We are all doomed in 2013

[esme]

I bet it's the same day my lotto numbers come up

[mickw]

It doesn't matter. The world is going to end on dec 21st 2012 anyway, so we won't be here to see it ;-)

 

Nah, thats just when the Mayan calendar finished (and they would've extended it if they'd still been around!)

[laineyiow]

A bit like when we entered the Year 2000 and all that overtime was paid out for nothing at the end of 1999 when everything was supposed to come crashing down and all systems were going to go into meltdown (or whatever computers do!!) - all a load of hype!!!

[Digsy]

I wouldn't worry too much.

 

"It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way."

[artisan]

I bet it's the same day my lotto numbers come up

:hihi:

[dosxuk]

Surely all we need to do is to send the tin foil hat wearers from this forum, outside to reflect the radiation.

 

Just need to make sure it's a tinfoil hat day not a flaming pitchfork day!

[hard2miss]

I bet it's the same day my lotto numbers come up

 

Oh I really hope it is, talk about having a bad week if it did

[andyofborg]

Solar flares, pah. Just wait untill the magnetic field reverses again. That will sort the gizmos out properly.

 

the reversing of the magnetic field probably wont affect anything except compasses

 

however, the possibility that during the reversal the protection that it provides against solar flares would be diminished might cause one or two problems

[HeadingNorth]

A bit like when we entered the Year 2000 and all that overtime was paid out for nothing at the end of 1999 when everything was supposed to come crashing down and all systems were going to go into meltdown (or whatever computers do!!) - all a load of hype!!!

 

The overtime was paid out to people changing the systems to stop that from happening ... and they succeeded. Why are you begrudging them the payment?

[HeadingNorth]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3145874/Solar-flare-to-paralyse-Earth-in-2013.html

 

I don't know why the Sun is screaming in hysterics that it could happen in 2013. It could happen next week, for all we really understand about the Solar energy processes. The odds are somewhat better for it happening in 2013 - say, two chances in a million instead of one chance in a million, something like that. Utterly trivial in any event.

 

Moreover, solar flares take several days to reach us, ample time for Governments to warn everyone that they should shut down all electrical equipment between the hours of 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday afternoon to prevent the circuits from frying.