If someone actually fell for the whole 2012 thing, or this lady's comments on the radio, they don't really deserve to live. I'd prefer that was another set of DNA that was no longer swimming in the gene pool.

What language are you using?

What language are you using?

Yes, another product of our nation's education system. It makes one wonder how we ever put a man on the moon.

i recall an old story about CHICKEN LITTLE. The sky is falling,The sky is falling!!!!

Another misleading headline, and this might be the biggest yet: It neglected to mention that she had made her prediction AS A JOKE.

Y2K +12?

GM Chris

We may as well have fun over all of the hoopla because if 12/21/12 is the end, we won't know it anyway because we're all dead. Besides, it gives some of us something to grin and chuckle about with some of the vine viewpoints!

On the other hand, if it doesn't happen and the world "renews" itself on 12/22/12, then we can look forward to the next "predicted" cataclysmic event and all the doom-sayers beliefs.! Live, love, laugh and be happy.

WOOT!!! Time to go max out my credit cards and quit my job and enjoy the next two weeks...Oh wait, I've already done that...well, except the quit my job part...we are on winter break....DAMN...so much for that idea!! LOL

Right on trust, Y2k + 12. But you forgot to explain that equation...(Why 2 thousand idiots and 12 of their friends actually believe the world is going to end) LOL

And I love the article in the middle of this one about NASA's input. REALLY???????? We pay you guys millions upon millions of dollars to debunk what the majority of us already know. Go write a paper telling me why Pluto is not a planet now, in layman's terms so I can understand it. Remember what Einstein said, "If you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it well enough."

@zapain: Many people did just that in the spring because of that doomsday guy. Many people are easily tricked and stories like this aren't really helping matters. I'd like to see all of these end of the world guesses disappear for good. It's just a way to get money and/or fame.

Cassandra , did you even read the headline ?

maybe not so much a disaster but a world wide economic collapse is quite possible. better watch out all those people on the dole are going to come looking for you. maybe all you bloggers should put your address's for all to see, so they can visit. lol

@ zapain Pluto was created from a small chunk of iron, nickel, from the crust of our red giant Sun, when internal pressures caused the crust to explode, revealing our current yellow Sun. The chunk of solar crust struck Neptune, tilting the planet on it's axis and accumulating massive amounts of ice. The asteroid belt, and our moon, are residual matter from this event. The Great Rift Valley, a 6,000 mile gouge in the Earth's crust, is where the, what is now the core of our moon, grazed the Earth, tilting our planet 3 degrees, rolling across the planet, accumulating soil, and synchronizing rotation.

The same people who did not realize this was a joke from the get go are the same fools who think everything they hear on Fox News is the truth. Good God people. Lighten up and grow a brain!

Cassandra, post 1.5 (Exhibit A on grow a brain. D'oh!) YOU MUST NOT HAVE READ THE HEADLINE

The word joke is in the title of this article! Learn to read or at least comprehend before posting.

jack from Jax

We may as well have fun over all of the hoopla because if 12/21/12 is the end, we won't know it anyway because we're all dead.

She must not know what happened when Orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds on a radio show in 1938.

Note to everyone who thinks the world will end this year: Send me your stuff.

...and the sad part is Cassandra's post 1.5 has more thumbs up than any other post.

Maybe are doomed? There are too many sheeple.

Steamie2010

you say that like the other news stations are any better. Anyway isnt the whole theory of the Mayan prediction basically based on the fact their calendar stopped there? Could that just be because they were wiped out before they added to it?

What I heard is that the Mayan elders today predict that there will be a new change within our conscious and we will begin to perceive the world differently.

ma·ya (mäyə)

1. The power of a god or demon to transform a concept into an element of the sensible world.
2. The transitory, manifold appearance of the sensible world, which obscures the undifferentiated spiritual reality from which it originates; the illusory appearance of the sensible world.

The demon aka sociopath is in control at the moment? Our political leaderships for example, are they the demons and on December 21, 2012 their masks are coming off and we will see them for what they really are?

Ma·ya (mäyə)

1. a. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around A.D. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system.
b. A modern-day descendant of this people.

