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Preview: Doomsday Preppers

February 6, 2012 – 8:56 pm | 2 Comments

Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a …

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Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku

February 4, 2012 – 9:38 pm | No Comment
Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku

Suspected on killing a couple and a police officer, before being gunned down was Drew Ryan Maras, an author who was working on a book covering conspiracy theories and 2012 when he died.
BlogTalkRadio are replaying …

Trailer: The Carrington Event

January 31, 2012 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Trailer: The Carrington Event

The above trailer is for a TV series in development. Here’s the official synopsis for The Carrington Event:
Joseph Carrington runs an organic mini-farm on the outskirts of a large, southern town. His rustic lifestyle means …

X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!

January 28, 2012 – 12:19 pm | No Comment
X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!

There are several doom’n’gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world.
SpaceWeather.com has informed us:
Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, …

Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?

January 27, 2012 – 6:44 am | 3 Comments
Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?

Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard …

USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP

January 10, 2012 – 11:25 am | 3 Comments
USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP

This time last year there was a lot of talk about mass animal die-offs. These things happen from time to time, but the cluster of events made it newsworthy. Turns out some mass deaths can …

2012: Transit of Venus

January 9, 2012 – 4:01 pm | 2 Comments
2012: Transit of Venus

The planet Venus was important to the Maya civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. They …

Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity

January 9, 2012 – 1:19 am | No Comment
Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity

Many ancient cultures knew of planets that could not be seen with the naked eye, and therefore it is possible they counted sunspots as well. Yet there is a far easier way to keep track …

In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more

August 20, 2011 – 6:52 am | No Comment
In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more

2012 Forum has been written about at Vice Magazine, where they condescendingly describe the five types of folk who visit there. By the way, that’s not my picture:
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/15/the-five-people-you-meet-on-the-apocalyptic-message-board/
NASA has decided to make a page that …

New Precautions for Power Grids

June 24, 2011 – 7:13 pm | No Comment
New Precautions for Power Grids

According to NASA this week:
In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t …

Amazing Solar Flare Photo

June 9, 2011 – 1:10 pm | No Comment
Amazing Solar Flare Photo

It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day …

LaViolette: Super-sized Solar Proton Event

June 9, 2011 – 2:52 am | No Comment
LaViolette: Super-sized Solar Proton Event

A lot of serious cataclysm research revolves around the event of 10-12 thousand years ago, when the ice age abruptly ended and mega-fauna were wiped out, especially in the Americas. Paul LaViolette is one of …

Sun v. Trains: Sun Wins

October 17, 2010 – 7:04 am | No Comment
Sun v. Trains: Sun Wins

Most 2012 talk involving the Sun covers things like a cataclysmic breakdown of a power grid, and the effects of solar bursts in 1859 and 1989. Most people are unaware of these more subtle effects …

Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’

September 25, 2010 – 7:18 pm | 6 Comments
Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’

This was discussed by US governmental bodies in the last year, and not much has been achieved. Perhaps the UK can be more prudent?
Nasa has warned that a peak in the sun’s magnetic energy cycle …

Protecting Earth: Governments Finally Getting Serious

July 26, 2010 – 8:21 pm | One Comment
Protecting Earth: Governments Finally Getting Serious

The timing could be better, because Dec 2012 is only 2.5 years away, but better late than never!
Last month, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) introduced the new bill before Congress, H.R. 5587, titled: “To …

Solar Storm on July 7 Predicted by Crop Circle

July 5, 2009 – 1:24 pm | 4 Comments
Solar Storm on July 7 Predicted by Crop Circle

I’m open-minded, but unconvinced that crop circles are anything but a distraction created by the armed forces using futuristic weapons. Usually the circles are just complex images that can be decoded by folk well-versed in …

Space Storm Alert

April 20, 2009 – 5:37 am | 5 Comments
Space Storm Alert

It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is …

NASA: Impact of Solar Flare

March 11, 2009 – 6:20 pm | One Comment
NASA: Impact of Solar Flare

NASA’s 132-page report, entitled Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, paints a pretty grim picture of the damage that could occur in the USA (and presumably elsewhere in the world) due …

Solar Storm Could Cause $2 Trillion in Damage!

January 7, 2009 – 3:42 am | No Comment
Solar Storm Could Cause $2 Trillion in Damage!

Just in from SpaceWeather.com, news of a study that quantifies the potential damage of the worst solar storms:
The 132-page document examines what might happen to our high-tech modern society in the event of a super …