12-12-12 Multi Event: Calgary Style Event Cache

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12-12-12
COME HELP CELEBRATE THIS ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME
(at least our lifetime) DATE!

When: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Where: The Kilkenny Irish Pub
#500-3630 Brentwood Rd NW Calgary AB, T2L 1K8
Time: 6:00-9ish?

As part of the geocaching world-wide celebration of this unique day (which will not occur again for another hundred years), we invite you to join us at the pub for the Calgary version of the 12-12-12 Multi-Event.

Meet up for an evening of fun, food, and friends. You will find us in the main room at the back, center of the pub (sorry, no minors).

Please make sure you indicate how many in your party as we have to give the pub an idea of numbers - especially being busy with the Christmas season. We realize it is hard to commit, especially for those that live out of town or in the south due to 'weather dependent' but if you intend to come if the weather cooperates, please let us know.
And just in case the Doomsday Prediction is correct, this may be our last chance to gather with our geocaching friends. Don't believe me? Check out the fascinating information Dragonfly E&N put together (thanks for letting me use this Dragonfly!)

The following has been provided for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered scientific fact. The information to follow has not, and will not, be verified by the cache owner.

Doomsday? End of the world? Well many have ideas, beliefs and proofs. Some say the Mayan Calendar Ends and the world ends, whilst others say with the Mayan Calendar ending it only means it starts all over again. Then there's the Bibical prophecies of many like Casey, Hubbert, Nostradamus, etc. Theories of asteroid, or planet collision “Nibiru” goverment cover up. Coinscience’s of the number 11 being significant and on, and on, and on.

But here's something even more extraordinary than all that. Every 11 years the sun’s polar magnetic fields reverse and that shifting process is happening right now. Jupiter makes one complete trip around the Sun every 11.861773 years. There's a new theory put forth by Dr. Rollin Gillespie which shows that Jupiter, and to a smaller degree the other less massive planets, may trigger the 11 year cycle of sunspots and solar flares.

The last solar cycle was at its maximum in 2001. Each active solar cycle has a period when the flares are strongest, usually happening near the solar equator, called the "solar maximum." This is significant because the next "solar maximum" event will coincide with December 21, 2012. But wait -- there's much more!



Solar flares are pieces of the sun which leap into space, discharging radiation and strong electrical currents that travel outward into space. They often fall back to the surface of the Sun. Sometimes, a very strong flare, called a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), actually leaves the Sun and this deadly mass shoots out from the Sun towards the planets like a bullet. Usually these CME's don't hit anything but occasionally they hit a planet like Earth. Some believe a powerful CME once hit Mars.

Most solar flares are small. But even a small flare can be dangerous. In 1989 a flare hit the North American continent and fried electric lines, zapped power grids in the US and Canada, and created large power backouts. Flares can also effect our moods and physical health. In theory, a large flare impacting the Earth could zap the ionosphere (there goes all the satellites, cellphones, GPS...Yikes!!) and irradiate the surface, killing every living organism that it touched.

Solar flares and sun spots have an average cycle of 11.120412 years (estimated from one "solar maximum" to the next). In 2009, we were just entering the active period of cycle number 24, after an unusually long period of quiet solar activity. This quiet period led some people at NASA to conclude that cycle 24 would be a very quiet cycle -- contradicting the earlier predictions they made for an extremely violent cycle. Now they have redacted their call for a quiet cycle since the activity has again commenced. The scientists who study the Sun have also announced that they have measured the solar currents, deep inside the Sun, which correspond the Dr. Gillespie's barycenter currents. But to date they have not been able to agree what causes these deep currents of solar material.

The small discrepancy between the average 11.120412 year solar cycle and the 11.861773 year period of Jupiter is close enough to be significant but suggests that something else is also influencing solar disturbances. Sure, it could be attributed to the various positions of the other less massive planets, but it could also be something even more significant -- the Milky Way.

The Perfect Storm!



Our solar system is part of a huge disc shaped collection of stars and planets called the Milky Way. We're located somewhere on the edge of the disc, slightly on top of the narrow disc. But very soon we'll be moving to the bottom of the disc. This change, from top to bottom, begins on December 21, 2012.

Yes, that's right. On the same day when our Sun is at it's solar maximum, something will happen that's never happened for thousands of eons of time -- the ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!

If you imagine our solar system as a bunch of peas on a plate, with a huge meatball in the center, imagine the Milky Way as a city-size pizza with the "Guiness World Book Record Meatball" in its center!

Prior to December 2012 we have been drifting on the top of the pizza, never really able to see the bottom. The plate and pizza are not parallel. They are moving at different angles. We've been drifting down, down, down... and on December 21st, 2012, we will be exactly level with the crust -- forming an "x" at the Galactic Equator where galactic gravity is the strongest. After 2012, if we are still here, we will be passing through the bottom zone, viewing the Milky Way pizza from the South.

By some amazing coincidence, not only will we be intersecting with the Galactic Equator, but we will be doing this precisely aligned with the center of the Galaxy where there is maximum mass! More mass means more gravity. More gravity means more influence from those barycenters in our Sun. That means exponential increases in solar disruptions -- all coinciding on the same day! Whew!




So why aren't we having this event on December 21, 2012? I'm not sure exactly what time this Armageddon is going to happen, so I'm planning ahead.

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