http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

Interesting read. Discuss.

Never believed the whole "world ending in 2012" anyway. People are all claiming the world will end at different times and when it doesn't, everyone just laughs at them. This one seems to have grown rather large though...

I find it more interesting that they are targeting the internet more then actually coming up with factual information. They haven't provide anything 'factual' in material from what I see in this article which is contradictory to what they are complaining about.

While I do believe they are right, I also feel they are also making things sound unrealistic by saying that "Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012." I'm sure something bad will happen just like any year.

Yay disproven.

Can't wait till people start saying the world will end in 2020.

We should spread a rumor that all humans will have 20/20 vision by 2020. XD

I think it's sad that people need NASA to confirm that the world isn't going to end in 1012.

All one has to do is look at history!

Good read. I found it helpfull for passing the time, too, as I get very bored very quick.

Nice find. I didn't believe it anyway, but its nice to be assured

I thought it was supposed to be 2021? Or was it 2022?

I don't really believe that anything extraordinary will happen. It is possible it could actually be something good, like the coming of a new age. Maybe the middle east issue is resolved. There is also the chance of something like Sarah Palin getting elected. That would pretty much be the end of the world.

Yey! London gets to host the olympics before the planet ends, Great!

I love the way you inserted your baseless political opinion into this thread. Great Job!

or 2023!:O 2024! 2025!
*goes on until reaches 20012*

OMG!
the world was supposed to end in 20012!
Not on 2012!

I heard about this, and read somthing about it =P
It has to do with the maya's, there calender ends at 2012.
I also read a theory from a professor that it would be possible that the world ends then, something to do that the eart, the sun and another thing are on a specific position. (not sure about this, it's a long time ago that i read it =O)

QFT, if there was a credible threat to the Monkeysphere we would have probably learned about it through a credible source at this stage.

I don't trust NASA that much, but whatever, I think something will happen 2012, but not along the lines of the 'End of the World.'

Did anyone seriously believe in it anyway?

Why should a government corporacy even NEED to adress this.

Ugh! Some people

Because the GOVERNMENT is afraid that people will go on a rampage in 2012, which would harm the GOVERNMENT and stop it's flow of TAX MONEY. That's pretty much the only reason they addressed this.

This is what I have been saying since the whole 2012 malarkey came about. I'm glad someone with a scientific degree agrees with me.

fail for all conspiracy theorists and doom-sayers

It was a joke, nobody actually expects her to get the nomination. Not even the majority of Republicans.

Like I said, I don't think anything special is going to happen. Just a lot of hype over nothing.

Gosh, I don't know. I mean, she can see Russia from her backyard. That's priceless political experience!

But lol my alcoholic Uncle (who also lives in Alaska) would prolly do a better job than anyone who's gotten the job in the past year or 12.

Well, regardless of what the evidence says, everyone is still going to have twitching nerves on this days....because the world will be going crazy thinking we're all going to die.

I'll just sit on the beach and play my guitar.
And then laugh when everyone realizes we're okay.

Why do you guys need NASA's opinion. The MAYANS are saying the world is not going to end in 2012. Source.

Disregard this.

if by chance anything does happen i hope it comething like zombies so i can have fun busting caps or some crap

Does it really take rocket science to disprove this? I think not.

I'll drink to that!

I knew the world wouldn't end, I thought people were just screwed up when understanding the mayan calendar, I had no idea there was another crazy idea connected to it.

I hope it ends tbh. Would be quite exciting.

I honestly never did believe it. This is just a confirmation from the government that nothing bad will happen.

Except you'll be dead. Unless after this "end", whether it be explosions, fire, or just a new era, you keep your conscious memories, you probably won't remember it. Especially if you're exploded.

Depending on your reaction to it (obviously), I wonder if the world ending would be exciting? Especially if you knew it was going to end and there was no hope of escaping it - would you just relax and watch it all unfold; cause I mean it would be useless to worry about it or go cry and hide somewhere....

Whoever thinks the world will end in 2012 is seriously just not normal. Yay for NASA.

Ok lets say it ended like in the movie 2012, that'd be rather exciting, till you die.

Yes... the London olympics... it's going to be a bit shit, tbh...

I'm glad some one bumped this so i could tell my story what happened today, So there i was at the store and all of a sudden this old dude starts screaming about how the world was coming to a end in 2012. He said a astroid was going to hit the planet and it would be all obama's fault. I'm thinking wow i don't like Obama's thinking on alot of things but i don't think he can control astroids. Was very funny.

He probably just did it for the lolz, or else he is mental.

I did never believe that the world would end in 2012. My brother was very superstitious, but I told him that it wouldn't happen. Seems that I was right.

Dear lord not on here too. I have been providing the facts about this load of crap since it started. I DO NOT believe in this idiotic, paranoid doomsday theory. Seriously, you look at your calendar and have freaking heart attack because its the LAST DAY OMG!! Thats what New Years day is for, most cultures have different days when the calendar resets, for the purpose of knowing the seasons, solstices, when to plant, when to harvest and where to go in the day, which holds true for everyone, yes, even the Mayans, who had a very long calendar made.

History aside, I believe that no-one on Earth will know the world is ending until it does. There is the chance of a solar flare, such as that in Knowing (minus the aliens, although it is possible{impossibility is just our excuse for not knowing everything}), in which case we wouldnt know we were being roasted alive until we were.