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Did I just hear Chicken Little scream The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling? If not, NASA is doing a very good impression with its prediction of doom and gloom. NASA is saying that the solar flares predicted for next year will be on a Space Katrina level rather than a planetary level destruction. Its a good news/bad news situation.
Might devastate cities because the solar flares might knock out key communication satellites (either completely or, have them purposefully shut down to protect them), and if that happens, imagine a world with no mobile devices... people would have to look where they walk, look at other people, perhaps even talk to someone not on the other side of the phone, might have to pay attention while driving!!!! it'll be like biblical events that precede Armageddon!!!
Citing the accurate fact that solar activity is currently ramping up in its standard 11-year cycle, there are those who believe that 2012 could be coincident with such a flare.
But this same solar cycle has occurred over millennia. Anyone over the age of 11 has already lived through such a solar maximum with no harm. In addition, the next solar maximum is predicted to occur in late 2013 or early 2014, not 2012.
I feel like this is just fear mongering by NASA to keep them relevant and funded.
People like this amaze me. NASA is one of the most horrendously underfunded organizations within the US, and yet they still manage to do amazing things while people in the background shout that their funding should be cut. The highest funding NASA ever got (during the Space Race), was 4.5% of the national budget, less than 1/4 what we're spending on Defense today.
Now NASA operates on less than 0.5% of the total budget. If we just unplugged the air conditioned tents in Iraq ($20.2B per year), we could triple NASA's budget.
Those December 21st, 2012 believing nimrods must be eating this all up!
America adopted capitalism and NASA doesn't produce any capital. War on the other hand does. Advancements to our knowledge and understanding of our universe is nothing when compared to making a buck.
if the solar flare does mess things up on an apocalyptic scale I have a gun and no issues putting humans on the menu. And I live in america we grow them fat, slow, and delicious.
What the previous poster didn't mention is that the Solar System will be passing through a cloud of charged particles exciting our atmosphere as well as the Sun creating more violent Solar Flares.
Some good information on what we can expect from severe flare activity.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html
Might all sound nutty but it is coming. But we all know how people handle bad news...they just ignore it, cause then it becomes untrue doesn't it?
America adopted capitalism and NASA doesn't produce any capital. War on the other hand does. Advancements to our knowledge and understanding of our universe is nothing when compared to making a buck.
if the solar flare does mess things up on an apocalyptic scale I have a gun and no issues putting humans on the menu. And I live in america we grow them fat, slow, and delicious.
I can only laugh at people who don't take this seriously. These will be the people that can't feed themselves because what money they think they have is tied up electronically. They will be completely bewildered when financial institutions close down because of "technical difficulties" and every electronic device they own doesn't work anymore.
These will the people begging in the streets while others have storable food, clean water, and hard assets like gold and silver to trade for what they need.
Having been warned, you will get what you deserve. It will be a shame you drag down your family with you.
Aside from that think about the infrastructure worldwide that will be affected. Just the effect transportation alone will be catastrophic. Cars, trucks, trains, boats ect.... Without these things you will have very little to any food flowing into large population centres. Just take a moment and let this play out in your mind. What will it mean when food runs out, what will happen? Not just in your town, but worldwide.
I can only laugh at people who don't take this seriously. These will be the people that can't feed themselves because what money they think they have is tied up electronically. They will be completely bewildered when financial institutions close down because of "technical difficulties" and every electronic device they own doesn't work anymore.
These will the people begging in the streets while others have storable food, clean water, and hard assets like gold and silver to trade for what they need.
Having been warned, you will get what you deserve. It will be a shame you drag down your family with you.
Aside from that think about the infrastructure worldwide that will be affected. Just the effect transportation alone will be catastrophic. Cars, trucks, trains, boats ect.... Without these things you will have very little to any food flowing into large population centres. Just take a moment and let this play out in your mind. What will it mean when food runs out, what will happen? Not just in your town, but worldwide.
Crazies on the internet: NASA says 2012 Solar Flares Could Devastate Cities!
NASA: no we didnt.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-superFlares_prt.htm
"the $25 billion in 1958 dollars spent on civilian space R & D during the 1958-1969 period has returned $52 billion through 1971 -- and will continue to produce pay offs through 1987, at which time the total pay off will have been $181 billion. The discounted rate of return for this investment will have been 33 percent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
Whats the ROI for the ~$689B spent on defense last year?
Crazies on the internet: NASA says 2012 Solar Flares Could Devastate Cities!
NASA: no we didnt.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-superFlares_prt.htm
What the previous poster didn't mention is that the Solar System will be passing through a cloud of charged particles exciting our atmosphere as well as the Sun creating more violent Solar Flares.
Some good information on what we can expect from severe flare activity.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html