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It’s kind of sad when good, hard working scientists have to spend some of their valuable time explaining to people things like: Santa is not real, the moon landing was, and the world will not actually end in 2012 because there’s a movie where that happens.

Yet that is precisely what NASA has found themselves doing as they recently launched a page on their website that is dedicated to debunking the myth that the world will end in 2012. The rising fear is apparently tied to the upcoming theatrical release of “2012,” a movie with that prospect as its premise.

The basic idea behind the world ending in 2012, comes from a couple things. One, is that the ancient Mayan civilization, who were expert mathematicians and astronomers, had their calendar end in 2012 which to some is an indication that they knew the world would end then. This isn’t exactly true though and even if it was it hardly seems like a good reason to panic.

The Mayan calendar ending was combined with a prediction from the ancient Sumerians that the world would end in 2003 due to Earth colliding with another planet. When that didn’t happen it was just bumped up to 2012 to match with the Mayans. It’s like science only dumber!

For those of you who are still worried that the ancient Mayans (a people who had wheels on their kids’ toys but who never thought to use them for transport purposes – just sayin’) knew something that none of the combined scientists of the world agree with, well you’re just going to have to live in terror until 2013 when you can find something knew to be scared of. Or better yet, check out the NASA 2012 site and have your fears eased by scientists, rather than stoked by Hollywood.

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