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World Rings In The New Year, Is It The World’s Last?

Hannah Madans |
January 1, 2012 | 9:28 a.m. PST

Associate News Editor

New Year's Eve in London (courtesy Creative Commons)
New Year's Eve in London (courtesy Creative Commons)
2012 was rung in at Time Square, N.Y. by one million partiers and at other similar celebrations around the world.

People celebrating the new year “hoped for a better future, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil,” according to the Daily Mail.

These desires may be short-lived, however, if predictions that the world will end in 2012 come true.

December 21, 2012 is the exact estimated date of demise as it is the end of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which was used by the Mayans.

According to NASA the prediction that the world will end in 2012 started with a claim that Nibiru, a planet discovered by Sumerians, is headed for Earth and will collide with Earth in 2012. This prediction was later linked to the end of the Mayan calendar. NASA says that there is no basis for these claims.

Some people have been preparing for the end of the world for years, according to ABC News. As early as 2008, some people quit their jobs and formed survival groups.

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