[cwiert]

So we've all heard about this 2012 thing... blah blah. I pretty much poo poo'd the whole Mayan Calendar thing. But I recently saw a show on 2012 with regards to the solar flares and apparently there's some science to this. From what I've read, the sun goes through cycles and the next major cycle of flares is predicted to occur anywhere from now until 2012. I read this on the NASA.gov site... a pretty credible source. (just google search "2012" and "solar" and the NASA article will come up).

I guess a worse case scenario would be the loss of all electronics (cell phones, landline phones, electricity, etc) for anywhere from a few days to a few months or maybe even a few years... for the entire country and beyond! ....boy would that suck.

But before I go and dig a bunker to crawl in, I have to remember that scientists can't even predict with much accuracy if it's going to snow or not, so how can they predict that the massive ball of burning hydrogen in the sky will throw off a major flare in 2012?

This is probably a repeat topic, and if so... sorry.