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| December 2, 2012 |
NASA: Apocalypse stories pose threat
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration warns that 2012 Mayan apocalypse rumors pose a real-life threat to frightened children and depressive teenagers
- Some say they can't eat, or are too worried to sleep, while others say that they are suicidal, according to NASA astrobiologist David Morrison
- The apocalypse rumors began with claims that Nibiru, a rogue planet discovered by the Sumerians, will crash into Earth on December 21, killing everyone
By Damian Ghigliotty
While some are throwing fantastical Doomsday countdown parties, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is issuing grave warnings that 2012 Mayan apocalypse rumors pose a real-life threat to frightened children and depressive teenagers.
David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, said on Wednesday that he receives a large number of emails and letters from worried citizens, most often from young people.
Some say they can't eat, or are too worried to sleep, while others say they are suicidal, Morrison said.
Doomsday fears: Fantastical rumors of the
world's end are causing real-life concerns among frightened children and
depressive teenagers, NASA scientists says
Ancient signs: The doomsday fears are based on misinterpretations of the Mayan calendar
‘While this is a joke to some people and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly concerned,’ Morrison said.
NASA, a United States government agency, recently set up an information page on its website explaining why the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012.
The apocalypse rumors and fears are based on misinterpretations of the Mayan calendar, as SPACE.com reported.
The rumors began with claims that Nibiru, a rogue planet discovered by the Sumerians, will crash into Earth on December 21, killing everyone, according to NASA’s website.
Rumor debunker: David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, says the world will not end on December 2011
Rumor originator: Zecharia Sitchin wrote in 1976
that he had found and translated Sumerian documents identifying a rogue
planet that will destroy Earth
There is no such planet, scientists say.
‘If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye,’ NASA states on its apocalypse fear debunking page.
Other rumors -- including claims that the Earth's magnetic field will suddenly reverse and claims that the planet is heading towards a black hole at the center of the Milky Way -- were also dismissed on Wednesday.
Concerns about the planet’s demise would be better directed on more substantiated problems such as climate change, Andrew Fraknoi, an astronomer at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, said.
Civilization of the past: An ancient Mayan temple in Central America
Ritual: An indigenous man during a Mayan ceremony on February 21 2011 in Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Walmart Ends Insurance For New Hires, Blames Obamacare
One of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act is the expansion of Medicaid to cover people who make under a certain level of income. Labor and Health Care experts are saying that a majority of Walmart’s workers will qualify for Medicare under the new law. If an employer has a worker that receives insurance through Medicare than their employer has to pay a fine. The fine is substantially less than the cost of health care for the worker.
Conservatives are arguing that this provision is where President Obama and Congress are trying to take over healthcare. By making the fine cheaper than providing healthcare to their employees it will force all of those employees who are of limited means into a government program.
Democrats counter that there has to be a mechanism to give health care to employees who make so little money that to pay premiums totaling thousands of dollars a month is completely cruel.
The Supreme Court recently upheld the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. With President Obama’s reelection and the Senate being held by the Democratic Party the law will be implemented in full with basically zero options for repeal. Top Republicans have even acknowledged that it may be time to move on from their platform of repeal and replace.
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