2. Any of the Mayan languages, especially Quiché and Yucatec.

These are the fellows who made the calendar.

When prophecy is spoken nobody is able to understand it until it happens. We'll find out on December 21, 2012 whether it's prophecy or not.

Chris from Yucaipa

If someone actually fell for the whole 2012 thing, or this lady's comments on the radio

...........I believe the article said it was all a big tongue-in-cheek joke, lighten up everyone.

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dman-353357

Yes, another product of our nation's education system. It makes one wonder how we ever put a man on the moon

................We did?

The Obama did get re-elected, all part of the 2012 prophecy, we are doomed.

I love how MSNBC is responding to a joke with comments from NASA. Who is the idiot who let this story go through. With everything going on in the world this is all they have. The truth is if the world ends tommorrow who will be around to give a hoot.

Steamie2010---would you cry if I told you MSNBC is the same as Fox. As my dad would say take your head out of your azz get some fresh air and look around for yourself. By the way this story is on MSNBC so if people believe it guess who those people are most likely to be.

Irvminny,

You missed the point dillweed. Cassandra's post 1.5 showed ignorance and people are still giving it a thumbs up! Defending the dumb is stupid!

Wait, you mean I might have to place my "The World Is Coming To An End 12/21/12" next to my two "The Rapture Is Upon Us!" placards?

Oh the waste.

And after I ordered copies of all those impending disaster documentaries from The History Channel and NatGeo on my credit card, you mean I'll have to pay it? What am I going to do with all these films after they expire?

To all those berating Cassandra, you might want to look at the intial headline tag on the MSN home page. To quote: Aust. PM: Mayans were right. This IS misleading as she states. It isn't till you enter the link that you see that it was joke. But I am guessing that you are the same people that voted for Obama so it doesn't surprise me that you only see and hear what you want and don't bother to look at the whole picture.

For a Prime Minister, the amount of what she knows about this leaves a lot to be desired. Even the Mayans are tired of people saying this, and stating it as a fact. It's not the end of the world, but the end of the third Earth 128,000 year cycle. Manure is something we can buy from a farm and spread on our gardens Prime Minister, we don't need it coming from politicians and government officials.

Ah, ok, I see now, she was attempting humor.......I guess. I believe I forgot to laugh.

Roadhouse Blues

Chris from Yucaipa

If someone actually fell for the whole 2012 thing, or this lady's comments on the radio

...........I believe the article said it was all a big tongue-in-cheek joke, lighten up everyone.

No @!$%#. My comment was directed to those members of the public who thought she was being serious. A 5 year old would have known this as an amusing tongue-in-cheek broadcast yet there are still people believing the whole 2012 doomsday nonsense.

I LVOE InfoBabe Dara Brown. She's so hott; she has no idea. Dara should do the news in a bikini.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

Samuel Adams on ice and shrimp on the BBQ on the evening of 12/20/2012.

Take it easy on Cassandra. These articles are linked and get their headlines filtered through other websites. What you see here is not what you are lured into reading from elsewhere. Common sense would say that all those thumbs up had the same experience and feel the same way. Maybe it is YOU people that are complaining about this person that need to play catch-up with the gene pool, or at the very least,grab hold of the notion that not everything is exactly how you view it.

So quick to judge......THAT seems to be the problem with so many, today.

@Uncleben.. uhhhhhhhhhh, WHAT??? Go back to making rice. Your post makes about as much sense as....well.....it doesn't make any sense LOL.

Supposedly, all the planets will be aligned for the first time in 6,000 years, which will cause some type of extinction level event, or so the story goes.

I've not idea if the planets will align or not, but if they do, I personally am not concerned about the combined gravitational effect of Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, etc. I suspect that NASA weighing in with the same, but more authoritative opinion.

Maybe a huge comet will come and do a cosmic trick shot and take out all 9 planets.

the planets last aligned 561 BC...next alignment 2854...

