Are you concerned the world will end on Dec. 21?
L.A. Times
2012/12/19 17:00:00
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Even NASA has jokes about Friday. "Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know," the space agency said on its website, "however, it will be another winter solstice."
NASA has devoted a page on its website to debunking the doomsday myth that, in accordance with the Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21. The site addresses several scenarios -- the possibility of planetary alignments, total blackouts, polar shifts and "a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction" -- but comes to the same conclusion.
"For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence?" the website said. "There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact." In short, NASA says, "the world will not end in 2012."
NASA has devoted a page on its website to debunking the doomsday myth that, in accordance with the Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21. The site addresses several scenarios -- the possibility of planetary alignments, total blackouts, polar shifts and "a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction" -- but comes to the same conclusion.
"For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence?" the website said. "There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact." In short, NASA says, "the world will not end in 2012."
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Top Opinion
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Lanikai 2012/12/19 21:50:28
However if we were to die, I wouldn't mind. I would die happy.
Just like our calendar: Does the world end after December 31? No, we start over again with January 1. Same with their calendar.
\The sun will come up tomorrow
EDIT: But just in case, I'm saving up caps.
Hmm... I don't see any of my relatives in China online!!
Then again - would we suppose that it comes at the end of the 21st? Like at midnight Quetzacoatl shows up yes?
There's a possibility of the world ending any second (and/or Jesus coming back), but no one could ever predict it.