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Sunburst 2012, the end of the Fifth Age? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Natascia   
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 21:39

It would appear the title of some great science fiction film projected on the big screen, one of those movies where the protagonist tries to fight against nature to save himself and his loved ones from a fate far from comforting, but unfortunately this is not the title of a movie, and who has spoken this sentence is not a television commentator during the screening of the trailer, but it is a statement from NASA, the U.S. space agency.

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"A solar storm (also called a geomagnetic storm) is a disorder of the Earth's magnetosphere, a temporary nature, caused by solar activity. During a solar storm the sun produces strong emissions of matter from its solar corona generating a strong solar wind, whose high-energy particles are to impact against the Earth's magnetic field from 24 to 36 hours after the issuance of coronal mass.
This only happens when the solar wind particles travel towards the Earth. The solar wind pressure changes as a function of solar activity and these changes alter the electrical currents in the ionosphere. Magnetic storms usually last 24 to 48 hours, although some may last for several days. "
This quote, from the famous and important free encyclopedia Wikipedia provides us with a unique and detailed definition of solar storm, which is essential to continue our discussion. Millions of people without electricity in 2012, food and medicines that go bad in the fridge turned off, and satellite phones out of order. A scene from "Day After" that could be declassified in the "catastrophic", except that the alarm comes from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences. And in the villain that threatens civilization, for once, there are human activities, pollution and global warming. The enemy by surprise is the Sun, the creator of life on Earth, with a cough could knock the infrastructure on which the West prosperous.
Since December, the Sun's activity is slowly increasing. Our star changes its magnetic field every 11 years and at some point you reach a peak of phenomena (solar flares and coronal mass jets) from which emanate large amounts of energy and radiation. These jets can reach Earth, giving rise to geomagnetic storms. The atmosphere protects us, the direct effects of solar storms on health is negligible, but their impact on socio-economic structures could be disastrous.
Astronomers observe these phenomena since 1859 when a geomagnetic storm of extraordinary proportions, in addition to making possible the observation of polar auroras like those in Italy and Cuba, he set fire to some of the telegraph wires in Europe and the United States. In May 1921, another storm caused a series of shorts, bringing down power lines and telephone across the Atlantic. But what if such events occur today that an entire civilization was founded on electricity and telecommunications?
The response of experts is far from comforting: "Electricity is the key technology of modern society, from which all others depend, and other infrastructure services," reads a 132 page report commissioned by NASA the National Academy of Sciences. "If the storm of 1859 to happen today, we will see an enormous social and economic devastation." In 1989, six million people in Quebec were without power for nine hours due to a geomagnetic storm ten times less powerful than that of 1921. According to John Kappenmann, co-author of the report, if an event such as a repeat of '21 .....

people without electricity this time would be 130 million.
A reprint of the 1859 storm, which was even more powerful, would damage two trillion dollars. What particularly scares in geomagnetic storms is their unpredictability. We know that this next solar cycle will reach the peak between 2012 and 2013, but in the scientific community there is no agreement on what will be intense activity of our star at that time. The scientist says Doug Biesecker of NOAA: "Only one event to create huge problems: the great storm of 1859 occurred during a mild cycle."
It 's the first time that some NASA scientists are beginning to believe the prophecies of the Mayan and Hopi. These people would have predicted that the end of the Fifth Age (current one) ol'Era of the Fifth Sun would end with a great cosmic tragedy. In fact, NASA has said as published by the National Academy of Sciences, a dossier of concern that we publish below. In this issue explicitly mention the potential risks for a series of catastrophic events that will occur by 2012. These events are characterized by the bombing of real solar storms and meteor showers.
That's because of the underground bases and the collection of seeds that are stored on the Island of Svalbard, no one had thought of that? The tunnel was built in Svalbard is situated halfway between Norway and the North Pole, has the capacity to hold 4.5 million different seed samples. Since each sample contains on average 500 seeds, about 2.25 billion seeds can be contained. They are found in the Arctic region of storage in the event of a future disaster that could wipe out food crops. The location was carefully chosen to provide maximum protection for the seeds. The underground chambers were constructed on a 120 meter long tunnel inside a mountain, about 130 meters above sea level, and permafrost that is the rock which is the thickness so that the samples remain frozen, even without electricity.
In 2012 the threat of repeating the powerful magnetic phenomenon that in 1859 he sent into a tailspin telecommunications: telephone systems from electricity to security, are at risk blackout all essential services.
The news is one that will shake, first, the representatives of the harsh and pure generation "always on" those always connected, via the web - wirelessly of course - via phone, via Bluetooth, via satellite. But the consequences of the alarming scenario painted by NASA in 2012 threaten, in fact, the daily lives and even the national security of any country with even a minimum telecommunications system: three years, could be repeated the intense solar storm in 1859 that "died" all communication technologies in the United States and Europe.
The fault is the so-called "active phase", which crosses the Sun every 11 years during this particular period, our star can generate magnetic storms more or less powerful, capable, depending on the greater or lesser intensity, to knock out the satellites, threaten the safety of astronauts, or even, in exceptional cases such as that provided in 2012 to destroy those telecommunication systems and power distribution. When one of these systems miss, the consequences cascade are quick and severe: "The impact of the storm could fall on interconnected structures, with devastating effects: the distribution of drinking water on tilt in a few hours lost in perishable foods and medicines within 12-24 hours, immediate or potential disruption of heating or air conditioning, the discharge of sewage, telephone services, transport, supplies of fuel and so on, "NASA provides.
But what is worse, writes the team led by Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, is that "emergency services could be interrupted and completely lost control of the country" means 'only way to prevent that from happening is therercare prepared to get an appointment with this "Katrina" space, studying in a more detailed magnetic storms and intervening to strengthen the defenses of the most sensitive technologies. "A catastrophic failure of the commercial and government infrastructure, in space and on Earth, can be mitigated by increasing the preparedness of the people on these issues, reinforcing vulnerable structures and developing advanced systems for the prediction of storms," concludes the study, "Without action or prevention plans, the increased reliance on advanced technology, but sensitive to spatial phenomena could make our society so vulnerable in the future. "
History shows that large research companies never releases information that is not confirmed by an explanation and rigorous scientific proof, which means that if NASA decided to publish this news, there is no possibility that they are false, it nor incorrect, the solar storm awaits us, and who knows, maybe it will be the beginning of a new civilization based on respect, love and friendship among men, those great values much-vaunted by the Maya and that we, we inexorably lost over the years.

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