NOT happening this year...pay your taxes, don't quit your job...

we WILL be here for 2013 and beyond

dman - I actually heard the other day that the planets will actually be about as far out of alignment as they can be. But I guess we could still be hit by the rogue planet that nobody has seen yet even though it would have become the brightest thing in the sky next to the sun by now so that even the most amateur astonomer could find it.

you guys just wait and see!!!! the world will end in 15 days!!! we will all die a horrible death and when it happens, i'll be there to say "i told u so!!"......wait, i'll b dead, too so i can't say that......crap!!!

OK, NOW I know why the politicians in Washington haven't done anything. If the world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012, not a single one of them wants to go down in history as the one who gave in on the negotiations. That if the world ends that day, there will be no more "history" is irrelevant to politicians.

Of course, they haven't done much of anything for the last two years, so this is nothing new.

dman - I actually heard the other day that the planets will actually be about as far out of alignment as they can be.

I don't doubt it. I was just citing the rumors running around this event, and giving a possible reason why NASA might be weighing in.

People like to predict disasters. I suppose it allows them to envision themselves as one of the few survivors, reveling in the discarded wealth of the billions who have just died.

Personally, I expect to get up on Sat. Dec. 22 and go about my business as usual. I suspect just about every else does too.

Actually, the New Testament's letters implied - and the early Christians expected - that the world was going to end relatively soon -100 or 200 years after Jesus died.

Road to Tishbeh is a ninny.....disregard everything written by this dimwit } :-)

What? I don't need my helmet? Crap. I was all set.

Food, water, extra batteries (in case someone still had a radio),

cat food, old Time magazines and beer. Guess we will just wait and see.........

No you don't!

The Doomsday Preppers have got it all figured out. At least we know who will make it past the 12/21/12 date!

Have a lovely Saturday 22nd Dec, everyone.

@ RoadTo...The Big Bang happened many times. It didn't create the Universe in one event, but each individual Galaxy was created by it's own Big Bang. We call it a Quasar.

I'd love one big bang at my age.

Lawrence Grossman

I'd love one big bang at my age.

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I nominate this guy for the best post of the year, second place isn't even close, it's great to see some people still have a sense of humor with all that is going on.

Yeah, I guess politicians need to be stiff and serious all the time. (Unless they are stiff and serious all the time - then they need to loosen up......)

I was a great joke I think. Besides this skit is worlds away from what Orson Wells did with War of the Worlds. Even with that, I don't blame Orson Wells. It was a great show.

1david, looks like your Aussie political environment is similar to what we have here, one side doing what it can to cause failure by the other side, for their own gain, ignoring the negative effects on the general population who elected them.

finally a rational post on here

and as an atheist, I have to do as well as I can on earth too, being as moral as I can, helping my fellow humans as best I can, and then be done.

I like Riley's ending better.

Doing as well as you can should be an automatic result of being a Christian, but it's not actually required. As a Christian, the only real requirement is accepting Jesus as your savior. The thing is... if you're a Christian, you should want to do good. If someone claims to be a Christian and is always off doing things they shouldn't then they aren't really a Christian. It's not that it's a requirement, but it's a natural manifestation of being a Christian to want to do good and to live your life well. Remember that Jesus did not turn away sinners. Everyone sins in one way or another. That doesn't make it right, but it's still true. If not sinning was a requirement of being a Christian, there wouldn't be any Christians.

As a note, you can have the same morals even if you aren't a Christian. Being a Christian isn't a requirement to living a moral life and doing the best that you can. I'm just responding to the initial post that suggested that doing the best you can is required for a Christian. It is not, but should manifest automatically in a Christian due to their beliefs.

Being an agnostic, I agree with gritnix (the atheist) in this instance. I usually find athiesm a little too "all-knowing" of the truth for my tastes (just like religions that claim to have THE ONE answer). Mikesfriend: most fairy tales do have happier endings than having to deal with the real world. Unfortunately, that doesn't make them true.

oh shoot

I still like Riley's ending better.

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It's too bad you did continue to read on.

You had to be told she was making a joke?????????????????????????????? Are you really that gullible?

On a different note, your doctor gave me the results of your medical tests. Bad news but I have a cure. Just send me $1 million and I will send you the cure.

The Mayan culture that produced the calendar collapsed around 900 AD, long before the Spaniards came, so your rant is uninformed..

