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       	                 5.5 -90  ::8=0-B      C#C C E=         Nibiru and Doomsday                          Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so   on  Earth.  They  could  endanger  astronauts  in                                                                                                      deep  space  or  on  the  Moon,  and  this  is                                                      what could we expect?          2012: Questions and                                                                         something that NASA must learn to deal with,                    Answers                           There  is  no  planet  alignment  in  2012  or  any  but  it  is  not  a  problem  for  you  or  me.  Large                                                      other time in the next several years. In fact, in                                                                                                      outbursts can interrupt radio transmission, cause                                                      late 2012 the planets are scattered all over the  bright  displays  of  the  aurora  (Northern  and             Continued from Page 10                   sky! As to the Earth being in the center of the  Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of                                                      Milky  Way,  I  don’t  know  what  this  phrase  some satellites in space. Today many satellites     9.  Why  does  the  Mayan  calendar  say  the    means.  If  you  are  referring  to  the  Milky Way  are designed to protect against this possibility,     world  will  end  in  2012?  I  have  heard  that  Galaxy, we are rather far toward the edge of this  for example by switching off some of their more     they  have  been  pretty  accurate  in  the  past  spiral galaxy, some 30,000 light years from the  delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode     with  other  planetary  predictions.  How  can   center. We circle the galactic center in a period  for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity     you be sure you know more than they did?         of  225-250  million  years,  always  keeping   can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the                                                      approximately the same distance. Concerning a   ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts,     Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage  pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If  but this is rare.     of  time,  not  for  predicting  the  future.  The  it means some sudden change in the position of       The  last  solar  maximum  occurred  in     Mayan  astronomers  were  clever,  and  they     the  rotation  axis  of  the  Earth,  then  that  is  2001,  but  the  subsequent  solar  minimum  was     developed  a  very  complex  calendar.  Ancient  impossible, as noted in the answer to Question  unusual, with a period of a couple of years with     calendars are interesting to historians, but they  10.  What  many  websites  do  discuss  is  the  almost  no  sunspots  or  other  solar  activity.     cannot match the ability we have today to keep   alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center  Scientists  now  guess  that  the  next  maximum     track of time, or the precision of the calendars  of  the  Milky  Way  in  the  constellation  of  will in 2013 not 2012. However, the details of     currently  in  use.  The  main  point,  however,  is  Sagittarius. This happens every December, with  the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable.     that  calendars,  whether  contemporary  or      no bad consequences, and there is no reason to          You are correct that the Earth’s magnetic     ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet  expect 2012 to be different from any other year.  field  protects  us  by  creating  a  large  region  in     or warn of things to happen on a specific date                                                   space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within     such  as  2012.  To  further  complicate  matters,  12. When the Sun and the Earth line up on    which most of the material ejected from the Sun     scholars  do  not  agree  on  when  the  Mayan   the galactic plane at the same time with the    is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to     calendar  long-count  turns  over.  There  is  no  black hole being in the center couldn’t that  expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time     agreed-upon  synchronization  between  the       cause  something  to  happen,  due  to  the  fact  soon.  These  magnetic  reversals  happen  only     Mayan calendar and ours, which was imported      that  the  black  hole  has  such  a  strong    once in 400,000 years on average.     much  later  from  Europe. This  supposedly  key  gravitational pull.     date  in  the  Mayan  calendar  may  have  already                                               14. I am confused about a report on the Fox     happened, or it may lie decades in the future.   There is a giant black hole in the center of our  News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar                                                      Milky Way galaxy, and like any concentration    Storm  Could Shut  Down U.S.  for Months”.     10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true   of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest  They referred to a report from the National     that  the  Earth’s  crust  does  a  180-degree   of the Galaxy. However, the galactic center is  Academy of Sciences. If nothing is going to     rotation around the core in a matter of days     very  far  away,  approximately  30,000  light  happen as a result of the event in 2012, why     if not hours? Does this have something to do     years,  so  it  has  negligible  effects  on  the  solar  would allow such nonsense to be reported?     to do with our solar system dipping beneath      system or the Earth. There are no special forces     the galactic equator?                            from  the  galactic  plane  or  the  galactic  center.  NASA requested this study of heliophysics by                                                      The only important force that acts on the Earth  the National Research Council. It had nothing to     A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible.  is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as  do with 2012. As you note, this report includes     It has never happened and never will. There are  the  influence  of  the  galactic  plane,  there  is  a worst-case analysis of what could happen if     slow movements of the continents (for example    nothing special about this location. The last time  there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm     Antarctica  was  near  the  equator  hundreds  of  the Earth was in the galactic plane was several  ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way     millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to  million years ago. Claims that we are about to  such  information  can  be  used  out  of  context.     claims  of  reversal  of  the  rotational  poles.  cross the galactic plane are untrue.          There is no reason to expect such a large solar     However, many of the disaster websites pull a           There is a widespread misunderstanding   storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012     bait-and-shift  to  fool  people.  They  claim  a  about  the  gravitational  influence  of  another  specifically.  Your  reference  to  “the  event  in     relationship  between  the  rotation  and  the   object on the Earth or other planets, whether it  2012”  illustrates  this  problem.  There  is  no     magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change    is a distant black hole or a nearby rogue planet.  prediction of an “event in 2012”. We don’t even     irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place  One  sees  claims  often  that  some  object,  like  expect the next solar maximum will take place     every 400,000 years on average. As far as we     Nibiru or Comet Elenin, will cause a pole shift  in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is     know,  such  a  magnetic  reversal  doesn’t  cause  or trigger earthquakes, but that is not the way it  a hoax, partly fueled by the Hollywood science-     any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is  works.  The  only  effect  of  an  external   fiction disaster film “2012”, in which the Earth     unlikely  to  happen  in  the  next  few  millennia,  gravitational  pull  is  to  change  the  orbits  of  is nearly destroyed as the result of some sort of     anyway. But they falsely claim that a magnetic   planets.  If  there  were  a  massive  intruder  like  undefined  solar  outburst.  I  hope  that  most     reversal is coming in 2012 and that this is the  Nibiru,  it  would  be  altering  the  orbits  of  the  people are able to distinguish Hollywood film     same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational  Earth and other planets, something astronomers  plots from reality. And as a matter of interest,     poles. The bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction  would measure immediately. What it won’t do   the  film  “2012”  was  conceived  and  written     and magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There  is shift the rotational pole or cause earthquakes  without  any  reference  to  the  2012  date.  The     is  no  reason  to  expect  a  reversal  of  magnetic  or other geological events.               name  was  added  later  to  take  advantage  of     polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad                                                 growing public concern about this year.     effects on life when it does eventually happen.  13.  I  have  heard  that  the  Earth’s  magnetic     ©  A  sudden  shift  in  rotational  pole  with  field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest                        (Continued on Page 12)     disastrous  consequences  is  impossible.  Also,  level of solar storms in history is predicted to     none of this has anything to do with the galactic  take  place.  Will  this  kill  us  or  destroy  our           The ‘X’ Zone     equator  or  any  of  the  other  nonsense  about  civilization?                                            New Year’s Eve Special     alignments  that  appears  on  many  of  the                                                                          with     conspiracy theory websites.                      Near solar maximum (which happens every 11                     Rob McConnell                                                      years  approximately),  there  are  many  more      9 pm Dec 31 2012 to 1 am Jan 1 2013     11. When  most  of  the  planets  align  in  2012  sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections           Listen and Watch     and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky   than  near  solar  minimum.  Flares  and  mass         www.xzoneradiotv.com     Way, what will the effects of this be on planet  ejections are no danger for humans or other life
       
       
     
