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Only few days left from December 21, 2012, the rumored date for the end of the world. Many people around the globe are  preparing their food, shelter, armories for this day. What about you?  Do you believe the rumor? Are you preparing for this day? There are many internet sites and stories spreading the end.  The end became more popular when there was a blockbuster movie called 2012. This movie shows how we are going to end in 2012.   Some rumors said that there is a planet called Nibiru that will hit the earth.  Another stories said that there will be solar storms that will burn the earth.  Some stories that this day all planets will align with the sun and it will create abnormal behaviour with the solar system.  Some stories related this end to the Mayan calendar. But who knows when will the world ends? And who knows how will the world will end?  Only God knows, right?  All of us will die, some could die in a minute,...

In Italy lies a hidden "super volcano" that could kill millions.  It lies across the bay of Naples from Pompeii.  The boiling mud and sulphurous steam holes of the area west of Naples known as the Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields, from the Greek word for burning, are a major tourist attraction. But the zone of intense seismic activity, which the ancients thought was the entrance to hell, also could pose a danger of global proportions with millions of people literally living on top of a potential future volcanic eruption. "These areas can give rise to the only eruptions that can have global catastrophic effects comparable to major meteorite impacts," said Giuseppe De Natale, head of a project to drill deep under the earth to monitor the molten "caldera". One such meteorite impact is thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago when debris thrown into the atmosphere from the huge explosion plunged the earth into darkness. Sci...

I just read this one from yahoo news.  About solar storms, this idea never came up into my mind and now I've realized how scary it was. According to the news our sun now has dozens of sunspots.  It has 17 and one is about the size of the earth.  After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields, which when closed can cause the atmosphere to suddenly and violently release bubbles or tongues of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections which streak out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planets or spacecraft in its path. So, it might be possible that out planet will be hit by one of these.... Scarry