NASA scientists warned “The sun’s entire magnetic field is about to “flip.” This happens every 11 years, and coincides with the greatest solar activity of sun ‘cycles’ with sunspots and ‘coronal mass ejections’ manifesting on its surface.”
“The world will not end tomorrow,” said Phil Scherrer, a solar physicist at Stanford University, “but I would think twice before I booked a flight on the space shuttle.”
The effects of this massive magnetic realignment will be felt throughout the solar system, including here on Earth.
Whoa!
OK, what does it all mean Mr. Wizard? “Well Billy, remember when I told you to never stick your finger in the light socket or every hair on your body would stand up, your brain will atrophy and people would laugh at you? Well, a coronal mass ejection is a little worse, I’m afraid. Remember that fall-out shelter your family built in 1955? No help there.”
Scientists don’t expect anything too crazy to happen but they were wrong when they said the Earth was the center of the universe.
Chances are if you’re more than about 11 years old, you’ve experienced the effects of a major solar magnetic flip already, probably without even realizing it.
It happened the day your high school teacher handed in his resignation when a spitball narrowly missed his head and stuck on the black board while he was writing the class English assignment. That’s right, solar magnetic flip was the ‘straw’. Yes, it was subtle.
Let’s take a look back at 2002, just 11 years ago and see what the effects of the sun’s magnetic field change made us go through.
The No Child Left Behind Act was passed by President George W. Bush. As a result children have been left behind by the millions as public schools got decreased funding and private for profit charter schools with no accountability started springing up.
The Department of Homeland Security was created and with it a ‘color threat chart’ that changed every once in a while, making us feel more or less ‘threatened.’ The good news was that our neighbors had the tendency to return any borrowed lawn tools because during that madness of the ‘neighbors spying on neighbors’ thing, they didn’t want you to turn them in for anything.
The US Senate created a single Nuclear Waste Dump at Yucca Mountain, Nevada to replace the existing 130 dumps around America at the same time citizens started up a petition drive to have Yucca Mountain designated as the place to send all politicians in case of a national emergency.
In 2002 the Euro became the legal tender of 12 of the European Union’s 15 member states. Germany was the strongest member as Malta, Estonia and Cypress together equaled the revenue of a mediocre weekend of October-Fest in the town of Nesselwang.
The effects are so powerful they will be felt beyond Pluto which may or may not be a planet. It may affect phenomena such as cosmic rays, which some believe can alter the climate on Earth. Hey, we don’t need help from the sun to wreck the planet; we’re doing quite nicely on our own.