NASA explains why 'the world won't end'

21 Dec 2012, 6:36 am   -   Source: SBS staff, NASA

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NASA has released a series of YouTube videos and blog posts on their website debunking the Mayan calendar speculations that the world will end tomorrow December 21, 2012.

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NASA has released a series of YouTube videos and blog posts on their website debunking the Mayan calendar speculations that the world will end tomorrow December 21, 2012.

One video titled “ScienceCasts: Why the world didn’t end yesterday” was scheduled to be published on December 22, the day after the “apocalypse”. But NASA “was so sure” the world wouldn’t end, they released the video more than a week earlier on December 11, 2012.



The video opens with: “"December 22, 2012. If you're watching this video, it means one thing. The world didn't end yesterday." NASA goes on to explain that the Mayan calendar is no different to the calendar that we use today.

"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."

In a more recent video, NASA’s senior scientist and astrobiologist, David Morrison reassures people by debunking several doomsday rumours.

“There’s a recent internet rumour that NASA has confirmed three days of total darkness on the earth starting December 22. Well, NASA doesn’t say that; nobody said it. It’s just one more crazy idea.”



NASA has also posted on their website doomsday-related information explaining in detail why the world won’t end.

NASA. , End Of The World , Mayan Calendar

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Yep...Shouldnt have got that big loan and maxed my credit cards

Davo - from Eatons Hill, 5 months ago

Was kinda convinced world would end, now I gotta pay back huge loan and fix up credit cards.

WW3

Doody - from Epping, 6 months ago

No way will it be the Mayans prediction that would end the world ,and Nasa knows that the real reason will be the USA wars that will end it

how dare the Mayas

phw - from canberra, 6 months ago

How dare the Mayas try to take away the privilege to end the world from NASA and the Americans?

bullshit

mark - from Adelaide, 6 months ago

I knew it wouldn't happen

feeling like an idiot

Sophia - from Brisbane, 6 months ago

I feel like an idiot for freaking out by this. i'm a 12 year old, so damn that mayan calendar for not making me sleep last night.

Bull****

brie - from Melbourne, Australia , 6 months ago

The whole thing was complete bullshit, I stayed awake half the night waiting to die, and guess what? Im still here! thanks mayans, now I had no sleep and you made a bunch of people feel like idiots...the day is almost over, so obviously I still have my whole life to live without it going up in flames or some shit.

Mr

whocando - from Perth WA, 6 months ago

If the world doesn't end today then I will have to get my act together and get down to the shops tomorrow to buy all the Christmas presents.

proof

M Green - from NSW, 6 months ago

How is the world gonna end at 12:12 if the world has diffrent time zones?. It can't end Bit by bit right?. Beside this is what hey said last year and the year before that and so on. In 1999 the said it was gonna end! how wrong were they?. I can't believe people are so gullible!

what have we learn from this

the bear - from maroochydore, 6 months ago

what have we learn from this children? nothing because the world well never end so go back and keep doing what ever that you were dong ok because it not the end of the world and it will never end

Not true...but worried!!!!!!!

Melissa - from Toronto, Ontario, 6 months ago

TODAY is the 21st, I'm scared! But I know its a huge hoax.

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