Oh, and by the way, The Galactic Alignment only happens every 26,000 years and why the Mayan calendar "ends" on this date. Really, in just needs to go to the next b'ak'tun. The calendar itself (the complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns or one [/b]Piktun) ends on October 13, 4772, which oddly, is a Friday. (One b'ak'tun is 394 years)
The Maya believed that their world would end 63081429 solar years from their origin year (somewhere around 2000 BC). (This 63081429 year period is called one [b]Alautun) They wrong in saying this because their world ended in 1546 AD, by the arrival of the Spanish.