Nasa explains 2012

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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html


Biggest questions imo that explains most peoples concerns.


Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
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Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?
A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.
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Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012?
A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
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me too, they were like world's gonna end on 99, then 2000 then 2001 then 2003 and whatever... .. so um no... :D do you know whats gonna happen on 2012... someone's gonna have a birthday ;) :D
 
Jeez, i was so scared, i created a bunker, got all kinds of food and water, and grew a beard....
 
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIEEEEE!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

Honestly, if the world was going to end, it would've done so when we got to 2000.


Y2K was much more hip than 2012. =[
 
i like that info you posted ramp. i was always curious myself. but eh.. who cares to me. i know nothings going down in 2012 and i know y2k and 2003 and all the other "earths guna end crap" is all foney ballony.

hopefully things wont get hectic as the year is approaching or all hell will break loose over nothing
 
i saw the movie previews and was like "jeeze, this is what they think is gonna happen?" and has anyone else seen the commercials for that bunker they are building?
 
who would want to earth to end anyways? who would even settle with it ending and trying to predict when it'll happen? sick people
 
i watched a 2012 documentary on sunday for the heck of it and they say that 2012 will happen in a very convincing way. but there was another side that said that nothing will happnen. i'll stick with the nothin will happen
 
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