End Of The World 2012.

Dec. 21, 2012 doomsday-believers around the globe are bracing for what they believe could be the end of the world.

A Chinese inventor built "survival pods" that can help him through the mayhem. A contractor has developed underground bunkers to safeguard their Italian owners. And fare finder website Skyscanner accounts its customers are showing an escalating interest in one-way tickets for you to "Apocalypse safe havens. "

According to NASA, many Apocalypse fears originate in the fact that Niberiu, a planet that are allegedly discovered by the Sumerians, would hit planet World in May 2003. When the globe did not perish, however, new claims were submit that Nibiru would hit soil on Dec. 21, 2012 -- manufactured the Mayan long-count calendar comes to an end.

NASA has gone out of its way to rebuke the doomsday fears, arguing that "the world will never end in 2012. Our planet continues to be getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and that credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012. "

Several governments, way too, have reassured their citizens that the Apocalypse is nowhere near. According to a New York Times statement, Russia's minister of emergency conditions Vladimir Puchkov reassured the country's citizens on Friday that he is sure the world will not end in December and that "he had access to methods of monitoring what is occurring in the world Earth. ” And the Vatican's major astronomer Rev. Jose Funes wrote from the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the doomsday predictions are "not perhaps worth discussing. "