Comments on: 2012: No Killer Solar Flare

By: Shermaine

Shermaine — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:35:35 +0000

Is this really going to happen? Like 100% sure? Or is it just a prediction?

By: Darby

Darby — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:40:13 +0000

Is there a "swimsuit" issue of the Mayan calendar?

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:49:57 +0000

Its not over yet. We can still make it even if a disaster comes from a flare. I read of extinctions being a regular thing. Maybe nature is gonna cut the population a bit, who knows. Trust ur instincts, intuition…

By: Eugen

Eugen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:53:59 +0000

It`s in our kind to destroy ourselves … worry more about how much we can harm each other these days. full stop.

By: J

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:18:15 +0000

as usual science distorts religious teaching as much as religious teaching distorts science. The bible doesnt say the sun will destroy the earth, Revelation 16:8 "The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, which then was allowed to burn people with fire,"

its only natural that we dont want to believe something so terrible could happen…but science itself has taught that global catastrophes are a reality in earths past….so for scientists to turn right around and then say nothing catastrophic is going to happen during the next peak solar flare is at least inconsistent with what is 'possible'.

maybe this is why it is rumored the global 'elites' are building such vast underground complexes…..to hide themselves from from what they believe or 'know' is going to happen very soon.

Revelation 6:16 "They said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb."

No, theyre not actually asking the rocks to fall on them….but this verse clearly points to the idea that some will seek to hide from serious problems on the surface of the planet by going deep underground….and not until this last century have we had the ability to go deep enough to at least in theory protect ourselves…..not that it will work…but its a fanciful idea that im sure rich and powerful people have eagerly embraced.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:54:10 +0000

We have been through 7 predicted mankind ending events and we are still here. Their are several profits that have said this will be the end and several more that said it will not be. All we can do is wait, but in my opinion we have a great future ahead of us.

By: John

John — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:30:29 +0000

So what if the conditions are the "perfect storm" for a big flare that shorts out the electrical grid for most/all of the U.S., and/or most of the other countries on Earth. Quebec was down for 9 hours in 1989, but had the other provinces in Canada and the U.S. to offer assistance. What happens if the power goes out to everyone? Who's left to help turn the lights back on? If everyone is suffering from a prolonged power outage, how long before services start breaking down? Is this likely?

By: koolou

koolou — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:58:29 +0000

I am a reader of sci-fi novels and in two of these novels alien beings had their world destroyed when in one case a meteor storm struck their sun and caused a huge outburst of energy that turned their world into a cinder.
In another case a space craft carrying a anti-matter bomb accidentally got drawn into their own sun and caused the annihilation of their world.
In both of these cases it would have required huge amounts of matter to cause a outburst either anti-matter or meteoric probably on a scale of a small sun colliding with their sun.
So as you can see the chances of this happening to our sun is infinitely small and so is a flare that would incinerate our planet.

By: cozzy

cozzy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:09:32 +0000

This might have been mentioned already… The mayans mentioned the earth passing through the "dark rift" in 2012. Modern scientists refer to the galactic center as the "dark rift" also and say we will be aligning with the center of the galaxy on 21st dec 2012 just as the mayans knew. What if this alignment has a great effect on the earths magnetic shield for days, weeks or even months, weakens it or even flips it, and then a solar flare hits us.
Do scientists know what effect the alignment will have on the earth? Could the gravitational pull of the center of our galaxy weaken the shield? Pull it to one side maybe? Or slow down, or speed up the rotation of the earths core resulting in a weaker magnetic shield.
My main question is what does galactic alignment in 2012 mean for Earth?

By: Lou Welke

Lou Welke — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:25:57 +0000

Having a little fun with this I might tell people that don't go out and buy a burial plot or buy your funeral expenses ahead of time because whether you like it or not we will all be cremated and of course there will be no funeral homes or cemetaries for survivors to visit us(because there will be no survivors) or at the very least very few survivors.
Seriously mankind will continue to survive but there will be other disasters caused by tornados, floods, snow and ice, earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes, tsunamis, etc. with large losses of life but the majority of mankind will survive.

By: Lou Welke

Lou Welke — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:10:44 +0000

It now seems that instead of a meteor or comet hitting our planet we have to worry about solar flares.
If a solar flare could incinerate our world why would it occur now instead of the countless millions of years that our planet has existed?
Is our sun arriving at a stage where this might happen more often than in the past millions of years?
I still believe we are in more danger from a comet or a meteor than solar flares.

By: Neophyte

Neophyte — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:05:09 +0000

Thanks for an informative article. It answered alot of distrubing mis-information. However, am I wrong or does not the potential for prolonged power outages exist? Either that, or the coming of a protracted cooling period?
So, some kind of trouble could happen? What's new about that is just where it could come from; That stupid Sun and not the government. Geeze, kinda a let down if you ask me.

