It's December 22nd and Earth and its people have officially made it through the purported Mayan doomsday. But before the end came and went, it seems a large number of people looked to NASA to quell their fears. The Los Angeles Times reports that in the weeks immediately preceding the fateful day, NASA's phone lines were consumed by callers asking about our planet's potential demise; would we be struck by a meteor? Could the planets suddenly align in such a way that it would lead to widespread destruction? And what about that rumor of a worldwide blackout that, according to some fringe theorists, NASA itself had been predicting? Used to dealing with about 90 calls each week, NASA quickly found itself taking over 300 per day as December...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/22/3795190/in-weeks-leading-up-to-doomsday-nasa-received-hundreds-of-phone-calls
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