Monday, June 04, 2012 By KaylaWalker [ArticleImageHyperLink] Advertising Doomsday proven inaccurate The world is going to explode and we are all going to die. That’s what some experts want us to believe, however, new discoveries about our impending doom have surfaced and 2012 doomsday is seen as nothing more than a joke.     The Mayans created the Mayan calendar with accuracy and it dates back to the fifth century BC.it includes the 365 days in a year, but it does not account for one thing: Leap year, which wasn’t created until the Romans in about 45 BC.     This is not the first time people claimed the end was near. Rumors floated around in 2011 that May 21 and October 21 was the end of the world. It’s mainly because Harold Camping had spread the word. This radio broadcaster applied numerology to his interpretations of Bible passages for predictions for doomsday. He also predicted judgement day was May21, 1998 and September 6, 1994. Was he right?     “I think, since he is on the radio, that he’s doing it for attention and money,” said Kaitlyn Moretz, sophomore.     Not only have the doomsday dates been proven to be false, but the scenarios created have been told by experts to be almost impossible.     One theory, according the news.discovery.com, the earth’s magnetic field will reverse. Though the last field reversal was over 800,000 years ago, there is no evidence this reversal has caused any damage that would kill everyone.     Apparently, Planet X is on a collision course with Earth. This scenario was popularized in part by a woman who claims to receive messages from extraterrestrials and was originally predicted for 2003.     “There is no object out there,” said NASA astrobiologist Morrison, “ That’s probably the most straight-forward thing to say.”

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