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Uncategorized Tuesday, December 18th 2012 at 3:00 pm

NASA Releases Video Dated 12/22/12 Explaining Why We Didn’t Die

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Friday’s the big day! December 21st, 2012. The day we supposedly all die as foretold by ancient Mayan prophecy. Except that it wasn’t actually foretold by a prophecy, and we’ll all be fine. Well, statistically, some of us won’t be fine, but the world as a whole won’t end. So says NASA, so say we all. NASA is so confident the world won’t end on 12/21/12 that they’ve already released a video from the future to explain why didn’t all die. That takes courage, but it’s not like there will be anyone left alive to call them on it if they’re wrong.

The video is titled “ScienceCasts: Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday.” If it were up to us “DON’T PANIC!” would have been thrown in there as well, but that’s just us. In it, Dr. John Carlson, who is the director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, calls the whole 2012 doomsday prophecy a “misconception from the very beginning. The Maya calendar did not end on Dec. 21, 2012, and there were no Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date.”

In the video, NASA compares the Maya Long Count Calendar to the manual odometer in a car. When the odometer reads 99,999 miles, and then goes one mile more, it ticks over to 00,000 and starts over, but that doesn’t mean the car explodes.

December 21, 2012 is the day that the Maya Long Count Calendar will “roll over” and start again, but Carlson says there is nothing supporting the idea that the Mayans believed this would mark the end of the world. Other NASA scientists debunk specific end-of-the-world scenarios like an asteroid or rogue planet smashing into the Earth. You can see the full video here:

We’re more than willing to take NASA’s word on this, so we don’t think the world will end on Friday, but if they have access to videos from the future then things could easily turn into a Back to the Future II-esque alternate reality where NASA uses their knowledge of the future to open a casino and marry our moms, and that could be even worse than the world ending.

(via Science@NASA)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/caolansopfc Caolan Mc Kiernan

    will it is only the 18th

  • Anonymous

    Where are the lottery numbers for the 21st? Make yourself USEFUL for once NASA. Tang(tm) and velcro aren’t enough.

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.giachetti Paul Giachetti

    Methinks NASA doth protest too much… they know something.

  • Liggerstuxin

    Some people actually believe this. Cause the Myians were such an advanced scientific civilization? What’s with all the sacrifices and all. If you believe this, then you deserve all the anxieties that would cause.

  • MaggieC2ditto

    I don’t believe the Mayans predicted the end. If there is a calendar that ends
    on this day it is probably the day the Spanish wiped them all out so they
    just didn’t have anymore time to work on it. Sad but maybe true.

  • Anonymous

    nothing happened so they mayans lied we had heavy rain people need to stop believing this crap you goin to give yourself an ulcer we still alive

  • dinocolightyear

    yeah however did anyone realise that 2013? the unlucky number?
    that and also most of us just take someones word for somthin’ and just believe it honestly make any random news up and shout it down the street how many people believe you

  • e

    After I was hit by a car on Oct 27th 2012, I looked up and saw the number 12:22 just like on one of those old flip clocks. I saw the accident before it happened but there was nothing I could do about it. a month later I came home from the hospital and wrote a poem; In the poem I refered to myself as “son of man.” Never having picked up a bible or having any religious influence I did a google search of 12:22 and there it was 12:21, 12:22 book of ezekiel. God spoke.. In my vission, I saw myself die because I wasn’t wearing a helmet, I never wore a helmet exept for this day and this day I lived.