Sunday, December 23, 2012

the world continues

hello everyone.   nice to write to you a few days after the solstice, a few days after the date some people feared the world would end.  i'd like to say "i told you so," but mostly i'm just happy that i wont be receiving ridiculous emails anymore (after having received them steadily for the last THREE years) or witnessing young students i talk to about science genuinely fearful because they heard some adults talking about this nonsense. 

my cynical side reminds me that it's just a matter of time before these easily-influenced people latch onto the next doomsday scare-for-all.   my optimistic side hopes those people will remember this non-event and believe in trusted sources of information instead of believing in silly rumours that dont make sense.   please trust me, the so-called planet niburu does not exist

anyway, here is a beautiful photograph of the mayan pyramid, el castillo, located at chichén itzá in the yucatán peninsula of mexico.  orion is there, peaking brightly behind the illuminated clouds. 



2 comments:

il dentista di provincia said...

In any case, best wishes for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

heroineworshipper said...

Surprisingly dark sky for a famous artifact where a large population used to live. Surprising that when civilization redeveloped, it was completely removed from its past location.