I am so freaked out. I first saw this article on the Yahoo homepage from the Washington Post. Something about sunspots not reappearing signifying a possible event that will make life on Earth unsuitable or non-existent by 2012-2013. Apparently, NASA is involved and studying this. Some speculation that the sun may also be shrinking. Is this accurate?
It’s all garbage, unfounded and over-sensationalized media food. Don’t worry about it.
July 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 am
It’s all garbage, unfounded and over-sensationalized media food. Don’t worry about it.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Basically, what’s accurate about that, is that there’s not very many sunspots at the moment. This isn’t exactly huge news; we’re still coming out of the solar minimum. Everything else is attributable to the internet’s information coprophagia problem.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
All they know is that the amount of sunspot activity isn’t resuming as soon as they expected. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything ominous. They’re just studying it because they don’t know the reason for the change in the usual 11-year cycle, but there’s no point in even speculating on what it means. There’s a good chance that it’s happened before but nobody was looking at sunsplots then because the technology is relatively new.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Not happening:
Myth: Sun is Shrinking
The Sun is shrinking at five feet per year. Considering the temperature of the Sun, how would the average temperature of the Earth be affected by increasing the size of the Sun by 5 million feet per million years? If we went back say, one million, ten million, or a hundred million years?
It is incorrect to say that the Sun is shrinking and it has been since the "creation" of the Universe. The Sun is not shrinking at a consistent rate. The data that were used to derive that were both wrong and misinterpreted.
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Source: NASA
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#shrink
Skeptic Friends:
http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=21
More FACTS to answer some of your questions:
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html
July 3rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
well there is no possibility of ice age by 2015. sun is at the middle of its life time. i.e. its 500 billion years old right now. and it has 500 billion more to go. its certain that after 500 billion years earth will be in ice age, actually much much horrible than ice age. something like what pluto looks like right now. even the atmosphere will be iced.
about 2012, well its just a good prediction. good, because some of the most accurate calendars have mentioned it. like for example the mayan calendar which is like one of the most accurate calendars on earth stops on december 23rd 2012. which is pretty frightening. also the great astronomers and seers for example nostradamus is one of them have predicted 2012 as the last year. some have said it would be near extinction so there is still a possibility for life to go on but will be on the verge of extinction. but as of now there is nothing for sure. when i think of it, i think its going to be us responsible for extinction and not mother nature. it can be a religious third world war or some sort of nuclear war which has the potential to destroy the whole earth many times over. but other than that there is nothing we have to worry about as of now, as long as we as people learn to respect other people and there cultures.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
The sun has an 11 year cycle. At solar maximum we see a lot of sunspots, at solar minimum we see none or very few. This has been going on for millions of years.
2012 is a complete 100% junk science hoax.
Read this web site and watch the video:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
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July 3rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Think of it this way…Wouldn’t we already be feeling the effects of a catastrophic event now? Okay so you might not be able to prevent it, but surely if either of those events were to happen, we would have known about them since long before you were born. An Ice Age in 2015? We’d already be buried in snow right now. Yes, in June, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 3:24 pm
It would really help if you’d post a link to the original article. What you’ve quoted simply doesn’t make sense.
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