<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe06be04-166f-4de4-890c-daa9e0ae947c/D142CFA6-808D-447C-B42E-7D7B082568B4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/nasa-to-world-stop-worrying-about-2012.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/nasa-to-world-stop-worrying-about-2012.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/nasa-to-world-stop-worrying-about-2012.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0120a6761a57970c-pi"><IMG height="257" alt="Mayanlord2012" hspace="0" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0120a6761a57970c-320wi" width="320" vspace="0" /></A> It's official: the same wingnut segment  of American society that brought you "intelligent design" is now so ignorant rocket scientists have to interrupt exploring the universe to tell them to pack it in.  NASA's "Ask an astrobiologist" expert has been inundated with inquiries about the world ending in 2012, forcing Presidential-award-winning scientist Dr David Morrison to write an article explaining how "Hollywood sometimes makes things up."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/nasa-to-world-stop-worrying-about-2012.html">The doomsday theories are as numerous as they are idiotic, i.e. astoundingly, but three main contenders dominate the common cretin's consternation.&nbsp; The first is the idea that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012.&nbsp; First, no it doesn't - there's just a synchronization of a few of the many calendars they used for various religious, agricultural and social functions.&nbsp; Second, this coincidence of calendars did reset the numbers they used to describe the cycles, but it's about as apocalyptic as ending your Dilbert office calendar - the </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D142CFA6-808D-447C-B42E-7D7B082568B4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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