Tomorrow, Watch The World Not End
Treat It Well, Because It Ain't Over Yet This "blue marble" image of the Earth was taken from the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Suomi NPP satellite. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman KuringThese space cameras will be keeping an eye on the planet on Dec. 21. It's kind of amazing how many people are still upset about the supposed forthcoming end of the world tomorrow, which the government is supposedly hiding from us. Just to ease more people's apparently confused minds, the Slooh space camera is broadcasting views from our solar neighborhood in real time. Just in case. Several seemingly sound explanations exist for the absurd notion that civilization will end tomorrow, Dec. 21, 2012, the end of the 5,125-year "long-count" Mayan calendar. These include a catastrophic solar flare related to the solar maximum;...