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How many cards are people hauling about with them like? I've got 2 in my wallet. One for cash, one to get access to the building at work. It's hardly a lot of extra effort. I've got about 6 on me at the mo but really I could do with carrying more if my wallet could hold them. And I don't even have a works card. Your still carrying that flashy snooker club card innit?

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingat...neticfield.html Solar System - Did you notice? In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that our star's awesome magnetic field flipped 22 months ago, signaling the arrival of a solar maximum. But it wasn't so obvious to the average human. ImageThe Sun's magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere just a few months ago, now points south. It's a topsy-turvy situation, but not an unexpected one. "This always happens around the time of solar maximum," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of the sunspot cycle. In fact, it's a good indication that Solar Max is really here." The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle -- like clockwork. Earth’s magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity. Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly when the next reversal might occur. ImageAlthough solar and terrestrial magnetic fields behave differently, they do have something in common: their shape. During solar minimum the Sun's field, like Earth's, resembles that of an iron bar magnet, with great closed loops near the equator and open field lines near the poles. Scientists call such a field a "dipole." The Sun's dipolar field is about as strong as a refrigerator magnet, or 50 gauss (a unit of magnetic intensity). Earth's magnetic field is 100 times weaker. When solar maximum arrives and sunspots pepper the face of the Sun, our star's magnetic field begins to change. Sunspots are places where intense magnetic loops -- hundreds of times stronger than the ambient dipole field -- poke through the photosphere. "Meridional flows on the Sun's surface carry magnetic fields from mid-latitude sunspots to the Sun's poles," explains Hathaway. "The poles end up flipping because these flows transport south-pointing magnetic flux to the north magnetic pole, and north-pointing flux to the south magnetic pole." The dipole field steadily weakens as oppositely-directed flux accumulates at the Sun's poles until, at the height of solar maximum, the magnetic poles change polarity and begin to grow in a new direction. Hathaway noticed the latest polar reversal in a "magnetic butterfly diagram." Using data collected by astronomers at the U.S. National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, he plotted the Sun's average magnetic field, day by day, as a function of solar latitude and time from 1975 through the present. The result is a sort of strip chart recording that reveals evolving magnetic patterns on the Sun's surface. "We call it a butterfly diagram," he says, "because sunspots make a pattern in this plot that looks like the wings of a butterfly." In the butterfly diagram, pictured below, the Sun's polar fields appear as strips of uniform color near 90 degrees latitude. When the colors change (in this case from blue to yellow or vice versa) it means the polar fields have switched signs. The ongoing changes are not confined to the space immediately around our star, Hathaway added. The Sun's magnetic field envelops the entire solar system in a bubble that scientists call the "heliosphere." The heliosphere extends 50 to 100 astronomical units (AU) beyond the orbit of Pluto. Inside it is the solar system -- outside is interstellar space. "Changes in the Sun's magnetic field are carried outward through the heliosphere by the solar wind," explains Steve Suess, another solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "It takes about a year for disturbances to propagate all the way from the Sun to the outer bounds of the heliosphere." Because the Sun rotates (once every 27 days) solar magnetic fields corkscrew outwards in the shape of an Archimedian spiral. Far above the poles the magnetic fields twist around like a child's Slinky toy. Because of all the twists and turns, "the impact of the field reversal on the heliosphere is complicated," says Hathaway. Sunspots are sources of intense magnetic knots that spiral outwards even as the dipole field vanishes. The heliosphere doesn't simply wink out of existence when the poles flip -- there are plenty of complex magnetic structures to fill the void. Or so the theory goes.... Researchers have never seen the magnetic flip happen from the best possible point of view -- that is, from the top down. But now, the unique Ulysses spacecraft may give scientists a reality check. Ulysses, an international joint venture of the European Space Agency and NASA, was launched in 1990 to observe the solar system from very high solar latitudes. Every six years the spacecraft flies 2.2 AU over the Sun's poles. No other probe travels so far above the orbital plane of the planets. "Ulysses just passed under the Sun's south pole," says Suess, a mission co-Investigator. "Now it will loop back and fly over the north pole in the fall." "This is the most important part of our mission," he says. Ulysses last flew over the Sun's poles in 1994 and 1996, during solar minimum, and the craft made several important discoveries about cosmic rays, the solar wind, and more. "Now we get to see the Sun's poles during the other extreme: Solar Max. Our data will cover a complete solar cycle." www.PoleReversal.com http://2012poleshift.wetpaint.com/page/Rec...3A+NASA+Article

...and also open to massive abuse from all angles (criminals, data theft, id theft, snoops, Govt infringement, insurance scams, blackmail)...As it is hundreds of thousands of cases of id fraud/credit fraud goes on every year. Less id markers in the system the better IMO, never mind IN ONE PLACE/ OR CARD.

