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Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'
Yahoo (India) ^ | Aug. 26, 2010

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at in.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; catastrophism; davereneke; nasa; predictions; solaractivity; solarflares
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To: Noamie

Clinton on it right away.


61 posted on 08/27/2010 9:27:26 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: COUNTrecount

Great false flag front.

High altitude nuke blast will do what they say their ‘predicted’ storm could do.


62 posted on 08/27/2010 9:28:12 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Abathar
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.

Chase VISA and the Cable Co tried something similar with me. Their Policies document stated I had a 25 day grace period. But, they would fail to mail the statement for up to 13 days. By the time I actually got it with additional postal delays, even if I mailed the payment immediately, the payment would be beyond the due date.

Now, I make most payments via online banking. That way, I know when it was deducted and 'sent' from my account and when the payee got it. And, I don't have to worry about 'lost in the mail' or postal delays. Online payments usually take no more than 2 business days.
63 posted on 08/27/2010 9:29:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: COUNTrecount

Dec. 21st by any chance?


64 posted on 08/27/2010 9:30:17 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: justlurking

Electromagnetic pulse -

The most underestimated and underreported threat to our cyberbased way of life that is known to exist.

Forget the 100 million H-bombs or whatever. A small nuclear pop at altitude over a national capital could destroy a country’s ability to govern and feed itself. Ask the Iranians: they threaten the use of EMP because they fear its use on them.

This solar storm could do the same thing worldwide without making a sound. Didn’t the poet write about the world ending “not with a bang but a whimper”?


65 posted on 08/27/2010 9:31:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: Marty62

Dang,those Mayans are at it again!


66 posted on 08/27/2010 9:32:00 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Marty62

12-12-12

12:12


67 posted on 08/27/2010 9:32:40 AM PDT by Dacula (So long and thanks for all fish.)
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To: Orange1998

I paid the balance then told them to delete the account, not being too polite. I then called and talked to my Visa card carrier, USAA, to ask if they would raise my rates because of that. They told me they don’t play games like that like Discover does.

If you don’t know of them USAA Visa/MasterCard is the best company there is to deal with, hands down.


68 posted on 08/27/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: COUNTrecount; All
"Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'"

Chicken Littles

69 posted on 08/27/2010 9:34:11 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: TomGuy

I am doing that now too, but my wife is not exactly tech savvy and it took a lot of persuasion to get her to go paperless.


70 posted on 08/27/2010 9:35:26 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: COUNTrecount

The sun has a temperature.


71 posted on 08/27/2010 9:35:46 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: norge
Whew, I was worried it was anthropogenic.

It is anthropogenic.

Caused by Freeper SUVs, cattle and incandescent lighting.

72 posted on 08/27/2010 9:38:16 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: justlurking

Amazing stuff, thanks for posting.

2012 sounds like a good year for wearing gumboots.


73 posted on 08/27/2010 9:38:29 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Hodar

So I should take a round-the-world cruise now, and really pile up the Mastercard/Visa card debt?

Yes!!! It believe the Aztec calendar predicts 2012 as the end of the world - so we got a lot going on in 2012. I guess I gotta kick my “bucket list” into high gear.


74 posted on 08/27/2010 9:38:47 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: COUNTrecount
In the real world, the later a solar cycle begins after the last maximum, the weaker it tends to be. This one (solar cycle 24) is very late, and so far quite weak.


75 posted on 08/27/2010 9:38:59 AM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: ully2

This sounds like someone just finished watching ‘2012’, in which an ‘unexpected and unprecedented’ solar flare, combined with mutated neutrinos (someone figure how THAT happens??) heats the Earth’s core and dislodges the tectonic plates.

That’s how someone can make up this kind of stupid stuff.


76 posted on 08/27/2010 9:41:17 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: cicero2k

Well, then, we can do something about it. How about a “solar exchange”?

I’ll trade you sunbeams for your use of an SUV.


77 posted on 08/27/2010 9:42:40 AM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Bush did it!


78 posted on 08/27/2010 9:44:50 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: BelegStrongbow

Mutated neutrinos, awesome concept!

We didn’t listen!


79 posted on 08/27/2010 9:45:24 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Sender

They can predict anything. It’s the media.


80 posted on 08/27/2010 9:47:40 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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