OmegaXII wrote:
that solar flare could knock out the worlds power grid for a few weeks or even months which will put the world in chaos were not gonna die when it reaches 2013 im gonna laugh at all you guys unless you know the power grid gets knocked out then i cant
well it all depends on the strength of the flare
if it is weak nothing really happens just get more aurora borealis
a little stronger and it might destroy our satellites maybe blow a few fuses on objects on the surface
actually if it was a relatively strong flare it could completely fry every electronic device on the planet
if it was stronger still the massive electromagnetic charge caused by it might cause massive earthquakes simultaneously at nearly every fault line on the planet
and worst case it that it is so strong it destroys our electromagnetic field and then we get cooked as if the entire world was in a microwave
and our sun is capable of doing any or all of these things so the super solar flare theory sis still a possibility but then again the sun can do it at anytime and it hasn't yet