Sony Pictures's latest big screen offering "2012" arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200-million-dollar production about the end of the world supposedly based on myths backed by the Mayan calendar.
The doomsday scenario revolves around claims that the end of time will come as an obscure Planet X -- or Nibiru -- heads toward or collides into Earth.
The mysterious planet was supposedly discovered by the Sumerians, according to claims by pseudo-scientists, paranormal activity enthusiasts and Internet theorists.
Some websites accuse NASA of concealing the truth on the wayward planet's existence, but the US space agency denounced such stories as an "Internet hoax."
"There is no factual basis for these claims," NASA said in a question-and-answer posting on its website.
If such a collision were real "astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye," it added. "Obviously, it does not exist."
"Credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012," NASA insisted.
NASA is officially responding to conspiracies made popular in online message boards, spurred on by the release of a ridiculous looking Hollywood waste of massive amounts of money, you guys. This is your space program. Do not get up to turn off the TV, don't take your computer to the Geniuses at your local Apple store, it is working fine. This is real life.
Hah. I'd watch it if they edited it down to a 20 minute cgi wreckage fest. Otherwise shits destined to be such garbage.
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I'm glad they're coming out and saying it is all stupid bullshit, because I'm pretty tired of saying it. I know someone who thinks aliens will visit earth in 2012.
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