Why is NASA, of all government agencies, so concerned about 12-21-12 that they felt compelled to make a video debunking it?
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by SBMcG
Why is NASA, of all government agencies, so concerned about 12-21-12 that they felt compelled to make a video debunking it?
Cause of things like this, this[/u rl], [url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/fearful-teen-commits-suicide-on-eve-of-harold-campings-rapture-50542/]this and and this.
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Why not some other government agency? What does NASA have to do with Mayans?
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by SBMcG
Why not some other government agency? What does NASA have to do with Mayans?
Maybe you should ask what the Mayan calendar has to do with space first...
Why not the Department of Homeland Security?
Why not the DOD?
Why not some other nebulous government entity with a lower profile?
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by SBMcG
Why not the Department of Homeland Security?
Why not the DOD?
Why not some other nebulous government entity with a lower profile?
Doomsday scenarios are either religious or pseudo-scientific in nature:
Considering one of the heads of DHS when it was first formed, got their education from a diploma mill, I'm doubting their scientific team is apt enough to debunk much of anything.
DOD, focused on other things, they're the centre of the war machine, or the military industrial complex. I wouldn't want DOD handling civilian matters, would you?
NASA... Again. Most likely choice.
Originally posted by SBMcG
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by SBMcG
Why not some other government agency? What does NASA have to do with Mayans?
Maybe you should ask what the Mayan calendar has to do with space first...
No, I get the whole thing about the Mayan calendar and space...
But why NASA?
When did they become the debunking arm of our government?
NASA scientists took time on Wednesday (Nov. 28) to soothe 2012 doomsday fears, warning against the dark side of Mayan apocalypse rumors — frightened children and suicidal teens who truly fear the world may come to an end Dec. 21.
Thus NASA's involvement. The space agency maintains a 2012 information page debunking popular Mayan apocalypse rumors, such as the idea that a rogue planet will hit Earth on Dec. 21, killing everyone. (In fact, astronomers are quite good at detecting near-Earth objects, and any wandering planet scheduled to collide with Earth in three weeks would be the brightest object in the sky behind the sun and moon by now.)
"There is no true issue here," David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, said during a NASA Google+ Hangout event today (Nov. 28). "This is just a manufactured fantasy.
Real-world consequences
Unfortunately, Morrison said, the fantasy has real-life consequences. As one of NASA's prominent speakers on 2012 doomsday myths, Morrison said, he receives many emails and letters from worried citizens, particularly young people. Some say they can't eat, or are too worried to sleep, Morrison said. Others say they're suicidal.
"While this is a joke to some people and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly concerned," he said.
Other rumors — that the Earths magnetic field will suddenly reverse or that the planet will travel almost 30,000 light-years and fall into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy — were also dismissed. (A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about 6 trillion miles, or 10 trillion km.)
Originally posted by RUFFREADY
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Hmmm. So, by that logic, were there a nation-wide outbreak of mad cow disease, the Department of Commerce would be responsible for damage control.
C'mon, man... Why is NASA going to all the trouble to put out a video debunking the Mayan 12-21-12 "myth"?
Sorry, bro', but this doesn't smell right to me.
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Originally posted by SBMcG
reply to post by boncho
All very well taken, and thank you for your sourcing.
But government doesn't "debunk" other apocalyptic claims. The last time I checked, the Department of Labor hadn't put out a video on the book of Revelation and the Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Sorry, dude -- this NASA 12-21-12 is a little funky.
