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All of it, astronomers say, is bunk.
天文學(xué)家們說，所有這些都是無稽之談。
"Most of what's claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy and a level of paranoia worthy of 'Night of the Living Dead,'" Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles, and an expert on ancient astronomy, wrote in an article in the November issue of Sky & Telescope.
“大多數(shù)關(guān)于2012年的斷言都來自某種臆想，異想天開的偽科學(xué)的荒唐，對天文學(xué)的無知，或者一定程度的類似《活死人之夜》的妄想，”洛杉磯里菲斯天文臺(tái)主任、古天文學(xué)專家埃德·克虜伯在11月號的《天空和望遠(yuǎn)鏡》雜志上撰文道。
But the trend has gone too far, suggested David Morrison, an astronomer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who made the YouTube video and is one of the agency's point people on the issue of Mayan prophecies of doom.
但戴維·莫里森認(rèn)為，這種趨勢太過火了，莫里森是英國國家航空航天局位于加利福尼亞莫非特基地埃姆斯研究中心的一位天文學(xué)家，他是航天局里有關(guān)瑪雅人世界末日預(yù)言問題的出頭人之一。就是他代表航天局在YouTube上發(fā)布相關(guān)視頻的。
"I get angry at the way people are being manipulated and frightened to make money," Dr. Morrison said. "There is no ethical right to frighten children to make a buck."
“我對這種以左右和恐嚇觀眾來賺錢的方法感到憤怒，”莫里森博士說。“從道義上來講，沒有人有權(quán)利用嚇唬孩子的方式來賺錢。”
Dr. Morrison said he had been getting about 20 letters and e-mail messages a day from people as far away as India scared out of their wits. In an e-mail message, he enclosed a sample that included one from a woman wondering if she should kill herself, her daughter and her unborn baby. Another came from a person pondering whether to put her dog to sleep to avoid suffering in 2012.
莫里森博士說，他曾一天收到大約20封信和電子郵件，這些信息有的來自遙遠(yuǎn)的印度，都是些被嚇得魂不附體的人發(fā)來的。莫里森舉例說，在一封電子郵件里，一名婦女正在猶豫是否應(yīng)該殺死她的女兒和尚未出生的孩子，然后自殺。在另外一封信中，一名女子正在考慮是否讓她的夠安樂死，以避免在2012年遭劫。
