I have always been more than a little skeptical about the hype over the Mayan date 2012, but I heard something today that caused me to back up my position on this. The latest Planet TV show (which is produced by someone I trust on things science) brought together and collection of prehistoric mysteries and some ideas that I have aways felt were fun to think about but had a low probability of being real. So it all starts with the sun and known and unknown solar cycles, and what were happen if a series of massive solar flares erupted and struck the earth, ties this into a known weak point in the atmosphere. And the Tova super volcano and the genetic bottleneck in human history, along with the evolutionary repercussions of the above the above. Mixed in with this the Great pyramid having a type of pored cement blocks within it. The Maya/Olmec mathematics question, along within the total number of pyramids in the region and forgotten civilizations. From anyone else eyebrows would be raised and I would be full of questions about the data used but knowing this guy many of these questions need not raised.

So knowing this is a bit more than fiction (it is was partly produced for a book, but listen for yourself he gives a better explanation) I now have to think what if he is right even in part. What would we do if a series of CME (coronal mass ejection) had happened, well his description seems right on. The implications about past civilizations and the mythic stories about their advanced technology are more plausible it becomes so I would urge you have a listen and let me know what you think.