Posted on 08/27/2010 8:55:30 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.
Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.
Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012.
Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale. The 2012 storm has the potential to be even more disruptive.
"The general consensus among general astronomers (and certainly solar astronomers) is that this coming Solar maximum (2012 but possibly later into 2013) will be the most violent in 100 years," News.com.au quoted astronomy lecturer and columnist Dave Reneke as saying.
"A bold statement and one taken seriously by those it will affect most, namely airline companies, communications companies and anyone working with modern GPS systems.
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How did it wipe out telegraph wires?
I can believe that it disrupted telegraph communication, at least for a while. But, I'm having a hard time believing that it "wiped out" the actual wires.
So, did anyone predict the event. Stuff happens that we cannot predict, FACT. But these goobers say then can predict it, and then carp a year or two on the date. This is about funding "further research". Bogus science. (Remember Globul Warming?).
When it’s my time to die, then so be it.......
Eliminate the fear of death and welcome to joys of life
I can grow man parts too but that does not mean it is going to happen. I’ll take my chances and will wait and see what 2012 has in store for me.
It’s from the Mayan calendar so it MUST be true!
hey, maybe some of that Y2K stuff sitting around my basement will prove to be useful afterall!
One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class.
She came to the part where Chicken Little warns the farmer.
She read, “...and Chicken Little went up to the farmer ans said, The Sky is Falling!”
The teacher then asked the class, “And what do you think that farmer said?”
One little girl raised her hand and said, “I think he said: Holy S**t! a talking chicken!”
Precisely.
LOL.....LOLOLOLOLOLOL
What makes a barbaric, now extinct society, the end-all-be-all of the end of times?
Astronomers are predicting....
That says it all.
they cannot predict a coronal mass ejection and if they could they cannot predict the direction it travels in...there is a fairly narrow window needed to strike earth with full force....
if a huge one like the one in the 1850s hit we could be seriously screwed...but they cannot predict it to a year like that....
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!
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Dang.
I need to stock up on AAA batteries to make sure all my remotes will work.
I’d better move my car.
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“Never mind the fact that all of those history books are full of the detials of the 1921 event!?”
It’s still talked about today by telegraph operators.
Put everything on Discover Card please, they jacked my rate to 29.8% when the check we mailed supposedly never made it and I am still pissed at them for doing that.
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