How many times have you read a Buzzfeed news article that has told you the world will end on a certain date? There have been numerous times when that statement that was being made turned out to be imprecise. No one can really tell when the end of the world will ever take place. Nobody should be relying on one single news source for this type of information. First of all, according to a 2012 Timeanddate.com news article, many researchers had published articles regarding doomsday on the 21st of December in 2012; everyone was so sure that was the day the world would unfortunately end. According to the article, “The Mayan calendar ended one of its great cycles in December 2012, which fueled predictions about an apocalypse on December 21, 2012,
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“None of it is true. People you know, however, are likely becoming a bit afraid that modern astronomy and Maya secrets are indeed conspiring to bring our doom” stated E.C. Krupp, a director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, in a Sky and Telescope NASA article. However, another article written by Charles Q. Choi from “Space” catalog states that “Many people point to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on Dec. 21, 2012 as evidence of the coming apocalypse, but astronomers have been quick to stress that there is nothing to be concerned about.” In other words, doomsday predictions were called into question by NASA and scientifically proven the world was not coming to an …show more content…
In the late year of 2017, innumerable amount of people all over social media had overheard about a conspiracy that the world would end in the month of September of 2017, due to the fact that a theorist known as David Meade predicted Nibiru would become visible in the Earth’s sky and that said that the planet would soon destroy the earth. The world did not end that day. From the Washington Post article, David stated that he had anticipated that the world would end that day. After that conspiracy had faded out, David was focused on another date, October 15, 2017. It is “the most important date of this century or millennium,” Meade wrote on his website. However, David was, in fact, wrong, he had started the commotion, and controversial statements all throughout social media based on his inaccurate
“None of it is true. People you know, however, are likely becoming a bit afraid that modern astronomy and Maya secrets are indeed conspiring to bring our doom” stated E.C. Krupp, a director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, in a Sky and Telescope NASA article. However, another article written by Charles Q. Choi from “Space” catalog states that “Many people point to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on Dec. 21, 2012 as evidence of the coming apocalypse, but astronomers have been quick to stress that there is nothing to be concerned about.” In other words, doomsday predictions were called into question by NASA and scientifically proven the world was not coming to an …show more content…
In the late year of 2017, innumerable amount of people all over social media had overheard about a conspiracy that the world would end in the month of September of 2017, due to the fact that a theorist known as David Meade predicted Nibiru would become visible in the Earth’s sky and that said that the planet would soon destroy the earth. The world did not end that day. From the Washington Post article, David stated that he had anticipated that the world would end that day. After that conspiracy had faded out, David was focused on another date, October 15, 2017. It is “the most important date of this century or millennium,” Meade wrote on his website. However, David was, in fact, wrong, he had started the commotion, and controversial statements all throughout social media based on his inaccurate