 2020? I'm not in the comment section to say the world is ending, but i guess there's plenty of "up" to go to at this point. right? the world won't end, it'll just get bad in a few waves then go back to becoming better every day...?

[@blauwbeer556]

ehh...i feel like everything hat happened before the 50´s is worse than what we have now but i could be wrong.

[@Hideyoshi1991]

@@blauwbeer556 genocide's a pretty low bar to set

[@blauwbeer556]

@@Hideyoshi1991 exactly, and if then we didn't go extinct then why now?

[@DeanFang1]

Props for having the Pestilence magic card thrown in there. I loved that! Cheers!

[@trymon8678]

Me, 10 years later, still waiting for world to end

[@msrjjon]

I'm watching this in 2020. Pandemic, locusts, social unrest. . . . .yeah, THIS feels like the apocalypse.

[@schismaticsci1458]

I mean you’ve got to hand it to the Mayans. For a primitive civilisation that created a calendar over 5000 years ago, being off by 8 years is still pretty amazing

[@gemscythe]

You will be fine

[@TheJamCubed]

I wonder how it turned out in the end.

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

I initially calculated that the War in Afghanistan will have lasted three times as long as WWII on 10 October this year, but then realised that I'd forgotten to count the leap years, so it'll actually reach that milestone on the 12th

[@TheEpicGreenMask]

0:00-0:01 Hi!

[@KasabianFan44]

I have no idea why this comment is so likable.

[@user-vm2wi8no1s]

cute.

[@cristianptl4587]

pretty sure your name is not "internet"

[@whimsy5623]

December 21st is in a month, folks.

[@buckwildebeest398]

I bought two one-ounce silver Aztec calendar coins. They're pretty detailed.

[@dtmtung]

2:00 I recognize that sun and moon. Grey, you wouldn't happen to be a brony, would you?

[@hadgeron9556]

its so weird seeing the old KZbin site when referring to KZbin

[@AbraxasTheSecond]

Nice MTG reference at 0:25.

[@ragnkja]

Diamond tools are pretty useful. Dentists' drills, for example, are, as far as I know, always tipped with diamond. This is because the hardness of diamond is a great advantage when working with the hardest material of the human body.

[@dwells1986]

Same here. I installed it a few weeks ago and now I get no ads everywhere I go. It's really great on network sites like Comedy Central and CBS where they seem to show more commercials now at the breaks than they do in their broadcasts.

[@smyanverma5180]

Who else is here after the miscalculation and 2020 is 2012

[@santiaaloco4549]

It's not

[@josephjackson1956]

It's weird to think that calendars are essentially arbitrary when it comes to time itself (as in space-time). I always thought that every year is the same year just called a different one, but when you really think about it, time never stops, and we could live fine physically without a calendar. That's not to say calendars aren't useful, because they help with organization in a cyclic timeframe, but it's interesting to think that calling days "Mondays" etc doesn't have any significance to itself.

[@cristianptl4587]

well,we people like to give "things" names and associate them with good or bad,and mix some fantasy,drama etc.,just to complicate our existance.

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

@TK - 11VJ 725841 David Suzuki SS, if you’re stupid enough to fall for this “Planet X” nonsense once, you’re stupid enough to fall for it twice.

[@dorandraco]

CGP, you have made my day by using the Civ2 tech tree. That game was my childhood.

[@NarlepoaxIII]

Always hilarious to be watching videos about the 2012 apocalypse years after nothing happened.

[@LeGrimReaper]

wtf how are people offended by the technological level of the mayan people. God, americans sure do get offended over everything.

[@DavidCerullo7390]

HOW DARE YOU

[@LeGrimReaper]

David Cerullo exactly.

[@ThePaulKM]

+LeGrim Reaper It's the society we live in. Why did people claim the Old Navy kid commercial with the black kid was racist? Because people are offended by anything and everything anymore. It's a slow and methodical process that is designed to take away our free speech. I agree with you full-heartedly. And yes it is painfully ridiculous and pathetic.

[@kevinchiem4061]

+Paul Moore using him was actually less racist than usual business; most discriminate against black people

[@neburnynhs9394]

pretty sure that guy was being sarcastic butttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt..........

[@LePedant]

The Mayas were so close, only 8 years off!

[@DarkWolfMaster1]

I thought it was a new video when I saw the thumbnail so I thought 7 months before December 2020 sounded pretty accurate

[@mezkitsu]

I'm an Inca. We had metallurgy (though didn't develop it as much as the Europeans did) and I'm pretty sure the Mayans did, too. Just because we didn't use metal to create cannons doesn't mean we didn't use it at all.

