On Mon. 8/27/12, Alice sent an email with, Resources for Dealing with Student and Public Fears about Doomsday 2012. This morning I saw this link, on My Yahoo main web page, to a recent Urban Legend that, "NASA Predicted Some Kind of 'Total Blackout' for Dec. 2012, called 'universe change' ", when the earth will shift through to the fourth dimension. announcement of the urban legend - http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2012/09/06/nasa-predicted-total-blackout-in-dec-2012.htm copy of the Facebook posting of the legend, its Analysis and links - http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/Nasa-Predicts-Total-Blackout-Dec-2012.htm ___________________________________________________________ “If no one challenged the status quo, the world would still be flat.”