/sci/ - Science & Math

won't we all be dead by dec 2012 though?

I'm glad I'll be long dead by the time this kind of crap destabilizes the atmosphere and human life is eradicated.

>Massive solar flare in March broke sun storm record
>since measurements began

>>4794186
you're dying this year?

>Fox News

>fox news

i thought their calendar ran out in 2000 when there was no second coming?

Can we get a reputable source?

>>4794176
>Fox News

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>>4794176
>fox news

That shit is not a valid reference for a grade school, high school, or college report, what makes you think it is a valid reference here?

>>4794207
/sci/ demands references and gets them, news at 11.

>>4794195

You know absolutely nothing about astro physics.


This might create some problems but we will probably pull through it. Our power plants are being secured against this as we speak. The main problem is power lines since we can't really secure those.

Read NASAs posts about this, they pretty much sum it up.

Oh and this has happened twice in the past 22 years

>>4794176
>fox news

Was "the onion" website down?

>>4794217
>implying "fox news" isn't 10x funnier then "the onion"

fox news is the most popular comedy channel in america

http://www.space.com/16186-solar-flares-sun-active-region.html

http://www.spaceweather.com/


DO i really need to search for you?

>>4794232
>DO i really need to search for you?

When you post a comedy source as a news source...YES...YES YOU FUCKING DO!

Thanks you!

>mfw people on skywatching forums laugh at people freaking out at this


I'm probably gonna drive a bit north a few nights in march and look at the auroras, should be spectacular.

>>4794248
Good luck with that, it's gonna be the weakest solar max in decades.

>>4794176
like we are going to live past the zombie Apocalypse of 21 Dec 2012

Does anyone here actually believe that we are perhaps in imminent danger and that maybe we will see the beginning of a decline in 2012 that will ultimately lead to the extinction or near extinction of the human race?

If so, do you have any desire to dry and prove that it is so with your famed math and science?

>>4794322
Yes

When you add up the letters in 2012, you get DEATH.

>>4794322
>extinction of the human race

paleontologist with published work in paleoclimates and extensive reading in extinction events past and present.

yeah, no.
we aren't going extinct any time soon.

>>4794322
>Does anyone here actually believe that we are perhaps in imminent danger

Only if you live in america!
Romney 2012! Watch america burn!

>>4794331
welcome to /sci/, newfriend

no go to /pol/

>>4794329
I would tend to agree with you, I find it highly unlikely that we will become extinct anytime soon, I feel this way mainly because of the sheer quantity of humans on this planet.

clearly were having one hell of a winning streak, you could say.

>>4794336
lol
our civilizations have existed for a few thousand years.

we're killing off species that have been here half a billion years.

we aren't winning shit.

but we also aren't going extinct. We can survive almost anything in smallish numbers.

>>4794346

I am pretty sure eliminating other species gives us more resources to grow and consume.

We are winning heli-hard.

>>4794356
right?
pretty soon we'll have the place to ourselves and then we'll REALLY be winning!

>>4794184
Most people will, that's just the beginning of the end. Clearly the rest of us will be wiped out by solar storms.

>>4794356
this still leaves me wondering if we will exhaust our resources bringing about our own demise, faster then could have ever been anticipated. Some do argue that we are destroying our own habitat, my question is, how will we adapt this time?

Just for the record, I do believe 'something' is around the corner. But I am not sure what scale this falls on.

>>4794346
cant survive a nuclear wasteland, where fuel rods from every nuclear reactor get blown into the air.

despite /sci/ thinking that radiation cant hurt humans.

>>4794671
how do you know we can't survive a nuclear wasteland? currently I would have to say the only evidence we have lays in the Ukraine and it seems quite clear that mammals can do just that. and i mean shit we are humans afterall, we're pretty badass compared to some dogs and horses

>>4794671
>cant survive a nuclear wasteland, where fuel rods from every nuclear reactor get blown into the air.
can i live in your fun fantasy land where this is ever possible

>Godlike endurance
>Everybody seems to forget this fact when talking about how humans are useless in the wild

We didn't run down our prey, we didn't poisen them after sneaking up on them, we fucking jogged them to exhaustion then ate them.

>>4794718
are you suggesting that nuclear power plants DONT need electricity supplied from circuit boards to maintain cooling functions?

If a solar flare melted wiring and circuitry, like they did in 1859, there will be no power to keep the fuel rods cool.

Does this not register in your brain?

>>4794753
humans are far from useless in the wild, i suggest you rethink this one.

>>4794753
>buys the current endurance-hunters crap
>clearly has never tried to jog with an atlatl

>>4794752
Most of nuclear engineering anymore it seems, is spent on nuclear safety. I am going to go ahead and assume that with such powerful reactors, their control hardware most likely contains a.) a backup power supply b.) a system of transformers, diodes, and rectifiers between them and the control circuitry and the loads.
If this assumption is true, worst case scenario would be an overall open system with the control circuit being fried. There are manual controls as well in order to prevent a meltdown. Modern reactors wouldn't even be of worry in that scenario though.
Also, good to see someone else has looked at the after-effects of Chernobyl. Despite being abandoned by human life, it flourishes with other natural species.

>>4794184
www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Mayan-calendar-discovery-suggests-world-might-not-end-in-2012-vi
deo

2012 is just a scam to scare people

>foxnews
Enough information for me to sage. Scaremongering bullshit news channel.
The solar cycle is notoriously unpredictable I bet that for every solar scientist that is predicting a large solar outburst in 12 months there is one saying all will be normal and one saying activity will be below normal. I am not up to date with the solar modelling accuracy but I did a google search for solar cycle prediction. NASA was the top result. Image is from that top result page. So Fox again is the news source of the retarded.

>weakest solar cycle in 30 years
>suddenly X5.4
>solar maximum isnt going to render any big flares
>inb4 X5^.03x3

>>4795127
thank you, I was looking for that pic. People need to fucking relax. So much non scientific bullcrap is in people's minds as stated facts but yet almost know one can back it up with science. 2012 and every apocalyptic scenario going along with it are all absolute bullshit.

www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/

i'm so fucking excited. can't wait to read by nightlight.