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- brbeaird, on 11/10/2009, -0/+68It makes me sad that NASA seriously needs to address this.
- Yage2006, on 11/11/2009, -2/+26According to my calender the world ends 12-31-2009.
- mogebier, on 11/10/2009, -0/+21How is NASA going to dispel ancient Mayans??
HUH??
Use their time machine to go back and ask them?
The time machine they reverse-engineered from the ruins of the Roswell crash in '49??
HUH??
*puts on tin foil hat* - awinters, on 11/10/2009, -3/+21We have too many unbalanced people who already think the end of the world is here just because they lost an election. The last thing they need is "proof." Whatever.
- JasonQpublic, on 11/10/2009, -4/+22What method did NASA use to reach that conclusion? Tea leaves, crystal ball, or tarot cards?
- evergrim, on 11/11/2009, -0/+12Smells like a NASA cover up! I'm on to you! *wags finger*
- AmnesiacJack, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12That's what NASA wants you to think that way no on questions why just weeks before the date all of our leaders are being flown to the secret moon base we have before they get sent to the underground shelters on Mars in the Cydonia region.
- xixphz, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Or the crazy ones who think "The world is gonna end tomorrow, why not go on a rape/murder/do-bad-things- cause-were-all-gonna-be-dead-tommorrow spree." The hype really gets on my nerves.
- ubernoggin, on 11/10/2009, -1/+12Oh, NASA, you're no fun anymore.
- nullcodes, on 11/11/2009, -1/+11I am working on a foolproof debunking of the Dec 21st 2012 doomsday prophecy and it'll be ready on Dec. 22nd 2012.
- enantiodromia, on 11/11/2009, -0/+10This is why society is messed up, because we spend so much time and energy explaining to IDIOTS why fairy tales are not real.
No, the sun is in no danger of getting swallowed by a dragon, its just an eclipse.
No, the world is not going to end in 2012, its just another year like all the others.
No, the world is not run by Lizard Men from another planet, it's run by bastards from this planet.
No, the sea wasn't parted nor was anyone swallowed by a whale, those are just myths and legends.
No, Bill Gates isn't sending you $40 for forwarding this email to 16 friends.
No, bigfoot/nessie/chupa cabra are not real, you ***** idiots - xs11ax, on 11/11/2009, -0/+10your calendar must be broken.
according to my calendar the world ends on 31-12-2009. - dsfjvhbd, on 11/11/2009, -1/+11The weird thing, besides people thinking that ancient peoples somehow were clairvoyants, that these people try to interpret Mayan culture as if it was long gone. Millions of Mayas are still alive today, and they do not interpret the end of their calendar cycle as a foretold disaster.
- TobiasParker, on 11/11/2009, -0/+10Humanity is in rough shape...
- blumarlin1, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8The people who truly believe the world will end in 2012 will probably not care what NASA has to say anyways
- spiryt, on 11/11/2009, -2/+9What scares me most is the fact that people actually believe in those things. We are clearly living in the world of social and very easily deceived monkeys...
- paradigmxx, on 11/11/2009, -1/+8Makes me remember a time when the internet was less retarded (90s).
- xaj5289x, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6they should start with the history channel, its like every other episode lately is about Nostradamus or some asteroid or black hole taking out earth..
- RogerStrong, on 11/11/2009, -2/+8That would be....
a) The lack of planetary alignments on the horizon for the next few decades.
b) The lack of reason WHY a planetary alignment would cause major problems. The gravitational effects of a mass of water built up behind a single hydro dam far overwhelms that of planets hundreds of milllions of miles away. And yet building a new hydro dam doesn't cause massive earthquakes, volcanoes and CGI effects all over the planet.
c) That lack of noticable effects during all the PREVIOUS planetary alignments.
Before the extraordinary planetary alignment on August 1987 (8 of 10 planets), the same tinfoil hat crowd was calling it "Harmonic Convergence" and predicting the same worldwide disaster. They used the same deliberate misinterpretation of Mayan calendar mythology to peddle it to the same crowd of submorons.
Needless to say, it didn't happen. Nor did it happen about 10 or so years later when they made the same claims about a new, lesser alignment.
2012 will come and go, but the never-ending stream of end-of-the-world claims based on planetary alignments, misinterpretations of Mayan mythology, Biblical mythology and more will continue. - keraneuology, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7Doesn't NASA have better things to spend money on than trying top stop internet rumors?
- elcob32, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6Agreed. NASA is already having budget problems, I have a cheaper way of debunking the 2012 myths...Wait.
That's it, just wait. In 2013 the problem will have resolved itself, and it won't eat up any of their time or money. - akpanga, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5This is absurd and stupid. People believing Hollywood *****.
- enantiodromia, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5great screen name for a troll, btw
8/10 - anonymousmedic, on 11/11/2009, -1/+6Glenn Beck told you this, did he?
- CountBrass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Nah, end of the world scenarios are drummed up by Hollywood to scare the population and keep them going to the cinema.
- RichMUrrills, on 11/11/2009, -1/+6Won't somebody please think of the children!
- imbok, on 11/11/2009, -0/+4The Mayan calendar was an inside job!
- aero8, on 11/11/2009, -0/+4When aren't we?
- blumarlin1, on 11/11/2009, -1/+5someone saw Men Who Stare At Goats this weekend
- enantiodromia, on 11/11/2009, -1/+5those were the days, when the most "extremism" on the Net were a few lame-o KKK pages, which were constantly getting smurfed, and the Ping of Death settled most arguments.
- skipvt, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3"A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid."
