Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA

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Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA


December 19, 2012

If there's one government agency really looking forward to Dec. 22, it's NASA.

The space agency said it has been flooded with calls and emails from people asking about the purported end of the world — which, as the doomsday myth goes, is apparently set to take place on Dec. 21, 2012.

The myth might have originated with the Mayan calendar, but in the age of the Internet and social media, it proliferated online, raising questions and concerns among hundreds of people around the world who have turned to NASA for answers.

Dwayne Brown, an agency spokesman, said NASA typically receives about 90 calls or emails per week containing questions from people. In recent weeks, he said, that number has skyrocketed — from 200 to 300 people are contacting NASA per day to ask about the end of the world.

"Who's the first agency you would call?" he said. "You're going to call NASA."

The questions range from myth (Will a rogue planet crash into Earth? Is the sun going to explode? Will there be three days of darkness?) to the macabre (Brown said some people have "embraced it so much" they want to hurt themselves). So, he said, NASA decided to do "everything in our power" to set the facts straight.

That effort included interviews with scientists posted online and a web page Brown said has drawn more than 4.6 million views.

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Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA - latimes.com
 
Seriously, people. Let's think about this. Are we really expecting the world to end because a calandar ends? I've got a calandar that ends on December 31st this year. I don't expect the world to end. I expect to get a 2013 calandar.
 
Granny says, "Dat's right - leave it to the Chinese to take alla fun outta it...

Earthlings prepare for ‘end of world’
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 - LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW:The end of the world purportedly foreseen in the Mayan calendar has been a boon for the tourism, hospitality and bunker industries
Diehard doomsayers will be scurrying to the nearest shelter in fear of a Mayan prophecy of the world’s end tomorrow, but many more from Delhi to Sydney will ring in the date by partying like there is no tomorrow. One thing is certain: From off-the-shelf bunkers to “World’s End” menus or trips to esoteric hot spots, Dec. 21, singled out by the ancient Mayan “long count” calendar as the end of a 5,000-year era, has spelled big business worldwide. Across the Mayans’ ancestral homeland, a vast swathe of Central America that includes parts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, “The End of the World As We Know It” has been a shot in the arm for tourism.

Ancient Mayan sites will be buzzing with activity on Friday, hosting ritual reenactments, conferences and sound-and-light shows — often against the backdrop of protests by indigenous groups who complain their culture is being hijacked. However, elsewhere around the globe, there will be no shortage of shelters or shrines to host the fearful — or simply curious — crowds through the night. Apocalyptic-minded folk in Brazil can head to the village of Alto Paraiso, a place pulsating with “mystical energy,” as local lore would have it, which has been readying for the end for years.

An anti-Armageddon ceremony will take place on the Island of the Sun, in the middle of Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca, the highest in the world, where legend has it the founders of the Inca empire were born. And illuminati in Serbia are predicting that the pyramid-shaped mountain of Rtanj will glow on Friday night, which is also the solstice. The village of Sirince in western Turkey has also become an apocalyptic magnet, with all 400 hotels in the vicinity fully booked. It is reputed to be doomsday-proof because the Virgin Mary is said to have risen to heaven from there.

Likewise, the picturesque south Italian village of Cisternino, singled out by an Indian guru as a safe bet come the end of the world. Or there is France’s apocalyptic spot of choice, the Pic de Bugarach in the foothills of the Pyrenees, though the site is cordoned off to keep out the hordes, and a local hotel will set you back 1,500 euros (US$1,988) — payable in advance. Short of a sacred site to weather the doomsday storm, there is always the man-made option of a good old bunker. For 30,000 rubles (US$970) per head, the wealthiest Muscovites can check into a Stalin-era communications bunker 65m underground, which is offering 300 people a 24-hour experience called “A chance to survive.”

