Expert: idleness makes people predicting the end of the world

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of Armenian Astronomic Society Areg Mikayelyan said that the availability of information facilitates quickly spreading hearsays about the end of the world.

As he told a press conference in Yerevan, if someone starts to share information about the impending end of the world, at least one person would believe it.

Mikayelyan also noted that it's already several times during the last decade, when people spread sensation news about upcoming end of the world. “They talked about it in 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005. The end of the world should have been come on May 21 this year. Some people predict that the end of the world would come on December 21, 2012. We have outlived previous predictions and, I think, we'll survive this time,” the Armenian expert said.

Meanwile Mikayelyan noted that people speak about the end of the world mainly in developed countries. He supposes that the reason for it is that people there have few social and economic problems. The Armenian expert also remarked that it is a good way to make money.