Griffith Observatory's End-Of-World Party Plans To Go Late Dec. 21

By Dennis Romero Thu., Dec. 13 2012 at 1:15 PM

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Defying all logic, reason, and science, the Griffith Observatory has announced it is staying open for the end of the world Dec. 21.

Not happening, of course, because you can't stay open after the world has ended! Someone failed to inform the Observatory's directors about this fact.

The folks at our famed hilltop attraction will attempt the impossible:

The Observatory plans to stay open all the way past midnight. A statement reads:

Griffith Observatory will attempt to dispel misguided concerns regarding the "End of the World" by staying open late the evening of Friday, December 21, 2012, until one minute after midnight. The Observatory normally closes at 10:00 p.m. but will remain open an added 121 minutes to demonstrate that claims regarding the Maya calendar, planetary alignments, rogue planets, galactic beams, and other related phenomena have no basis in fact.

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Shuh. If you want to spend your last minutes gazing at the L.A. basin, be our guest.

The Observatory says its show that allegedly debunks end-of-world preductions, Time's Up, will be playing all day that Friday.

Griffith principals, by the way, blame us, the media, for stoking interest in these very true facts about the coming end, saying that we publish ...

... irresponsible reports online and in the media. While the "2012" scenario is based on a profound misinterpretation of the Maya calendar ...

Just you wait and see.

In the meantime, if you do want to enjoy the last day at the Observatory, organizers warn that parking will fill up early and lots will close by 10 p.m., possibly even before that.

Come early. Behave. (Extra cops and rangers will be on patrol). Try not to offer to have last-day sex with strangers. Just in case we're wrong.

Info.

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end of the world, Griffith Observatory, Mayan

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abramsrl

How does this end of the world thing happen?

Does the world end one time zone at a time so that we can watch NYC disappear and then St Louis, and Denver? As Hoarse Greeley would say, "Swim west, young man, swim west."

Marcia Anderson

Fun reason to have a party - good for them. We threw parties for the other '...and nothing happened' predictions that occurred this year, with our fave being the Rapture. Humans sure are weird.

Andreissz Kunningham

On Dec 21st at 3:11 AM PST, there will be an energy activation among thousands of people around the world. At that specific time here on the West Coast we are advised to pray for peace and divine assistance. I attended a paranormal workshop today and will like to share what I learned. More info is at this blog: http://2012portal.blogspot.com/

Craig Colan

My Question Is if it's Dec 20 2012, lets say 5 p.m. west coast time and you cross the International Date Line the the day and time in Hong Kong will be 9 a.m. Dec 21...... So will the Eastern side of the globe be doomed first or what...........

abramsrl

@Craig Colan Oops, you beat me to it with the time zone thing.

I guess this just goes to show that ignorance, like being unaware that the world has many time zones, is not the good basis to make a prediction.