Thank you Hal for pointing that out. It was 600 years later that the Spanish came to this part of the world and conquered the AZTECS, not the Mayans. The Mayans, for as of yet unexplained reasons, abandoned their cities around 900AD. That doesn't mean they ceased to exist, as there are direct descendants of the Maya still living in Mexico and Central America. I personally think the Mayans were a bunch of jokers, planning this exact response. They probably passed down the plan generation by generation, telling each other to sit back and enjoy the show.

The thing is that they didn't predict the end of the world. People today are doing that based on the Mayan calendar just because it has an "end" to the calendar just like our yearly calendar does. The Mayans just happened to have a much longer "year" in their calendar, so some people these days seem to think that it must mean that it's a predicition of the end of time. It means no such thing and I doubt the Mayans meant it to mean any such thing.

Prove it.

What does one do for eternity? Watch reruns?

The superstitious peasants are really in to this kind of crap, eh Carolyn?

God raptures the earth and takes his loved ones to heaven. Then sets the stage when the antichrist comes into power.

Just like "the end of the world" is coming on December 21, 2012 that Antichrist wording too is bogus. It's the Beast is how it's worded, not Antichrist. Poor interpretations is like adding salt instead of suger to kool-aid.

Boy I can see you "tolerant" atheists are so loving and understanding. The vitriol and insults you are doling out to Carolyn show your true colors, intolerant, bigoted, self-centered, conceited and ignorant.

Although I am not in total agreement with Carolyns view of God I have seem much more "charity" and understanding come from relgious like her than I have from you sectarian hedonists. May God have mercy on your corrupt and empty souls.

Belief is not a choice Carolyn. Whether or not we believe something depends entirely on whether or not we are convinced by the evidence that something is or is not so. Do you believe that the moon is made out of cheddar cheese? No? If you wanted to think that the moon was cheese, could you simply choose to believe that? Beliefg is not a choice.

Another Religious rhetoric commercial? Be sure to tell us where the Lake Of Fire (Hades) is so we will stay far from it.

IF you believe in God, you know he exists. Nonbelievers don't want to believe so they will see one day when God comes from the east and parts the skies and raptures the church. Its everyone's choice which way you want to believe.

Whew. Thanks. Now I can just can be concerned about the East and not the West, South or North. Can you give me some sort of time frame so I can plan my vacations ahead of time. I'll mark it down on my calender. You do know when its coming, right?

Alan, Death is certain. Your time may not come when the rapture takes place. Death can come anytime, heart attacks, auto accidents, sicknesses, just be prepared when it does. I'm know I'm ready to meet God, Are you????

You said one thing correctly Carolyn. Death is a certainty. Why would you have to die to meet God? You should also look up the meaning of faith. A conviction of certain doctrines of religion, esp when this is not based on reason. Belief that is NOT based on proof. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

Read the bible , Alan.

Leroy, it has been proven that the moon is made of Monterey-Jack cheese. Get your facts straight, sir.

I really didn't come on to debate someone about their beliefs but since you came on waving your arms around like the Robot in "Lost In Space", danger Will Robinson, the lake of fire (Hades) is right in front of you attitude. Telling folks what they outta do to "Save" themselves from Eternal Damnation". I will give you something to think about, you do think, correct? You do look for proof or fact, correct? I mean if someone said that the moon was made of green cheese, or Peter Pan really existed you would seek out some sort of proof or fact it did, correct? You would not take it on a hunch or a whim or on blind faith, correct?

lets use another approach. A common sense approach. Or one of known facts vs fable, folklore and Fairy Tales. I don't want to make folks mad but if we let Occam's Razor decide (when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better) what would be more likely. I am actually going to use these to make a point. You can make your own judgements on this.

That there is a God that had a son that walked on water, rose from the dead and performed miracles, made the 10 Commandments that does not exist, spoke to Moses through a Burning Bush. Why would a God need a burning bush to speak to anyone?
or

Someone studied their whole life on evolution and able to piece together building blocks of humanoid life.

There is absolutely no proof whatsoever on any of these Folklore whatsoever. Why does a God that can make a burning bush talk need someone to write his words? He can't write? He could do anything he wished.

