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hi my name is david morrison i'm a space

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scientist at nasa ames research center

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for the last two years i've been

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answering hundreds of questions from the

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public

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about 2012 and the supposed threat to

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earth

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and so now i want to take a chance to

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talk to some of you more directly

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there is no threat to earth in 2012

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there is no danger all of the talk about

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a doomsday is a big hoax perpetuated on

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the internet and with people trying to

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make money so please don't worry about

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it

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let me talk about some of the specific

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things

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there's been a lot of talk about a

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planet x or nibiru as a giant planet

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that's going to hit the earth or at

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least come very close in december 2012.

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a simple fact is nibiru does not exist

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aside from worrying about the weird

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places the ideas came from

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all you have to do is ask the

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astronomers if nibiru or planet x were

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going to come into the inner solar

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system in 2012

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astronomers would have been tracking it

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for the last decade

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all over the world amateur as well as

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professional and it would be visible now

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to the naked eye

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it's not there it's a no-show there's

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nothing to worry about some object

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coming and striking the earth or

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damaging us

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there's also been concern about a

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so-called galactic alignment

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because in december of every year the

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sun is roughly in the direction of the

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galactic center as seen from earth

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this happens every year

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it really doesn't mean anything and

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there's nothing special about 2012.

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if you're not worried about december

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29 don't worry about december 2012.

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in fact alignments although it may sound

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scary to some people are just not an

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issue for scientists there are no

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special forces when planets align or the

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sun aligns

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it's sort of a curiosity but not

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something of real scientific interest

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there's also been concern that somehow

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the earth's poles are going to flip

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no one quite explains how this could

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happen and if you're talking about the

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rotation pole of the earth that can't

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change it never has and never will

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some people however are concerned about

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the change in the magnetic polarity a

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shift of the north and south pole which

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does take place every few hundred

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thousand years

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but there's no reason to think it will

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happen in 2012 and actually no evidence

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that it would do any harm to us even if

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it did happen

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some people couple this with ideas of

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of solar outbursts of flares or coronal

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mass ejections which could do great

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damage to the earth

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well

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the solar maximum takes place every 11

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years and occasionally there is some

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damage to satellites in orbit

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and we see bright aurora or northern

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lights here but very little real damage

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is done

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and there's no solar maximum predicted

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in 2012. the next solar maximum is

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predicted for the spring of 2013 and

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it's actually anticipated that will be

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much lower than usual

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again

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all this 2012 talk is just a hoax it's a

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fake

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it's nothing you should worry about

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i get questions from many people who are

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really scared

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even some young people who have said

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they're contemplating suicide this sort

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of thing it's really sad

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and the point of my talking to you now

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is just to explain to you that there is

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no problem there

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and that the many things you see on the

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internet and youtube where people claim

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that there is some horrible threat about

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to descend on us are not true