やっぱりオカルトでしたね。
騒いでいた方、なんて言い訳するのでしょう。
NASAで公開したYOUTUBEです。
今月公開で3,446,816回の閲覧から関心の高さが窺えます。
ScienceCasts: Why the World Didn't End Yesterday
字幕をお起こしてみました。（時間がある時に訳してみます。）
NASA is so sure the world won't come to an end Dec.21.2012.
that they already released a video for the day after.
NASAは世界は2012年12月21日に終わらないということを確信しています。
それは彼らが、次の日のために既にビデオをリリースしました。
Why the world didnt End Yesterday,presented by Science@NASA
『なぜ、世界は昨日終わらなかったか』サイエンス・＠NASA提供
Dec,22.2012:if you`are watching this video, it means one thing:
2012年12月22日に、あなたがもしこのビデオを見ているとしたら、意味していることはただ一つです。
The Word Didn`t End Yesterday.
世界は昨日終わらなかった。
According to media reports of an ancient Maya prophecy,the world was supposed to destroyed on Dec,21,2012.
メディアが伝える古代マヤの予言によると、世界は2012年12月21日に滅亡することになっていました。
But look around you.
でも、あなたの周りを見てください。
`The whole thing was misconception from the very beginning,`
says Dr.john Carlson,
director of the Center of the Archaeoastronomy.
`The Maya calender did not end on Dec,21,2012, and there were no
Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date,`
The truth, he says, is more itneresting than fiction.
Calson is a hard-nosed scientist--a radio astronomer who earned his degree sutdying galaxies.
He became interested in the 2012 phenomenon 35 years ago when he attended a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and learned about the Maya.
Where the rain forests of Mesoamerica now stand, a great civilization onece flowrished.
The people of Maya society built vast cities with a population density comparable to modern Los Angels County.
They mastered astronomy and developed an elaborate written language.
Most impressive, to Carlson, was their expansive sense of time.
`The times Mayas used dwarf those currently used by modern astronomers,`he explains.
`According to our science,the Big Bang occurred 13,7 billion years old.
There are dates in Mayan ruins that stretch back a billion times farther than that.`
The Maya Long Calender was designed to keep track of such long intervals.
`It is the most complex calendar system ever developed.`
Written using modern typography,the Long Count Calendar resembles the odometer car.
Because the digits rotate, the calendar can `roll over` and repeat itself,
this repetition is key to the 2012phenomenon.
According to Maya theology,the world was created 5125years ago, on a date we would write `August 11,3114BC.`
At the time, the Maya calendar looked like this:13,0,0,0,0
On Dec,21,2012, it is exactly the same:13.0.0.0.0 in the language of Maya scholars,
`13 Bak`tuns` elapsed between the two dates.
This was significant interval in Maya theology,but stresses Carlson, not a destructive one.
None of the thousands of ruins, tablets, and standing stones that archeologists have examined foretell an end of the world.
Modern science agrees.
NASA experts recently gathered in a Google hangout to share their findings.
Don Yeomans, head of NASA`s Near-Earth Object Program, stated that no known asteroids or comets were on a collision course with Earth.
Neither is a rogue planet coming to destroy us.
`if there were anything out there like a planet headed for Earth,`
said NASA astrobiologist David Morrison,
`it would already be [one of the] brightist objects in the sky,Everybody on Earth see it.
You don`t need to ask the governmment, just go out and look.
it`s not there.`
Lika Guhathakurta, head of NASA`s Living With a Star Program, said the sun is not a threat,either,
`The sun has been flaring for billions of years--
long before the Maya even existed ---and it has never once destroyed the world.`
`Right now the sun is approaching the maximum of its 11-year activity cycle.`
she added.
`but this is the wimpiest solar cycle of the past 50 years.
Reports to the contrary are exaggerated.`
To Carlson,Dec,21,2012,is not a day of dread.
On the contrary, he says,
`I have been waiting to exerience this day for more than 30 years.`
For him, `experiencing Dec,21,2012`means visiting the Maya homeland in the Yucatan, and thinking back to the height of Maya civillization.
when ancient humans contemplated expanses of time orders of magnitude beyond modern horizons.
And, ofcource,appreciating the fact that The World Didn`t End Yesterday.
Got more questions about Dec,21 2012?
Check www.nasa.gov/2012for answers.
And for breaking science news, stay tuned to science.nasa.gov.
