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Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle
An anonymous reader pointed us at a post on the Physorg blog, which discusses the possibility of an upcoming period of intense solar weather. We've discussed this before, but increasingly the evidence looks like 'Solar Cycle 24' (due to start in 2010 or so) is going to make life interesting here on earth. From the post: "Hathaway explains: 'When a gust of solar wind hits Earth's magnetic field, the impact causes the magnetic field to shake. If it shakes hard enough, we call it a geomagnetic storm.' In the extreme, these storms cause power outages and make compass needles swing in the wrong direction. Auroras are a beautiful side-effect. Hathaway and Wilson looked at records of geomagnetic activity stretching back almost 150 years and noticed something useful:. 'The amount of geomagnetic activity now tells us what the solar cycle is going to be like 6 to 8 years in the future,' says Hathaway."
Hmm, is that the cycle where we see one day of the Sun's life, and during that day the sun gets shot multiple times, saves the president, arrests the president later, gets beaten mercilessly, heals completely, and saves the girl, all in one day.. Or am I confusing this with something else...?
TLF
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Al Gore blames the intense solar storm on global warming.
Maybe this 'armageddon' is not man made but the sun does it, after all the Egyptians called their Sun God RA.
And technically, the sun does provide all energy and gravity for us to live off.
So come 2012 the rapture time, high intense radiation, mutants of all species will be made, super humans maybe with special powers.
Maybe half or most of the population will die and not make it past the 'enhancement' but what ever does make it will
be uber next gen upgraded like in mutantX.
Are any scientists experimenting with fast evolution using radiation/cosmic rays on small animals/flies?
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
So does this mean we can predict solar flares and use them to travel to the past or the future?
Calm down. It may look like Slashdot doesn't care about the plight of the Solarians right now, but I swear we'll pledge our support just as soon as the Sun releases them under the GPL.
The most affect areas are going to be the sunlit areas of the planet.
Well DUH! Thank you, Captain Obvious!
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Oh, great ... the sun has a big cycle on the way. No doubt it will be bitchy and irritable beforehand. Like we need that.
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6 to 8 years in the future?
It doesn't land on December 21st, 2012 does it?
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