'Why the World Didn't End Yesterday': Confident NASA release Mayan apocalypse video TEN DAYS early
As 'zero hour' approaches, various theories have been posed as to how Planet Earth will meet its doom - all of which are disproved by NASA's film clip.One claims that Nibiru, a rogue planet discovered by the ancient Sumerians, will crash into Earth on December 21st, killing everyone.
Scientists, however, say there is no such planet.
Indeed, the video from NASA claims that all the apocalyptic theories are built on a massive misconception.
Dr. John Carlson, who is the Director of the Center for archeo-astronomy says the Mayan calender in fact does not end on December 21st 2012.
'There were no Mayan prophecies that foretold the end of the world,' said Dr. Carlson who has been studying the 2012 phenomenon 35-years ago.
'The concept of time used by Mayan's dwarfed those of modern astronomers.
Explaining that the Mayan calender resembles the odometer in a car, Dr. Carlson explains in the video that the calender simply 'rolls over' when it has reached a designated point so that it can repeat itself.
'This repetition is key to the 2012 phenomenon,' said Dr. Carlson.
'According to Maya theology the world was created 5,125 years ago on a date we would write August 11th, 3114 B.C
'13 baktuns or cycles will have elapsed since that date which will now reach zero, but no destructive prophecies match that point.'
Another theory claims that the earth's magnetic field will reverse producing dire consequences such as violent hurricanes and the loss of all electronic communication systems.
By James Nye, Daily Mail
NASA: Mayan Apocalypse a Myth, 2012 Won't be the End of the World
On November 28th, NASA scientists took to the Internet to battle the rumors and calm the hype associated with the widespread misinterpretations of the Maya calendar which comes to an end on the winter solstice thus ending a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun. Many people around the world have come to see this date as a prophesy of the apocalypse, while others simply find it humorous, but NASA isn't laughing.The event held on Google+ and throughout social media, with an invitation for Twitter followers to tweet any questions they may have to the #askNASA hashtag, was in response to emails and letters which have been pouring in to NASA from people dealing with severe anxiety related to end day fears, many of them from young people and some of them claiming to be suicidal.
The NASA website page and the video put out by NASA, debunk nightmare scenarios ranging from planet Niburu getting too close to the Earth, solar storms, catastrophic tidal effects caused by planetary alignments, meteors, and a massive shifting of the Earth's magnetic poles, to name a few.
By Tracy López, Fox News Latino
NASA Apocalypse Video Debunks Dec. 21 'End Of The World' Scare
“December 22, 2012. If you’re watching this video it means one thing. The world didn’t end yesterday,” the video begins. “According to media reports of an ancient Mayan prophecy the world was supposed to be destroyed on December 21, 2012. But look around you. The whole thing was a misconception from the very beginning.”NASA’s video explains in depth the ideas behind the Mayan calendar, likening it to a car’s odometer. At a certain point, the Mayan long-form calendar “rolls over” much as an odometer would at 100,000 miles. On Dec. 21, the calendar is supposed to roll over again, signifying the passing of 13 baktuns. Each baktun is more than 5,000 years. While this was significant for the Mayans, it wasn’t meant to be a harbinger of doom.
"The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth,” NASA wrote. “This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012—hence the predicted doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012."
Of course, Nibiru is not a real planet. If it were, and if it were anywhere near where doomsday predictions place it, NASA "would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye."
BY Eric Brown, The International Business Times