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December 21: Doomsday or Just Another Day
We turn to local sky and star watchers for their take on the predicted big unplug — the end of the world, Dec. 21, 2012.
The prediction has loomed as a popular culture milestone the past several years now. The kind of milestone that marks no more miles. A coming attraction to end all coming attractions. The big unplug. The world ends on Dec. 21, 2012. The apocalyptic forecast points to, among other things, the Mayan calendar, and its supposed end. Poppycock, says the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. "Their (the Mayan) calendar does not end on Dec. 21, 2012," a lab spokesman said earlier this year. "It's just the end of the cycle and the beginning of a new one. "It's just like on Dec. 31st, our calendar comes to an end but a new calendar for the next year begins on Jan. 1st." The lab goes on to rebuff other theories — a …
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Gizmo
8:48 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Hey, I think if it's your time there's not alot you can do about it. But I wouldn't max out my credit cards because of this story and think I was getting away with something-lol. more ›