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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?"

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  1. Msayan, something I found interesting by Drakin020 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    http://futurenewsinfo.blogspot.com/2004/12/nuclear -war-futurists-view-bible-code.html

    FTA

    What follows is taken from Carlos Barrios' presentation, in his own words: "On December 21, 2012 we will begin to see the fifth sun. With this period will come harmony of space and time, with this period will come balance and a big relation to Mother Earth.

    Jut thought that was interesting.

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  2. But the Jaguars man! by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Won't anyone think of the Jaguars!

    Not to mods: If you believe that was off topic, then you need to brush up on your Mayan mythology.

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  3. Re:Great more doom by cparker15 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't most Unix installations still 32-bit?

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  4. Re:Great more doom by Gr8Apes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    64 bit unices available:

    HP UX 11.x
    AIX 4.3
    Solaris 7+ (note that UltraSparc processers IIe and III on up require 64 bit kernels)
    SGI Irix since at least 6.5
    Compaq Tru64

    All of these are pre-2000.

    BTW, a funny thing I found while looking this up - SCO as of 2004 had no UNIX98 compliant OSes. Maybe that explains their lawsuit based business plan?

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  5. Re:Great more doom by Gr8Apes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, considering that UNIX98 also included Y2K compliance....

    But, I cannot answer your questions. I can offer an anecdote that my personal latest sighting of one of those specific UNIX versions was in 2002. I'd assume (I know) that later versions came on later hardware, and thus are 64 bit.

    As for BSD/Linux, the majority of those installations are probably still 32 bit, but I'd expect that to change within the next 10 years, well before 2038. (OMG - a 10 year hardware cycle for PC hardware?!?! If you're not running Windows, sure! ;)

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