3. A man that studied , kept absolute records of perfection about Species and Man. Used building blocks of proof, facts and figures to make a rational decision
Everyone can make their own judgements on this.

Carolyn, I've read the bible it's a nice book of stories, that's it.

You say you "know" implying infallibility something that can't be true because according to the bible humans are fallible. What you really are saying is you believe and you have NO way of knowing ANYTHING. Because you are fallible you could be completely wrong so with all the real evidence out there I think your belief is a nice little fairy tale.

What if God turns out to be a 300 pound Chinese lesbian with an opium habit? Surprise!

Oooops, Leroy. Belief based on logic may not be a choice but a lot of beliefs are not based on logic. For example, up until a few hundred years ago the entire world believed planet Earth was at the center of the Universe and the Sun circled the Earth. Oooops! The Mayans believed they had to have human sacrifice just prior to sundown (by ripping out a beating heart) in order to insure that the Sun will return the next morning. Ooooops! Most beliefs, by definition are choices. Logic: the Mayan prediction of the end of the world is based on their math calculations (a base 60) which got so complicated they just didn't think the Sun could "live" any longer then their largest number. Ooooops! Cheers to all.

Carolyn, you are a creepy individual. As long as I don't have to spend eternity with you I think I will better off. If I have to live for eternity I prefer to be around people who actually think instead of chanting primitive texts.

It's always interesting to see how us atheists play out in their fantasy world.

Carolyn, don't waste your time arguing with people like these. If you believe God exists and when we do die, we live in eternal happiness, you believe that. I too am a faithful and strong Christian, and I am ready for the Lord to take me whenever my time comes. These people debating with you will know when there time comes, they will be comdemned to Hell on their judgement day.

Sorry, Carolyn, but the spiteful idiot you guys consider your lord and master doesn't exist. And who would WANT to worship a creature that tortures it's "pets" with petty demands of "Prove you love me- sacrifice your son to me!" ? Give me a break- if God existed, we'd be in even worse shape than we already are with Christains, Jews, and Moslems all killing each other in the name of a supposed God of peace.

i am not religious , BUT GOD is real.. i do believe in higher powers.. be it god or the universe.. there is alot more than what human think they know.. as i get older things happen that are not explainable..

More spew to work up the frightened dullards. Jeebus is lord!

Hey Carolyn, Which GOD? There are just so many to choose from. I hope you are worshipping all of them to hedge your bets.

I'm more interested in the astronomical science associated with the event that will take place on 12/21/12. And there's plenty of real science out there. Every 26,000 years, when this particular astronomical alignment takes place on the winter solstice, earth has seen a rapid increase in global temperatures which ended an ice age and caused mass extinction of species living in the given ice age. The same astronomical alignment also occurs in the opposite direction on the summer solstice at the mid-point of this cycle and also corresponds to global temperature increases rapid enough and high enough to end an ice age and kill off a number of species living in that age. If you've ever wondered why the wooly mammoth and saber-tooth cat went extinct, this particular astronomical alignment is a likely candidate.

If you're looking for some big, epic event to happen all at once on 12/21/12, you're going to be disappointed. Thousands of years of geological and astronomical history show that whatever happens on 12/21 is going to be an event that plays out over years, not hours. Temperatures will once again rise like they have at every 13,000 and 26,000 year interval, and they're going to melt a lot of ice, raising ocean levels. The only difference is that this will happen at a time where our planet is the warmest it has been in a very long time; the one word I'd use to sum it up is carboniferous, one of the warmest geologic eras in the history of the planet. Humans are going to be around to see it happen, record what happens, and, if they pay attention to the changes that will take place around them, survive and thrive.

Worst case scenario is a solar flare the magnitude of 1859 Carrington passing through the dark rift, which is really a black hole/vacuum, and scoring a direct hit on earth. That would be more than enough to fry the power grid and put it out of commission for about a year or so. The best meteorlogical comparison would be a hurricane being drawn up the eastern US seaboard between two high pressure systems (1938).

Yeah, baby! Bend over and let's go out with a bang!