Nasa has publicly insisted that the supposed apocalypse, theorised to occur on 21 December 2012, will not take place.
Conspiracy theorists, internet trolls and the very anxious have been convinced for years that the end of the Mayan calendar will also result in the end of the world.
But while it is true that on 21 December a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun willend, that doesn't necessarily mean all life on Earth will die, sceptics have insisted.
Funnily enough Nasa agrees.
In a Google+ Hangout held on Wednesday, David Morrison, an astrobiologist at Nasa Ames Research Centre, said there was no reason to worry.
"There is no true issue here," he said. "This is just a manufactured fantasy."
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