>>>>Here's a cheery thought for 2013 >>>> >>>>When did that Mayan calendar predict things going pear shaped. >>>> >>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html >>> >>>Booga Booga >> >>Let's just hope it doesn't turn out like The Road..... > >There are feel-good movies... The Road is definitely a feel-bad movie. > >But, an extinction-level solar flare wouldn't be like that movie. Assuming it wasn't so bad it boiled the oceans and slagged the surface of the whole planet, the last living things would be insects, then benthic fishes, and finally extremeophile microbes. We'd be gone long before that.