Apocalypse? How?!
Hank debunks several apocalypse theories that predict Earth's demise in 2012. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow ...
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So there's science, and then there's science fiction, and then there's just outright hoaxes. And with December 21, 2012, coming up, it seems like we're just going to have to tell you outright, right now what is not going to happen! [INTRO] December 21, 2012, as you may have heard, from some people's perspective, is pretty much D-day for Earth. You're probably familiar with the Mayan apocalypse scenario, which I covered in a different episode of this show. You can go watch it right now. It's quite interesting. Which basically is saying: the world is going to end because the Mayan long calendar is reaching this somewhat roundish number. That's basically all that's happening. It happens every 400 years or so. And every time it's happened before, nothing...
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So there's science, and then there's science fiction, and then there's just outright hoaxes. And with December 21, 2012, coming up, it seems like we're just going to have to tell you outright, right now what is not going to happen! [INTRO] December 21, 2012, as you may have heard, from some people's perspective, is pretty much D-day for Earth. You're probably familiar with the Mayan apocalypse scenario, which I covered in a different episode of this show. You can go watch it right now. It's quite interesting. Which basically is saying: the world is going to end because the Mayan long calendar is reaching this somewhat roundish number. That's basically all that's happening. It happens every 400 years or so. And every time it's happened before, nothing...
