Sun 30 Mar 2008
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Global warming, Earth-bound chunks of old planet, riot-smashed waterless cities, local star systems collapsing into black holes, the armed robot rebellion…all forewarned disasters dripping with catastrophic potential, but all so very far away into our future. For those who just can’t wait to see Planet Earth get hammered, don’t despair.
The Sun is getting ’stormy’, according to this story, and potential mega-disaster is only a few years away, in 2012 :
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Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light.
2012 is not actually a good year for apocalyptic destruction and armageddon-ish chaos. There’s far too much on during those twelve months.
2013 looks boring in comparison.
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