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Ever wonder what would happen to the Earths atmosphere if a sufficiently strong solar wind were to blow by? :hmm:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Ex...G373R8F_0.html Huge storms can start from the faintest of breezes... ![]()
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Let's Sink Sumptin' !
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The Mayan calender does NOT end in 2012. It just simply rolls over. Sure, the long count comes to an end, and the Mayans believed many bad things might happen,(to Mayans) BUT on December 22, 2012 a new long count begins. It's very similar to what happened in 2000 in the Gegorian calander (in more ways then one) It just rolls over, like your car odometer does at 100,000 miles, like your watch does twice a day at 12:00.
However, we humans have an obession with 'magic' numbers and 2012 is shaping up to be the next big end of the world (non) event. *sigh* And the bad news is we have 5 long years to listen to hucksters selling us on books, videos, misleading documentaries. ![]()
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I have a calender right here on my wall that ends December 31st. OMG!
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If the earths magnetic poles do switch it's not like we'll wake up one fine day and find all our compasses pointing to the south. The switch is a process that takes anywhere from 100 to a few thousand years to complete.
One cool thing about a pole switch is that we may see things like the Aurora Borealis on the equator.
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The central american black plague > Mayan calendar.
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Who is smoking crack about us being at 'The Center of the Milky Way' in 2012? If you've ever taken astronomy, you would know you are probably 100+ million light years from that center. You are so far from it...
Uggh! Conspiracy theories and and future prophecies. They make great scinece fiction, but are far far far from science fact. -S PS. Need I remind you and say you want no where near that center. Black Hole City. PPS. With our reliance on GPS, I think a sudden magnetic switch would be of minimal disruptiuon if flying. |
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Conspiracy theories belong in the rubbish bin.
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This kind of explains it. Lot's of sites out there with little information. Understandable due to the crazy person nature of it. Quote:
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Actually, the polarity does reverse itself on earth from time to time. A tidbit I learned in Geology. According to the Geologic record though, it has no major extinctions linked to it. But your fan might run backwards
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![]() We live in a world full of magnets and electricty, if North turns to south will positive swap with negative? That will screw everything electronic on a larger scale than going back to 00 would have with y2k. It's not the first end of world theory i've gone through but this one has at least SOME credibility to it imo. I'm not about to stock up on water and duct tape though.... I've just always been interested in philosophies and the hole 'golden age' that comes with them.... A certain country in WW2 used to preach about the hole 1000 years of peace, strange for such a murderous evil bunch... Maybe too many beers. :rotfl:
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Make sure your Windows has the proper updates installed before Decembre 2012.
Simply, I do not know if the earth's poles may switch anytime soon. It has happened before, though, and that seem to have been no pleasant experiences for dear old Earth's surface. If it happens now again, and so soon in the future, I think there is little or nothing we could do abut it anyway, and cannot avoid to suffer whatever is to be suffered from it. Since there is nothing we could do about preventing it, we could stay calm and stoic and wait and see without panicking and without going hysteric.
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