The Truth about 2012 from NASA Lunar Science Institute on Vimeo.
NASA's David Morrison, expert on Earth impact hazards and currently Interim Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute, speaks on what are the risk to Earth in 2012. He addresses misconceptions related to the year 2012, Earth crossing objects, planetary alignment, and related myths like Nibiru.
For more information on this topic, please see
astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers.
“His idea is original, of great simplicity, and—if it continues to prove itself—of great importance to everything that is related to the history of the earth’s surface.” – Einstein
Upon learning of Charles Hapgood’s pole-shift theory, Einstein was struck by the possibility of explaining the history of Earth’s surface. Inspect a letter Einstein wrote to Charles Hapgood and read the famous scientist's introduction to Hapgood's book The Path of the Pole. The English translations are below and his original writings are to the right.
Could a violent and sudden slippage of the Earth’s crust over its molten core spell doom for civilizations? Here are three early pole shift theories exactly how each proposed the world end.
In 1842, French mathematician Joseph Adhemar proposed that a melting and sudden collapse of the polar ice caps would destabilize Earth’s center of gravity, spawning a global tsunami.