World Not Ending in 2012, says NASA

Too funny that people actually believe this that NASA has to comment..........



http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/22/nasa-debunks-2012.html

Oct. 22, 2009 -- Contrary to what you may read on the Internet, the world is not going to end in 2012. A rogue planet named Nibiru is not on a collision course with Earth. And a solar flare won't toast the planet.

It's all fiction, though the makers of the film "2012" may lead you to think otherwise.

"I don't have anything against the movie. It's the way it's been marketed and the way it exploits people's fears," NASA scientist David Morrison at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., told Discovery News.

Morrison has launched a counter-attack through his "Ask An Astrobiologist" online column, which he says has gotten more than 1,000 questions about the end of the world.

Scientific misinformation about 2012 has been ramping up for a few years, with more than 200 books and 1,000 Web sites purporting to explain various doomsday scenarios. Sony Pictures is behind a particularly viral campaign to build publicity for its upcoming apocalyptic movie "2012," which debuts on Nov. 13.

The company has set up an interlinked family of Web sites and Facebook pages to infuse a sense of reality to its fictional work.

The lead character in the film, played by actor John Cusack, for example, is the faux author of a faux book about a murder, conspiracy and disaster aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, which, coincidentally, is poised for launch on a space station construction mission the weekend the movie debuts.

The fictional fiction, named "Farewell, Atlantis," has a Web site, a Facebook page to follow "author appearances," fans and friends, a faux publisher with a faux Web site, a faux press release and endorsements from the very real son of the late Carl Sagan.

There's also a fake institute that presumably dispenses "real" science supporting the movie's claims, as well as a fake news website that distributes fake press releases about a fake aerospace company winning government contracts.

Warren Betts, owner of a California-based publicity firm that peddles real science stories tied to movies, says the type of marketing campaign Sony is executing for "2012" is nothing new.

"It's been done before," said Betts, citing the 1999 horror movie "The Blair Witch Project," a story about a group of amateur documentary film-makers who have a really bad couple of days in the woods.

"Some people went to that movie and they thought it was reality, that it was an actual documentary," Betts said.

Morrison says Sony has crossed a line with promoting "2012."

"I think people are really, really worried about the world coming to an end. Kids are contemplating suicide. Adults tell me they can't sleep and can't stop crying. There are people who are really, really scared," he said.

"People are very gullible," he added. "It a sad testimonial that you need NASA to tell you the world's not going to end."

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People didn't listen to me when I told them that World is not coming to an end, only highest father of all in the universe know when will world come to an end, those people are using them as fear, that's not funny.

Wait until you see this, people! You will learn hard lesson that world is not ending!!!!:smt011

Fucking idiots. I'm not laughing.

 

Wait a minute...


NASA burned 85 million [billion?] to crash into the moon to see if there was any water up there now they what me to trust that they can tell if a planet is headed towards Earth???


If I didn't believe the world was ending in2012....
I believe it now.


Thanks NASA.:smt023

 

You have a point - my disbelief in Hollywood fiction does not create an opposing belief in NASA's 'facts'. There are BILLIONS of rocks flying around the heavens, but the fact remains, the Earth is billions of years old, and in that time has been struck many times by objects too large to punch through the atmosphere and cause damage to the ecosystem.

Very few of them have caused appreciable damage, and by all statistics we aren't due another event for another billion years or so.

 

Pfft. Everyone knows if a rock or planet big enough to kill us all is gonna crash into us all we gotta do is send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up there and they'll take care of it for us.

 

I didnt know NASA suddenly became God and could tell when the world will end any more than some other human being able to predict.

i will stick with God and wait for his time not NASAs thanks

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA!!!!!!

 

Sad mufuckas believe that shit. It's hella funny. When my and my friends were talking about 2012, we were like "man, if that 2012 shit is real, we're gonna get so fucked up. We're gonna do acid, smoke peyote, get drunk and shroom while we wait for the world to end."

 

Do you speak with god often?

 

...hey, it's not funny! They already did it once, that means they can do it again!!!!



right? .....right?!

ahhh, I loved that movie.

 

Send Ben. Bruce is too important. :smt036

 

I am completely convinced the government is hiding something from us. Have you guys read how many rich people are building space shuttles and launch sites? Space tourism my ass. They know something. :-|

 

Well, if we do experience a World War 3, it could be of catastrophic proportions.

If nuclear bombs/advanced explosives are used... well.. you know the rest.

They will need a place to retreat.


Or...

I dunno?

 

I kid with that at work all the time. I tell guys I am convinced the space tourism start ups are really to launch all the rich folk into space to avoid an impending disaster the government wont tell us about. Makes for good fodder. :smile:

 

This was almost as bad as the Y2K scare back in 1999.:smt042

 

I had to come in and work that Y2K night "just in case".
Not one cumputer crashed.

 

Reminds me of people bringing back talk of the Illuminati conspiracy. Lots of paranoia and conspiracy talk around these days.

 

yes, i pray daily. in christianity prayer means talking with God.

 

Space shuttles? who are building space shuttles?

As far I know the one in service at Nasa are scheduled for decommission in 2010.

 

I actually consider funny that some people belive the world are going to end.

Let me see how many times did "prophets" annonuce the end of the world in this few years? 1999 then pushed to y2000 then 2003 then 2006 and now 2012 :smt042

Lol the world are not going to end anytime soon.