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Jan. 4th, 2010 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIn further efforts to temporarily avoid work, I found a link to the below text in the inimitable Bill the Splut's blog, which I've been reading on and off for many years, ever since I found the InExOb archive.
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Wait. What?? Really? Really??? Did the astrobiologist refer these people to a psychiatric facility as a danger to themselves and others?
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NASA's Ask an Astrobiologist Web site, for example, has received thousands of questions regarding the 2012 doomsday predictions—some of them disturbing, according to David Morrison, senior scientist with the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
"A lot of [the submitters] are people who are genuinely frightened," Morrison said.
"I've had two teenagers who were considering killing themselves, because they didn't want to be around when the world ends," he said. "Two women in the last two weeks said they were contemplating killing their children and themselves so they wouldn't have to suffer through the end of the world."
Wait. What?? Really? Really??? Did the astrobiologist refer these people to a psychiatric facility as a danger to themselves and others?
