Solar flare nearly destroyed Earth 2 years ago: NASA

New York Post ^ | 7/24/14 | James Billington

[Nachum]

Two years ago we were all going about our daily business blissfully unaware that our planet almost plunged into global catastrophe.

A recent revelation by NASA explains how on July 23, 2012 Earth had a near miss with a solar flare, or Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), from the most powerful solar storm on the sun in over 150 years, but nobody decided to mention it.

Err, what? Well that’s a sobering bit of news.

“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” says Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado.

We managed to just avoid the event through lucky timing as the sun’s aim narrowly turned away from Earth. Had it occurred a week earlier when it WAS pointing at us the result could have been frighteningly different.

“I have come away from our recent studies more convinced than ever that Earth and its inhabitants were incredibly fortunate that the 2012 eruption happened when it did,” says Baker. “If the eruption had occurred only one week earlier, Earth would have been in the line of fire.

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So the Maya were almost right about 2012?

[Free Vulcan]

"I call BS!"

[clearcarbon]

When asked by reporters about the sudden loss of all president’s teleprompters, obama said he was speechless.

[JohnBrowdie]

perspective is important. in a week, the earth travels nearly 12 million miles. that’s 1/3 of the way to mars at it’s closest approach.