NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies 286
coondoggie writes "Insidious unknown planets lurking behind the sun ready to slam into Earth, supernova set to engulf the planet and giant, unseen asteroids screaming toward our globe are all theories espoused across the Internet as to how we will meet our demise on 12/21/2012. Do any of these theories even remotely hold out a scintilla of evidence they could happen? Not even remotely if you look at the material NASA has put out which pretty much debunks any and all of the notions being floated in across the cybersphere."
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Of course they'd say that to avoid global panic (Score:5, Informative)
There's 2 options here:
1. Everything is fine, no gobal apocalypse
2. There's something on the way that's going to kill us all, but if we tell you about it the whole world will panic and riots will stop the government getting itself to safety along with a handpicked few 'key' people
Either way - they'll say it's safe
And on that note, I'm going to hang up my tin foil hat
Re:Really? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Thank God... (Score:5, Informative)
It seems there are a small number of people in the world who's only interest is to have the world end... i just don't get it.
Re:Thank God... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Or... (Score:4, Informative)
Except that they could. Obviously they wouldn't have any warning before the energy front hit, but assuming they correctly understand the physics behind supernovae they can make a pretty solid prediction as to which stars are capable of going supernovae, as well as how close the resulting explosion would have to be to cause damage to the Earth. And none of the stars close enough to cause damage if they exploded is capable of doing so.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Whoosh.
It's the End of the World... Again [Re:Thank God] (Score:5, Informative)
Yep. But yah know, if you listen to the wind you hear the same nonsense every year, often multiple times a year....
Yep!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events [wikipedia.org]