Yep. What's really going on here is a sort of flocking behavior centered on a belief, in this case, that the world will end on December21, 2012. Various"explanatons" are given for this, none of which really hold water. This is rather like the Harmonic Convergence phenomenon that happened back in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I forget which (had to be after June 1987, because I was in Seattle for it, and I moved here in June '87). All the peace/love/joy/bullshit that the New Agers predicted would come about as a result of the Harmonic Convergence never did, of course. But for a while they had their belief, and they had a group to belong to that was just honkin' HUGE, welded together by the power of belief in One Big Thing. Sort of like the scoiological equivalent of LSD or pot or what have you. And like the trips generated by such drugs, one the euphoria from the day of the Harmonic Convergence wore off, the let-down was as terrible as the euphoria had been great. Or so I am told, and from what I've observed, that's the way it seems to have been. The 2012 crowd aren't the only ones engaging in end-of-the-world flocking behavior righht now, either. Fundamentalist believers in Revelations have their own versions A(plural) of that belief, placing their End of the World scenarios somewhere between the end of this year and 2013. All of which is sociological, due to the laws of psychology, not the laws of physics. If the end of the world does happen on or about 2012 (as they say in Dragnet), it will do so because of human idiocy, not because of anything external to our species. {sigh}

Yes. When pigs wear lipstick. ;-)