The premise of the disaster movie 2012 opening Nov. 13 is that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. Where did this prediction originate? Take your pick: Mayan, Hindu or Hopi prophesy; galactic realignment; Web bots; or polar reversal. In any event, the Internet is busily perpetuating pseudo science that NASA calls nothing less than bait-and-switch tactics. Here, eWEEK looks at some of the popular Internet doomsday theories.
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According to the movie 2012, the end of the Earth is at hand when the ancient planet Nibiru smashes into the Earth on Dec, 21, 2012. Feeding the end-of-the-world hype of the movie are Internet sites collaborating the movie’s premise. NASA says, not so fast.
– It’s a great story line: Nibiru,
a supposed planet discovered
by the Sumerians, is streaking toward an apocalyptic collision with the
Earth, a fiery doomsday linked to the end of one of the cycles in the
ancient Mayan
calendar at the winter solstice in 2012. Scientists, for their own dark
reas…
