OK, you can hold off or go large on that Christmas shopping! The Mayans predicted the apocalypse will occur on Dec. 21. Do you buy it?
This just in: The world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012. For many of us in Geneva, that poses some interesting questions. Does that mean we can call off the Christmas shopping? Or do we just buy everything in sight and open our presents early? If I'm hosting a holiday party on Dec. 20, do I need to change the theme? And what does NASA have to say about all this? Fortunately for all of us, NASA apparently is getting in on the action. The agency created a page on its website devoted to debunking the Mayan apocalypse idea—not least because the Mayans never predicted any such thing. The date is simply the end of one time period that simply starts over. “Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible …
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Avett Green
6:36 am on Monday, December 17, 2012
I feel like a little piece of the world already ended last Friday in Connecticut. more ›