Question

As the average 15 year old I find it difficult to understand your answers about the so called 2012 doomsday. I have heard many theories one saying that the U.S project Philladelphia or something traveled into the future and there was nothing left in 2012 the earth was destroyed. Could you give me the simple answer are we or are we not going to die in 2012 I would rather take my own life than suffer a doomsday. ..AND.. hello I am really scared with the news that the world is going to end on 12 21 2012....I have been looking it up to try to find some information that is from a valuable source. Please help me!!!!

I received these two questions within a few minutes of each other, and they make me angry at the liars and fools who keep posting claims of a 2012 doomsday. Nothing will happen in 2012. There is no planet Nibiru, no planet alignment, no crossing the celestial equator, no change in the Earth’s rotation, no incoming meteor, no danger from solar storms. Please don’t worry -- this is just a big hoax. I wrote the “Twenty Questions” at the top of the Ask an Astrobiologist webpage to summarize my answers to the crazy claims on the Internet about 2012. I think we should protest the contemptible behavior of the sleaze-balls who post these absurd stories to make a buck by frightening children.

David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
August 12, 2009