I was just browsing through the Internet when I came across this excellent article on the 2012 myths, it even turns out that the Mayan Calendar did NOT end in 2012, rather it was just an end of a cycle. Read the Full Article here, I have copied it below as well.
Thanks to National Geographic for providing such an awesome extract.
The end of the world is near—December 21, 2012, to be exact—according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the 2012 movie.
But could humankind really meet its end in 2012—drowned in apocalyptic floods, walloped by a secret planet, seared by an angry sun, or thrown overboard by speeding continents?
And did the ancient Maya—whose empire peaked between A.D. 250 and 900 in what is now Mexico and Central America—really predict the end of the world in 2012?At least one aspect of the 2012, end-of-the-world hype is, for some people, all too real: the fear.
NASA's Ask an Astrobiologist Web site, for example, has received thousands of questions regarding the 2012 doomsday predictions—some of them disturbing, according to David Morrison, senior scientist with the NASA Astrobiology Institute. "A lot of [the submitters] are people who are genuinely frightened," Morrison said. "I've had two teenagers who were considering killing themselves, because they didn't want to be around when the world ends," he said. "Two women in the last two weeks said they were contemplating killing their children and themselves so they wouldn't have to suffer through the end of the world."
Fortunately, with the help of scientists like Morrison, most of the predicted 2012 cataclysms are easily explained away.
