Great comments...!
If I am not mistaken I have read at the nasa site that the polarity of the sun will change in 2012, and that is change you can believe in. I did not know it but it seems that the polarity of the sun changes every 7 years maybe it is 11 years. Please correct me if I am wrong as I do not like to spread false info. :cheers:
In a way, your right Robin. The suns activity in solar flares is in a cycle. The cycle is every 11.5 years. Scientists have said this is closing to 10 years as time goes by. Solar activity can also be determined by sun spots. In the past, scientists have pointed out that when the sun is in increased solar activity, with many sunspots, the earth receives less energy and is actually cooler than when the sun is active. The most powerful flares are called "coronal mass ejections". These ejections travel at the speed of light and are made up of electrons, protons and ions producing massive amounts of radiation and gamma rays. A direct hit on earth may be absorbed by our own magnetospere, which is natural protection from the suns radiation. But, if we take one hit after the other, the magnetosphere will be weakened to a point, radiation could make it through. If that happened, we'd surely perish within a short period of time.
As for the bulge in the ocean. This is really nothing new. It's always been there. The earth is not round. The earth is constantly stretching from the gravitational forces as the moon circles the earth. This is also where we get our tides. The gravity being excerted on the surface of the planet causes it.
The alignment of our sun to the Milky Way's equatorial plane and the peak of solar activity is suppose to take place on Dec. 21st of 2012. Which is also the date of the winter equinox. The show I watched about this on the History channel last week spoke about the shifting of Earths poles and the affect of the gravity at the equatorial plane. The scientist said that if the earth were to reverse it's north and south pole, it is not something that would happen over night. He said it would take thousands of years for this to occur. On the alignment of the sun with our equatorial plane of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way? This was also pretty interesting. He said that we are already in an area of the galaxy that is on the outer fringes of one of the spiral bands. He made the comment that many stars closer to the center of the galaxy have passed that plane and they weren't ripped to shreds. So, there is no real reason to think we, so far away, we see any real affect from this.
Screwball.... The Mayans aren't extinct. They are still a thriving culture today. They don't live in the ruins or temples anymore, but they are still with us on earth.
If you really look into the long count calendar, you'll see it wasn't the only calendar used by the ancient Mayans. There were 3. In the reading I have done, the Mayans themselves didn't see this as the end of the earth but rather the end of a complete solar cycle. The Mayans are not the only culture to have a long count calendar. I know the Chinese and Native Americans have one. If I remember the last show I watched on this subject, there were about 7 ancient cultures that used one. All in different locations on the globe but all with calendars that were so very close to each other.
Here's a really good read if anyone is interested. Its about the Mayan calander but more, it's about the inconsistancies of it. It's also about the way the Mayans actually saw it. Its where I like to get a lot of my questions answered. The site is called
the straight dope.
What you have read is not something that I'm just fluent in. It's something that I find very intersting. The statments above were things I remembered hearing or seeing on one of the many shows or reads about the subject and I just happened to look them up and put together a summary of that info for your reading. Most of it is from the Wikipedia in my own words.:cheers:
