Top scientist are stepping forrader to drive out rumors that the cosmos is terminate in 2012 , combat a undulation of Internet craze that cooccur with the selling frenzy forRoland Emmerich‘s river - of - schlock masterpiece 2012 . One NASA scientist with aprominent internet site , David Morrison , says he used to get a question a week about the public finish in 2012 , and now he contract a dozen a Clarence Day . Adds Morrison : “ Two teenagers said they did n’t want to see the last of the world so they were recollect of end their lives . ” You hear that , Emmerich ? Your work is n’t just scar our retinas , it ’s labour teenager to suicide !
( A voice for Sony Pictures denies that the movie ’s merchandising is ramping up our hysterical neurosis about the real - life end of the world , of course of instruction . )
So Morrison and other prominent scientist are standing up to expose the 2012 rumor — in particular , anthropologists say that the fact the Mayan calendar end in 2012 just means it rolls over , like an odometer . ( Or like your information processing system ’s clock prior to Jan. 1 , 2000 . So maybe this is the Mayan version of the Y2 K trouble ? )
The most hilarious part of the Los Angeles Times article on the subject is the lean of crazy theories about how the worldly concern will end , all of which would make good movies than Emmerich ’s :
[ There ’s ] the persistent Internet rumor that a major planet call Nibiru orPlanet Xis going to barge in into the Earth … Besides fearing a rampaging satellite , the worriers think the Sunday might lash out at the Earth with some calamitous electromagnetic violence . They also fear that some sort of alignment between the Earth and the centre of our galaxy could let loose cataclysm .
I want a movie about Planet X and Nibiru team up up to crush us . Oh , and the other secure part ? There ’s a fancy newfangled terminus for awe of the cosmos cease in 2012 : “ Cosmophobia . ” [ Los Angeles Times ]
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