December 2012.... Ever read about what happened the last time a solar flare hit the earth headon? Happened in the late 1800's back when all we had were telegraphs. It caused worldwide fires from the electronics shortcircuiting. Good thing we weren't dependant on electricity back then. Hell, it could've been devestating for our grandparents. Imagine if they had had cars, cellphones, and information gathering devices and didn't farm anymore because it was too much of a hassle. Along comes this invisible force, and - BAMMM!! - damn it's a long walk to work. I hate warm beer. Pony express is always late, argh. What?, Oprah died last year? What do you mean, I can't have a Coke, or ice with it, on the burger you gotta go kill?! I know momma's copy of that 'Farmer's Almanac' thing is around here somewhere(diggin' thru the shed). "I know, but we hafta grow the corn to make the bread for the burgers at the family reunion 6 months from now in August." And don't forget,"Sure was awful the way grandpa's pacemaker blew up like that. Ain't seen nuthin like that since that time Uncle Martin got drunk, bent down over the fire, and lit all them jumpin jacks at one time in his shirt pocket.
Yeah, woulda been hell on 'em back then. Good thing all they had to deal with was WWI.
The Ancient Mayan Prediction regarding year 2012:
When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles, they devised two calendars, one ritualistic, which was used for religious celebrations and astrological predictions, and the other a solar calendar
End of the Mayan Great Cycle: December 21st, 2012 A.D.
Check out the movie trailer that Gibson is doing about the Mayans:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809249345/trailer
Scholars today are recognizing that Mayan mythology is intimately related to the celestial movements of stars, the Milky Way and certain constellations. The sources of Mayan mythology are found in the sky, and the timetable of Creation Day is pinpointed by the end date of the Mayan Great Cycle.
My research into the nature of this date reveals that a rare celestial alignment culminates on it. Generally speaking, what occurs is an alignment between the galactic and solar planes. Specifically, the winter solstice sun will conjunct the Milky Way, which is the edge of our spinning galaxy as viewed from earth. Furthermore, the place where the sun meets the Milky Way is where the "dark-rift" in the Milky Way is - a black ridge along the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds
From Scientist and Climatologist: Patrick Gwinneth
In Conclusion that in 2012 AD, the earth will be subjected to a huge disaster. The cause: the magnetic field of the earth will reverse in one go, resulting in an enormous shift of the earth’s crust. Virtually it will be hard for most people to will survive this, while at the same time all our acquired knowledge will disappear.
These scientific predictions originate from the Maya and the ancient Egyptians. Both civilizations are descendants of the legendary Atlanteans, and they had an very high-evolved astronomical knowledge. At the time, they were able to accurately predict the tidal wave that would herald the end of their civilization.
This put me to my quest for the background of their calculations. After years of intensive research, I finally succeeded in cracking the millennia-old codes of the Maya and ancient Egyptians. All my findings make up an amazing exploratory expedition into the secrets of a very distant past. What I discovered is astonishing and concerns everybody. At the same time this discovery explains why the Egyptians built the pyramids of Gizeh according to the star system of Orion.
Sunspots have Increased 1825%
From a New Scientist article of 02 November 2003: "There have been more sunspots since the 1940s than for the past 1150 years (combined)." That is a 1825% increase. Sunspot numbers were derived from levels of a radioactive isotope found in ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctica. Sunspots are the precursors of solar flares and coronal mass ejections and reflect the internal state of the sun.
2012.. FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
2012: Super Sunspot Cycle Peak!
Increasing sunspot activity was clearly visible as our star approached its latest maximum, in 1999.
The next 11-year sunspot cycle will be late but strong according to a new computer prediction. The model used was virtually spot on when applied retrospectively to "forecast" the last eight solar cycles.
"We predict the next cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the last cycle," says the model's creator, Mausumi Dikpati, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, US.
The Sun is currently near its minimum activity, at the tail end of a solar cycle, numbered 23. "Onset of the next cycle will be delayed by six to 12 months, to late 2007 or early 2008," Dikpati says. She expects the next peak to hit in 2012.
Although each solar cycle – from sunspot minimum to maximum and back again – is roughly 11 years, the periods can vary in length and intensity. The factors governing the cycle have been largely inscrutable.
Dikpati's team tackled the problem by incorporating updated solar dynamical theories along with observations of the Sun dating back to 1880. The result is a model of the Sun with a 20-year "memory" of its magnetic field activity.