2012 Solar Flare

Get your jollies now while you still can!

Sigh, disaster always wants to strike the year after I graduate from something.

I don't much put faith in these type of speculations, I'm well aware that they are a possibility but 2012 is so overrated, it's just another Y2K in my opinion.

Either way, my first bit of travelling happens this year so I will indeed be living life.

Sweeeeet! I mean I'd honestly hoped to destroy the world myself with strangelets or a mini black-hole, but heck the infamy would be short-lived anyway!

Oh man, it's just like the Knowing.

All of the people who hear whispery voices in their head shall be saved!

To be perfectly honest, I'd rather not know when the end of the world will happen. If I know when it happens in advance, it'll just depress me and make life impossible to live - sure, there's always the philosophy of "live life to the fullest" and getting everything you want to do in life in before the world-ender, but to me, anyway, that sort of philosophy is impossible to live. In my eyes, why do anything if you can't change the way and the time you're going to die? Our lives may be meaningless anyway, but if I know when the world ends in advance it makes that fact crushingly evident - I'd like there to be at least potential to give my life meaning, and knowing when I'd die would remove that potential. And last but not least, knowing ahead of time makes it so hard to just plain live - having that knowledge hang over my head like a sword of Damocles is just depressing enough to me to make the rest of my life more miserable and painful than it already is.

So, bottom line, when it comes to these things ignorance is bliss...I honestly can't take knowing the truth. A scary prospect, I know - how do you think I feel?

Things that are supposedly going to happen in 2012:

Huge Solar Flares..
North Korea gets long range missile capabilities..
End of the Mayan Calendar..
Nostradamus prediction for end of the world as we know it (not necessarily destruction)..
Money becomes mostly electronic..
Private Commercial access to space and the first Space Hotel being launched..
End of the first term of Obama, Dick Cheney speculated as running for President..
Close run of a large meteorite past Earth.
Tons of Seismic activity. Yellowstone is already having around 400 rumbles a month.
Our Solar system reaches the center of the galaxy for galactic alignment(roughly)..

and many more.

Now, I don't think it's really going to be the end of the world. That kind of nonsense is ridiculous. The world doesn't simply end, it will go on without us. I think instead of the apocalypse, there's going to be a massive change in the way humans think and act. Something big is definitely on the horizon, we just don't know it yet. Whether this is a political, environmental, or even mental change is up for debate.

I didn't read the link, but I know about the flares. Did that article mention anything about the supposed leaps in evolution due to the sun's protective bubble not protecting against radiation anymore? Seeing new, weird animals and maybe even -human- evolution surely will do something to our world if not destroy it. It's happened many times in the past, why not now?

EDIT: @Parabollus- Don't worry so much about dying. There are so many humans in so many places, it's nearly impossible to kill us all off unless the planet gets ripped apart at the seams. Which is very unlikely. I would say to prepare more for a massive shift of consciousness. Maybe Aliens will land or something, who knows.

No, no spontaneous evolution. It did say that electronic devices will be severely impacted, though.

Apparently it all happened before in 1859 (I think).

I agree with the first part, even most predictions from ancient sources just claim it's an end of an era and a beginning of another (their eras tend to end in disaster but some form of life keeps going).

As to the second, no, nothing on evolution. Only about our reliance on technology and how we'd have to protect it from solar radiation.

And yes, don't get depressed about it. Humans are a rather hardy species, we've lived through Ice Ages, various different diseases that are horribly deadly, etc. Hell, we have bacteria in our bodies that could kill us if the balance in the body is shifted ever so slightly.

Sweet! I always wanted to be that big mutant off of Doom ^^

GOGO radiation evolution!

I saw an great tv thing on the BBC called End Day in which all the disasters seemed to happen. Mega-tsunami, killer asteroid, global pandemic, supervolcano and strange matter. It was very funny

Don't forget, 2012 is when they will probably get the LHC at CERN running. They say it will be this year but I bet they break something else.

Mayan calendar ends in 2012, and Richard Feynman who's work contributed to particle physics, used to translate Mayan hieroglyphics. Coincidence?? I think not!

On the plus side, if one of those disasters does occur in 2012 it will stop us from having to watch the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony as hosted by us Brits. (which is bound to be Boris with a sparkler!) Be warned it will be so bad, your brain WILL implode.

As long as Glomdoring gets to keep dominating Celest, I'll be fine.


Oh, and Parabollus, don't worry, I'll protect you.

I believe that 2012 is the year that people cease coming up with "world changing" scenarios, thus changing the world forever!

Hypothetically, it just makes sense that no one will believe it when the end of world actually -is- coming. History has proven that these things really do happen. Yeah, Y2K was a sham... and 2012 just well might be. But what if it isn't? Just one time of being unprepared is enough to kill us all off. We have time to build EM shields for our machinery. We have time to prepare in a million ways. But not preparing is rather unintelligent, even if it turns out to be false. Chances are sometime in the future, if not 2012, we will be faced with challenges like this.

And in these occasions, fear will be the thing that saves us.

You make me want to go watch Blast from the Past again.

I'll be hiding in my Timecube.

See you losers later.

I ate the timecube for breakfast.

The Clintons were angry.

What's the point of thinking about these things? Oh no, the world ends. You get closer to the end of the world everyday, and until this post, you were perfectly happy. Now you're sitting in your hole-of-a-house, absolutely miserable that none of your dreams will ever come to pass because an EM wave will wipe out all that you have come to cherish.

Does anyone here actually sound depressed? It's more like 'YEEHAW, WORLD'S ENDING' to me.

I think Salvation was referring to my post - I was definitely more depressed than yeehaw in my post. Though I do feel a bit better reading some of the replies in here. If the only thing that happens in 2012 is a major change in human consciousness, then I'm all for it. I'd welcome any change in that regard. I just wish bad stuff doesn't happen at the same time. But hey, I guess we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

Hey guys, even if the solar flares do cause worldwide power grid disruption, the world's not going to end. Just sayin'.

Cheney for president, that might be a different story.