騒いでいた方、なんて言い訳するのでしょう。
NASAで公開したYOUTUBEです。
今月公開で3,446,816回の閲覧から関心の高さが窺えます。
ScienceCasts: Why the World Didn't End Yesterday
字幕をお起こしてみました。（時間がある時に訳してみます。）
NASA is so sure the world won't come to an end Dec.21.2012.
that they already released a video for the day after.
NASAは世界は2012年12月21日に終わらないということを確信しています。
それは彼らが、次の日のために既にビデオをリリースしました。
Why the world didnt End Yesterday,presented by Science@NASA
『なぜ、世界は昨日終わらなかったか』サイエンス・＠NASA提供
Dec,22.2012:if you`are watching this video, it means one thing:
2012年12月22日に、あなたがもしこのビデオを見ているとしたら、意味していることはただ一つです。
The Word Didn`t End Yesterday.
世界は昨日終わらなかった。
According to media reports of an ancient Maya prophecy,the world was supposed to destroyed on Dec,21,2012.
メディアが伝える古代マヤの予言によると、世界は2012年12月21日に滅亡することになっていました。
But look around you.
でも、あなたの周りを見てください。
`The whole thing was misconception from the very beginning,`
says Dr.john Carlson,
director of the Center of the Archaeoastronomy.
`The Maya calender did not end on Dec,21,2012, and there were no
Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date,`
The truth, he says, is more itneresting than fiction.
Calson is a hard-nosed scientist--a radio astronomer who earned his degree sutdying galaxies.
He became interested in the 2012 phenomenon 35 years ago when he attended a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and learned about the Maya.
Where the rain forests of Mesoamerica now stand, a great civilization onece flowrished.
The people of Maya society built vast cities with a population density comparable to modern Los Angels County.
They mastered astronomy and developed an elaborate written language.
Most impressive, to Carlson, was their expansive sense of time.
`The times Mayas used dwarf those currently used by modern astronomers,`he explains.
`According to our science,the Big Bang occurred 13,7 billion years old.
There are dates in Mayan ruins that stretch back a billion times farther than that.`
The Maya Long Calender was designed to keep track of such long intervals.
`It is the most complex calendar system ever developed.`
Written using modern typography,the Long Count Calendar resembles the odometer car.
Because the digits rotate, the calendar can `roll over` and repeat itself,
this repetition is key to the 2012phenomenon.
According to Maya theology,the world was created 5125years ago, on a date we would write `August 11,3114BC.`
At the time, the Maya calendar looked like this:13,0,0,0,0
On Dec,21,2012, it is exactly the same:13.0.0.0.0 in the language of Maya scholars,
`13 Bak`tuns` elapsed between the two dates.
This was significant interval in Maya theology,but stresses Carlson, not a destructive one.
None of the thousands of ruins, tablets, and standing stones that archeologists have examined foretell an end of the world.
Modern science agrees.
NASA experts recently gathered in a Google hangout to share their findings.
Don Yeomans, head of NASA`s Near-Earth Object Program, stated that no known asteroids or comets were on a collision course with Earth.
Neither is a rogue planet coming to destroy us.
`if there were anything out there like a planet headed for Earth,`
said NASA astrobiologist David Morrison,
`it would already be [one of the] brightist objects in the sky,Everybody on Earth see it.
You don`t need to ask the governmment, just go out and look.
it`s not there.`
Lika Guhathakurta, head of NASA`s Living With a Star Program, said the sun is not a threat,either,
`The sun has been flaring for billions of years--
long before the Maya even existed ---and it has never once destroyed the world.`
`Right now the sun is approaching the maximum of its 11-year activity cycle.`
she added.
`but this is the wimpiest solar cycle of the past 50 years.
Reports to the contrary are exaggerated.`
To Carlson,Dec,21,2012,is not a day of dread.
On the contrary, he says,
`I have been waiting to exerience this day for more than 30 years.`
For him, `experiencing Dec,21,2012`means visiting the Maya homeland in the Yucatan, and thinking back to the height of Maya civillization.
when ancient humans contemplated expanses of time orders of magnitude beyond modern horizons.
And, ofcource,appreciating the fact that The World Didn`t End Yesterday.
Got more questions about Dec,21 2012?
Check www.nasa.gov/2012for answers.
And for breaking science news, stay tuned to science.nasa.gov.