Wide Angle: Doomsday in 2012?
The 2012 doomsday hype is spreading like wildfire, flames of myth and rumor fanned by pseudo-science and blockbuster movies. What is the real science behind "2012"? We ask the experts to get to the bottom of this growing phenomenon.
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World Not Ending in 2012, Says NASA
Contrary to what you may read on the Internet, the world is not going to end in 2012. NASA says so.
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Top 5 Plans to Ensure the Continuity of our Species
The Institute of Human Continuity is a fictional organization based on the marketing campaign for the movie 2012. However, there are real initiatives being put into place to ensure that if the worst should happen, mankind might survive.
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2012 Doomsday Not Likely
More questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012 are being asked and yet the Mayans emphatically deny that this date marks the end of the world.
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Human Extinction: How Could It Happen?
It would take a combination of severe and catastrophic events to drive the hardy human race to extinction, research concludes. And ultimately, the human race, itself, will determine its fate.
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What Will John Cusack be Doing on Dec. 21, 2012?
On Nov. 3, the worldwide premier of the Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012 played in Downtown LA. Discovery News was live and on the scene at the red carpet event to ask the cast and crew some questions about their thoughts on the end of the world.
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Where Are You Hiding Planet X, Dr. Brown?
Mike Brown has an intimate knowledge of the Kuiper belt, if there is something big lurking out there (like Planet X or Nibiru), he'd know about it. Ian O'Neill asks Dr. Brown if he is part of a grand conspiracy to hide this harbinger of doom...
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Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012
A growing number of doomsday scenarios seem to be appearing on the Internet, but do any contain scientific merit? Discovery News contributor Ray Villard picks his Top 10 theories and swiftly debunks each in turn.
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Nibiru - Armageddon Planet or Astronomical Baloney?
Conspiracy theorists are convinced that a rogue planet called Nibiru is bound to doom Earth in 2012. David Morrison, NASA's expert from the "Ask An Astrobiologist" website, shares his opinion.
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