NASA 2012 predictions

Over the past few weeks, we've heard more and more about 2012 when, according to some, the world will end. Responding to all that talk with a healthy dose of skepticism, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have launched a Web page to dispel the myths surrounding the momentous occasion.

On an FAQ page called, "2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?" NASA wrote that much like the Y2K scare a decade ago, the end of the world won't come in 2012.

"Impressive movie special effects aside, December 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know," NASA scientists wrote on its 2012 page. "It will, however, be another winter solstice."

According to NASA scientists, "nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012." The scientists wrote on the page that "our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."

But it's further down on the page where the scientists bring out the big guns. They said although the myth surrounding 2012 contends planets will align and crash into Earth, "there are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence."

In the end, it was a simple comment from NASA senior research scientist Don Yeomans that might sum up the agency's feelings on 2012: "There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV, and the movies is not based on science."

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

Hmmm.. its seems the hooplah surrounding this 2012 thing was great enough to warrant a response from NASA! I never realy believed the myth. There were alot of theories surrounding the circumstances of how the world would end. The myth is from an old Mayan prediction that the earth will end in December 2012. For those of you that don't know, the Mayans were an ancient civilization that existed around 4000 years ago (i think). The were lauded for building the most technologically advance pyramids of their time. They mysteriousy disappeared without any indication. The circunstances surrounding the end of their existance remains a mystery up to this day..
Anyways the prediction did not say "how" the world would end, only "when". Some people speculated that there is a 10th rogue planet in our solar system (Planet X) that would colide in the earth. Others speculated that all the planets would line up and some effects of that woudl cause the end of the world. Also, some theorized that the sun would produce a massive flare so powerful the resulting radiation would de-stabalize the earth's core and cause devastation of cataclysmic proportions. As you can see there are alot of theories.

hmmmm.... I know about the mayan one but i didnot know about planet x. Its very interesting to hear all the theories but we humans do not know when the world is going to end. we do not have such knowledge

nex ting yuh kno dey sayin micheal jackson alive and he livin by elvis and jim henson........

Nah, he's probably kickin it with James Brown, Tupac and Biggie! Where-ever they are, I bet they're having one hell of a party! lol.

haahah lol
You know the theory is crock when nobody knows where they get the info and the names for these things.. a real theory at least has real data..