[GrottereewNus]

Imagine the horror if a series of major coronal mass ejections hurled directly at earth.
No more video surveillance, no more drones, no more google, or "I"pads, pods, phones. No more digital fiat, no more banks, or tracking of every dollar you spend. Wars would cease. No more Jewish controlled media.
No more FOX news. No more big government, no more Wall Street.
The earth would be a much less populated place.
Survivors would have to do things the old fashioned way.
Life would have to start over and go through a new industrial age.
Streets and roads would be free to travel again.
Might even have another muscle car era?
People would have to get together with friends and neighbors for entertainment and to trade goods and services.

It would be devastating!

[Anatolii]

Imagine the horror if a series of major coronal mass ejections hurled directly at earth.
No more video surveillance, no more drones, no more google, or "I"pads, pods, phones. No more digital fiat, no more banks, or tracking of every dollar you spend. Wars would cease. No more Jewish controlled media.
No more FOX news. No more big government, no more Wall Street.
The earth would be a much less populated place.
Survivors would have to do things the old fashioned way.
Life would have to start over and go through a new industrial age.
Streets and roads would be free to travel again.
Might even have another muscle car era?
People would have to get together with friends and neighbors for entertainment and to trade goods and services.

It would be devastating!

And minorities would be just awesome. LMAO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2pRnBgeBU

[boffincash]

Astro Bob blog: A Z-lightful evening

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/eve...roup/homepage/

The zodiacal light extends upward Saturday night to touch the Pleiades cluster and beyond. Orion is at left. Details: 16mm lens at f/2.8, ISO 1600 and 30-second time exposure. Photo: Bob King

I looked up this past Saturday night at the end of twilight and faced one of the best zodiacal light cones I've ever had the pleasure to see. The next week and a half will be the last time this spring for a good look at this expanse of glowing comet dust visible in the west 1 1/2 - 2 hours after sunset.

The zodiacal light is centered on the path the sun, moon and planets take through the zodiac constellations. The zodiac basically defines the flat plane of the solar system where all the planets revolve and many comets as well. Comets shed dust from their tails when they swing through the inner solar system. The dust motes are suspended in space and illuminated by sunlight creating a delicate cone-shaped glow visible in a dark, rural sky towards the end of evening twilight. Because the zodiac is still steeply inclined to the horizon in April, the zodiacal light stands high enough about the horizon haze for good visibility. By May the path is lower, and while the zodiacal light is still present, much of it is lost to atmospheric extinction. June, July and August are even worse. Not until fall mornings will the light be seen with relative ease again.

I just happened to be on a hill at a dark location Saturday and was totally taken with the scene. I imagine that flat, wide-open spaces like North Dakota, the light must be even more remarkable. To find the zodiacal light, get to the darkest sky you can. As dusk gives way to night, look for a large, wedge-shaped glow about as bright as the Milky Way standing at an angle to the western horizon with the Seven Sisters Cluster near its top. You might at first think it's a "light dome" from a distant town but its shape and direction of tilt distinguish it from manmade glows.

[Galinastva]

http://spaceweather.com/ April 14, 2010
NORTHERN LIGHTS IN THE USA: On Saturday, April 11th, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field. The impact caused a G2-class geomagnetic storm and, for the first time this year, ignited auroras over the continental United States. "The lights were bright enough to produce a reflection from the surface of Lake Superior," says photographer Shawn Malone, who recorded the scene from a beach in Marquette, Michigan: http://spaceweather.com/aurora/image...one2_strip.jpg

Northern Lights were also spotted in Maine, Vermont, Wisonsin and Minnesota. Mostly the lights were dim and required a photographic exposure of some tens of seconds for full effect. Nevertheless, they were there.

"Lower 48" sightings of auroras are a sign: The deep solar minimum of 2008-2009 has come to an end and a new solar cycle is gaining strength.

[boffincash]

"Lower 48" sightings of auroras are a sign: The deep solar minimum of 2008-2009 has come to an end and a new solar cycle is gaining strength.

Expect dim year for aurora

FAIRBANKS - Aurora watchers likely will be disappointed in 2010.

The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks predicts that this year's aurora activity will be minimal, and much the same as it has been for more than a year.

Aurora forecaster Charles Deehr said this is the least-active period ever experienced. The decrease in activity is attributed to slow sunspot activity. http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/...42689575.shtml

[kimaddison]

Get ready for an Earthquake.

Good call today we had a 7.1 earthquake in western China killing at least 400!

[Goksiodiffeli]

http://www.youtube.com/v/voAR07ezBts..._US&fs=1&rel=0




http://www.youtube.com/v/NaCCG7QkM_c..._US&fs=1&rel=0

[CesseOveldset]

reference to snakes and reptiles, ya say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zka8vqp66w

[pMJWFoAWD]

Imagine the horror if a series of major coronal mass ejections hurled directly at earth.
No more video surveillance, no more drones, no more google, or "I"pads, pods, phones. No more digital fiat, no more banks, or tracking of every dollar you spend. Wars would cease. No more Jewish controlled media.
No more FOX news. No more big government, no more Wall Street.
The earth would be a much less populated place.
Survivors would have to do things the old fashioned way.
Life would have to start over and go through a new industrial age.
Streets and roads would be free to travel again.
Might even have another muscle car era?
People would have to get together with friends and neighbors for entertainment and to trade goods and services.

