NASA says the Mayan doomsday prophecy isn't gonna happen. NASA scientists have posted a four-minute video explaining their findings, in an effort to answer hundreds of calls and emails they receive daily about the end of the world.
Research shows that the Mayan long-count calendar is like the odometer on a car. Because the digits rotate, the calendar has the ability to repeat itself, which is key to the 2012 phenomenon. None of the thousands of Mayan ruins that archaeologists have examined foretell an end of the world. And NASA agrees:
- Don Yeommens, head of NASA’s Near-Earth Object program says: “No known asteroids or comets are on a collision course with earth. Neither is a rogue planet coming to destroy us.”
- NASA Astrobiologist David Morrison adds: “If there was anything out there like a planet headed for earth, it would already be one of the brightest objects in the sky. Everybody on earth could see it. You don’t need to ask the government. Just go out and look. It’s not there.
- A researcher from NASA’s Living With a Star program adds: “The sun is not a threat either. The sun has been flaring for billions of years long before the Maya existed, and it has never once destroyed the world. Right now, the sun is approaching the maximum of its 11-year activity cycle. But this is the wimpiest solar cycle of the past 50 years. Reports of the contrary are exaggerated.
