Doomsday 2012: It could happen, just not at the business end of an asteroid. Image: CC/Gamerscore Blog
Universe Today blogger mocks asteroid watchers:
Pinning 2012 doomsday scenarios on the end of the ancient Mayan “Long Count” calendar appears to be growing momentum amongst authors, websites, documentaries and my personal favourite YouTube videos. According to them, something bad is going to happen on or around December 21st 2012. Probably the most interesting difference between the 2012 doomsday scenario and the doomsday prophecies of the past is that almost every possible and impossible… or implausible harbinger of doom is being suggested as a planet killer.