George Lucas gives nod to 2012 doomsday; NASA refutes

Various media are reporting Seth Rogen’s claim about filmmaker George Lucas’ belief in 2012 Doomsday theories.

The Toronto Sun said Rogen, Lucas and Spielberg were in a “movie meeting.” Rogen,  who’s currently doing a lot of publicity for the new film ‘The Green Hornet', said, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it. He’s going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, ’My nerdy friend won’t shut up, I’m sorry...’”

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Michio Kaku on ‘2012’ film: ‘Don’t quit your day job’

Updated on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:14PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Popular physicist Dr. Michio Kaku appeared on Fox and Friends Friday morning to comment on fears spurred by the latest disaster film, ‘2012.’ Kaku told Fox he’d give the movie an ‘A’ for special effects and and ‘F’ on science. “This is the mother of all ‘shake and bake’ movies,” he said. [Article continues after photo.]

NASA calls the phenomenon in this image 'An Eraser Mark on Eros.' NEAR Shoemaker captured this amazing picture of adjacent regions in different states of surface degradation on January 7, 2001, from an orbital altitude of 35 kilometers (22 miles). The upper half and lower right parts of the image show surfaces with "typical" rounded craters and large boulders. However, the abruptly edged swath extending from lower left to middle right is remarkably more smooth, subdued, and lacking in small-scale detail of any type -- almost as if Eros had been altered by a giant eraser. The whole scene is about 1.4 kilometers (0.9 miles) across. (Image 0154251925) [Image from NASA]

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Next solar max set for 2012; NASA funded study says storms to increase

Updated on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:09AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

The active sun. [Photo from NASA.]Even a casual student of science understands the link between the sun and Earth’s wellbeing. Small wonder that a number of ancient cultures imagined the sun a deity. Most of us are aware that solar storms can seriously impact our planet, and a study funded by NASA explored how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. Solar cycles span 11 years; the next solar maximum will, according to NASA, occur in 2012. Hear the Twilight Zone song in the background? Mention the year 2012 and all those pop culture theories revolving around the Mayan calendar come to mind. There’s even a movie about it. So what might we earthlings expect?

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