December 2012

Vince

Vince

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While surfing the net this weekend I stumbled across some scientific material concerning our planet's alignment with the Sun and the Milky Way. I also found a prediction concerning the reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles and a huge solar storm all expected in December 2012. Not having a magnetic field will not be a good thing for life on Earth during a solar storm.

While searching for more info on this I found that the Mayan calendar comes to an end on December 21, 2012. It seems that lots of people around the world are making reservations for vacations in December 2012 presumably because they are expecting time as we know it to end on this day. I didn't even know there was a Mayan calendar until yesterday.

It started me thinking about what I would like to achieve in the next 5-years so that I can avoid sitting around wasting opportunities to go wheeling. At least, up until the solar storms start.
 
Are you sure it's not Dec 12, 2012? 12/12/12? Anyway didn't we just go through this 8 years ago when we made the dreaded change to 200 and no computer on this earth was capable of having that as a date and everything was going to shut down? Stop smoking pot it's making you paranoid.
 
kdailey4315 said:
Are you sure it's not Dec 12, 2012? 12/12/12? Anyway didn't we just go through this 8 years ago when we made the dreaded change to 200 and no computer on this earth was capable of having that as a date and everything was going to shut down? Stop smoking pot it's making you paranoid.
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Yeah, cept the Myans said this stuff thousands of years ago...before stupid fads were invented.

The way I look at is that 90% of me thinks it will be just another day but at the same time.... The Myans had crap figured out.
 
Vince said:
It started me thinking about what I would like to achieve in the next 5-years so that I can avoid sitting around wasting opportunities to go wheeling. At least, up until the solar storms start.
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Stockup on beer, guns and ammo so that I'm ready for Decembmer 2012 :D
 
um what is a "solar storm"
 
Man, I sure hope that Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are around to help us out on this one as well. They barely saved us from Armagedon, so it has me worried if they can save us from this solar storm!:roflmao: What happens, happens. Last I checked, worrying about anything has never solved the problem at hand. Action solves problems, not worrying.
Will this magentic problem possibly make the magnets on my fridge fall off? If so, then we might have a problem!
 
The reversal of the magnetic poles has happened countless times in the past, about the only for sure thing I can think of happening besides compasses and navigation equipment going nuts is toilets in the nothern hemisphere and southern hemisphere will reverse their direction when flushed. Coriolis effect if I remember correctly :D :D :D might result in massive messy clean ups and water damage maybe :D MIght be a good time to invest in the wet vac industry.... or come out with a new toilet that is not effected.
 
RichP said:
The reversal of the magnetic poles has happened countless times in the past, about the only for sure thing I can think of happening besides compasses and navigation equipment going nuts is toilets in the nothern hemisphere and southern hemisphere will reverse their direction when flushed. Coriolis effect if I remember correctly :D :D :D might result in massive messy clean ups and water damage maybe :D MIght be a good time to invest in the wet vac industry.... or come out with a new toilet that is not effected.
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Cornholio effect my ass.

From wikipedia.

Draining bathtubs and toilets
A misconception in popular culture is that the Coriolis effect determines the direction in which bathtubs or toilets drain, such that water always drains in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere. This urban legend has been perpetuated by several television programs, including an episode of The Simpsons and The X-Files.[1] In addition, several science broadcasts and publications (including at least one college-level physics textbook) have made this incorrect statement.[2]

Many people who misunderstand the Coriolis effect compound their misunderstanding by claiming that drain water spins clockwise north of the equator and counterclockwise south of it, which is reversed from direction of spin that would result from the Coriolis force if it were a determining factor. In addition, the Coriolis effect is a few orders of magnitude smaller than various random influences on drain direction, such as the geometry of the sink, toilet, or tub, and the direction in which water was initially added to it. For example, consider a bathtub where draining creates a water level difference of 3 cm over 60 cm, giving a pressure gradient of 500 N/m3. Now assume the water is draining at a speed of 50 cm/s. At a latitude of 45 degrees, this would give rise to a Coriolis force of 0.05 N/m3, or only 0.01% of the pressure gradient. Most toilets flush in only one direction, because the toilet water flows into the bowl at an angle[3]. If water shot into the basin from the opposite direction, the water would spin in the opposite direction[4].

