Comments on: Mayan Apocalypse hysteria so widespread, NASA publishes a debunker

By: Ryan Woodhouse

Ryan Woodhouse — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:41:00 +0000

Yeah the Stuff.co.nz article it said she jokingly made that statement.So what does that tell you?

By: Ryan Woodhouse

Ryan Woodhouse — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Thanks for providing the link to that article.Well done!!

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000

Hey, that’s Aztec, not Mayan.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:20:00 +0000

Yes I have, unfortunately, even a college graduate among them, which baffles me.
Independently from the ’12 apocalyptic trappings, I’ve also met people who seriously believe that Niburu is a scientific theory, and every time I ask them the same question: “You listen to Art Bell, don’t you?” They nod. Every time.

Therein lies a big chunk of the problem – Clear Channel. If they aren’t feeding morning bullshit from an obese oxycontin junkie, it’s the late night bullshit from coast to coast. As toxic as Fox, maybe even more so.

By: tubacat

tubacat — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:38:00 +0000

Explained, with videos of similar phenomena, by a NASA scientist:

http://www.thesuntoday.org/current-observations/unidentified-sun-object-is-identified-a-little-black-spot-on-the-sun-today/

By: Ryan Woodhouse

Ryan Woodhouse — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Here we go again the mayan calender said the world won’t end in December and even the modern-day mayan descendants said the world won’t end in December after all they’re the ones who wrote the calender.Sometimes i wish that ****ing calender had never been discovered.btw this whole Planet X thing was predicted for 2003 and it didn’t happen so it got coveniently moved to 2012.

By: Kram.02

Kram.02 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:48:00 +0000

other PS, google “sun objects”. Worldwide news item 20 mths ago, forgotten in 2 days. Still there. NASA pictures, No Nasa Answers

By: Kram.02

Kram.02 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:41:00 +0000

No worries Dec 21, tis wifes B’day, we big party. BIG worry as Southern Ocean (surrounds Antarctica) reverses direction of circulation. Lowest 1/3 of southern ocean warming CATASTROPHICALLY fast NOW = melt ice caps from beneath + expansion water > changed ocean currents globally, therefore practice swimming + adjust to drinking salty water. PS, Don’t Worry much

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:54:00 +0000

Right. But unfortunately in the context the taxi driver was constructing with B.O. as an ancient wise man who will save the world, I rather had my doubts even about that apparently simple observation.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:49:00 +0000

Never understood committing suicide in reaction to an end of the world scenario. Well at all, of course, but if this prediction is right, end of the world you die. If it’s wrong, end of your world, you die. Everyone else is just fine, however. Why not bet on the better outcome? Seems like you have the better chance at coming out ahead.

By: Ryan Woodhouse

Ryan Woodhouse — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:14:00 +0000

This kind of idiotic rubbish needs to stop NOW!

By: Anne Onimos

Anne Onimos — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Understood. But that’s not what Ms. Jardin wrote. Also, “Western” does not equal “white”.

See also http://boingboing.net/2012/12/08/mayan-apocalypse-hysteria-so-w.html#comment-731337190 , which notes that this particular craziness need be neither white nor Western.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:36:00 +0000

They’re not as noticeable because they’re not members of a single doomsday cult that tend to be loud and proselytizing in their beliefs. Plus, of course, there’s the “happy” version of the prediction in which the Singularity will just sort of happen and there’s no particular need to get ready for it.

By: Ian G

Ian G — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Plus I think you are really limiting yourself with that definition of hysterical reactions…

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:14:00 +0000

‘My fellow surviving Australians….’

Is there really no hope for us non-Australians, then?

By: Joe_Bingham

Joe_Bingham — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:52:00 +0000

100% of people who drink water will die. Uga buga!

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Just not Kinja, ok?

By: Singularity Utopia

Singularity Utopia — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:06:00 +0000

I fully agree. The hysteria is an illusion. The whole issue has been very quite for the past 6 mths or longer. BUT… maybe this quietness is something to fear? Why are NASA talking about hysteria when there is no hysteria? ARRGGhhhh the world is going to end! :-D

By: John Koeberlein

John Koeberlein — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:38:00 +0000

BAWHAHAHAHA! That’s evil but I like the cut of your jib.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:07:00 +0000

Not to mention the 1999 bug, I knew a number of people who were up late making sure that didn’t cause too many problems.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:57:00 +0000

I am more of a gyro copter man myself.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:54:00 +0000

They are all Somebody Else’s Problem.

By: ANDREW BREEN

ANDREW BREEN — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:42:00 +0000

Where is Slartibarfast when we need him? Anyone have the keys for the Heart of Gold? Found the Silver Bail?

By: ANDREW BREEN

ANDREW BREEN — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:41:00 +0000

Meh. I suppose a nihilistic approach is apropos, right? If it happens, we’re fucked. If it doesn’t, we’ll all slog to our dead-end jobs, processed foods, and crushing consumer debt–just like every other day. Six one, half dozen the other.

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:54:00 +0000

new age pronounced like sewage.

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:39:00 +0000

I think that NASA should be using this as an opportunity to cull the herd of the weakest minds among us by just shutting up. If the feeble minded out there believe that the world is ending whenever, let em. The day after, NASA should issue a pronouncement about the survivors having better luck time.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:37:00 +0000

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy actually, though Star Beast is a great book. My son is starting to work his way through the Heinlein Juveniles, most of which I stole from my dad.

By: elix

elix — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:57:00 +0000

In this YouTube video (linked in the NASA article this post is about), one of the NASA scientists states that NASA has been receiving letters from people, mostly kids and teens, who are considering suicide because they’re terrified that the world is going to end because of this stupid shit.
Jump to 5:30 or so for the question and Dave Morrison’s answer, including a teacher that was approached by the parents of two students and told that the parents were planning to murder their kids and then commit suicide because of the supposed apocalypse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHXW9bZtgpc

By: Johannes Ney

Johannes Ney — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:19:00 +0000

But what about the millions of small businesses that did not have the ressources to hire some COBOL wizard? And the many countries that did not react quite as extreme as the US? They did not go down in a fireball of chash-less bored people dying of poor sanitation, did they?

I am not saying more problems wouldn’t have arisen with less preparation, but I am very skeptical of the narrowly avoided catastrophy narrative. I think it was to a large extend a media hype.

That being said, since it was at least a legitimate concern it is not really fair to compare it to utter idiocy like this.

By: matthew sanders

matthew sanders — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Ha,
Fools its ending and here is our Prime minister announcing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtj3gDaE64
That my friends is as official as it gets… I’m off buy 10,000 liters of fuel and add wheel knives to the XB Falcon.