NASA Engineer Explains—Yet Again—Why the World Isn’t Ending

[pokerfan]

NASA scientist debunks 2012 end of the world doomsday scenarios.

2012 is shaping up to be an action-packed year for the Earth—it's scheduled to end on no less than three separate occasions! If the the black hole and supernova don't obliterate us, the mystical Mayan catastrophe surely will, right? Let's ask NASA.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab have produced the video above, featuring Don Yeomans. In it, Yeomans lays out a concise, articulate explanation of the workings of the Mayan Calendar system, the importance of December 21st (the presumed date of the end times), and why thinking that the world will end because of this is about as silly as worrying about the Y2K bug. Or The Rapture. Or Man-Bear-Pig. [NASA via Forbes via Gizmodo]

[HopeHoops]

1. Science is bunk. I'll watch FOX Noise if I want facts.

[WCGreen]

2. Well that's his opinion....

What do these pointy headed intilectuals know about anything.

I bet he voted for Obama and hates god.

[VWolf]

3. This guy is no fun.

How can wily entrepreneurs expect to profit off the huddled masses if they're not scared shitless?

[Fuddnik]

4. I'd still keep an eye out for Man-Bear-Pig.

[Pangolino]

8. That's a good idea -

all of his sponsors haven't deserted him yet.

[LongTomH]

5. Still, 12-12-2012 will be a great opportunity for 'End of the World Parties'

Betcha there will some apocalyptic hangovers on 12-13!

[wxgeek7]

6. 2012 movie

Stupid movie, but neat special effects.

[MisterP]

7. I cannot recommend enough "The Conquest of Mexico" by Serge Gruzinski and

"How to Write the History of the New World" by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

they paint the late Native American world and then show how subsequent centuries of study conceptualized and reconstructed that world

[AsahinaKimi]

9. There is this rumor going about that

The earth has already ended...and what we are experiencing hasn't reached our minds as yet. Its like this slow trip on....


okay okay, I just made this up.

[bluecoat_fan]

10. whoa!

[freshwest]

11. Ah, I think that one's been around for a while, though. And somedays, I agree with this guy:

“I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.”

Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet