Astronomers
Prof. Dr. Thomas Djamaluddin confirmed that news mentions apocalypse
happened December 21, 2012, and that three days before Christmas would
be a "blackout" is a hoax.
"Doomsday
prediction is based on the Mayan long count calendar that was already
denied by anthropologists. Astronomy terms of unscientific," said Deputy
Science, Assessment, and Aerospace Information Institute of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, here on Sunday.
He
also denied that the doomsday prophecy is related to NASA research that
all the planets, including the sun and the earth when it was aligned to
form a straight line for the first time, and led to a closed planet
earth until there is total darkness on 23-25 December 2012.
"The
word 'blackout' lie. 'No planet equal configuration and may not be
hindered full sun, so that the dark earth. Info calling NASA a lie," he
said.
The
only relevance of astronomy to the end of 2012 it is true is a matter
of peak solar activity in 2012, where the sun's magnetic field reaches a
level too high magnetic complexity, thereby releasing energy.
"But that too has been shifted to mid-2013," he said.
Right
now, he added, the intensity of solar storms is low, with an average of
once a month, but the longer it will be more frequent where in May
2013, a day can occur several times a solar storm.
However,
he said, solar storms do not affect humans on earth, because the earth
has a magnetic layer (magnetosir) which protects the earth from the
high-energy particles to deflect to the poles, which emerged as a
phenomenon of the aurora.
X-rays
and radiation from the sun's Ultra Violet is also filtered by the
Earth's atmosphere which contains the ozone layer, so it does not affect
anything on earth, his asked.
"Two days ago there was a solar storm, but we've seen no effect whatsoever on the earth," he said.
Solar
storms, he added, only disruption to satellites and communication
technologies, especially in countries at high latitudes such as in
Europe, Russia, Canada and the U.S., not in the country at the equator,
such as Indonesia.
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