It seems clear that we need to all reconsider some of the accepted notions of our grandparents. Like having a supply of food and a means to protect yourself and your family. They used to call that common sense.
Today we call it crazy: So your a gun nut, or a
survivalist, or Mormon, but a kook none the less! Yet again, in government they call that preparation for continuity of government. They don't want you to not have to pay your taxes just because civilization is having some difficulty.

By: waabinangmeshekiakiak

waabinangmeshekiakiak — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:20:18 +0000

Ok, when Everyone, except the kids who are taken to a different world by our ancetral alien relatives, are burnt to a crisp, then who will have the last laugh, hahaha! Just saw Knowing. Great article. I am all for advancing our knowledge about the workings of the universe. We are the universe afterall, it is just self-reflection.

By: Mayu

Mayu — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:53:03 +0000

sorry for all the errors. It's late and I'm tired. LOL

By: angel

angel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:57:25 +0000

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?page=3

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:25:46 +0000

The year 2012 is referring to the last year of the Long Count Maya calendar. The current Great Cycle, as the Mayas call it, is set to end on the winter solstice of 2012: December 21 2012.

Mayans had three calendars. They had a solar calendar that was 365 days long, and a ceremonial calendar that was 260 days long. These two calendars would synchronize every 52 years. To measure longer time periods, they developed the "long count" calendar, which expressed dates as a series of five numbers, each less than twenty; something like the way we measure minutes and seconds as a series of two numbers each less than sixty. And, just in case this might seem too simple, for some reason the second to last number was always less than eighteen. The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was expressed as 0.0.0.0.0, and by our calendar, this was August 11, 3114 BC. Every 144,000 days (or about every 395 years, which they called a baktun), the first number would increment, and a new baktun would start. Recall how we all got to enjoy the excitement on the millennium of watching the digital displays roll over from 12/31/1999 to 1/1/2000? Well, that's what's going to happen on December 21, 2012 to the Mayan calendar. It's going to roll over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0, just as it has done each of the previous twelve baktuns. There's no archaeological or historical evidence that the Mayans themselves expected anything other than a New Year's Eve party to happen on this date: Claims that this rollover represents a Mayan prediction of the end of the world appear to be a modern pop-culture invention. It's true that the Mayan carvings of their calendar only depicted 13 baktuns, but what did you expect them to do? Carve an infinitely long calendar every time they wanted to express a date? The explanation could be as simple as they didn't expect people in the 21st century to still be obsessed with their archaic calendar.

By: Rodrigo Otavio

Rodrigo Otavio — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:04:42 +0000

Just to update the research http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4BF79220081216

An article from 16th December 2008 that says "Holes in Earth's magnetic cloak let the sun in".

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:09:25 +0000

"I do not believe the ancient Mayans sat around thinking of ways to prank future generations with their calender and astrological knowledge. That date was set for a reason, and all of us should be trying to figure out why and take precautions."

Yes, I'm sure the Mayans came up with a very good reason for this date…..in between human sacrifices to their "gods".

Tell the truth, you once bought Tamiflu…..

whack jobs!

By: Interested

Interested — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:10:21 +0000

Very intriguing article. It's my belief that we can not accurately predict the extent of something we have only been recently studying, so we really have no proof to say that a catastrophic solar flare event did not occur in the past.. yes our sun is stable momentarily and as far as we have been studying it, but in astrological terms that is only very very recently. Remember, the earth was once thought to be flat. I do not believe the ancient Mayans sat around thinking of ways to prank future generations with their calender and astrological knowledge. That date was set for a reason, and all of us should be trying to figure out why and take precautions. Whats the harm in being prepared?

for more interesting information, research the Summerians

In science being proved right or wrong is progession in either direction, so let's evolve our brains and figure out what is in the other 90% currently dormant.

By: tyler

tyler — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:34:28 +0000

think about y2k its fake dont belive it. its just something to get us worried whats the chance that suddenly earth explodes out of nowere come on people

By: R

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:34:11 +0000

im from australia and u cant c no red star your on crack its march i cant see shit you know y because there is no such thing as nibiru its fake yall on crack who think its real!!! i look up at the stars er night no red star except for mars crackheads

By: L

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:03:07 +0000

belittling others of their grammar will get you nowhere….

we shouldn't be so quick to judge on this matter. what if something unexpected happens on that specific date? or what if nothing happens? keep in mind that we humans DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING. we cannot predict what will happen in the solar system/universe we can only make an educated guess of what MIGHT happen. there's a 45% chance of something occurring on that date and a 55% of nothing happening imo.

its a very interesting topic to argue about.

By: Howard Toburen

Howard Toburen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:51:23 +0000

My belief is that people who aren't smart enough to master the basics of grammar and spelling, aren't smart enough to know more about more arcane matters. But they aren't smart enough to know it.

By: RTM

RTM — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:51:57 +0000

I just need a pizza, coke, umbrella chair, and a pair of raybans… bring it. I'm ready!

By: Red-eye

Red-eye — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:17:48 +0000

I really do not know if this is true, suspected in? But to see that on the 2012 prophecy, or not believe, it is difficult to imagine.