If you’re reading this, the world isn’t over.But, anyone who believes the world will end today – because of “predictions” in the ancient Mayan calendar – must not be expecting to receive the next Great Bend Tribune on Sunday. Either an asteroid, or aliens, or maybe a supernova, are scheduled to bring on our destruction by midnight, or by 2018 if you factor in all of the leap years that the ancient calendar missed.To quote rock band R.E.M., “It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I feel fine.” It won’t be the last time (we hope) that the end of the world is predicted.