Solar Storm Activity for 2011-2012

CoryTheAnswer · January 17, 2011, 05:17:42

So yeah I've been reading a bunch about this here lately. Apparently the sun lets off a solar burst of energy every 11 years. Its a natural process that it has always done. When it does this, it sends solar wind out in all directions. This has been known to affect electronics and knock out satellites in the past.

Now I personally think its funny because if you google what Nasa has had to say about 2012 in the past, they always dismissed it as a bunch of silly rumors. But just within the past year one of the popular lead researchers is space(forget who exactly, he's Japanese) came forward saying they made a mistake. This particular solar storm is going to be a solar maximum for us. Something that hasn't happened in a while apparently.

I'm probably just seeing coincidences but my power has failed a few times this week and my net has been acting funny too =P Anyway we should debate what would happen if Earth got EMP'd for a week or our poles shifted or something!

Xanth · January 17, 2011, 10:12:19

Quote from: CoryTheAnswer on January 17, 2011, 05:17:42
I'm probably just seeing coincidences but my power has failed a few times this week and my net has been acting funny too =P Anyway we should debate what would happen if Earth got EMP'd for a week or our poles shifted or something!

Well, while it's definitely possible that a human being can make a mistake... working for Nasa or not...
I think it's quite the stretch to connect your power outages and your net "acting funny" to solar events.

Just sayin...

If a polar shift happened... let's just say it would absolutely *DESTROY* our civilization. Humanity would obviously live on... but life as we know it would change for a very long time.

If Earth got EMP'd... it would fry most, if not all satellites in orbit and probably a vast number of unshielded electronics on the surface.

CFTraveler · January 19, 2011, 13:40:17

It was Michio Kaku who said it.
As to what it means, I have no idea.
Maybe something, maybe a little something, maybe nothing.
Either way, I don't know what we can do about it.
What do you think we can do about it?

NoY · January 19, 2011, 14:58:34

Quote from: CFTraveler on January 19, 2011, 13:40:17
It was Michio Kaku who said it.
As to what it means, I have no idea.
Maybe something, maybe a little something, maybe nothing.
Either way, I don't know what we can do about it.
What do you think we can do about it?

We could drink tea

:NoY:

manwesulimo2004 · January 20, 2011, 09:11:53

Quote from: NoY on January 19, 2011, 14:58:34

We could drink tea

:NoY:

But how would that help?!?

...

Coca-Cola. That's the answer!

Xanth · January 20, 2011, 09:58:29

Quote from: manwesulimo2004 on January 20, 2011, 09:11:53
But how would that help?!?

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Coca-Cola. That's the answer!

Soda actually increases your saliva production.
And as we all know, that can really get in the way of any projection session!

Water! That's where it's at!

manwesulimo2004 · January 20, 2011, 10:24:46

Quote from: Xanth on January 20, 2011, 09:58:29
Soda actually increases your saliva production.
And as we all know, that can really get in the way of any projection session!

Well I guess if you believe it can...

Quote from: Xanth on January 20, 2011, 09:58:29
Water! That's where it's at!

Yeah, water is pretty awesome (at least in it's "original", non-tea form)... Still I think Coke deserves an honourable second place in the drinks hall of fame.

CFTraveler · January 20, 2011, 10:58:07

Me, I'm from the Pepsi generation. But I like tea also.
So, let's have a cuppa!

Stookie · January 20, 2011, 11:17:27

Got my sencha yesterday and having a cup now! Yay, no more solar storm!

CoryTheAnswer · January 24, 2011, 14:08:33

I wasn't suggesting doing anything about it and just to clarify and set the record straight I don't think the world is going to end or civilization is going to crumble or anything like that. Personally I just like the whole spiritual awakening idea... no world ending. But I don't think that its far fetched to assume that something natural and ever-so-slightly catastrophic could happen during 2012. Plus this is kinda recent news, I mean nasa swore up and down nothing would happen in 2012, and now the latest article on their page is pretty much a "woops, maybe something will happen... start protecting your satellites!"

So yeah, maybe?

Stillwater · January 26, 2011, 20:21:23

NASA is not exactly infallible, lol. They are just a bunch of reasonably talented phycists and engineers. They are limited by the data that they are able to gather or are provided with, and also limited in what they are permitted to say for political and regulatory reasons.

TofuAttack · January 27, 2011, 02:36:03

did anyone read this, i got linked to it and i wasn't really "reading" it, just seemed like mumbojumbo but it's relevant.

http://islamthesolution.tumblr.com/post/2943432230/nasa-confirms-the-possibility-the-sun-could-rise-from

i'm kind of excited about a polar shift. i know a lot of people will die and a lot of suffering will occur for us to evolve as humans but in the end it's all about the experience and i would like something big to happen in my lifetime.

Stillwater · January 27, 2011, 06:26:27

Why does something big and terrible, necessitating much suffering need to happen for your life to be exciting though?

You could just as easily make your life exciting on your own, without the need for external events to impose on you and everyone else. You might think differently if you were among the lot not coming out of so unscathed, lol.

Quotedid anyone read this, i got linked to it and i wasn't really "reading" it, just seemed like mumbojumbo but it's relevant.

http://islamthesolution.tumblr.com/post/2943432230/nasa-confirms-the-possibility-the-sun-could-rise-from

Lol... the people this article is meant to reach have a vested interest in the poleshift idea happening, because it validates scriptural prophecy for them; the article and any research cited must clearly have this very openly stated bias attached to it.

TofuAttack · January 27, 2011, 08:00:18

i know what you mean and i phrased it quite badly, if something big was to happen to wipe out a large fraction of the planet then i just want to be there to experience it, rather than be one of those babies born in an underground shelter or the new earth and never be exposed to the "old life"

and i mean even if i die then i guess it's worth it to experience something on a scale as large as that, plus you'll get to see human nature at it rawest form after such a disaster.

CFTraveler · January 27, 2011, 13:46:39

Something jumped out at me. What NASA is talking about is the retrograde appearance of the mars orbit-
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031216.html caused by the speed of the orbit compared to the speed of ours.
To quote a scientist: "The most commonly discussed "retrograde" motion is the apparent backward motion of a planet caused by its being lapped by another planet, or vice-versa. Both planets move in a direct (eastward) motion around the Sun, but the planet with the inside (smaller) orbit moves faster than the planet on the outside (larger) orbit, and when it passes the slower-moving planet, each sees the other one as apparently moving backwards relative to its usual motion around the sky. In this "retrograde" motion, neither planet is actually moving backwards; it only appears that way, during the time that one laps the other. "
http://cseligman.com/text/sky/retrograde.htm

But for the earth to see the sun coming from the west and setting towards the east, the earth would have to be rotating in the opposite direction, which has nothing to do with a pole shift or even less with a magnetic pole shift, which is what is actually happening.
So, I don't see what kind of sense the religious articles are making.

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