It would be devastating!

Maybe I'm nuts but that sounds great to me.

[boffincash]

Good find of the zodiacal light, Horn. Nice picture the guy got.
Have any of you looked at the old newspaper reports of the 1859 solar storm. Northern lights so bright that people were reporting houses on fire in the next town. IIRC, the recently placed telegraph wires did cause some fires and they had enough charge for telegraphers to signal from east to west coast for about six hours without using outside electricity. The next big peak is supposed to be 2013, right? Strangely close to the end of 2012.

Prepare to freeze and burn. :imskerd: :morph: :sun:


The lingering cool temperatures being experience by much of North America has weather forecasters wondering if we are entering a new Little Ice Age—a reference to the prolonged period of cold weather that afflicted the world for centuries and didn't end until just prior to the American Civil War. From historical records, scientists have found a strong correlation between low sunspot activity and a cooling climate. At the end of May, an international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA released a new prediction for the next solar cycle: Solar Cycle 24 will be one of the weakest in recent memory. Are we about to start a new Little Ice Age?

According to the report, Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a sunspot count well below average. “If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78,” says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. This does not mean that we won't feel the results of renewed solar storm activity here on Earth.

“Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather,” points out Biesecker. “The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013.” A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a storm similar to the 1859 disturbance—known as the “Carrington Event” after astronomer Richard Carrington who observed the associated solar flare—occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. Reportedly, the 1859 storm electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their glow. http://www.theresilientearth.com/?q=...-age-ii-sequel

[68AttendGem]

So if we survive 2012, we get to look forward to this?

[viagra_generic]

Of all the conspiracy theories i've ever read, this is the most troubling.

The reason being is that there is literally rock solid science going back all the way to the early 1980's that backs this up.

the solar system is entering an area of the milky way that NOBODY really understands. All NASA knows is that it IS going to affect the earth in many dramatic and damaging ways. Combine that with the natural rise in Solar activity and you have a recipe for planet changing effects. We are already experiencing an uptick in powerful earthquakes and other natural forces. This energy cloud affects us in ways we don't understand. Science is being rewritten as we speak. All behind closed doors.

Our world is going to change very soon.

It will happen before the end of the year.

I would tell anyone that is interested. Be prepared to live without electricity for extended periods of time, very soon. And by that I mean at least a year, possibly many years. Once we have a solar flare that destroys telecommunications and other power grid hardware, it is a cascading effect. Research the solar flare of 1859 and then mulitply that many times over and think about how much futher our electronics infrastructure had advanced since then.

you get the picture.

[boffincash]

I guess, I'll rebuild that old thread on GIM a little bit here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L9kQjKSPhE

[laperuzdfhami]

wow check out today's activity

Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation

http://www3.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simula...6.20100414.avi

They have daily archives here: http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simula...ime/movie.html

[Galinastva]

http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html
This is a growing collection of major space weather events in history. This page contains a brief paragraph of the main effects of each solar storm, and a link to an archive of articles written about each storm that you can find in a variety of newspapers and magazines during the time of the storm. These accounts are a rich source of information about how each storm affected various technologies, and captivated the general public. Currently [August 15 , 2005], the archive includes 306 articles. And don't forget about what comets may do.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/20...hicagofire.htm
In 1883, twelve years after the Chicago fire, Ignatius Donnelly published a widely read book, Ragnarok: the Rain of Fire and Gravel. Though the book dealt primarily with the evidence for cometary disasters in ancient times, Donnelly suggested that the Chicago fire provided a small glimpse of the terror experienced by our earlier ancestors. “There is reason to believe that the present generation has passed through the gaseous prolongation of a comet's tail, and that hundreds of human beings lost their lives”.

Reflecting on the simultaneous events around Lake Michigan on the evening of October 8, 1871, Donnelly posed the underlying mystery: “At that hour, half past nine o'clock in the evening, at apparently the same moment, at points hundreds of kilometers apart, in three different states, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois, fires of the most peculiar and devastating kind broke out... More: GLP

[CesseOveldset]

sun's just had another wee burp in the past few hours. not as big as the first.

[aliceingoogs]

This thread has morphed into something quite interesting. I will have to check out this theory that you guys keep talking about.

Not that there is anything we can do to control the forces of nature, the cosmos or Gods will, but it sounds interesting to read about!

[laperuzdfhami]

wow check out today's activity

Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation

http://www3.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simula...6.20100414.avi

They have daily archives here: http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simula...ime/movie.html

Interesting how this is on the 14th of April, the same day Iceland's volcano erupted again.