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the widespread rumors that there will be

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a catastrophe or even a doomsday on

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december 21st are wrong

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this is simply a big hoax it will be a

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nasa has received thousands of emails

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and calls from members of the public who

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are concerned especially young people so

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it seems only right that nasa scientists

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should help to dispel these rumors of

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there are many different threads that

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come together on this doomsday hoax for

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december 21st they come from a variety

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of sources the only thing they have in

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some people think that the maya calendar

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from the ancient maya civilization comes

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to an end on december 21st or even that

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the maya predicted some sort of

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catastrophe that's simply not true that

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that's a modern rumor it has nothing to

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one doomsday rumor has a planet a rogue

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planet named nibiru or planet x coming

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into the solar system and crashing into

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earth

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this is silly if there were such an

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object anybody could see it it would be

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there are claims that the earth's

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rotation will change or that the poles

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will flip

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causing terrible damage well this just

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can't happen there is no way that we can

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part of the doomsday rumor is that there

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will be a planetary alignment and that

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this will somehow damage the earth well

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they couldn't pick a worse time in

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december 21st there's no alignment the

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there is a giant black hole at the

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center of our galaxy

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30 000 light years away some people

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think it's going to suck us in and

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destroy the earth but astronomers know

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the earth's rotation axis wobbles slowly

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with a 26 000 year period and some

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people say this period is about to end

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we have all seen frequent news reports

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of volcanoes and earthquakes and some

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people think there are more of them but

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there aren't the frequency of

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earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is no

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there's a recent internet rumor that

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nasa has confirmed that there will be

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three days of total darkness on the

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earth starting december 22nd well nasa

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didn't say that nobody said it it's just

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the earth is always subject to meteors

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and even small asteroids striking the

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atmosphere astronomers keep track of

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these objects and predict any impacts