I just got this email from an Earthquake scientist, who I correspond with and get emails from.l

I asked him about what would happen if a Strong solar storm happened.

This is one part of his reply to me.

There is a strong statistical relation between strong solar storms in
which the earth encounters the CME and subsequent strong earthquakes.
Such earthquakes normally occur either at the time of the storm or
about four days later when we encounter the CME. One of the strongest
such storms in the past 20 years occurred on October 18, 1989, the
same day as the San Francisco earthquake of M 7.1 which many of us
recall as the World Series Earthquake. This pattern is sufficiently
well developed that some use it to predict earthquakes. Several years
ago, a group of Indian scientists reported that the Himalayas were
becoming unstable due to the solar storms at the time and that a
strong earthquakes could occur in Pakistan due to this. About a month
later such an earthquake did occur shortly after a major solar storm
and killed tens of thousands.

I work in telecommunications and if we lost every satellite up there we could still function. ALL of our long rang (i.e. city to city) communications are fiber optic based and will in no way be effected by satellite loss. Our timing comes from GPS satellites but even then our equipment can run up to 30 days with no GPS signals before taking errors. And then, we can also re-time our systems so no GPS signal is needed.....so losing communications is not going to happen as far as the typical phone company is concerned.

Rich

I hate to be mr. dampen the mood, but I'll be all bold today and predict... nay, guarantee, 100%, that there will be no major magnetic storm associated with this jellyfish crop circle.

It's easy to make such predictions when you fully realize that these circles are man-made, and that some crop circle making artists have about as much chance as predicting a solar storm, as the Detroit Lions winning back to back SBs.

Originally posted by questioningall
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Also, there seems to be scientific evidence that came out last week, on how solar storms also affect and cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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I have been posting "peer-reviewed scientific research" which shows that changes in the Sun's activity causes earthquakes, and increased magmatic activity on Earth in general. This has been known for quite a while.

Anyway, we will see what will happen. Only 6 more days. i better get all my electronics inside the faraday cages I made.

This thread reminds me of another thread from last year. We were talking about the web bot predictions of "dancing mountains" (earthquakes) and how the Mayan calendar predictions were going to play out....what, if anything, would happen.

I remember one thread was about a theory that the Mayan calendar was warning us that as we come up to 2012, as Earth begins to cross the "galactic plane" (the plane that divides our galaxy in half), our magnetosphere might collapse, and then the earth would be very, very vulnerable to solar storms. Earthquakes were also discussed as a result.

I'll try to find the thread, because it seems that almost everything that was predicted in that thread is now being talked about in this thread. Interesting.

I love the crop circles, and have always wondered what messages they were trying to pass along to us (I don't believe they are man-made)....I've always thought it was possible that they were trying to warn us about something. So, if something happens on 7/7, this will be very interesting.

However, I'm not sure they would hide a calendar in a Jellyfish. I would think they would want to make it more obvious, if they were truly trying to warn the world.

If I were trying to warn the world, I would keep things consistent. For example, if this is a warning about a solar storm, i would put all warnings about solar storms in the form of a jelly fish, so we would know that when we see a jelly fish formation, it would be a warning about a coming solar storm. Then again, what do I know....I'm not an earth scientist!

edit:
go to the search function and type in solar storms, and you'll see that back about 6 months ago, a lot of articles were released in the news about scientists warning about upcoming solar storms that could disrupt our energy grid system.

[edit on 1-7-2009 by nikiano]

I'll keep your thread in mind...but right now i can safely say i dont believe jellyfish crop circles have much to do about anything except grabbing a headline somewhere...never mind a large solar storm.

A Question...

If 'they' (interprete that as you will) placed that crop circle there for us as a warning, using symbolic references to the numeral '7' to indicate the date 7/7 as in, July 7th, that would imply they have a decent understanding of our culture.

That would suggest they understand our means of calculating a solar year being divided into 12, the solar days per 1/12 unit, etc. That's a fairly good understanding of how we manage ourselves.

So, why then, with a decent understand of our culture, do 'they' not communicate in a far less ambiguous way? Why would they not make something more easily understandable and not so readily misinterpreted?

I mean, people are looking at what appears to be a jellyfish type image and determining that the number of apendages (7) is a date value. It's only us (people) making that value assignment. Assuming it was a warning, what if 'they' actually meant the length of each apendage as a unit of time, or 7 apendages is 7 'galactic years' from time X, etc. They could have implied anything on there as a means of timing.

I'm not saying the theory is wrong. It just seems like people have determined something from tea leaves...

[edit on 1-7-2009 by noonebutme]

and when this prediction fails to realize on Jul 7th
this thread will, like other prediction threads, fade into obscurity and disappear. [until one douchebag comes up with a theory on why the prediction didnt happen and bumps the thread back to life...]

moving right along..
/thread

Which would make more sense. Aliens come to Earth and "draw" a cryptic "message" in our food crops to warn mankind of a massive solar event because they are trying to help us... or just tell us. I mean let's face it, if it is so important for these aliens to tell mankind, why make a game out of it? Why have this technology to not only travel massive distance, come to Earth with no detection, be able to predict solar activity so far ahead, to just draw a cryptic image?

It may be a complex crop circle, but with 0 proof it was made by anything other than someone having fun, then it can't be said aliens did it. The other thing of interest is the Sun. The far side of the Sun is, blank. The is not activity happening to say the Sun will burp on the 7th.

On a side note, it was asked if an eclipse would make any difference during a solar incident. No, it would make no difference.