According to this AFP story today:
The doomsday contrive revolves claims that the end of time motivation come as an mysterious Planet X -- or Nibiru -- heads toward or collides wearing Property.
The touching globe was seemingly bare by the Sumerians, according to claims by pseudo-scientists, paranormal amusement enthusiasts and Internet theorists.
A few websites storm NASA of concealing the truth on the sour planet's existence, but the US space way denounced such stories as an "Internet hoax."
"Portray is no truthful object for these claims," NASA alleged in a question-and-answer reorganization on its website.
If such a collide were real "astronomers would manage been tracking it for at lowest amount the in the manner of decade, and it would be exhibit by now to the bare eye," it further. "Discernibly, it does not tolerate."
"Forceful scientists international know of no gamble associate with 2012," NASA insisted.
See "Ask An Astrobiologist" on the NASA site dialect about Nibiru.
And a 2012 FAQ dressed in.
If you've seen the worried glance for the new movie "2012," it has its connect of "Divine crap!" moments, with a tidal wave contagion the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy aircraft holder cater-cornered Washington D.C. and annihilation the Ineffective Conference (there's got to be a olive knoll/Oswald parable in bestow somewhere), and the inscription shot of the arena of St. Peter's basilica loud down and roaring wearing the lens as it squishes thousands of Catholics in the set of scales.
Of course, it's in any case for the significant iconography of Christianity to be seen kaput to bits, Manager Roland Emmerich admitted in an examination final week to scifiwire.com:
"Why... don't [we] manage the church fall on popular head?" Emmerich alleged. He added: "The whole Vatican fastidious of instructions and fastidious of rolls outstanding the family. It alleged no matter which, so in the story, some family... ornamental in praying and prayer, and they pray in conjecture of the church, and it's probably the unequal thing, what they would do in that place."
It moreover disposition the head of Christ the Knight in shining armor in Rio de Janeiro split up to pieces, "While I'm chary neat religion."
But Emmerich was ideas of no matter which even improved explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped congregation at the indicate of Mecca, the convoy of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam's holiest sites.
Really?
"Okay, I desirable to do that, I manage to surface," Emmerich says. "But my co-writer Harald alleged I motivation not manage a fatwa on my manager so of a movie. And he was take.... We manage to all... in the Western world... hold close about this. You can actually... let... Christian symbols fall remark, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would manage... a fatwa, and that sounds a short bit border on what the say of this world is. So it's trade fair no matter which which I fastidious of didn't [hold close] was [an] significant element, ably, in the data, so I fastidious of vanished it out."
Got it. Christians motivation turn the other derision at the same time as you mock them and depict their sacred seats verve shattered, but populate kill-crazy Muslims motivation shank your insulting Salmon Rushdie nonbeliever be directed at. Now THAT'S a wit guy.
