Wyatt the Odd  | 09 Nov 2009 4:51 p.m. PST |
Apparently enough conspiracy theorists have taken the viral marketing behind the remake of "When Worlds Collide", aka "2012", seriously enough that it is annoying NASA so they're debunking the myths behind the movie. link Now, all we need are the Mayans living in Central America to go on TV and tell the new agers that they've been misreading their calender. Wyatt |
| Wyatt the Odd | 09 Nov 2009 5:17 p.m. PST |
I spoke too soon. The Mayans are fed up with the whole 2012 thing themselves: link Wyatt |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 09 Nov 2009 6:32 p.m. PST |
As if it even needs debunking… Ahhh… upon reading the article, it looks suspiciously like the movie producers have manufactured 'concern' about this themselves, and the hoax in in itself a hoax. Every since Droga-bloody-5 pulled off that Air Force 1 graffiti hoax, every campaign wants a 'hoax' component. My guess is the studio's agency's 'digital influence' arm has been seeding this stuff, posting the questions to NASA themselves and then publicizing the responses in order to make it look as if their product is having an effect on the culture and hence encourage people to see it. Next up, the Greenwich observatory will debunk 'Brigadoon', and the Coast Guard will have to respond to rumours that 'Spongebob Squarepants' is a documentary. |
| crhkrebs | 10 Nov 2009 8:13 a.m. PST |
….and the Coast Guard will have to respond to rumours that 'Spongebob Squarepants' is a documentary. Excellent! LOL. Ralph |
| Scutatus | 10 Nov 2009 8:15 a.m. PST |
WE might know its all nonsense, but there are plenty of morons out there who are ignorant, gullible or paranoid enough to actually believe this ridiculous "end of the world" nonsense. Just as the "we never went to the moon" crap shows no sign of going away, just as the completely artificial millenium was supposed to see our end, so this balony too will likely go on until 2013 – and possibly even after. Just as with Nostaradamus, the millenium and the moon landings, no doubt unethical programme makers will exploit this latest delusional paranoia about 2012 and subject us to yet more laughably poor "have we been lied to? – Are we going to die?" crap that will no doubt "convince" more poor lost souls. Sometimes I wonder about people, I really do. The U.S in particular seems to have more than it's fair share of such delusional specimens. I wonder why that is? (that's no dig at the U.S mind, we have them here in Blighty too). How sad. |
| Hexxenhammer | 10 Nov 2009 8:25 a.m. PST |
The U.S in particular seems to have more than it's fair share of such delusional specimens. I wonder why that is? (that's no dig at the U.S mind, we have them here in Blighty too). It's because we were a refuge for kooks to flee to instead of hanging around in their home country being persecuted. The crazy has hung around in the culture. |
| Klebert L Hall | 10 Nov 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
The U.S in particular seems to have more than it's fair share of such delusional specimens. Not compared to Russia, or the Middle East.
-Kle. |
| GoodBye | 10 Nov 2009 9:21 a.m. PST |
I predict that on Dec 21st 2012 Dan Snyder will finally sell the Washington Redskins to a Native American Consortium that will rename them to the DC Honkies. At that time the air horn will become the official noise maker at Little Big Horn Stadium making it the noisiest place in the world to play American Rules Football. The Honkies will go on to win every home game for the next 12 seasons, until the Refs Union makes a class action lawsuit for hearing damage and mandates the name to be changed to the Liberians when the cheer will be "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Liberians everywhere will rejoice very quietly. |
| Daffy Doug | 10 Nov 2009 11:01 a.m. PST |
I predict that on Dec 21st 2012 I will still have my Xmas shopping to do…. |
| The Gray Ghost | 10 Nov 2009 12:21 p.m. PST |
Of course NASA debunked it they don't want people panicing for two years before the world ends. |
| Andrew Walters | 11 Nov 2009 9:27 a.m. PST |
I think we're hard wired to fear the end of the world. Nuclear holocaust, Y2K, global warming, population bomb, Ragnarok, Armageddon, Sauron getting ahold of the One Ring. Each religion has its own eschatology. We eat it up. It's an existential bogeyman sort of thing. NASA shouldn't lower themselves to debunk it. I mean, who's going to believe them? Those who appreciate science have probably already begun ignoring 2012, and the rest will merely take NASA's naysaying as further proof. And of course the Mayans are going to be in denial. Andrew |
| adub74 | 11 Nov 2009 10:03 a.m. PST |
"I predict that on Dec 21st 2012 I will still have my Xmas shopping to do…." Me too, and probably still won't know what to get the wife. :) |
| Steve Hazuka | 11 Nov 2009 5:44 p.m. PST |
Well I'm not going to renew any magazine subscriptions after 2011, why waste the money. |
| Last Hussar | 11 Nov 2009 7:42 p.m. PST |
What we are overdue for is a magnetic pole switch. While this happens we will have less protection from the solar wind. The process take on average 5,000 years, and the next one could be as close as 3500 CE, so it is unlikely any of us will complete our lead mountain in time. |
| Daffy Doug | 12 Nov 2009 2:37 p.m. PST |
? Are you claiming to have a lifespan of c. 1,500 years?… |
| blackscribe | 13 Nov 2009 3:40 p.m. PST |
I've been watching some of the documentaries about 2012 nuttiness. My favorite, so far, is the crew buying up old missile silos. They believe there will be a solar flare of such immense proportions that it will knock out Earth's magnetic field thus exposing us to cosmic radiation. They must not realize that if that were to happen, missile silos aren't deep enough to help much. |
