Nothing sells like fear and unfortunately every money grabbing crook from here to Australia knows it and they will feed off it like a bunch of rotten vultures out to feed on the vulnerable and desperate. The movie 2012 has hit the cinemas and officially turned the ‘world ending in 2012′ theories, global. Like the millennium bug before it, conspiracy theorists have decided than 2012 and not in fact 2000 is the year the world will end and you had better buy one of their books on how to survive it or be doomed. 21 December 2012 is the exact day just like 31 December 1999 was the exact day as well and this time it isn’t a mysterious bug, but a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long Count in the Mayan calendar that is coming to an end. The calendar contrived by an ancient but brilliant race of humans seemingly have been able to create a calendar that when it runs out will enrage the Sun and the rest of the Galaxy to such levels that they will turn on the Earth and beat it to a pulp. There is even a mystery but massive rogue planet that is going to join in the fun and ram earth presumably out of orbit.

But now NASA have came forward to ease our fears that all the different ways the world will come to an end in 2012 are nonsense and that you cannot just quit your job, sell your home and party hard for the next thirty seven months. The idea of doing that actually sounded quite appealing until tonight when I heard NASA’s ‘all clear’ message.

To begin with, astronomers agree, there is nothing special about the Sun and galactic center aligning in the sky. It happens every December with no physical consequences beyond the overconsumption of eggnog. And anyway, the Sun and the galactic center will not exactly coincide even in 2012.

If there were another planet out there heading our way, everybody could see it by now. As for those fierce solar storms, the next sunspot maximum will not happen until 2013, and will be on the mild side, astronomers now say.

So there you have it. 2012 the movie still looks a good one, but like Independence Day before it, it is nothing more than a good action movie. 

Below, NASA’s David Morrison, expert on Earth impact hazards and currently Interim Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute, speaks on what are the risk to Earth in 2012. Though the conspiracy people will warn you not to listen to him because he is part of NASA which is part of the big coverup. Of course, Mr. Morrison is happily going about his work safe in the knowledge that come December 2012 all his work will be for nothing, and we’ll be vaporized.

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