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NASA explains all the ways the world won’t end in 2012

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Just in case you’re not 100% convinced that we won’t meet our death from above on December 21st, 2012, Don Yeomans of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is here to explain why the Mayan calendar, solar storms, the planetary alignment, and pole shifts won’t bring the world to an end — at least not any time soon. He also debunks the ridiculous claim that every astronomer in the world is part of a vast global conspiracy to hide the truth about the coming apocalypse. Of course, that is exactly what a member of a vast global conspiracy would do. [via Geekosystem]

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