scheduled for today 12/12/12 .
So where did this end of the world stuff come from??
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"The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
"Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
Planetary alignments will unsettle the earth's crust and the continents will shift.
"There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. One major alignment occurred in 1962, for example, and two others happened during 1982 and 2000. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
The magnetic poles will reverse causing death and destruction.
"A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
out to get all those Christmas gifts since we will be still around on
Christmas morning, 12/ 25, 2012.