2012: The end of sanity?

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2012: The end of sanity?

NASA’s Sr. Scientist David Morrison is a breath of sane air in all of this 2012 madness.  As the person who sees and answers all inquiries to NASA’s “Ask an Astrobiologist” he is having a rebuttal published.  He points out the absurdity in thinking a fictional planet, made up mind you by a scifi writer, will make it’s orbit, which apparently only happens every 3,600 years will collide with Earth.  He also mentioned that the original “collide” date was sometimes in May of 2003?  Yeah.  When that didn’t happen, they just moved the date up to coincide with the other, more popular dooms day 12/21/2012.

The only good article I found
A nice Q&A from NASA
Original PopSci article

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  3. rockethacker says:

    This is what happens when you make natural selection illegal.

  4. chobitsmaker says:

    Seriously ive spent the last 5 days since i have watched this movie going insane crawling the web for answers, Movies like this surgesting the world should end in this manner which is based on what is thought to be true predections should not be relised only for that fact that these predections may have a true element and in they way that the movie shows the world may end might also have a true element but im not quite sure that the world would end like it is interely discribed in the movie. I mean also why give people fulse hope of a boat x D as if that would even happen in real life is it in anyway possible. secondly lets just accept that if 2012 is real then so be it we are f***ed lets just enjoy what we have left and drink beer on our last day ! if it is not real we can wake up the next day on the 22 Dec 2012 and drink beer and have a laugh about how full of s*** the entire human race is. In conclusion f*** it f*** everything death is inevatble. Now who here thinks i should be in a mental instutution.

  5. terrywilson says:

    rockethacker, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Remind me one day to replace “This is” with “You are” and I'll go see if I can get myself smacked :)

    The next guest is Robert Godwin, IMHO evidence that humanity's sanity has already ended, especially when she calls him “author of” … the cover of the “NASA Mission Reports” books she refers to clearly say “Edited by”. Why? All the stuff in those books (at least the three that I purchased) was written by NASA and available online for free! If you have any doubts, here's a link to the bulk of Mars Volume 1:

    http://www.msss.com/mars/global_surveyor/mgs_ms...

    I bought the Apogee books edition because they are better and cheaper printouts than what I can accomplish myself. I made the mistake of purchasing “Rocket Science” by Alfred Zahringer. I've never seen a worse book, not even fiction that is less consistent when referring to its own hardware. In it, the Energia strap-on boosters are solid fuelled, and the Ariane boosters used LOX/Kerosene, although the book does have more correct information elsewhere in its pages. Michael Lennick's smaller and more recent, “Launch Vehicles” uses most of the images and captions from “Rocket Science” verbatim and without credit.

    If anyone believes that I'm wrong, please attempt to prove me wrong by finding and confirming as many correct facts as you can in “Launch Vehicles” and “Rocket Science”. I am quite certain that you will see my points if you do.

  6. djufo says:

    The story of a planet orbiting the sun every 3,600 years IS NOT a sci-fi story. It is information written by the Sumerian civilization on clay tablets around 5,000-6,000 years ago. The Sumerians, between other things, knew about the existance of every single plante in the solar system, its position, size and even apparent color. It is written in its original form , on clay. How “scientists” explain that? The do not know. So what is the best way to manipulate people? Well, it was labeled from its discovery as “mythology”; that word is magic; it makes anything that could be possible, impossible.

    The movie 2012, is clearly sci-fi, great effects, but most likely not what out future will be. Mayans end their calendar on december 21st 2012, just like the graphic of time created by chinese people thousands of years ago with the “I ching”. However, Mayans never mentioned that the world is going to end. Mayans believe that civilization has cycles of existance and change. So most probably 2012 will mark a change for the civilization, not necessarily something bad. It could be that we will discover time manipulation, or we will discover a brown dwarf outside the keuper belt…………
    I am more scared here by “scientists” because they follow the game. These movies, like Independence day, have a clear objective: desensibilize the population, and ridiculize certain topics. For example, every time you talk about the possibility of seeing a flying saucer, or thre possibility of having people coming from another planet, you are immediately ridiculized as sci-fi, independence day, x files, etc. Now, every time you talk seriously about any historical fact linking our civilization to any 2012 event, you will be ridiculized. Why? because a “scientist” said so. That is the real agenda here. Steer the sheeps. Be objective, do not believe “scientists”, do your own research, do not worship or follow anybody. Learn the power of reason, acquire as much knowledge as you can, be an absolutely independent being of energy in this dimension of time and space.

  7. hantonr says:

    Love the timely zoom-ins and zoom-outs! All in all great daily!