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World Won’t End on Friday, Chinese State Media Assure Nation
December 19, 2012 – Chinese authorities are trying to allay doomsday rumors that appear to be circulating quite widely in that county, and which police say were behind a frenzied knife attack on elementary school students last Friday.
Amid reports of panic buying and the arrest of members of an apocalypse-embracing cult, state-run media are quoting experts and others across a range of fields dismissing fears that the world will end on Friday, in line with some interpretations of a supposed ancient Mayan prophecy. Scientists from NASA and elsewhere have for months been debunking various theories, ranging from a looming planetary collision to “planetary alignment” causing a “total blackout” of Earth, but the message seems to be slow to take hold in parts of China.

On Tuesday, police in central China’s Hunan province said that a man who attacked an elementary school last week confessed that he believed “he was doomed and hoped to do things to make the world remember him before he died,” the state-run China Daily reported. Min Yongjun, 36, stabbed 23 students before being subdued by teachers and police. Police said none of those hurt were in critical condition. Min had reportedly been influenced by a 61 year-old local woman who is on the run. Police seized dozens of “doomsday” brochures from her house.

More than 100 members of a cult known variously as “Eastern Lightning” and “Church of Almighty God” have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumors of an impending apocalypse. Security officials in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, where some of the arrests took place, said the group’s adherents were telling people that December 21 would usher in three days of complete darkness, and that joining the cult alone could offer salvation. There would also be power failures over those three days, went the rumor – apparently the reason why in some counties stores’ supplies of candles and matches have been sold out.

Media have also reported on other actions taken by fearful Chinese, including property owners trying to sell for way below market value and a run on marriage license registrations for Friday. Citing reports from across the nation, the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times reported that the manager of a network technology has given his employees Thursday and Friday off to mark the “end of the world.” A man in far-west Xinjiang has spent the past two years and his life savings building an “ark” before an apocalyptic flood hits, while elsewhere an inventor has built a large yellow spherical vessel that he says is designed to withstand earthquakes, flooding, fire and radiation, and carries a year’s supply of food.

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since we are all going to die anyway.

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I'm sure my ex-wife is looking forward to Dec 21, 2012. She's a J.W., and she's been talking about this since 1965.
 
Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA


December 19, 2012

If there's one government agency really looking forward to Dec. 22, it's NASA.

The space agency said it has been flooded with calls and emails from people asking about the purported end of the world — which, as the doomsday myth goes, is apparently set to take place on Dec. 21, 2012.

The myth might have originated with the Mayan calendar, but in the age of the Internet and social media, it proliferated online, raising questions and concerns among hundreds of people around the world who have turned to NASA for answers.

Dwayne Brown, an agency spokesman, said NASA typically receives about 90 calls or emails per week containing questions from people. In recent weeks, he said, that number has skyrocketed — from 200 to 300 people are contacting NASA per day to ask about the end of the world.

"Who's the first agency you would call?" he said. "You're going to call NASA."

The questions range from myth (Will a rogue planet crash into Earth? Is the sun going to explode? Will there be three days of darkness?) to the macabre (Brown said some people have "embraced it so much" they want to hurt themselves). So, he said, NASA decided to do "everything in our power" to set the facts straight.

That effort included interviews with scientists posted online and a web page Brown said has drawn more than 4.6 million views.

Read more:
Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA - latimes.com

Well, we have a lot of willfully ignorant 'Conservatives' in this nation. What else would one expect.
 
Planning on waking up on the 22nd and fixing myself a Tequila Sunrise to celebrate the dawning of the new b'ak'tun. :cheers2:
 
Here's the problem. NASA refuses to admit it but their Mars Land Rover found a Mayan calender on the surface of the Red Planet and it begins on December 22, 2012.
It's obvious that the Mayans used their advanced technology to build a space craft and sent ancient astronauts to colonize Mars and save their civilization.
We're screwed.
 
Here's the problem. NASA refuses to admit it but their Mars Land Rover found a Mayan calender on the surface of the Red Planet and it begins on December 22, 2012.
It's obvious that the Mayans used their advanced technology to build a space craft and sent ancient astronauts to colonize Mars and save their civilization.
We're screwed.

Ancient Mayan temple?

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