According to the NOAA Space Environment Center, the next 11 year cycle of solar storms will more than likely start next March and peak in 2011 or mid-2012. Read more on this arcticle here. (Image courtesy of NOAA) -CANDY
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Supposedly the world is going to end on December 12th, 2012. Ive been looking up some information on it, and if what they say is true, it sounds pretty legit.
justin, that is not science; it is hooey.
There have been end-of-the-world predictions since, well, the beginning of time. Thus far they've all been wrong.
For more info see:
http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/appendix3.html
I remember a cycle of sunspots that peaked back in the late 1970s. I was working for a computer manufacturer and often wound up talking to customers whose computers had crashed.
Whenever there was some kind of computer glitch, customers always wanted to know "WHY?"
But when I gave them the real answer nobody would believe it. (Ex: mean-time-to-failure ... every mechanical device has those ... for example if the mean time-to-failure for disk accesses is once every 100,000,000 tries, then it is completely expected that approximately once out of every 100,000,000 times you try to read or write info to a disk, that operation will fail.)
Well, when I'd try to explain that to people who were upset because their computer didn't do what they expected, they kept saying, "But WHY?"
So I must confess that I sometimes resorted to saying, "Well, I've heard there has been a lot of sumspot activity lately."
That almost always seemed to satisfy the customer - even though it had absolutely nothing to do with the real answer.
Back in the 70s anyway, customers often preferred to attribute computer glitches to "sunspots" than to try to understand statistical concepts like mean time to failure of mechanical devices.
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