Link? He did it via some MMA board but posts regularly on TOTT. It made the rag though: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/58748...th-threats.html Found it: http://www.tottfanzine.co.uk/forums/index....9&hl=jordan Looks more like the papers making a meal out of nothing.

What, about earthquakes that would change the planet, just randomly coming from no where when its never happened before? Yeah it's never happenned before. Do you actuall have the internet?

...and you'd been doing so well in this thread for so long...

Link?

Going by your recent track record, it's best to believe the exact inverse of whatever you say... You will find my prediction of the financial failure of capitalism in various threads on this site.

Not that bizzarre - Conservatives are supposedly broadly libetarian and beleive in a smalll sate - no nanny govt etc. Apart from drugs of course when they can ride around on their moral high horse depends on how you broadly. post 9/11 and 7/7, i imagine most of the daily mail readers of middle england would be happy to see id cards For a seasoned analyst of the vacillations of state apparatus, the give and take of Big Brother is no mystery. Behind the scenes there is little differance between the parties. One more "terrorist" event properly stage managed would bring about a fresh outcry from more draconian measures. Right now they probably can't afford id cards, bit I certainly wouldn't rule them out forever.

Nasa have started saying similar things to what this guy has been saying for years.

Interesting article.

The usual daisy chain financial fixes/engineering won't work this time round.

No. He normally lets that go.

You pull them up there and then, something like: "You don't know the facts and how is that relevant to this meeting??" Then you feed their family to soldier ants

Think it's the author who got carried away here tbf Yeah it's the same guy who was also right about the universe expanding faster at certain points than others 10years before scientists agreed with him. Well, that's me told Looking on the bright side, it will be nice to see Cameron try to blame this one on Labour

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/scien...r_stormwarning/ March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet. Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958. see captionThat was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies. Right: Intense auroras over Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1958. [More] Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima—and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern. The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun. We have something similar here on Earth—the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.

Think it's the author who got carried away here tbf Yeah it's the same guy who was also right about the universe expanding faster at certain points than others 10years before scientists agreed with him.

http://www.howtosurvive2012.com/htm_night/survival_02.htm 1. Canada and the United States will be the worst affected. As a result Canada and a large part of the US will be under the pole circle (see figures) Read also the book: Not by Fire but by Ice Author: Robert W. Felix 2. Remember: Tidal wave will be around 2 kilometer (7,000 feet) high! You can find more information here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html 3. Yellowstone = supervolcano Read the book: Supervolcano Authors: Dr. John Savino and Marie D. Jones 4. All nuclear reactors will melt! See Nuclear Armageddon on my website Conclusion: Almost no survival is possible in Canada and the US!

Pipette of baby bio in the coffee and he'll be shitting his pants. Works a treat.

Back the pound with gold. Default on all soverigh debt. Invade somewhere with loads of stuff...Oh wait...

Why not in the meeting?

Clegg knew about the comment, that bit of pantomime was rehersed as was nearly the whole Press Conferance with pre-identifyied journalist only allowed to ask questions.

Clegg has to cover PM questions for him when Cameron is absent. The whole affair is utterly preposterous and nauseating. but I thought you were in favour of pr Lots of different forms, I wouldn't support one which encouraged the parties at the extremes to make a coalition though. It makes no sense, and is fundamentally dishonest. I think the Lib Dems have ensured that we will return to good old two party politics with first past the post to stay (perhaps with AV which will make no difference as the Lib Dems will have massively reduced support). Quite ironic really. Broadly agree, the Lib Dems have a lot to ans for, but I get the feeling Mandy wanted to change up so Lab weren't really that intersted either. Difficult times ahead. I only hope there is a slim chance that our Govt is going to start being honest with people.