So Whats This 2012 Shit Anyway?

I'd trust Shadowrun's prophecizing over some Nostradamus-blowing fucktard any day of the week.

Why? It's SHADOWRUN. I mean COME ON.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

THIS MAN KNOWS WHERE I'M COMING FROM.

Sassu --
Yeah, polarity flips are very, very haphazard. There isn't any real trend to them. Plus, it doesn't go BAM, REVERSED. Polarity slowly inverts, the north and south poles weakening, then supposedly, there is a brief period with NO polarity. Folks kick around ideas about this period, since our magnetic field shields us from many bad things ;V If it were "canceled out" temporarily, results would be catastrophic. Buuuuut things seem okay. Scientists are still talking about it much today.

But more serious rantings on this stuff tomorrow when I have more time ;x But the doomsday prophecy in LeHah's post refers to the sun's magnetism going apeshit, and the Earth suddenly spinning the opposite way, not the Earth's magnetism (or did I miss that?). This all sounds pretty much impossible I'd think. Magnetic pole will change, but rotational speed is slowly, SLOWLY decreasing. The Earth is spinning one way and it'll stay that way. Days used to (millions and millions of years ago) be much shorter than they are now. In millions of years, they'll grow longer. It's pretty simple really =o

Look at it this way: the only thing I can think of that'd change our rotational direction would be something VERY BIG and VERY HEAVY hitting the planet. Something so big that nothing would survive :V

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The Large Hadron Collider destroying the world is a bunch of fearmongering bullshit by people who have no clue how quantum physics operates (99.9% of people). It could result in tiny black holes, yes, but said holes dissipate until they reach a proper size. The smaller the black hole, the faster it dissipates.

Yes, there is such a thing as a runaway black hole effect, but the black hole generated would need to be massive. I'm not talking about the size of a Buick. It would need to be the size of the SUN for it to turn in to a runaway black hole. The LHC is perfectly safe; don't let some doomsday sayers, uninformed fools, and CNN tell you otherwise. The POTENTIAL black holes generated by the collider are the size of an atom. And that's assuming we can even generate them; there is substantial proof that it might not even be able to create them.

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Not to play devil's advocate, but taking in to account the amount of space debris and potential meteorites/asteroids, it's impossible to keep tabs on every single one. I actually saw a figure pertaining to this some time back, but it's quite staggering; it's like being able to count the number of (and keep tabs on) water droplets that make up an long burst of a fire-hose :V

Despite this, very very few make it toward the Earth. The Van Allen belts tend to sway most bodies away, and the few that remain typically disintegrate upon entry in to the atmosphere. To see the Van Allen belt working its magic, simply compare the Earth's topography to the moon's. Sure, the Earth has weathering and what-have-you to smooth out impacts over time, but the moon (which has a magnetic field less than a hundredth the power of Earth's, courtesy of its "dead" interior) is *covered* with impacts from meteors. In conjunction, the moon lacks an atmosphere and doesn't have a burn-up effect that we see upon re-entry in to Earth.

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Kudos, Sass =D I've never heard of this, but it's very feasible. As it mentions by usage of "keyhole", there is a sweet-spot that needs to be hit in order for the body to not get brushed aside by our Van Allen belts. It's akin to hitting a ramp in order to make a jump; if you're off, you'll miss or even screw up your trajectory. The drawback is that, given our constraints on sizes we could make these tractor shuttles or bodies, it'd need to be laid well in advance (the "shove" isn't too huge). If those fail, I think that directly plowing in to the asteroid body would be the follow-up; crude, inaccurate, but far more fast in its results.

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I doubt she even knows what a collider is

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Then explain the hardon, you prude

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