User blog comment:Callofduty4/CoDWiki news - January 1st 2012/@comment-1191892-20120101105015/@comment-1191892-20120101192615

There's nothing particularly impressive about predicting basic celestial mechanics. People idolise the Mayan calendar, but in truth it's horribly inefficient and ridiculously complex compared to the Gregorian calendar. People like talking about it because it's needlessly hard to understand and so makes them feel clever.