December 21, 2012: Review On The Mayan Apocalypse
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
The End Of The World
As December 21, 2012 fast approaches, doomsday-believers around the globe are bracing for what they believe will be the end of the world.
Chinese Invention: “Survival Pod” for December 21, 2012
A Chinese inventor built “survival pods” to help him through the mayhem in December 21, 2012. A contractor developed underground bunkers to safeguard their Italian owners. And fare finder website Skyscanner reports its customers are showing an increasing interest in one-way tickets to “Apocalypse safe havens.”
According to NASA, many Apocalypse fears originate in the belief that Niberiu, a planet allegedly discovered by the Sumerians, would hit planet Earth in May 2003. When the world did not perish, however, new claims were put forward that Nibiru would hit earth on December 21, 2012 — the day the Mayan long-count calendar end.
NASA has gone out of its way to rebuke the doomsday fears, arguing
“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.”
Several governments, too, have reassured their citizens that the Apocalypse is nowhere near. According to a New York Times report, Russia’s minister of emergency situations Vladimir Puchkov reassured the country’s citizens on Friday he is sure the world will not end in December 21, 2012 and that
“he had access to methods of monitoring what is occurring on the planet Earth.” And the Vatican’s top astronomer Rev. Jose Funes wrote in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that the doomsday predictions are “not even worth discussing.”
As we approach December 21, 2012 the world news will bring you live updates on the impending apocalypse — or lack thereof. Check back for the latest news leading up to and through the big event.