| Do you know who Jesse Ventura is? He is the | | | | to 2 Trillion is 1000 to 2000 times greater! I think you |
| outspoken ex-governor of Minnesota. You either love | | | | would agree that is a significant difference! |
| or hate him. Recently, he did an investigative TV show | | | | It is not the dollars. It is the collateral damage, the social |
| on the 2012 end of the world prophecy and an alleged | | | | damage. Water, sewage, refrigeration, fuel, all these |
| conspiracy by our government to hide the truth of the | | | | and more would be damaged if not eliminated. Due to |
| potential perils associated with that date. | | | | the technological infrastructure, rebuilding our electric |
| Conspiracies and prophecies aside, Governor Ventura | | | | grid could take years. Are you prepared? Not many of |
| uncovered some interesting scientific publications that | | | | us are. |
| have not received much press. | | | | Alarmingly, NASA's Themis satellites now show that |
| According to National Academy of Sciences in a | | | | the magnetic shield that protects us from the Sun's |
| report commissioned by NASA and published in 2009, | | | | deadly emissions has holes in it. With a solar emission |
| our Sun's solar flare activity is expected to peak in | | | | of large proportions, we can only guess at the |
| 2012. Disturbingly, the report compares this forecasted | | | | consequences. |
| activity with the solar outbreak of 1859 that fried | | | | Whatever you may think about the Mayan 2012 end |
| telegraph wires throughout the modern world. | | | | of the world prophesy, science has some very |
| Do you think that solar flare activity would cause a | | | | disturbing predictions for 2012. I believe in science. It |
| major if not catastrophic disruption of our lifestyle like | | | | gives humanity some sense of truth. We all know |
| the movie, 2012? Sit back. The National Academy of | | | | science cannot explain many things. Some things are |
| Sciences estimates that, "A contemporary repetition of | | | | left to faith. But, when science and the metaphysical |
| the [1859] event would cause significantly more | | | | meet, perhaps it is time to pay attention. |
| extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and | | | | The Mayans predicted the end of the world, as we |
| economic disruptions." | | | | know it, in 2012. Scientists know that our Sun is in a |
| What does that mean? In a NASA report summarizing | | | | valley of solar flares, it peaks in cycles. The National |
| the Academy of Sciences report, NASA estimates | | | | Academy of Sciences and NASA predict the end of |
| that the damage would reach 1 to 2 Trillion dollars in | | | | the valley and a peak of a new cycle for 2012. |
| damages. | | | | Coincidence? I don't know. |
| Let's compare that to Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane | | | | Are you willing to take the chance that the New |
| Katrina cost us an estimated 80 to 125 Billion dollars. 1 | | | | Agers and the doomsday soothsayers are wrong? |