I don't even............................seriously?I, for one, am really excited about the new Steve Carell movie.
I don't even............................seriously?I, for one, am really excited about the new Steve Carell movie.
Solar flare info is wrong for skeptics. Solar flares can and have knocked out more than geostationary satellites. It's the one thing people, NASA and the DoD can, do and should worry about.Smash spoiler to access emergency debunk kit
Ref to Seeking a Friend For the End of the World.I don't even............................seriously?
Too tired now to look anything else up to reply. Will get back to this soon perhaps. All I did was a brief Google search for the name and came back with some things that didn't interest me in regards to the topic here. Give me about 12 hours or so to be interested again. May be shorter depending on if I remember to give a damn.Ref to Seeking a Friend For the End of the World.
Ok. You just made me realize I don't know how GPS works. I understand our handheld units use signals from satellites, etc, to triangulate (or better) your location, and accuracy is improved with increased quantities of satellites. However, how do the satellites know where they are in space??That chart talks about a "geomagnetic reversal" of the poles (not any time soon that I understand), do you guys think this will effect GPS in anyway?
I'm not really sure either, however I do know that the satellites are in geosynchronous orbit. They don't move relative tothe earth. In otr words, they orbit the exact smame speed as the Earth's rotation.Ok. You just made me realize I don't know how GPS works. I understand our handheld units use signals from satellites, etc, to triangulate (or better) your location, and accuracy is improved with increased quantities of satellites. However, how do the satellites know where they are in space??
Their orbit is highly predictable and their known location is corrected via ground stations tracking them.Ok. You just made me realize I don't know how GPS works. I understand our handheld units use signals from satellites, etc, to triangulate (or better) your location, and accuracy is improved with increased quantities of satellites. However, how do the satellites know where they are in space??
Nope. They orbit the earth every 12hrI'm not really sure either, however I do know that the satellites are in geosynchronous orbit. They don't move relative tothe earth. In otr words, they orbit the exact smame speed as the Earth's rotation.
This whole argument is silly anyway. Everyone knows the world ended on November 6th. After all, Obama was re-elected.Solar flare info is wrong for skeptics. Solar flares can and have knocked out more than geostationary satellites. It's the one thing people, NASA and the DoD can, do and should worry about.
We CAN protect ourselves, though, with plenty of warning. And we're getting pretty damned good at predicting major solar events. Between SOHO, SDO, STEREO, KORONAS and Picard, we're watching it pretty closely.Solar flare info is wrong for skeptics. Solar flares can and have knocked out more than geostationary satellites. It's the one thing people, NASA and the DoD can, do and should worry about.
Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic ImpactsNational Research Council (2008).
http://middleofthepacific.files.word...2/10/12507.pdf
Here's the page that matters, page 92.
Interesting. Thanks.Nope. They orbit the earth every 12hr
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/...Unit5/gps.html
"the orbital period is roughly 12 hours - contrary to popular belief, GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous or geostationary orbits"
some Mayan experts_sl said:"We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012. "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday event or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." "There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."
Eh. No. You can't make a zillion faraday cages in 3 days to protect the power grid. All you can do is protect a few DoD/CoG assets. OTOH, it's a once in 500 year event in the last big one was in 1859 so maybe we'll get moderately lucky for the next 200ish odd years.We CAN protect ourselves, though, with plenty of warning. And we're getting pretty damned good at predicting major solar events. Between SOHO, SDO, STEREO, KORONAS and Picard, we're watching it pretty closely.
In an amazing, 50 second clip released Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers a perfectly deadpan doomsday address that is as hair-raising as it is hilarious.
The clip, which was filmed to promote a tongue-in-cheek local radio station's breakfast show, Sky News notes, warns that predictions of the end of the world this December are both correct and unavoidable.
Surrounded by Australian national flags, Gillard begins, "My dear remaining fellow Australians. The end of world is coming. It wasn't Y2K, it wasn't even the carbon price. It turns out that the Mayan calendar is true."
The so-called Mayan apocalypse is slated to strike on Dec. 21, despite the best efforts of scientists and government officials attempting to dispel the rumors. (The Russian government, for example, reassured the country's citizens last week.)
In the video, Gillard vows to fight for her citizens to the end -- whether that end comes in the form of "flesh-eating zombies, demonic hell-beasts or the total triumph of K-Pop."
Flexing her comedic chops, the politician ends by highlighting the silver lining.
"At least this means I won't have to do Q&A again," she says in a reference to an Australian TV show where politicians usually have to face tough questions from the audience, according to Reuters.
"What Australian doesn't mind a laugh from time to time? Anyway, the world's going to end tomorrow so shouldn't you be writing about that?" a representative for the prime minister's office told the Herald Sun.
The outspoken Gillard made global headlines earlier this year after she excoriated a fellow politician for hypocrisy and sexism on the Parliament floor.
I think there probably are some people who do - whether that some = 10 or 10x10^6 only God and maybe Quetzalcoatl know.Just a question. Does anyone really, truly believe anything is going to happen on the 21st that isn't a man-made bullshit catcher?
Yeah, because that's the only way to protect the power grid.Eh. No. You can't make a zillion faraday cages in 3 days to protect the power grid. All you can do is protect a few DoD/CoG assets. OTOH, it's a once in 500 year event in the last big one was in 1859 so maybe we'll get moderately lucky for the next 200ish odd years.