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NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-out-your-foil-hats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "`This week researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.`

`Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.`

Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"

11 of 344 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apocalypse? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're just jealous because you haven't spent the past several years building a sacred Mesoamerican ball court in your cornfield. If I build it they will come...

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  2. Re:Oh nooo!!! by endianx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not true at all! This is just proof that mans impact on the environment extends throughout the solar system. It wasn't enough for us to mess up our own planet, now we have caused solar warming as well!

  3. Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it the one where all twelve are nude except for loincloths and headdresses?

    Um... no, I'm not familiar with it.

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    1. Re:Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? by Bandman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

      Why am I the only one who has that dream?

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  4. Re:Coincidence by painQuin · · Score: 5, Funny

    the ones you have to watch out for are the cultures whose calendars count down

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  5. Re:Umm, old news? by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny
    News goes in a cycle.

    This news will be repeated again and again, reaching DUPE MAX sometime just AFTER the SOLAR MAX predicted.

    It is not, however, a harbinger for the end of dupes.

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  6. Re:Second to 1958 activity by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was 1958. The powerplants shut down because all the plant workers had to get home to beat their wives, listen to Elvis records, and oppress black people.

    It also probably didn't help that crazy scientists were sending lightening strikes directly into the power grid to help whiney punks get back to 1985.

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  7. Just in time... by corpsmoderne · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... for the US elections

    "65535 votes for X in this voting machine??? errr! Must be the solar storm..."

  8. Re:Coincidence by jrumney · · Score: 5, Funny

    but somehow we can't understand there ever being more than one 2007.

    There was another, 4014 years ago. What I can't figure out is how prehistoric man knew when Jesus was going to be born/die/be baptised or whatever event you believe led to the changeover, and how clever it was of him to count backwards.

  9. next slashdot poll by way2trivial · · Score: 4, Funny

    which do yuo prefer to look at

    aurorae/auroras

    or

    areolas?

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  10. Re:Oh nooo!!! by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not true at all! This is just proof that mans impact on the environment extends throughout the solar system. It wasn't enough for us to mess up our own planet, now we have caused solar warming as well!

    "Man's impact"? Um, I think you mean "George W. Bush's impact". If he'd just sign Kyoto, the sun would instantly return to normal.

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