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April 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 22/04/2010 11:27 PM Page 40 40 All Will Be Well on 12.22.2012 & Thereafter Will the world end in 2012? Written by Robert Douglas Well let’s break down 5 possible reasons why 2012 will not be the end of the World as we know it. Hold on to your seats as you’re taken through a scientific journey into 2012. Remember the Y2K scare? Everyone and their momma’s were bracing for a worldwide computer crash that could’ve set off nuclear missiles, ending life on earth, but nothing happened. Why? Because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation? NASA scientists have studied Earth long enough to know this. The world will not end on Dec. 21, 2012 despite what the Mayan calendar shows us. Here’s 5 reasons why: 1. Just like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed as well and the science of the end of the Earth has been studied thoroughly. So when asked if the Mayan calendar is true, here’s what scientists at NASA have to say: “Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then, just as your calendar begins again on determined that there are no threatening THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO January 1, another long-count period begins for asteroids as large as the one that killed the the Mayan calendar.” dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the & TV SHOW discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO 2. When asked could some kind of phenomena Program Office website, so you can see for FAC*toids occur where planets align in a way that could yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in impact Earth, Nasa says no, not in the next few 2012.” FIRSTS decades anyway. “There are no planetary alignments in 5. Is there a danger from giant solar storms the next few decades, Earth will not cross the predicted for 2012? Uhh uhh. First Telephone Call from Earth to the Moon: galactic plane in 2012, and even if these “Solar activity has a regular cycle, with President Richard Nixon called the crew of alignments were to occur, their effects on the peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969. Earth would be negligible. Each December the activity peaks, solar flares can cause some Earth and sun align with the approximate interruption of satellite communications, Steve Jobs introduced his first iPod on October center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an although engineers are learning how to build 23, 2001; it cost $400.00. Since then, more than annual event of no consequence.” electronics that are protected against most solar 173 million units have been sold, with the iPod storms. But there is no special risk associated Shuffle going just $79.00. 3. Will Planet X or Eris approach the Earth and with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur threaten our planet with destruction? in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to On June 4, 1927, millionaire Charles A. Levine “Nibiru and other stories about be an average solar cycle, no different than was the first passenger on a transatlantic flight wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is previous cycles throughout history. leaving the United States. no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter Convinced yet? First album released on compact disc: Billy with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have Joel’s 52nd Street, on October 1, 1982. been tracking it for at least the past decade, and NASA says, “Where is the science? Where is it would be visible by now to the naked eye. the evidence? There is none, and for all the First electronic computer: the ENIAC - Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is fictional assertions, whether they are made in Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain books, movies, documentaries or over the It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 and cost in the outer solar system; the closest it can come Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. $500,000 to build. to Earth is about 4 billion miles.” There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events Johnson & Johnson introduced the first 4. When asked if the Earth is in danger of being taking place in December 2012.” decorative Band-Aid in 1951. hit by a meteor in 2012? It is unlikely. “The Earth has always been subject to There you have it. Five reasons why the world Year the first home video game console went on impacts by comets and asteroids, although big will not end in 2012! sale: 1972. hits are very rare. 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