US space agency NASA has taken to Twitter, YouTube and Google+ to field questions from people across the globe who are concerned that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012.
"This is just manufactured fantasy," said David Morrison, an astrobiologist from NASA's Ames Research Center via Google+, "but the truth is that many people are worried about it and many of those people do write to NASA." The space agency revealed that young people have been contacting it claiming to be terribly afraid -- they cannot eat or sleep -- and some have admitted to be contemplating suicide.
The space agency is aiming to publish clear, scientific explanations to dispel the myth, which has been given growing attention by reports on the internet and in traditional media alike. The belief is based on claims that a planet called Nibiru will magically appear and align with the Earth and eventually smash into it after completing a 3,600-year orbit of the sun.
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