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NASA Refutes '2012' End of the World Claims
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NASA has set up a faq page refuting some of the claims made by people who believe that the world will end on December 21st, 2012 because the date is the end of a cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar. The Mayan doomsday scenario is the subject of a new film by Roland Emmerich, 2012.
Some of NASA’s responses to various 2012 claims should be obvious to anyone with a modicum of education. For example, there is not a planet or brown dwarf star called Nibiru on its way to wreck mayhem on the planet. Astronomers would have been tracking such an object for years were it so. Nor is the Earth at risk from planetary alignments, solar storms, or sudden shifts in the Earth’s rotation.
At least one Mayan tribal elder would tend to agree with NASA, that the date of December 21st, 2012 is just a date on the calendar and not the end of the world. That will not stop New Age cultists, Internet nuts, and German born film directors from cashing in.
2012 will not be the first film Roland Emmerich has created with questionable science. His previous work, 10,000 BC depicted wooly mammoths and cave men coexisting with a proto Egyptian civilization. The Day After Tomorrow supposed an instant ice age being caused by global warming, a claim too ludicrous for even the most extreme climate change hysteric.
But one, after all, does not go to a film like 2012 for the science, or at least one shouldn’t. One goes to see destruction on a mass scale, including apparently California literally sliding into the sea. The way to approach a film like 2012 is to look awe struck at the CGI induced deaths of billions and then later pick the film apart over chicken wings and burger sliders. Both makes for a fun Friday evening.
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