Really? We need NASA to tell us the Mayans were wrong? I mean, if they we so good at this, then why didn’t they see the Europeans coming? Now, that would have been helpful:

Where on one hand ‘2012’ is building up hysteria, NASA is trying to assure everyone that nothing will happen in the aforesaid year.

In order to assuage concerns being raised worldwide, NASA has even posted a frequently asked questions (FAQ) guide claiming that the world will not end.

“Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice,” stated NASA on its Web site.

Talking about the Mayan Calendar it mentions that just as our calendar end on Dec. 31, likewise Mayan Calendar ends on Dec 21., 2012, marking the “end of the Mayan long-count period”. But just as our calendar again starts on Jan. 1, similarly a long-count period also starts for the Mayan Calendar.

Elaborating further, it stated that stories related to Nibiru are just Internet hoaxes, and there is no scientific evidence to back such claims.

Neither is a meteor predicted to hit the planet by 2012 and it is just a fictional assertion. Even the reversal in the rotation of the Earth is impossible. (here and here)

If we are going to spend tax dollars on something, trying to make people believe that the end of the world is not coming ain’t it.