2012 Sunstorm anyone?

[Arisato]

Explain it to me, imma confused even i've read it on the news , google, etc etc.
What i know it brings demise.

 

[takakenji]

??????????kk

 

[SA Dashie]

So you are asking if we want a sun storm and how to give it to us?

 

[Arisato]

XD No lol how would i want death

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Well it's over so meh. Next.

 

[SA Dashie]

Reread your quote and title and you might see what I meant.

 

[HFR]

Blah blah blah Illuminati Blah blah blah blah new world order blah blah blah lizard people.

That's all you need to know.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

 

[Magtheridon96]

In 2012, there will be AN SOLAR STORM N ALIENS N STUFF ...........................
NIBIRU ALSO N TERRORISTS N MOAR STUFF N WE ALL GONA DIE!/11!?!??!


But seriously, I find it hard to believe that any human-being would give in to this type of shit.
Just look at how many people commit suicide before Y2K. There are a lot of things that people
predicted in the past .. and all those things (except for a few of Nostradamus' predictions and
global warming in 2006) did not happen.

- Y2K - Apocalypse
- May 21, 2011 - Rapture
- October 25, 2010 - Rapture
- September 26, 2011 - Comet
- August 4, 2011 - Massive Solarflare (Although there were a lot of sunspots, nothing really happened)
- 1976 - Some wacko said the world's going to end in this year after interpreting some biblical readings or something like that
- 1900 - Mayans gathered on some plateau waiting to be "rescued"

I remember one prediction that actually came true though
It was November 4, 2010 and the prediction was made by some bot. It predicted that the US Economy is going to get f*cked.
The date was a bit off, but it was close.

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Despite the fact that I'm ridiculing all the believers, I actually do believe that they're onto something.
Every ~1500 years (according to what's been going on for the last few thousands of years), a very large earthquake destroys the entire western part of the Middle East.
This creates tsunamis, killing millions everywhere.

There is some evidence for events like this that happened in the past.
If you'd look at the sand in Africa, you'd notice that it contains salt.
This salt must've come from the ocean/sea. Tsunamis (Very large ones) must've taken place in the Mediterranean Sea.
These large tsunamis must've been caused by large earthquakes.

The capital of Lebanon (Beirut) has been built, destroyed and rebuilt countless times throughout history.
Even today, you'd find a plethora of cranes in the city.

I fear an earthquake might happen some time in the coming years. My building is over 40 years old and I don't think it could handle a magnitude 6 earthquake yet alone a magnitude 8 one...

 

[Hakeem]

The Y2K bug will happen, and it did happen on some systems at Y2K. At no point will computers' failure to represent time cause any severe damage.

But 2012 is different from your average apocalypse scenario. It's not only been predicted by the Mayans, but also many other completely separate tribes and civilizations. None of them (including the Mayans) are predicting the end of the world though. I forget what the general theme of the prediction was, but it was more something to celebrate than anything else.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

@Magtheridon96

Doomsayers, Alien believers and objective thinkers are three different groups. Doomsayers say the world will end every 2nd week, alien believers are just those who believe everything on the internet. While no one with common sense pays attention to the first two groups, the third group where I belong is simply objective evaluation of only the few credible sources about other beings enough to say it is possible or very likely, not known for sure.

The solar flares of that scale like the one days ago could damage satellites and electrical grids, of course in no way would lead to any cataclysm, as there are alternative electrical sources even if the first ones failed.

Bigger solar flares not seen in history, so these flares of class S5 can cause a lot more damage. Such as the movement of the magnetic poles as the 2012 speculation, yes such thing will happen if a solar flare was of higher than that. This one that passed was S3

Is all that happened (MEH..)

Unless the Mayans knew that exactly when their calendar ends some cataclysm will happen (which would point to an alien civilization as there is no way a tribe would know such things all by themselves), there is no incoming objects towards the Earth any of the years 2012-2013.

However, the Earth is active, even more active than before, so besides the usual disasters, some big tectonics that may move the plates is possible to happen AT ANY GIVEN TIME, today, tomorrow, in 1 year, in 200 years, now. So yes threat about the Earth remains at any time.

 

[Arisato]

Where is this going, i'm just asking about sunstorms ;/

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

^ you could always use google if you're so interested in reading some credible source..
(Never mind that graph)

 

[Arisato]

Now what is that?

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

This thread again?

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29may_noaaprediction/

That's all you need to know. I hope for a beautiful scenery like above or I need to move more on the North like move to Sweden or Norway.

 

[Mechanical Man]

This year venus transit will happen. Yay!

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Venus and Jupiter so close to each other at around 17-18:00. As for the transition this year, too bad without a telescope it would be like a small disk on the sun's disc.

Now what is that?

This:

"The 1859 storm--known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare--electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow."

Boom!

 

[Arisato]

I wish i had a telescope