[@brookemacbeth5772]

The pestilence!? *”Oh my, yet another victim of the disease.”*

[@chaoticsilver8442]

...this aged well.

[@scrambledmandible]

That was my thought

[@ObjectManiacJennifer27]

The sheep pictures have Wales in the background.

[@Shamanalaful]

@CGPGrey My parents visited an archeological site of Maya and their guide was a Maya and he told them that the end of the Maya calendar is not new, it has already happened 11 time and the calendar will restarts a 12th time this year. They usually celebrate it with what we would call it today a "party" (sorry for my bad english!)

[@XghettofireX]

About time someone cleared up the whole Mayan Calendar leap year issue

[@upsidedownhearts_]

2020: I'm the real 2012

[@dudelebowski8629]

2021

[@Frankthegb]

All the people way back then (and trust me, I was one of them) who said that the Mayan Calendar didn't account for Leap Years didn't even know how the calendar was recorded. In short, December 21st 2012 lined up with 13.0.0.0.0 on the Mayan Calendar, more commonly referred to as the 13th (14th?) Ba'ak'tun (sp?) by the Maya. Either way, it didn't NEED to account for Leap Years.

[@LolindirElros]

13th

[@MattMan0450]

Yet I have not seen a youtube ad in weeks, and videos are still being made.

[@dwells1986]

He explains it in the video. The Maya counted days the same as us, we just add an extra day every 4 years because technically a year is 365.25 days. Leap days account for the lost .25 and add up to a whole day every 4 years. This keeps the calender synced to seasonal events so that they are the same "day" every year. The Maya just let if naturally cycle instead using the leap day system to keep it "synced" because they didn't give a fuck.. they were the original "Like a boss".

[@ox.marcuss]

Old KZbin 🥺🥺

[@YK-tr5ti]

Jokes on you; the world did end

[@louisxvioffrance990]

Mind=Blown

[@terranova9963]

Louis XVI of France off with your head

[@andreyshpigelman5478]

Terrasoup ha

[@theinternetpolice4365]

Adventurer 2000 Hold up... **checks pulse** Yeah, I feel pretty alive right now.

[@trapsarentgay4195]

Adventurer 2000 our world ended. We’re on a different earth now similar to the previous one in a different universe

[@zanec14]

I love all the references in your videos, and I haven't even watched 1/3 of them yet.

[@columbus8myhw]

While it is "Maya" and "Native American", you're kind of right. The thing is, it's not something carved in stone (that round thing is Aztec), it's a system (like the way we use the words January and February and have no idea how many days a month should have). The way it works is, and I'm rounding here, is that they first say how many 4-century groups (called B'akt'uns), then 2-decade groups (K'int'uns), then years, months, and days. Dec 20, 2012 is 12.19.19.17.19 in that system, (Cont'd)

[@SpymasterW61]

Spoiler its 2019 and I'm still here

[@gamechip06]

Aaaand how about now? It's past 2020

[@atririchards9566]

Video from 2012, I'm the from the future. Sadly and disappointingly the would did not end in 2012. But it will end when the newly elected president of USA will take office after the federal election in November 9th, 2016. I won't tell who wins , I'll leave it to you to find out.

[@jibrilosman5078]

spoiler its donald trump

[@jp73987]

Jibril Osman Duuuude, you weren't suppose to spoil the ending!

[@marlonyo]

spoilers there is no ww3

[@coar]

marlonyo Well... N. Korea might disagree

[@lukedetering4490]

I'm from the future that does not seem to be the case

[@VinnyDaQ]

Only the 7th baktun ended on 12/21/12 ....the Mayan Long Count Calendar has 20 baktun, each exactly 144,000 days long. The final baktun, the 20th, ends on October 13, 4772. So we have 2,745 years and 11 months to go. Party on, folks !!

[@markvanstone2012]

Hey, CGP, thanks for your concise explanation about the 2012 nonsense, and particularly for this video. I was particularly struck that you explained the difference between the usage of "Maya" and "Mayan"... Which no other website I've seen --and you can imagine, I've seen a few-- has bothered to address. Thank you, thank you.

[@remimaloney2028]

CGP Grey, I always thought Julius Caesar introduced the Leap Year, with the Julian Calendar (still followed by the Orthodox Church), while the Pope Gregory introduced the "skip one leap year every 100 years, except 400", making the Gregorian Calendar?

[@maximmihailovic6807]

Nah, Caesar introduced 365 day solar years because before that priests could just add days to the last month depending on bribes consuls gave them to expand their terms because of some crazy solar-lunar Frankenstein calendar.

[@swedneck]

Does CGP have a thing for minecraft or does he just do it for the may mays to bring more people?

