Scientists at NASA have released their post-dated video that explains why they are so confident that the world will be here on December 22nd.
This from Gadling:
December 21, 2012, is a day that has been circled on the calendars of conspiracy theorists and doomsday soothsayers for quite some time now. That’s the day that the Mayan Calendar comes to an end, which has led some to believe that the world will be snuffed out along with it. If you buy into any of these theories, you’re probably already preparing for the end in whatever way you find most suitable, whether that means finding peace with your maker or preparing to party like it is literally your last day on Earth.
Before you do anything too rash, like go on a “there is no tomorrow” shopping spree or give away all of your worldly possessions, you may want to have a look at this video. It comes our way courtesy of NASA and explains in four short minutes exactly why the world isn’t coming to an end next week. It turns out that much like our own modern calendar, the Mayan version isn’t actually ending so much as it’s just rolling over to begin again. The rocket scientists (no, really they are!) at the space agency are so confident that we’ll all be here the day after the predicted cataclysmic event that they’ve even post-dated the video for December 22.
Read the full article at www.gadling.com.
NASA Video
Of course the conspiracy folks are all screaming things like, “If they were so confident that the world would not come to an end, why wouldn’t they wait until the 22nd to release a video titled “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday?” Now I fashion myself a conspiracy buff, but this arguement seems a little silly to me. If the scientists are wrong who will be here to say they were? If there is anyone left will they care what the NASA scientists said anyway? If an apocalypse happens on the 21st what are you going to do about it? There are 1000 different theories out there explaining how, when, and why it will happen. Can you do everything required to prevent them all?
Think of humans on Earth as bacteria swimming in the mouth of space after a drunken evening at the club. In the late morning space awakens and breaks out the mouthwash, swishes it around, and spits out the bacteria. Nothing the bacteria can do to prevent that. So space might just swish us around sometime and spit us out. I choose to continue creating halatosis in the mouth space until space spits. (I crack myself up sometimes with these.) Seriously, what could you do to prevent what you don’t know is coming? Since this is supposed to occur early on Friday, or there abouts, seems as good a reason as any to party. Since the 22nd is Saturday just gives you another reason to extend that party another day!








