Posted: 4/14/2010 9:57:05 AM EDT
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I've seen alot of the fantasy fiction relating to 2012, but most of it is just gas across the larynx, hogwash and horseshit. I don't believe that some Mayan dude that wiped his ass with his fingers 2000 years ago had the ability to predict the end of days. His hands hurt and he quit chiseling....or maybe he just died. I don't believe that Jesus is coming and we're all headed for the rupture....err rapture I mean. I don't believe the planets will align and reverse polarity any more than I believe we'll all join hands and sing kumbaya ending war all over the world. There are many possibilities of thing's that might happen but most are one in a million shots at best. In my lifetime, a worldwide nuclear exchange is probably more likely than a Yellowstone eruption. The only credible thing I've seen so far is increased solar activity "COMING SOON TO A PLANET NEAR YOU". There seems to be plenty of religious sites talking about this, I don't play religion and don't care to read those sites or drink their Kool-Aid. There's plenty of 2012 fearmongering sites that wanna make a buck or two. But then There's NASA.....I tend to take them a bit more serious. They do predict "solar maximum" to be around 2010 to 2012 depending on which scientist's model is used. All of this is part of an 11 year solar cycle, and they also say it will be no more powerful than any other solar cycle we've seen. 2012 will be the "solar max" of the 4th cycle in my lifetime and I can't find any indication that anything ever happened in the first three except radio interference. Which is kinda what I would expect. Just the Earth turning......Doing what it does. Just like the global warming, climate change crap. Has anyone put some time into researching the predicted solar activity in 2012? Anyone have any interesting and credible links to some good reading? Maybe from some top colleges, or astronomy related groups. If they did happen to be exceptionally powerful, how would the effect of these solar storms compare to nuclear EMP? |
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ill make it quick; i've told the following too often lately to too many people.
the mayan calender doesn't end in 2012. they just didn't input the next "digit" to switch in the calender. their numbering system actually ends in between 1 and 2 million years from now. We don't say : we are in the first million year, year 2010, month April, and so on. Neither do they. Yall gotta get that. The only plausible thing I've heard about 2012 is the high probability of a decrease in the acceleration of the development of new technologies du to population and resources factor. Prime example is computer speed. You all know that computer speed doubles in 6 months (whatever), well according to this the speed will now double in 10 months. ( I'm just throwing numbers but you get the idea) |
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Has anyone put some time into researching the predicted solar activity in 2012? Anyone have any interesting and credible links to some good reading? Maybe from some top colleges, or astronomy related groups. Feast on this mate http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/glossary_middle.html |
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ill make it quick; i've told the following too often lately to too many people. the mayan calender doesn't end in 2012. they just didn't input the next "digit" to switch in the calender. their numbering system actually ends in between 1 and 2 million years from now. We don't say : we are in the first million year, year 2010, month April, and so on. Neither do they. Yall gotta get that. The only plausible thing I've heard about 2012 is the high probability of a decrease in the acceleration of the development of new technologies du to population and resources factor. Prime example is computer speed. You all know that computer speed doubles in 6 months (whatever), well according to this the speed will now double in 10 months. ( I'm just throwing numbers but you get the idea) The only deceleration of tech development will be the result of legislation killing industry and innovation. We still haven't hit the size barrier since technology keeps improving. And clock speed hasn't been a relevant measure of computing power for 10 years. In the previous generation of processors they added more CPUs on the motherboard when they started hitting walls. Then multiple cores started becoming prevalent (starting with the P4-HT) and once we start hitting barriers with multiple cores per die we'll go back to multiple CPUs per motherboard. </tangent> OP, so you're saying that you think that the whole 2012 hysteria is a bunch of hooey, but then think there might be something to it? 
The notion of us being killed by solar flares at the bottom of a solar cycle is pretty much the same thing as believing we're going to by killed by global warming during the coldest winter on record. |
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Yeah, I think the 2012 hysteria is hooey, other than the hysteria itself.
I never said anything about anyone being killed by anything, let alone solar flares. .The only thing I find plausible and predictable (somewhat) is the increased solar activity. That really has nothing to do with 2012, it just happens to be the end of the cycle, just like I'll have a birthday, file taxes and buy license plates in 2012. Relating nearly anything else to that date or year is manure. Sure, Yellowstone will blow, and there will be a big quake on the New Madrid Fault.....but I don't think every Hollywood disaster is going to happen in 2012 cause some Mayan said it would. I think the Mayan calender is interesting and all, it makes some fun shows and movies, but I don't buy any of the hoopla any more than the DaVinci Code. I'm simply looking for credible fact about this solar activity, examples of things happening in the past, and it's similarity to the effects of EMP, nuclear or otherwise. .....FACT and SCIENCE.....not belief, speculation, opinion or prophecy. |
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Quoted: ill make it quick; i've told the following too often lately to too many people. the mayan calender doesn't end in 2012. they just didn't input the next "digit" to switch in the calender. their numbering system actually ends in between 1 and 2 million years from now. We don't say : we are in the first million year, year 2010, month April, and so on. Neither do they. Yall gotta get that. The only plausible thing I've heard about 2012 is the high probability of a decrease in the acceleration of the development of new technologies du to population and resources factor. Prime example is computer speed. You all know that computer speed doubles in 6 months (whatever), well according to this the speed will now double in 10 months. ( I'm just throwing numbers but you get the idea) Are you talking about Moore's law? Relating to # of transistors fitting on an IC doubling every 20 months |