Why is NASA so obsessed with the Mayan Apocalypse?

I think almost everyone who works at NASA and gets emails asking about the end of the world forwards them to one astrobiologist, David Morrison. Some of these people sending emails are really scared. NASA wants to reassure the public and make sure people don't do anything crazy. They really want to avoid some sort of mass panic, like what occasionally happens in various parts of the world when some celestial thing happens, like a comet passing by.

You can read an interview with Dr. Morrison at the link below, and here's an excerpt relevant to your question:

MORRISON: Right. But there are other things. Some people think there is a planet or a brown dwarf or some other interloper that's actually going to crash into earth and destroy the planet. Some people think there does going to be a mysterious force that flips the rotation poles so we start going the other way. Many people don't know what they're afraid of, but they have heard this doomsday thing so often that they just come to me with simple question: Will we have Christmas this year? Will we all die on December 21st? Is the Earth about to be destroyed?

CONAN: And as you say, I mean, it's easy to snicker, maybe, but these are agonized questions.

MORRISON: They are, and they include some young people who say they're contemplating suicide. A friend of mine, a teacher in Stockton, had two parents come saying they were planning to kill themselves and their children before December 21st. And another extreme one; the early questions I got was quite touching. It was: My only friend is my little dog. When should I put her to sleep so she won't suffer in the cataclysm?

CONAN: I could - how did you wind up doing this?

MORRISON: I'm not quite sure. There are a number of Ask a Scientist websites, some that NASA has and some others. And somehow people about four, four and a half years ago start asking me these questions. They came out of the blue. I had no idea anyone was worried about a 2012 apocalypse. So I answered. And once I started posting answers, more and more questions came in until it's become something of an obsession with me in the last year.

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You have it the other way around. It's *YOU* who's obsessed with the Mayans, and it's YOU who bought into the idea that the Maya would say that there would be an apocalypse this year, and it's YOU who bought into the idea that, because it's "something coming from the skies", that NASA should have anything to do with it and that it should take their efforts away from other things to deal with the public's panic over their ignorance, self-imposed or otherwise.

After you have a bunch of people bothering you all the time, you're forced to respond in spite of trying to ignore them -- simply because your patience runs out.

If NASA is responding to your demands, it's because you demanded a response from them.

And now you're asking "why are they responding?!" YOU ASKED FOR IT! Since this has to do with Mayans, why didn't you ask about it to HISTORIANS instead of Astronomers?!

If NASA says nothing about it -- "oh they're hiding something".

If NASA speaks up -- "why are they answering, they must be misinforming the public".

Really: W T F?!

They don't. They barely ever mention it. But OTHER people claim that NASA says this and that. They are lying. Go to the NASA web page as see for yourself. You will have a hard time finding any mention of it, and whatever you do find will be a statement that it is all false and nothing will happen.

NASA doesn't give Shinola about Mayans, but because they receive thousands of questions about the doomsday hoax, a few nice guys decided to respond with blogs, radio interviews and videos.

All the world is obsessed with this.On 12/22 We're going to say "Where's the Apocalypse?"

NASA is helping the NWO to conspire against us, the Mayan Apocalypse theory is a distraction.

there are many people that believe that something will happen to the planets or an asteroid will hit the earth and end life as we know it. they are trying to reassure the public that no such thing is going to happen

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