When the water is being drawn towards the drain, the radius with which it is spinning around it decreases, so its rate of rotation increases from the low background level to a noticeable spin in order to conserve its angular momentum (the same effect as ice skaters bringing their arms in to cause them to spin faster). As shown by Ascher Shapiro in a 1961 educational video (Vorticity, Part 1), this effect can indeed reveal the influence of the Coriolis force on drain direction, but only under carefully controlled laboratory conditions. In a large, circular, symmetrical container (ideally over 1m in diameter and conical), still water (whose motion is so little that over the course of a day, displacements are small compared to the size of the container) escaping through a very small hole, will drain in a cyclonic fashion: counterclockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere—the same direction as the Earth rotates with respect to the corresponding pole
 
yeah, okay, the Mayans sure had their shit figured out....

That's why they're not around to see the end of their own damn calendar....

Didnt see that one coming there did ya, you Mayan pot smoking whackos....
 
lowrange2 said:
Fixxed it!
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HAHA! I had actually thought about throwing Chuck in there, but refrained at the time...thanks for completing it for me! ;)
 
I found these items from NASA...

The solar storm warning
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm

The solar pole flip expected in 2012.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm

Near Earth Asteroid due to travel close by in 2012
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast21jun_1_ada.htm

Venus passes between the Sun and Earth in 2012
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus0412.html

Mayan Calendar ends December 23, 2012(?)
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/suntime/slshow1.stm
 
KarlVP said:
Cornholio effect my ass.

From wikipedia.

Draining bathtubs and toilets
A misconception in popular culture is that the Coriolis effect determines the direction in which bathtubs or toilets drain, such that water always drains in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere. This urban legend has been perpetuated by several television programs, including an episode of The Simpsons and The X-Files.[1] In addition, several science broadcasts and publications (including at least one college-level physics textbook) have made this incorrect statement.[2]

Many people who misunderstand the Coriolis effect compound their misunderstanding by claiming that drain water spins clockwise north of the equator and counterclockwise south of it, which is reversed from direction of spin that would result from the Coriolis force if it were a determining factor. In addition, the Coriolis effect is a few orders of magnitude smaller than various random influences on drain direction, such as the geometry of the sink, toilet, or tub, and the direction in which water was initially added to it. For example, consider a bathtub where draining creates a water level difference of 3 cm over 60 cm, giving a pressure gradient of 500 N/m3. Now assume the water is draining at a speed of 50 cm/s. At a latitude of 45 degrees, this would give rise to a Coriolis force of 0.05 N/m3, or only 0.01% of the pressure gradient. Most toilets flush in only one direction, because the toilet water flows into the bowl at an angle[3]. If water shot into the basin from the opposite direction, the water would spin in the opposite direction[4].

When the water is being drawn towards the drain, the radius with which it is spinning around it decreases, so its rate of rotation increases from the low background level to a noticeable spin in order to conserve its angular momentum (the same effect as ice skaters bringing their arms in to cause them to spin faster). As shown by Ascher Shapiro in a 1961 educational video (Vorticity, Part 1), this effect can indeed reveal the influence of the Coriolis force on drain direction, but only under carefully controlled laboratory conditions. In a large, circular, symmetrical container (ideally over 1m in diameter and conical), still water (whose motion is so little that over the course of a day, displacements are small compared to the size of the container) escaping through a very small hole, will drain in a cyclonic fashion: counterclockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere—the same direction as the Earth rotates with respect to the corresponding pole
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Hey, what can I say, I'm remembering two weeks in Sydney and two weeks in Melbourne when my sub pulled in there on a diplomatic good will tour, my memory is only from pissing back all the beer I drank and puking my guts up from the rum and being smashed out of my mind while I worshiped at the porcelain throne. :D Came home from that trip with over 30 pairs of panties with phone numbers on them, much more effective method than some chick writing it on your arm with a magic marker...
 
RichP said:
Came home from that trip with over 30 pairs of panties with phone numbers on them
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still have those panties?
 
kdailey4315 said:
12/12/12?
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I put that stuff on my garden last spring. Made a big differnece. Maters were huge!


Hale
 
It has nothing to do with the end of the world or anything significant for that matter. What happened was that the two Mayan dudes compiling the calendar fianlly got to 12/12/20012, looked at each other and said-

"Sh!t, think we went far enough ahead?"

So they stopped there figuring they'd continue as time got closer to that date. Unforunetly for them civilaztion as they knew it ended way before 12/12/20012 and we're left wondering... ;)
 
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