NASA is so certain that the world will not end it produced a video, with the release date of December 22 but that was anticipated, explain why the end of the world did not happen. Watch the video.
"Why the World Didn't End Yesterday" is the title of the video from NASA, whose release is anticipated, at a time when one in five Americans believe the world ends on June 21 and there are many people traveling to places considered "shrines" to save himself.
"Why the World Didn't End Yesterday" is the title of the video from NASA, whose release is anticipated, at a time when one in five Americans believe the world ends on June 21 and there are many people traveling to places considered "shrines" to save himself.
Over four minutes, a narrator NASA explains that the alleged Mayan prophecy that underlie the apocalyptic rumors start from a misinterpretation.
John Carlson has spent the last 35 years studying the subject and points out that the Mayan civilization had great astronomers and developed a written language, but what impressed was its extensive sense of time.
The Mayan calendar is designed to record very long time intervals. It's like an "odometer" that when their exhausted digits returns to zero again, explains John Carlson. The end of the calendar does not mean the world will end, but that a new count will begin. Herein lies the key of rumors about the end of the world, he adds.
According to astronomer Don Yeomans, no comet or asteroid has Earth in its path. Nor are there planets wandering through the cosmos that will collide with our planet. If there were, the astrobiologist David Morrison notes, would be one of the brightest objects in the sky ever observed.
John Carlson has spent the last 35 years studying the subject and points out that the Mayan civilization had great astronomers and developed a written language, but what impressed was its extensive sense of time.
The Mayan calendar is designed to record very long time intervals. It's like an "odometer" that when their exhausted digits returns to zero again, explains John Carlson. The end of the calendar does not mean the world will end, but that a new count will begin. Herein lies the key of rumors about the end of the world, he adds.
According to astronomer Don Yeomans, no comet or asteroid has Earth in its path. Nor are there planets wandering through the cosmos that will collide with our planet. If there were, the astrobiologist David Morrison notes, would be one of the brightest objects in the sky ever observed.
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