Do You Think Life On Earth Will End in 2012?

Well Hi there other duck! :) Nice to meet you. You might want to check out the www.nasa.gov site, and look for their articles on sun cycles. I think that the sun affects us much more than we are led to believe, and that our magnetosphere is affected by the solar winds every day. Just recently, and you probably didn't hear this on the news) when the space shuttle was up at the space station repairing something they had to have all the astronauts go to the safe room(s) because of a solar flare. Interesting stuff, I think.

That's interesting, but couldn't it be just because they were not on Earth, but in space, away from the Earth's natural protections against solar winds? The earth typically protects itself, luckily for us! What I did read, was that with the geomagnetic shift that seems to be occurring, there is a chance that the magnetosphere might weaken and that the sun's activity may affect us. Some other clever folks say it may become weaker but if past shifts are any indication, life on Earth won't be erradicated (they just expect disruption in communications, GPS and so on). Goodbye myLot!

Sorry folks, I didn't mean to imply that the earth was going to blow up or anything. What I was trying to do was spark some conversation about how the earth and sun cycles affect each other. Don't get me wrong, I am not a "chicken Little". :) I do think we all need to be more aware of what happens on our planet, and in the space around us. As for "not hearing about it"...um, I think there are many things that our scientists don't tell us. They, and our government, don't want to scare the "sheep". ;-)

I didn't quite get to word my original question the way I wanted, but I think you knew what I meant. I don't think the earth is going to disintergrate or anything. It is just very interesting to study the Mayan prophesies and how they have corresponded with actual events in the past.