http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/22 ... say-hello/

http://www.universetoday.com/2006/03/14 ... a-big-one/

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Eart ... 521738.cms

http://www.esaee.com/news/News/Space/374.html

Climax by 2011 or 2012...it will be the strongest in 50 years.
Do you hear that eerie music? Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_08



http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthc ... un/sun.htm

Background


SUNSPOTS

Sunspots are intensely powerful magnetic vortices on the gaseous surface of the Sun. Highly polarized as are all magnetic phenomenon, Sunspots come in polar pairs equivalent to a North and South Pole. Since they are lower in temperature than the average surface of the Sun, they are easily seen through simple telescopes as dark marks on the Sun.

Typically seen near the sunspots are bright zones known as faculae (singular = facula), which means, generically, a bright spot. Line the sunspots, the faculae are the creation of magnet forces. But the faculae are so bright, they typically are "brighter" the "darkness" of the sunspots. Thus when sunspots are abundant, the faculae increase the average luminescence of the Sun Thus when the Sunspot Count is high during its peak phases, the Sun can be as much as 0.1% more luminescent than is normal.

SOLAR STORMS, FLARES, CME'S, AND PLASMOID WIND

Directly associated with sunspot activity, especially large groups of them, are often intense solar storms which can take the form of flares, huge volcanic-like explosions which are known as CME's (coronal mass ejections), shooting arcs known as prominences, and sudden fluctuations in the solar wind (plasma of protons and ions) which suddenly begin to flow out of "coronal holes" which form in the outer magnetic atmosphere of the Sun. All this activity tends to rise and fall closely in parallel with the Sunspot Count.

SUNSPOT NUMBERS

Until the advent of satellites and space probes, activity in the Sun was studied primary through the observation and count of what are called "sunspots". The count of sunspots has been known variously as the Wolf Number, the International Sunspot Number (ISSN), the relative sunspot number, or the Zürich Number). This number measures a composite score which measures both the number of sunspots and the groups of sunspots which are present on the surface of the Sun which can be observed from Earth.

The idea of recording and computing sunspot numbers was invented by Rudolf Wolf in 1849 in Zürich, Switzerland, which is why the number was long called the "Wolf Number". There are many sunspot observations which go back to the beginning of Century 16, but researchers have been able to tabulate a consistent Wolf Count only since 1750. This is now known as the ISSN count and the world center for maintaining this count for scientists is housed at the Royal Observatory of Belgium under an organization known as the SIDC:

So, does the wave of cosmic radiation temporarily interfere with electronics, or is it like an EM pulse that'll fry everything?

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthc ... rrelations

Correlation of Sunspot Activity With Earth's Wobble On The X Axis

Hmmm didn't I read something about the entire earth shifting or reversing poles theories and even 2012 predictions of this sort of thing. Was a every 25,000 year or 5700 year event, I can't recall now. maybe to involve tectonic plate slides or global readjustments, wobble or pole shift etc. related to a story that had to do with a wooly mammoth that was frozen instantly with buttercups (summertime food) fresh in it's stomach.

anyone Bueller...




And yeah I think it interferes with and/or shuts down electronic and messes with the earths magnetic field or something too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field

Reversals in the earth's magnetic field (north becomes south and vice versa) happen on average every 250,000 years, and it's been 700,000 since the last one, so get ready!

Holy shit, is that true? If so then we are fucked!!! Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_23

Do you think my generator, solar panels, MREs and Guns will be of any use? Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_08


And which is likely to occur first?

Terrorist Nuclear attack
Biochemical/water supply poisoning
Global warming drought
Global warming flooding
Economic collapse recession
Global poverty
Other? I know I must be missing a bunch of stuff like the second coming, the apocalypse, Armageddon

Bueller... Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_06

The pole reversals are true, but it doesn't happen overnight. Right now our poles are reversed, which is why compasses actually point north (since it's attracted to the south). And only recently have we noticed "pockets of magnetic North" shifting towards geographic North.

A complete shift however is way beyond our lifetime, but there will be a time between the shift when we will have little or no magnetic field, since there will be no definite north and south, it'll just be everywhere trying to settle...if that makes sense.

I saw a video about this in my Physics course over Summer, I gotta find it now Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_25

Well, deepslit, to be nit-picky...the compass points are always attracted to what we've called magnetic "north", which now happens to lie in the direction of geographic north. There's no way to claim either north/south as the "normal" status and the other as "reversed", unless you know how it was when God created the Earth (or, you know, we formed from interstellar processes).

Durango; global poverty, probably...in that we're already at that point. 80% of the world's population (so 5,281,779,340 people) live below the $10/day line.(1)

You should add global epidemic to the list (bird flu, or things like that), I think the risk for those is continually increasing.

1- http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/ ... stats#src1