Video: Nasa releases post-apocalypse video ten days early The space agency's internet production, which was released as part of an attempt to prevent panic, says: "December 22, 2012. If you're watching this video it means one thing - the world didn't end yesterday. Fear was fueled by the Hollywood disaster movie "2012," but Mayans themselves reject the idea that their ancient ancestors predicted the day of Armageddon. They say the end of the calendar will simply mean a new era is ushered in. In its video Nasa compared the end of the calendar to a car odometer rolling over and starting again. The space agency said: "None of the ruins, tablets and standing stones that archaeologists have examined foretell the end of the world. No known asteroids or comets are on a collision course with Earth. Neither is a rogue planet coming to destroy us. It would already be the brightest object in the sky. You don't need to ask the government, just go out and look. It's not there. The sun has been flaring for billions of years and it has never destroyed the world once.