NASA is so confident that the 2012 apocalypse is a fabrication of modern popular culture that the organization has released a video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday" for viewers to watch on December 22.
The narrator runs down a laundry list of rumored catalysts for the end of days, such as tidal forces, planetary alignments, solar storms, rogue asteroids and planets, and polar magnet shifts, debunking each and every claim with the facts.
Much like an odometer in a car, when the Mayan calendar reaches its zenith on December 21, 2012, it will reset and repeat its cycle until it maxes out once again.
Lika Guhathakurta of NASA's 'Living with a Star' program explains that the "Sun is not a threat. It has been flaring for a billion years and has never once destroyed the world," adding that we are in the midst of "the wimpiest solar cycle in the past 50 years."
Director of the Center for Archeoastrology Dr. John Carleson notes that no known Mayan prophecies foretold the apocalypse in 2012.
NASA's Senior Scientist David Morrison dispels anxiety about the impending "doomsday" date, stating: "On the 21st, the date of the winter solstice, a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun comes to an end. Although Maya scholars agree that the ancient Maya would not have seen this day as apocalyptic, rumors have spread that a cosmic event may end life on Earth on that day."