[@bucca2]

Minecraft is just awesome and it's a good meme.

[@TheDelethar]

If anything he has a thing for Warcraft, he always has some mini picture reference in a handful of videos, between Warcraft 3 or WoW

[@Weebusaurus]

Tim Stahel It's probably the may mays. But if Grey has to pander a bit to teach people I say pander as long as it isn't distracting, which it isn't. It definitely can be, and Grey doesn't push that line.

[@punbug4721]

If ANYTHING, he has a thing for ponies. Even in this video at 2:02. www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/5w3pzf/cgp_grey_brony_confirmed/

[@bafflingbullshit]

+Tim Stahel probably both...

[@lusciouslocks8790]

Many of your videos are just now gracing my presence.

[@kettefu]

Love the Minecraft and Civ II references! Both REALLY great games!

[@hadinossanosam4459]

0:26 upvote for MAGIC! (If you don't know it, that sounds weird)

[@TheChaoticDerp]

Luna & Celestia's cutie marks at 2:02 ?

[@CiannaSplendiferous]

I am pretty sure I could just sit and listen to your voice forever. You need a radio show. Look into it.

[@Yotipo]

No matter how boring I think the subject of the video is going to be, you always make it interesting, Grey.

[@Untoldanimations]

2:02 Celestial and Luna cutie mark

[@QuilloManar]

UntoldAnimations _Celestial_

[@davidmb1595]

UntoldAnimations

[@punbug4721]

www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/5w3pzf/cgp_grey_brony_confirmed/ You're welcome.

[@Mica_T]

Ping Pong Cup Shots I didn't even realise

[@danthemann5655]

Dear sir or madam: The things you are talking about are not on the intellect level of this video. Sincerely, Ok I'm joking.

[@silford]

What if the Mayans were dyslexic and instead the world ending in 2012, they meant 2021.

[@PopeLando]

I'm a little bit of an expert on calendars in general, and the Mayan calendars, but it had never occurred to me, nor have I ever seen it in my research, that the Maya etc didn't follow the seasonal year because they just don't have seasons. Excellent point!

[@0Xaldin3]

that 1/4 of a day is just there to account that a 24 hour day isn't really 24 hours, but 24 hours and 59 seconds, which roughly adds 5.986(bunch of numbers) hours per year until the leap year which adds up the resulting extra hours into an extra day.

[@jkrogsgaard8739]

My math teacher is born on a leap day so he,s only 10 years old :3

[@sonicvenom8292]

He had 10 actual birthdays specifically.

[@cxl2638]

Yea

[@samlewis6487]

"My last video has been delayed due to pestilence" Too real in 2020

[@Achievability]

I'm watching this on April 22, 2011. The Silence has Fallen.

[@inconsistencyiskey6862]

9 Years later and the world both has and hasn't ended yet.

[@bread7551]

The switch to the Great Gregorian Calendar added 8 years, technically making 2020 = 2012.

[@xexpaguette]

xd

[@the-chillian]

FOR THE HORDE! However, there's nothing particularly "cycles within cycles within etc." about the Mayan calendar any more than there is for our base-10 counting system. All they're really doing is counting days, only in a different base. They normally used a base-20 counting system, making them smarter than Europeans who only counted on their fingers. Only one place in the calendar's counting system is base-18, probably because this made the approximate length of a solar year a round number.

[@stensoft]

+Lytrigian There's nothing smart or special on base 20, it was quite common in Europe as well (and the US: ‘Four score and seven years ago…’). One remnant still existing in English is the -teen counting between 10 and 20 (with completely different words for eleven and twelve from another quite commonly used base: 12).

[@the-chillian]

+Jan Sten Adámek The joke you're not getting is that Europeans count only on their fingers, while Mesoamericans can also use their toes. Europeans would occasionally group by 20s, but they never used it as a numerical base. The use of -teen is not a remnant of a base-20 counting system.

[@kharadron3561]

According to someone on Reddit, when we switched to the Gregorian calendar we gained 8 years so it's meant to end tommorow, Grey we need a new version of this in about a week!

[@ProdYoshy]

Is the shift bad??

[@mikejtalley]

I enjoy all your posts!!

[@takinomfan]

2019 here, still no apocolypse... Though with Donald Trump as the Pres of US it's not as if we're not trying

[@aprofessionalgamer5355]

Drumph bad gib likes.

[@Chief4Army117]

Did anyone notice at 2:02 Celestia and Luna's Cutie Marks?

