3 Days of Darkness

Ok so a bunch of people are freaking out as Dec. 21st gets closer and just recently kids at my school have been talking about the '3 Days of Darkness". According to a text my friend Donesha got from her ex-boyfriend Tyler yesterday ( I live in a sitcome apparnetly ) some kind of plantery aligment is going to happen on the 21st that will cause complete darkness for the earth for 3 days.

Of course no one believed this, today we asked one of the chemsitry teachers at school that do way too much, and actually watch the news and follows theis type of stuff. She said that there was some truth to this and it might actually happen. She also told us to come up with a safety plan just in case people loose their ever-loving-minds during the global black-out and try to take stuff.

I of course love all of my stuff so I decied to research for myself. I found this NASA Q&A forumn all about 2012. >www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat…<. If you guys want to check it out, knock yourselves out.

Anyway here the direct quote I found:  "Absolutely not. Neither NASA nor any other scientific organization is predicting such a blackout. The false reports on this issue claim that some sort of "alignment of the Universe" will cause a blackout. There is no such alignment (see next question). Some versions of this rumor cite an emergency preparedness message from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. This is simply a message encouraging people to be prepared for emergencies, recorded as part of a wider government preparedness campaign. It never mentions a blackout."  

Apparnetly Tyler must have sent out the orginial message from this Bolden guy and we mistook the information. Although the version of the message I saw DID mention a blackout that was supposed to start at 1am UTC time and it went on about how amazing the alignment was and how we haven't seen one in 11 million years.  

I guess the only real question is: Do we trust the internet? Or the Government?