2012 Doomsday #1 - Solar Flares

Kicking off the 2012 series, here I examine what some doomsayers think about a solar flare apocalypse in 2012, then I examine what solar flares actually are and what science to date has revealed about them.

Music by the awesome Hungry Lucy:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Hungry_Lucy_%282%29

Most images taken from Wikipedia.

SOHO vids and caps by NASA/ESA.

3D sequences rendered in Celestia.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

SOURCES:
http://www.december212012.com/articles/bible/1.shtml
http://umsonline.org/2012/2012Pgs/Sun-Solar-2012-Poleshift-Flares-Storms.html
http://www.viewzone.com/endtime.html
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/glossary.htm#FLARE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37575
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031027.html
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 2012
• doomsday
• solar
• flare
• flares
• astronomy
• science
• sunspots
• Sun
• earth
• aurora
• electromagnetic
• radiation
• CME
• coronal
• mass
• ejection

[toogigray]

read the book ( Energy World War III and the true man made apocalypse ) there is the truth.. go to amazon.com this book was prohibit in Europe because it shows the truth and is now allow in England.

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

@toogigray

And that has what to do with solar flares? Oh ... nothing. I see.

[Justgiveup45]

HMMM It doesnt matter if it happens in 2012 or 2013. We are still going to have chaos on the earth.

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

@Justgiveup45

There have been numerous geomagnetic storms prompted by solar eruptions over the last several months. There were at least a couple of X-class flares last year, and we have an event back in October that saw aurorae as far south as Arkansas, USA. No "chaos on the earth" that I recall, at least not related to the Sun. Most of the time, you won't even notice unless you pay attention to this sort of news.

[SeekTruthinLight]

Sometimes, on SOHO one can see the streak of an object striking the sun, could this not be what causes some Coronal Mass Ejections of Solar material? Ironically, we seem to get nervous when a Near Earth Asteroid comes near the Earth, but could we not also be devastated by a large asteroid or comet striking the SUN, ejecting large amounts of molten Sun into space towards the Earth, bathing us with harmful radiation, blistering heat and perhaps even "chunks" of Sun, if the impact was large enough?

[toogigray]

@LibertyIsNotGiven: Solar flare is fake, oil is real, so close your eyes and now think, not transportation, not hospitals, not food, and the people start killing each other just for water and food, and now you're lock in a city HA!! what you going to do now.. the book was writing in 2006 but its was not allow till now, plus limited number only,plus the santana effect chain reaction was force to close the website. I have a copy..100% logical and not end of the world.but 1892.

[72281livefreeordie]

@Justgiveup45 is it such a bad thing if it wipes out technology? That might actually salvage us. We as humanity, if we are not to be terminated, at least need a time out.

[STREETZARTIST]

THIS SHIT IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN IN 2012 SO YALL NEED TO STOP MAKING THESE FUCKING DUM ASS PREDICTIONS CAUSE IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!

[bravoangle]

ALL information in this video is true. Solar flares and solar prominences occur regularly,sunspots form very often and produce flares that sometimes are accompanied by a cme or coronal mass ejection. The only real threat is on the Earth's magnetic field. SAY THE SUN DID PRODUCE A BIG FLARE OR CME AND A WHOLE CONTINENT LOST ITS POWER.. THE EFFECTS COULD RESULT IN ARMAGEDDON#1 IMAGINE IF SAY 200 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS LOST POWER AND WENT CRITICAL.. NUCLEAR MELTDOWN!! CHERNOBYL-FUKUSHIMA X200!

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

@2wheels88

Jeez, you are indeed a master of moving goalposts and rapid-fire claims. Let's just say that you are many times more likely to venture into public and be terrorized by some contagion of nature's own doing than something cooked in a lab, and nuclear war is far less likely today than it was just 30 years ago.

I consider power-hungry nationalists at least as dangerous as globalists. You won't solve either problem with bad science and provisions.

Still, "prepare" as thou wilt. NOMB.