Panicking Over A 2012 Apocalypse? NASA Says You Can Relax
What with the movie, the Mayan calendar, and the solar-galactic-alignment thing, one NASA astronomer has "been getting about 20 letters and e-mail messages a day from people … scared out of their wits," seriously wondering if they should euthanize themselves and loved ones before the end of the world less than three years hence. So the agency "felt it was prudent to provide a resource." New York Times 11/17/09

Posted November 17, 2009 10:15 PM