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Many people have been for months for the end of the world. There have stories on the Internet for the past decade that the world will end on December 21. This is the day of the “Mayan Apocalypse,” when a Mayan calendar the end of us all. However, many other people do not the world will end in a day or two. The Chinese government has recently 93 people for doomsday rumours on the Internet. Meanwhile, in Russia, Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov sensibly people not to buy Armageddon candles. He wrote on his website: "Does no one that once the end of the world , candles won't them?"

So what might on Friday? The Internet is full of stories about giant tsunamis and asteroids that will us. More common stories are that the black hole at the centre of the galaxy will the Earth, or that a planet called “Nibiru” will hit us. NASA says Nibiru was meant to us in May 2003, but when nothing , “the doomsday date was forward to December 2012”. NASA adds: “If Nibiru was real…astronomers would have been it for at least the past decade, and it would be by now to the naked eye.” English teachers worldwide have told their students they cannot the apocalypse as an excuse not to do homework.

 


 
 

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