Saturday morning, December 22, 2012 cannot come fast enough for the good folks at NASA. Taking the brunt of wack-job calls and emails surrounding the
Fake Mayan Apocalypse,
the space agency has been overwhelmed over the last few days. Panicky—and even suicidal—
apocalyptos are asking about rogue planets colliding with Earth, the sun exploding, and an impending three days of darkness. Over 300 morons a day make the call, despite the fact that NASA has thoughtfully put up an explanatory
website debunking all the foolishness. Poor NASA, they have to actually calm doomsday fears with phrases like:
"Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years" and
"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". They've come a long way from
"That's one small step for a man.....".