[@nicholassvitak8653]

There's something called "the sun". not everything is mlp

[@punbug4721]

+Nicholas Svitak But that particular image of the sun in that particular art style IS a direct reference to MLP. Not everyone cool is a non-brony. We live among you, invisible until revealed. We are changelings in real life. www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/5w3pzf/cgp_grey_brony_confirmed/ You're welcome.

[@dfletcherboyy12]

You sir have just blown my mind.

[@TaliyahP]

Basically, the misconception was based around the incorrect assumption that the Mayan calendar predicted the literal date December 21, 2012 when the reality was that date was when it lined up on our calendar.

[@MrCompassionate01]

Unfortunately it turned out it was totally true and we are all dead. *sigh* if only we had listened!

[@lukedetering4490]

IKR? I cant believe I was fooled into thinking the world wouldn't end

[@adamfra64]

Who's even felt alive since 2012 anyways?

[@selahanany5645]

@@adamfra64 so true tho

[@thelonesculler]

And so the world went on

[@JaharNarishma]

I've read in a science/history magazine that at least one of the cycles in the calendar followed the stars. By not having extra days put in, the stars' alignments didn't fit the calendar anymore so they adjusted it by adding 20 odd days.

[@FlyingTigerBunny]

I love your ASCII art and clever pictures. I'm subscribed and I love your video. But sometimes, when I watch your videos, when it's over I'll be honest I'm like "Whaaaaaaa..." But I really love these. xD :)

[@gangstapenguin7877]

Supposably somewhere in the 1500s there was 8 years lost to calender changes. So theres a possibility that 2020 is the real 2012.

[@PopeLando]

Instead of sighing and correcting you, I'll just say I love "supposably".

[@gangstapenguin7877]

@@PopeLando lol idk the facts, just a rumour

[@ZcytheGaming]

sun and moon are celestia and luna..

[@ZcytheGaming]

Dont ask why that's relevant.

[@Halleyulah]

***** Actually I am pretty sure it is Sol and luna but I am not 100% certain

[@ZcytheGaming]

Silly, good point. But its from MLP silly. at 2:03 mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Celestia_and_Luna's_cutie_marks_in_the_sky_S4E25.png

[@Halleyulah]

***** Oh I didn't realise that

[@stephenprochniak2224]

I found that interesting, another one I remember is the unofficial name for earth, Terra, hence the word Terran as humans. Also personally prefer sol to be the suns name, because every sci if series referees to our star system as the sol system.

[@legionjames1822]

Its gonna go on. Just a LOT differently

[@yellowcanarystudios]

CGPGrey, just your common genius. You're so awesome!

[@astara94]

Dude..I LOVE you, where have you been all my life? Your explanations are amazing!

[@Non_Machina]

"The depths of unproductive misery" - still love the game. WoW ftw! Also love this channel. Subscribed!

[@gamechip06]

Still love it?

[@TinAPie]

i have a love and hate relationship with your fast narration :-)

[@AwkwardAndAwesome]

@CGPGrey I love the smaller videos. It not only lets you correct any mistakes you may have looked over in your original video, but it also adds dimension to the subject with extra tidbits of information. Love your work, keep it up! ^_^

[@vetbaitednv]

I love the word “pestilence”... particularly because it is the most overpowered role in Town of Salem. Edit: POWERFUL ATTACK AND UNSTOPPABLE DEFENSE... But you normally get lynched instantly so whatever

[@evandavis5223]

The extra day in a leap year makes it so that the Gregorian calendar resolves itself every 4 x 365 days or a cycle of 4 years. Many ancient calendars did not add the extra day but still kept track so that they resolved every 4 x 365 YEARS or a cycle of 1460 years.

[@dylanu7896]

6 years ago we were dead, wow

[@joshnm2]

@CGPGrey Super props for the Civ II reference. I still play it even though the game is only six months younger than I am.

[@scarcrowification]

It's not death day people, why with the negativity? It's simply the galactic alignment which only happens every 26,000 yrs. It's quiet awesome that our generation gets to witness it

[@mattjaeger1265]

Yeah! I found my new favorite KZbin Channel. Thanks for posting great videos!

[@ZeldaboyOG]

Rewatching this I forgot about the Hank Green reference. I watched the Vlog Brothers prior to this and I found the McElroy Brother long after both of you. However the Vlog Brothers are a fan of the McElroys and were on their TV show. So it is like the several degree game of people I love and respect.

[@user-se7zb2gh6d]

The 7 days of our week are based on 7 planets (Sunday sun, Monday moon...etc Saturday Saturn". 52 complete weeks are in a year. The Aztecs held a new fire ceremony every 52 years because the least common multiple of the 260 day tzolkin and 365 day year (earty) orbiting the sun is the number of days in 52 years.