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/09/surprise-u ... - SimpsonHomer, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3I can believe it. They're more credible the then a conspiracy television show that airs on FOX.
- Frostek, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3The point you missed there was that no one on Youtube went on and on about some Sumerian prophecy that said we had a risk of being hit by a 7 metre across asteroid.
- CountBrass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3Here's why: 2+1 is 3, multipled by 2 and adding 1 gives 7. 7 is the Jewish number for perfection (7 tribes, 7 arch-angels, 7 vowels in God's full, 7 monkeys in that film with Bruce Wills, Everyone is only 7 connections away from Kevin Bacon, 7 books in the Torah, 7 items in this list)**
The Jews knew what they were talking about!
Also. 21 is 7x3 and there are three sides to a triangel, you can make any polygon from a triangle And there are two 21s in 2121! Two is the only even prime number!
What more proof do you need!
**Truths created using Dan Brown(tm)'s patented research methods. - perre, on 11/11/2009, -1/+4Reminds me of an Ira Glass interview with a very nice, good-willed woman who told her children to not be surprised if the next day they couldn't find her. She explained not to worry for her because she would be lifted up to heaven. Her children, who had not yet accepted Christ into their hearts would remain here, along with their father, and things would turn very bad. When the next day came and went, eventless, she was surprised but her kids weren't. They figured that's just mom. Ira at this point asked a simple, sympathetic question in the least-judgmental way imaginable - an indication of just how great an interviewer he is because in the face of obvious embarrassment and silliness he created a space for her to feel safe to continue sharing with him this experience. As I recall, he said: "When nothing happened, that must have been hard for you."
- snowplow527, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3I saw this on digg a few times already and I still think its a joke. Is NASA seriously addressing something a bunch of crazies thought up?
Does anyone actually believe the world will end in 2012? I'm under the impression that its just a popular topic, not that people actually expect to die. - sivyr, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3"And yet building a new hydro dam doesn't cause massive earthquakes, volcanoes and CGI effects all over the planet."
You win one internet. Brilliant.
I watched a documentary about the claims regarding what will happen in 2012 with my mom about a month ago, and I split my sides laughing (my mom wasn't pleased by my skepticism) when one of the people interviewed suggested that the center of the galaxy will be eclipsed, depriving the planet from some mystical sustenance of some kind.
The center of the galaxy may contain this mystical sustenance... Unfortunately, it is inside a supermassive black hole, and will never see the light of day (or will forever see the light of day that's trapped in there with it, I guess).
My mom took that part seriously. She shushed me when I had my outburst. lol
There was another guy claiming that the effects are caused by the Earth approaching the closest point in its orbit of another star. Yes, that's right... The Sun is a binary star, orbiting some other star that must be the closest one to us in space and we had never noticed.
Sometimes I just can't help but take a twisted enjoyment in pseudoscience. It's like the extreme sports league of science fiction. - CountBrass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2When were Myans ever the most advanced culture on earth?
- TobiasParker, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2Saturday March 15th 1980.
- Quisquis, on 11/11/2009, -3/+5probably statistics... statistical analysis is a pretty good tool to use for things like this.
- CountBrass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2Do I actually belive the world will end in 2012?
Of course not, are you nuts? It's going to end in 2112. You heard it here folks. - AmnesiacJack, on 11/11/2009, -1/+3No, it was David Icke.
Come on! - stephenallen, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2If such a collision were real "astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye," it added. "Obviously, it does not exist."
- Frostek, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2"No, the sun is in no danger of getting swallowed by a dragon, its just an eclipse."
I think NASA should specifically say this somewhere on their site as a "***** you" to any of these 2012 loons. - CountBrass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2But Father Christmas is real. And so is the tooth fairy.
It's also true that most 'mericans aren't so grossly obese that they're wider than they are tall.
Oh... wait. That last statement is false. - mabakerbraker, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2Tea parties!!!!!!!!!!
- blacklilyninja, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2The real reason the Mayan calendar ends on that date is that the religious fanatic leaders of the mayans that took control decided that the guy making the calendar was a heretic for thinking the world would continue that long. So they killed him. You cant just have people thinking "hey the world will continue for a long long long time" or for that matter you can't have people thinking "the world has been here for millions of years". People can't be controlled unless they have the fear of death looming over them. I of course don't really know that. But it's been my experience that that is how most institutions that are in power tend to lead the masses. Even ours.
but..
The mayans would sacrifice women and children after painting them blue and barrage them with arrows until they looked like porcupines. They also would leach the soil so bad they couldn't grow corn crops due to lack of nutrients. In times of drought they would disembowel men women and children and throw them into a well thinking they were making the gods happy so it would rain.
personally
i don't put a lot of stock into anything the mayans did. They are all dead. - andoru, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Both are broken. Mine says the world ends on 20091231
- bubbadigg, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1dateline: South America 1519 AD
MASA (Myan Aeronautics and Space Administration ) today confirmed that rumors of the end of the Myan Civilization are false. The Myan Calendar will not end in the foreseeable future and the construction of the great pyramids should continue in spite of the economic downturn. We further believe that we will be able to stop the influx of illegal spanish aliens into our country that is causing further strains on our resources as they do not pay taxes and expect free health care and social services when they are here.
Myan leaders further stated that they have great hope for the future and will continue to try to figure out solutions to the mess left by the former rulers under leader El Busho. King Odumba was forced to cut his comments short today as his servant holding the stone speaking notes suddenly fell to his death from the top of El Mirador temple. - TrouserNinja, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Mine says the world ends at the tip of this Polish sausage, right here. But that might be because my calendar is not, in fact, a calendar, but a Polish sausage.
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