Here's another scary thought

[peelingchrome]

Check this out.

The article states that these events happen within a year of the solar maximum.

Now for the creepy stuff:

The majority of people in this country live in fear: of the president, terrorists, and/or the economy... the list goes on and on. When a large group of fearful people experience a tragedy of great magnitude they tend to get violent. History has proven this. As Leon Trotsky once pointed out, “Any society is only three square meals away from revolution.”

Let's just hope that sucker is pointed in the other direction again.

[Enishi]

When people have nothing left to lose, they go nuts. In a crises, you see just how stable people and systems actually are.

[TitsMcGee]

Oddly enough, SciFi just did a movie that was just like that...odd.

[peelingchrome]

Oddly enough, SciFi just did a movie that was just like that...odd.

The realm of science fiction has predicted many things that now exist in one form or another; it has also come up with a whole bunch of lunatic ramblings. That being said, there is scientific and historic precedent for a relatively stable cycle of solar flares. We just don't know if it'll be in our direction this next time.

I should have mentioned something before, so I'll do it now: 2012. Yeah, it could happen in that year and it could be aimed at us. There, I said it. Others have said things, too. Like stuff about Yosemite and how it's overdue to blow. Whatever. If you wanna talk 2012 stuff, put it in another thread.

Science is neat.