Most of the people all around the world are thinking that the world will end on Friday, 21st December, 2012. Dec., 21, 2012 is the day when the 5,125 years old Mayan Calendar ends and some people have interpreted it as Dooms day. For example the people in China have been buying tickets for a boat which will start sailing if the disaster strikes. In Russia, many people are stocking the regular consumable supplies to ensure that they are prepared for the emergency. And in Mexico, around 2,00,000 people are expected to flock to Chicken Itza, an ancient Mayan city as they are waiting for the world to end.
There is a wide spread and un necessary fear about the Dooms day on December, 21, 2012. Most of the people of the world are fearing about the end of the world on this day. Opinion polls in America also indicate one in ten persons have a fear whether they will be able to celebrate Christmas this year. A number of astronomical
alignments and formulae were proposed pertaining to this date but none has been
accepted by the scientific community.
So 21st December,
2012 will not be the end of
the World as all people are thinking but it will be another winter
solstice. I have gone through NASA website
where all the doubts regarding end of the world on 21st
December, 2012 were
answered by NASA scientists...
Here is a list of answers provided by NASA scientists for the questions related
to 21st December, 2012 -
Dooms day. I am just copying the questions and answers which were
published in the NASA website... This is for the benefit of the people
who are fearing about the end of world on 21st December, 2012.
Question (Q): Are there
any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end
in December 2012.
Answer (A):The world will not end in 2012. Our planet
has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible
scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a
supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This
catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the
doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one
of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 --
hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
A: 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 January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the
Mayan calendar.
A: Absolutely not. Neither NASA nor any other
scientific organization is predicting such a blackout. The false reports on
this issue claim that some sort of "alignment of the Universe" will
cause a blackout. There is no such alignment (see next question). Some versions
of this rumor cite an emergency preparedness message from NASA Administrator
Charles Bolden. This is simply a message encouraging people to be prepared for
emergencies, recorded as part of a wider government preparedness campaign. It
never mentions a blackout.
A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few
decades and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth
would be negligible. One major alignment occurred in 1962, for example, and two
others happened during 1982 and 2000. Each December the Earth and sun align
with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event
of no consequence.
Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are
an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or
Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012,
astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it
would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is
real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer
solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.
Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the Earth's crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. Scientists believe a magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia.
Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012?
A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by
comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was
65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today
NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find
any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined
that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the
dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day
on the NASA Near-Earth
Object Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is
predicted to hit in 2012.
Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of the world ending in 2012? A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.
Q: Is there a danger from giant solar storms predicted for 2012? A: Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.
The above questions and answers were copied from NASA Website..
