Will Solar Flares Be Catastrophic in 2012?

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-- The back then it's well -- and when involved is closed -- between -- and this is completely collapsed.

Lobbing having solar cycle roughly fourteen he's not really an amazing definitely different and the next one and done -- -- and then the previous.

And the -- is going on active stars and has a cycle of activity over eleven years ago.

To higher activity.

And back down to lower activity and so -- eleven years is fairly steady and has been happening through times partly -- -- then we always have solar flares.

Sometimes they're big and sometimes -- -- -- -- as we live on a planet with a very thin atmosphere got so bad atmosphere stops.

All of the harmful radiation.

That is producing solar flare dividend will bar's events that we've seen over the past 101000 years.

We see that the -- is not enough to damage the atmosphere such that.

We are no longer protected.

-- last objections are happening on -- side.

All the time and they hit the earth once or twice a week sometimes more.

And me in general the effects of animal but if we have a really big one you can have very strong Aurora.

But then it can affect satellite -- and power grids and so these are the kind of things that people who run -- means.

System snowbound.

And we have morning please -- travel this seems.

Didn't mean it may take probably two to three days to get here we've -- more more about storms we've learned how to better predict this facts well they're gonna go what world where they're gonna hit.

As long as we continue paying attention -- -- learning more about it and treating -- like we treat -- hurricane coming -- Huge thunderstorm coming and we can take appropriate measures there for.

We understand the -- well enough and -- all the technology and -- science.

And all of that many spacecraft that we have that are monitoring -- 24 hours a day seven days a week using knows that this.

Super storm is going to wipe out here is simply isn't gonna.

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