The Uncomfortable Truth

December 21st, 2012 is a mere five years off.
In case you live in a vacuum, that is the last date on the current Mayan calendar. Or, as some might say, the last day of planet Earth.
Google 12/21/2012 and you get 38,000 hits. You find that not only the Mayan calendar, but also the I Ching and some computer program known as web bot have also given that date as “the end of the world.” Other sites are predicting how it will come about, nuclear, biological, chemical, whatever stokes their fire.
Will the world end five years from today?
Many people think not, saying that the Mayans were merely delineating between “ages.”
Other people—mostly of a fundamentalist stripe—are HOPING the world ends then!
I am not sure either way, frankly.
In case you don’t know, what happens on that date is that the Earth will cross the “Equator” of the Milky Way. This could have a very unpleasant side effect.
The Earth, as you know, is a giant magnet. The Earth’s magnetic field diverts deadly radiation from the sun around us. This field has reversed itself countless times throughout history. A weaker magnet can have its polarity intensified or even reversed by the action of stronger field near it. Probably every kid in America has learned that you can magnetize a nail by stroking it with a magnet, or even getting a magnet close. A strong electrical field will do the same thing.
On 21 December, 2012, the Earth will pass closest to the strongest part of the galaxy’s much-stronger electrical field.
Life wouldn’t be too hard if my compass started pointing the wrong way, but that isn’t the problem.
It seems that, should the magnetic poles reverse, there would be no magnetic field during the time of reversal, however long that might take.
No magnetic field means no protection from the sun’s deadly radiation.
That could be a problem.
I think the bigger problem will be putting up with all the hucksters trying to cash in on the inevitable “End of the world” hysteria.
That reminds me.
Wanna buy an “End Times Radiation Shield” to protect you and your loved ones in the coming tribulation?