Welcome back friends. As we now know, the Mayans had wisdom beyond their years. They noted that "previous knowledge" will be revisited during the last segment of their calendar. Depending on your references, this is believed to be anywhere from Dec. 20,2011-Dec.24,2012. As silly as this sounds, I would hesitate to discount wise men who could super-compute calculations long ago, in a time far far away. We now are looking to the sky for something that could affect Earth.
Asteroid? Well, one came within 1.1 LD of Earth a couple nights ago according to SpaceWeather.com. They also seem to have a pretty good handle on most of the reasonable threats upcoming and none look disastrous so far. Cosmic Rays? Bombarding Earth constantly from every nook and cranny possible (black holes, stars, sun), scientists agree that they are not dangerous and we are shielded from them by our atmosphere here on Earth. Super Moon? While the Earth wields its electromagnetism upon the Moon, the same definitely goes for the reverse also. The moon has awesome force upon Earth. Controlling tides, causing electromagnetic storms around the Earth that can change weather patterns, and even releasing or slightly increasing earthquakes. The quakes would have happened at a later time anyway, so not really 2012 worthy, as a changed way of life. Solar Radiation? Well of course.
The Sun has an eleven (11) year cycle and the Mayans knew this. (How? Heck if I know!) The suns cycle is a strengthening and weakening cycle. Scientists calculate the peak of the cycle to be from about the last third of 2011 to the first two thirds of 2012. You may say...whatever, who cares! That's silly to think that the sun and solar radiation, that has been hitting the Earth everyday forever is going to do anything in 2012. Here's the problem with that observation. Approximately one hour of sunlight hitting the United States has the energy to power the Earth for ONE YEAR. Any kind of unordinary strengthening during this peak of the SUNs' cycle, has the power to change life on Earth. This brings us back to the Mayans. Why did they choose to use "previous knowledge revisited" during this peak cycle of the SUN, compared to hundreds of other peaks of the SUNs' cycle??? AND why the hell did they end the calendar with this same wisdom on the table?
The SUNs' energy is a FORCE to be reckoned with. It is calculated that about 27% of the solar radiation from the Sun does not make it through the upper levels of Earths' atmosphere. Almost half, 48%, heats our above sea-level atmosphere and includes the infra-red section of the spectrum. About 23% is absorbed into the ground and includes the ultra-violet section of the spectrum. Keep in mind how amazingly powerful this radiation is, as I will explore this in my next END OF WORLD post. Please visit my sponsor ads.
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