Solar Doom 2012 Apocalypse

[AtW]

Will this be before or after the Olympics?

After, unless the swines get us before that.

[TimberWolf]

End of the world - long predicted for 2012:

http://www.greatdreams.com/end-world.htm

Those Aztecs and Mayans hey? Now what happened to them?

Did they succumb to some kind of flu?

[Ravello]

Will this be before or after the Olympics?

[MrMark]

End of the world - long predicted for 2012:

http://www.greatdreams.com/end-world.htm

Those Aztecs and Mayans hey? Now what happened to them?

[AlfredJPruffock]

This was in New Scientist the other week...

The sun is suspiciously quiet at the moment too...

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin' birds are calling
Summer's Sunday and a year
The sound of music in my ears
Distant bells
New mown grass smells so sweet
By the river holding hands
Roll me up and lay me down

And if you see
Don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me

[DimPrawn]

I'm too scared of Global Warming to worry about anything else. I mean imagine the Earth 0.1 deg C warmer in 500 years time.

[AlfredJPruffock]

This thread is perfect for the doom-lovers who might need futher material to fret over - granted that the Andromeda collision might be a wee bit too distant at 3.5 Billion years (altough I was worrying about that last night - why doesnt the Government DO something for crying out loud ?)

Enjoy.




Wired Science News for Your Neurons The 2012 Apocalypse —
And How to Stop It
By Brandon Keim April 17, 2009


For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.

Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States "$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year," concluded the panel, and "full recovery could take 4 to 10 years." That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages.

Good-bye, civilization.

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield. But the report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012’s supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous "birth of a new era."

Whether the Mayans were on to something, or this is all just a chilling coincidence, won’t be known for several years. But according to Lawrence Joseph, author of "Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End," "I’ve been following this topic for almost five years, and it wasn’t until the report came out that this really began to freak me out."


Full Doom here http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms