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    Lightbulb Could it Happen?

    It did twice... 2012 not far away...
    We are so dependent on electronics this Could be our down fall...

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/...html?full=true

    "The most serious space weather event in history happened in 1859. It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots. The Carrington event comprised eight days of severe space weather."

    There were eyewitness accounts of stunning auroras, even at equatorial latitudes. The world's telegraph networks experienced severe disruptions, and Victorian magnetometers were driven off the scale.

    "The result is runaway current in the transformer's copper wiring, which rapidly heats up and melts. This is exactly what happened in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, and six million people spent 9 hours without electricity. But things could get much, much worse than that."
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    Thats actually really interesting..Read through a bunch of shit on the site as well..


    I was really into the Mayan Empire stuff, and the whole Dec. 21, 2012 end of the world thing..Cool.
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    Interesting, 12's not far off, keep a look out!
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    DD45 missed us by only 44,000 miles..
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    Quote Originally Posted by pRojekt02GT View Post
    Thats actually really interesting..Read through a bunch of shit on the site as well..


    I was really into the Mayan Empire stuff, and the whole Dec. 21, 2012 end of the world thing..Cool.

    I always thought that would really suck, the world ending right after my birthday. lol..
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    map351 I thought that was you standing on the street corner with a "The END is NEAR!" sign! Now I know for sure..
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    Maybe these will help?

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    "History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."

    "Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming."
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    Quote Originally Posted by pRojekt02GT View Post
    Thats actually really interesting..Read through a bunch of shit on the site as well..


    I was really into the Mayan Empire stuff, and the whole Dec. 21, 2012 end of the world thing..Cool.

    I dunno about end of world stuff. Just the Pole shift and galactic alignment. 2012 is going to be interesting. I give the Mayans credit for figuring out stuff that they never ever saw in the people's entire history. Course they did have a way of killing each other off so to them it would be end of times.
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    This is one of the topics I could write a paper on in my one class, Im debating on it.


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    Some of this stuff is real interesting, but i dont concern myself with it. The world was supposed to end about 9841635 times by now so im just gonna keep rollin with it.

    im the type of person if the doc ever came in and said, would you like to know how long you have? NO!
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    its pretty interesting stuff, but the bible does say no man knows when the end of the world is comming. So I am not going to worry about that, I have to much stuff to worry about then the end of the world, I.E. my job and bills bills and bills

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