2012 might be bad for us after all...

[MasterBlaster76]

Ha ha ha... do you believe? it is gibberish!!! do you remember 'error 2000' ? and so what? no... it is just new system of larceny!
You are afraid and you start to build a refuge

No one's building a refuge - and if you're trying to compare it to 'error 2000' AKA the Y2K bug , then you're not being very sensible; it certainly isn't 'gibberish'. These solar flares have hit the planet before, sometime in the nineteenth century - if they had mobile phones and so on in those days, it would've caused a lot of people a lot of problems. It wouldn't end the world, but it would cause a bit of a mess.

MasterBlaster76 added 7 Minutes and 50 Seconds later...

I'm sure governments and space agencies around the world will be able to chalk out a solution by the time the storm takes place. It might trigger a temporary blackout throughout the globe, which it probably will, but at the same time, I have faith in Science to come up with something to check the damage done to our satellites and communication networks as far as possible.


It's easy to say that, but considering the way earth's population is exploding and the way energy demands are going up everywhere owing to urbanization and industrialization, I don't think we are left with an alternative but to search for more and more natural resources which would yield energy.

As usual, an informed post from KC - and you're most probably right - they surely have some kind of contingency plan.

Suckers. It'll all come crashing down one day but why sit around dwelling on it?

No one is talking about the end of the world - at least I wasn't when I opened the thread. This is a thread about disruption of the planet, not destruction.

We won't have an apocalypse or a catastrophe I suppose. It'll just that our satellites will malfunction, communation and electricity would be hampered, and everything would be in a state of chaos.

Chaos. Exactly: widespread chaos - but I don't know how long it will last.

2036 is when we'll have an apocalypse...

When an asteroid strikes us which will have 10 times the impact of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

There is an asteroid that will pass close by to the Earth - five times closer than the moon, I think they said, but it will not hit. However, it has a 1/45,000 chance (I think) of hitting when it comes round again seven years later, according to this quote:

While trajectory knowledge was substantially corrected by the Arecibo data, a small estimated chance of impact (less than 1 in 45,000 using standard dynamical models) remained for April 13, 2036. With Apophis probably too close to the Sun to be measured by optical telescopes until 2011, and too distant for useful radar measurement until 2013, the underlying physics of Apophis' motion were considered to better understand the hazard.

Predicting Apophis' Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036

If that hits, then it's game over, but they are coming up with all kinds of ways to stop it from hitting - but all of them depend on early detection - with blowing it up at the end of the list.

1/45,000 is a hell of a long shot though - it's not worth losing sleep over. :laugh

 

[jkartik]

meh.....just send chuck norris. he'll "rounhouse kick" the asteroid out of the solar system !

 

[Varun]

Chaos. Exactly: widespread chaos - but I don't know how long it will last.

I guess if this is confirmed, then they will set up widespread alternative energy farms as a backup for the time it would occur. I don't know what'd happen to the satellites though.

 

[AkshayS]

I guess if this is confirmed, then they will set up widespread alternative energy farms as a backup for the time it would occur. I don't know what'd happen to the satellites though.

This ain't gonna happen, I believe.

 

[SaiSrini]

From the end of the world, now they are down to solar flares and how it will majorly impact modern life, power grids, internet, communications, etc. I firmly believe they will get down even lower and finally say nothing of that sort will actually happen. Whatever happens, we will move on. We will recover from catastrophes and we will keep moving.

 

[Themer]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! Blargh

 

[Manly]

To quote Florence:

The horses are coming so you better run. Run fast for your mother and fast for your father. Run for your children, for your sisters and your brothers.

 

[Manly]

I aim to please.

 

[pcfan123]

Hide yo kids hide yo wife!

 

[Themer]

And hide yo husband cuz they're raping everybody out there.

 

[Cricketman]

We gon' find you

 

[pcfan123]

 

[ste_mc_efc]

wait, couldn't we just utilise the solar flare as a power source? Just like solar power but ^n.

It'd solve the energy crisis, but then if technology fails what energy crisis would there be anyway...

 

[ARay]

wait, couldn't we just utilise the solar flare as a power source? Just like solar power but ^n.

It'd solve the energy crisis, but then if technology fails what energy crisis would there be anyway...

I doubt they have the technology to efficiently garner the energy from the solar flare.

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

Technology is much more advanced than what they all show us and give us....some people are so gullible

I wouldn't mind living in the dark ages at least we'd have better communities and peoples lives wouldn't evolve around f**king facebook