NASA a Total Killjoy on End of the World Thing

In a statement on its website late last month, NASA made it quite clear that the world will not end on December 21, 2012 as predicted by Doomsdayers . The agency was unequivocal on the fact that there will be a world and people living on it on December 22, 2012. The statement did not deny that December 21 will mark the end of fall.

Doomsdayers claim the Mayan calendar ends on 12/22/12 and there is a hidden planet called Nibiru is on a direct collision course with earth.

This is what NASA said:

Yes, the Mayan calendar ends on Dec 21^st, but that only means Mayans need to order a new ones.

Nibiru speeding toward earth is an internet myth. If there was such a planet, we would be seeing it by now. NASA says relax, the real collision to fear is Astroid 2004 MN4 which has a 1 on 60 chance of hitting earth on Friday the 13^th 2029.

Assuming my mother is right about the world ending, and she has an excellent track record for these kinds of things. She said she would hate my wife and she absolutely does. She also said that her world would come to an end when I left home. I should call her.

NASA has built a high level of credibility after it predicted that the world would not end when CERN starting colliding particles when it switched on the Hadron Collider in 2008. Of course the agency lost some credibility when it began tracking Santa only two days after the press release.

But we're certain the world won't end on December 21 because NASA has all the facts and Doomsdayers only have a web page. But in the off chance that the world will end like my mother says, and that we really knew it would end, how would it play out? This is what we know:

· Steve Jobs would have beaten Bill Gates once again.

· RIM can claim they survived to the end of time. Then again, maybe not. December is pretty far off.

· GroovyPost would find a How To angle somewhere in it.

· Apple would be forced to release the iPad 3, 4, and 5 in quick succession.

· The astronauts on NASA's space station will return to earth only to discover (a movie) where a planet is ruled by smart, yet oddly angry apes.

Of course NASA is free to debunk any end of the world scenario because if they're wrong, no one will be around to say told you so.