Kiamat (Doomsday) in 2012?

No, it won’t, says scientists. Yes, doomsday or kiamat in Bahasa Indonesia will take place in year 2012, says Roland Emmerich, the director of movie “2012″. One thing for sure, Emmerich must be the happiest to see his movie goes buzzy in the box office. Before commenting, it’s better to read this good essay from NYT:

The doomsday buzz reached a high point with the release of the new movie “2012,” directed by Roland Emmerich, who previously inflicted misery on the Earth from aliens and glaciers in “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow.”

In the movie, an alignment between the Sun and the center of the galaxy on Dec. 21, 2012, causes the Sun to go berserk with mighty storms on its surface that pour out huge numbers of the elusive subatomic particles known as neutrinos. Somehow the neutrinos transmute into other particles and heat up the Earth’s core. The Earth’s crust loses its moorings and begins to weaken and slide around. Los Angeles falls into the ocean; Yellowstone blows up, showering the continent with black ash. Tidal waves wash over the Himalayas, where the governments of the planet have secretly built a fleet of arks in which a select 400,000 people can ride out the storm.